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    In Chongqing in May, spring is warm and then cold, the streets are bustling with pedestrians, and newspapers and teahouses are overcrowded.  As one of the earliest municipalities directly under the Central Government and one of the industrial centers in southwest China, Chongqing¡¯s changes over the years can be regarded as a microcosm of the development of the Republic of China.  There are not many ordinary tile-roofed houses in the city anymore. The tram slowly crawls along the winding hillside. Above the thoroughfare near the river, the country's first elevated light rail is under intensive construction.  Along the Qijiang River to the west is an inter-provincial highway paved with asphalt and cement. This is the source of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway. In another year, the highway will reach Lhasa directly.

    Chongqing¡¯s leading position in the country is due not only to the hardworking and self-improvement spirit of the Bashu people, but also to the industrial development plan that began in 1913.  Today's Qijiang Industrial Zone has become a symbol of the entire southwest industry.  Coupled with the advantages of geography and resources, various domestic research institutes have also settled in Sichuan and Chongqing. In particular, one-fifth of the research projects in the 3010 plan are located here, driving the entire Sichuan to gradually transform from rough processing to technologically superior industries.

    A Y-7 transport plane slowly landed on the apron of Meteor Company.  After the kc-2 was finalized five years ago, the Ministry of National Defense, the largest user in the domestic aviation industry, also ordered 320 aircraft.  However, this C47-like transport aircraft failed to obtain more orders because the Air Force felt that the carrying capacity was still too small.  In view of this situation, Airbus, on the one hand, actively develops civilian customers, and on the other hand, it uses the latest 1,600-horsepower engine to modify it. While ensuring the same range, the aircraft body is increased by 50%, and the maximum load is increased to 4 tons.  Named kc-4 passenger aircraft.  Military code name Yun 10.

    The Yun-10 and the Yun-8 and Yun-9 exhibited at the World Expo have completed their final testing at the Langshan base, but it will take half a year to equip them.

    On the left side of the airport.  The rows of three-story buildings are spectacular. They are the location of the Chongqing Research Institute of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was a national aerospace research institution established in 1930 based on the American NASA model as suggested to Yang Qiu by Wang Zhu and others.  Headquartered in Beijing, it is mainly responsible for wind tunnel and fluid mechanics research, because half of the country's wind tunnels are in Chongqing.  To save money, the institute and Meteor use the same airport.

    After getting off the plane, Yue Peng saw two four-engine large bombers being slowly pulled out by tractors from the hangar on the right.  Behind them, a small plane with no visible propellers but a large hole in its nose was also towed out.  Yue Peng scanned the surroundings and saw Xue Muhua watching the aircraft. He walked over and asked, "Muhua, what model is this?"

    Xue Muhua has resigned as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force as Deputy Chief of General Staff.  But because he loves aviation, he always likes to visit several major airlines and research institutes when he has nothing to do. He is far more familiar with aerospace than Yue Peng. After saluting, he introduced: "These are the four tests sent by Meteor and Airbus.  Launch a bomber. That small one is amazing, it is a turbojet aircraft, and the president will come to see the test later."

    "Jet. Has it been developed?" Yue Peng had seen the jet engine and aircraft projects in the 3010 plan, and also knew that this project actually started after the twin Mustang engines came out in 1925, and it has been a full 10 years now.  .  However, the development progress was not smooth, and it almost came to a standstill many times due to issues such as material strength and high temperature heat resistance.

    Fortunately, the president and the Air Force attach great importance to jets, even though funding was insufficient in the early days.  The Air Force once squeezed out military expenditures to support this project, and Yang Qiu even privately sponsored a large amount of research expenses.  We are seeing huge changes in the international situation.  Although a new weapon cannot change the outcome of the war, it can give the Air Force another magic weapon to win. Therefore, Xue Muhua can be regarded as holding on to the moon today.  But what surprised him was that Xue Muhua was obviously not very happy. He shook his head and sighed: "The heat resistance is still not good. The impeller creep phenomenon is serious and the fatigue resistance is very poor. The service life of a single engine is only 75 hours, which does not meet combat standards.  . Turboprop engines and turboshaft engines can¡¯t even pass the main shaft. Hey! I don¡¯t know if the nickel-chromium-titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys and cobalt-based alloys proposed by the president a few years ago can be produced. Last time I went to Nankai University  In the materials laboratory, they said that the nickel-chromium-titanium alloy has some results, and the rest forget it, I'll go check on the situation after I'm done here."

    Although Xue Muhua rambled on and off, he seemed not to notice the many professional terms in his words.  Fortunately, Yue Peng was also very smart and understood the meaning after a moment.  It turns out that jet engine impellers and other components have very high requirements on materials. The materials must not only be heat-resistant, but also light and tough enough. Moreover, making an engine requires more than a dozen materials with different functions.  It is also known that in addition to turbojet engines, several companies and the Aerospace Administration are also developing series of turbofan and turboshaft engines, but the latter ones are still in the experimental stage due to high material requirements.

    Xue Muhua loves flying deeply and devotes his whole life to the aviation career, so Yue Peng couldn't get in the way when talking about technology, so he simply changed the subject and asked: "Where is the president?"

    "Wang Zhu took him to Fengdong District, and Principal Jiang is here too." Xue Muhua knew that Yue Peng was coming and was sureAfter pointing out the direction, he said: "You go ahead. There is nothing to see here. The test flight will not be until the afternoon."

    Wind tunnels are must-have experimental facilities in the aerospace field. After 20 years of development, Chongqing already has more than a dozen wind tunnels of various sizes with different functions. When Yue Peng arrived, the construction workers were still busy. After asking, he learned that with the addition of turbojet  The engine has entered installation testing, and the Aerospace Administration is preparing to use five turbine engines to form the world's first wind tunnel that can exceed the speed of sound.

    When I found Yang Qiu, he was wearing resin goggles and carefully inspecting the wind tunnel test conducted behind the glass with Jiang Baili, Feng Ru, Qiu Heng and others. Wang Zhu, Zhou Houkun and others also introduced a few words from time to time.  "President." Yue Peng walked up, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by Yang Qiu, who raised his hand and said, "Wait." It wasn't anything important anyway, so he also found goggles and watched the wind tunnel test.

    What was being tested was a new full-size fighter jet with an elegant appearance, a simple and smooth spindle-shaped fuselage, and an arched glass cockpit like a bubble.  As the wind speed increases, the special sticky ink on the fuselage moves with the wind direction and gradually spreads to the entire fuselage.  Red streamers attached to various parts of the fuselage.  As the carriage moves, all the air disturbances encountered by the aircraft during flight are displayed.  At the same time, five high-speed cameras were trained on the aircraft from multiple angles.  Provide imaging data for future research.

    This aircraft is the crystallization of domestic aviation technology progress. It was developed by Northern Raytheon Company. It uses a 1,250-horsepower water-cooled engine, two-stage supercharging and an in-cylinder methane injection system, which allows it to output 1,450 horsepower in an emergency.  Integral fairing, four-blade adjustable propeller, laminar flow wing, and the first use of edge strips at the connection between the wing and fuselage to enhance maneuverability. It also uses newly designed air combat wing flaps, self-sealing fuel tanks, and virtual computer-controlled  New technologies such as shooting sights, high-pressure oxygen supply, and airborne high-frequency radios are installed. Two 25mm cannons and four 12.7mm machine guns are installed.  Rockets and bombs can also be mounted under the wings.  The most peculiar thing is that it adopts a wing overload protection design, that is, when the overload exceeds 9g, the wings will automatically break to prevent the aircraft from crashing due to excessive overload.

    In Yang Qiu¡¯s eyes, this fighter jet is already comparable to the P51 Mustang in terms of appearance and internal design.  But like the early days of the P51, it is slightly lacking in power, but Raytheon has also left room for future upgrades.  However, what he really cares about is that using so many new technologies and using a curved streamlined fuselage that is difficult to manufacture will inevitably increase the difficulty of manufacturing. It is still unclear whether the quantity will be sufficient.

    So after the test is over.  He immediately took off the goggles and handed them to the technician, then turned to look at Wang Zhu and others: "How many branches do you have now?"

    The Meteor company has a great cause, and Yang Qiu attaches great importance to aviation. Several universities across the country have opened specialized aviation subjects, so technical talents have emerged in an endless stream in recent years.  This allows Wang Zhu, Zhou Houkun and others to finally stop worrying about design and focus on company construction and future technology development.  Through mergers and acquisitions over the years.  The domestic aviation industry has initially formed a situation of being divided into three parts. After hearing the inquiry, Wang Zhu was the first to answer: "We have four manufacturing plants, namely Chongqing, Chita, Kunming and Mawei, as well as two engine plants, which can manufacture large-scale aircraft."  Currently, only Chongqing and Chita produce aircraft. There are three Airbus factories in Bayuzao, namely Xinyang, Changsha and Jiujiang, and one engine factory. Only Xinyang manufactures large aircraft. Raytheon also has three factories, Shenyang, Changchun and Tianjin, of which the Shenyang factory can manufacture  Engines can also be made for large aircraft, and Hanyang can also provide engines for them. In addition, Mr. Skorski has two aircraft factories in Chengdu and Guangzhou. Chengdu can make twin-engine bombers, and Guangzhou currently mainly makes seaplanes."

    ¡°If you were to go all out in production, how much do you think the annual output would be?¡± Yang Qiu continued to ask.  Jiang Fangzhen, who was next to him, pulled Yue Peng and whispered quietly: "Are you really going to take action?"

    Yue Peng whispered: "Germany's return to the Rhineland caused shock to Britain and France, but for some reason they did not interfere. This inspired Hitler to desperately expand his army. Italy entered North Africa, the Soviet Union's military expansion was obvious, and GC International was in Eastern Europe and South America. , northwest my country and Spain have repeatedly caused trouble, so I estimate that it will only happen in two or three years at most."

    "Haha, what Versailles said about twenty years is true." Jiang Fangzhen smiled and waited for Wang Zhu's answer.

    The latter often travels to Europe and the United States and has already seen that the world situation is not good, so he calculated it in his mind and said: "We have all adopted the basic hole system and standardization method you proposed, which can greatly reduce the production time. An Air Force J4 fighter is 3500  Working hours, the Navy¡¯s jz3 fighter jet requires 4,200 working hours, the kc-2 transport aircraft 12,000 working hours, the Meteor-5 exhibited at the World Expo is 32,000 working hours, and the kc-3 is 31,000 working hours. According to these working hour standards, under normal three shifts, approximately per year  It can manufacture 10,000 aircraft. In case of emergency, standard parts can be outsourced, so 15,000 aircraft per year should not be a big problem."

    Yang Qiu is not very satisfied. He can tolerate shipbuilding more than he can.??The number of tanks is not as good as others, but aviation is not!  In a battle in the sky, technical superiority alone will not suffice, unless there is a generational difference.  After all, in the parallel world, in the late World War II, Zero War could still achieve many achievements even though its technology was obviously inferior to its opponents.  So I asked: "If I want to reach 50,000 aircraft per year, what preparations do you think I need to make?"

    Fifty thousand?  !

    This horrifying number shocked Wang Zhu and others, and even Jiang Baili and Yue Peng frowned.  At this time, Feng Ru came out. As the Air Force Equipment Director of the Ministry of National Defense, he often traveled across the country, so he knew better than Wang Zhu and others the key to limiting aviation production capacity.  "President, I know a little bit about this" "Wait a minute." He hadn't even started yet.  After Yang Qiu interrupted, he asked Gu Yuwen to take out a thick notebook, then took out a pen and waved his hand after getting ready: "Go ahead. I'll record it."

    Taking this opportunity, Jiang Baili glanced sideways and found that the notebook was densely filled with various production figures. In some places, lines were specially drawn below, and solutions were listed next to them.  It can be seen that under the circumstances that war is already foreseeable, Yang Qiu's nationwide inspection is actually the last investigation of the manufacturing industry.

    When he was ready, Feng Ru began to introduce: "There are 72 factories in the country that can produce aviation parts. After outsourcing standard parts, 15,000 aircraft per year can be produced. If there is one year of training and capacity expansion time, 20,000 aircraft will not be enough."  problem. So the main problems are four: final assembly, engine, senior engineering and production equipment! Let¡¯s talk about senior engineering first, because most of the aircraft we manufacture are all-metal aircraft, and the models are getting larger and larger, similar to wings, aircraft  Some parts of the middle section of the body, the bulletproof layer and the landing gear need to be molded at one time as much as possible to ensure their strength. However, molding, casting, precision parts and engine manufacturing all require a large number of advanced workers. In this regard, we are still far behind Europe and the United States.  Lack of. Secondly, there is manufacturing equipment. At present, all aircraft factories already have 5,000-ton molding machines, aluminum alloy extrusion and forging machines. However, there are insufficient equipment of more than 10,000 tons for manufacturing large aircraft. Each of the three major companies only has one.  , if you want to build a large aircraft, each company must add a few more.

    My idea is that if senior workers can be trained starting from this year, the equipment will be in place within two years.  30,000 to 40,000 is definitely no problem. More depends on whether the factory can squeeze out production capacity in terms of management and operation. Secondly, it also depends on whether the transportation of outsourced parts is on time, the supply of raw materials, and finally, reducing the number of aircraft types as much as possible. If these can  If this is done, it is very possible to increase production capacity.  "

    Yang Qiu quickly recorded.  I secretly made plans in my mind.  To make a compromise, calculate it as 35,000 aircraft per year.  That¡¯s 140,000 aircraft in four years. This number is similar to the production of Soviet and German aircraft in the parallel world.  Of course, the Soviet Union's high output was also due to external support and the use of a large number of wooden canvas parts.  Our own production of aluminum, titanium and other alloys is gradually increasing, so we may not necessarily need to reverse course to increase production.  But this number is still far behind the monster-like nearly 300,000 aircraft in the United States. You must know that due to the late mobilization of the United States, it actually only has three years, which is nearly 100,000 aircraft per year.

    Of course, the lack of workers and equipment cannot be blamed on companies for not being prepared. After all, companies are mainly focused on making profits. No one will hoard equipment and workers for tens of thousands of aircraft when ordering thousands of aircraft every year.

    But having said that, in less than 30 years, it is no regrets to be able to bring the aviation industry of a country full of white men and few people even know what an airplane is to a country comparable to Germany. As for whether it can be improved during wartime  Strength depends on the actual situation after the country is mobilized. After all, no one knows how powerful the energy will be after the country is mobilized, so Feng Ru, Wang Zhu and others cannot predict it.

    "Let's do this." Yang Qiu thought about it and said, "Feng Ru, I will do what you said about worker training and adding equipment. When I get back, make a list and write down which equipment needs to be strengthened, the cost of training and the number of machines and equipment.  All training costs will be borne by the Ministry of National Defense. After three more years of basic salary, I will find a way to subsidize you from foreign trade."

    Hearing what he said, Wang Zhu and others breathed a sigh of relief.  They are afraid that the orders are only a few thousand, but the number of personnel is several times more, which will completely paralyze the three major companies in the period of expansion.  Now it relies entirely on military expenditures and an additional three years of basic salary subsidies. They only need to accept people and machines when the time comes.  Feng Ru also readily agreed and promised to arrange these things as soon as possible.

    After solving the difficulties in expanding the aviation manufacturing industry, everyone continued to move to the next wind tunnel.  The second test target was not a fixed-wing aircraft, but a helicopter jointly developed by Meteor and Sikorsky.  The helicopter looks a bit ugly, somewhat like the American S-51. The wheels are fixed at the front three points. It still uses a 9-cylinder radial piston engine. It can carry up to two pilots and three passengers.  Wang Zhu said that this helicopter has not yet been named and has only conducted two test flights. The problem still lies in the heat resistance of the main shaft material, so he does not know when it will be successful.

    ??????????????????????I felt quite guilty when I said these words. After all, Yang Qiu had asked people to send a large number of top-secret helicopter drawings. It was really unreasonable that he had only built a few test machines that could not be equipped after so many years.  But Yang Qiu didn't care. In this era where slow-speed piston aircraft ruled the sky and the density of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns was frightening.  Helicopters going to the battlefield are similar to delivering food, so it is best to build one.  If you can't make it, just treat it as a reserve technology.

    After visiting the wind tunnel, Wang Zhu and others took Yang Qiu to visit the turbojet and turboprop engine laboratories. When they learned that due to material problems, the life of the turbojet engine was only 75 hours, and the life of the turboprop engine was only 25 hours.  , just now, the thought of waiting for the test flight to be completed and equipping it immediately was immediately thrown out of the sky.  An engine without a 300-hour lifespan is simply not worth equipping immediately.

    Nickel-based alloys, nickel-chromium-titanium alloys, cobalt-based alloys!

    Yang Qiu felt bitter in his heart, the material technology was indeed too torturous.  Domestically, the foundation is weak.  In the first 20 years, most of the time was spent waiting for the results of compulsory education. It was difficult to recruit a group of talents and start the 3010 plan, but after all, it was not as good as Europe and the United States, which had developed for a century.  What's even more unfortunate is that there are no ready-made high-temperature alloy products in the world. Jet engine research in various countries is stuck on this difficulty. Whoever breaks through first can come up with mature products.

    In a parallel world.  Nickel-based alloys would not be invented in the United Kingdom until 1939, nickel-chromium-titanium alloys would not appear in the United States until 1942, and cobalt-based alloys would not be invented until 1945.  The three alloy materials that laid the foundation for the jet age have not yet appeared. Countries are trying to break through the nodes, so their own advantages in this regard are really small.

    After seeing his helplessness, Qiu Heng leaned over and said, "Don't worry, President. Before I came out, Yu Dawei had already led people to use Xingchen No. 1 to sort the formulas of alloy materials. He said that the Materials Laboratory of Nankai University had found some ways, and soon.  In one year, or at least two years, we will definitely be able to find the right formula.¡±

    "What? Can computers also study alloys?" Jiang Baili asked curiously.

    Qiu Heng explained: "It is not research. It is to list the experimental materials first, and use computers to sort the formula proportions. Then they can be sent to laboratories across the country. Use more human resources to conduct experiments one by one according to the sorting list, so as to avoid duplication.  With the hassle of calculations, the speed can be several times faster.¡±

    "Is there such a good thing? President, if you can produce more computers, the price will not be expensive anyway." Jiang Baili's suggestion made Yang Qiu nod. Although it is a very primitive tube computer, it can indeed save a lot of money in operations and sorting.  time, so after telling Qiu Heng to install one in Chongqing, he led the team to the airport to watch the test flight.

    There were a total of three aircraft doing the test flight this time, and the first two were both four-engine large bombers.  The model presented by Airbus is very similar to the B24, but with a 1,600-horsepower engine, the fuselage is thicker, the wings are larger, and the magazine is much larger because the Ministry of Defense requires the installation of special ammunition.  Meteor Company went the other way this time and used a tall single vertical tail design similar to the B17. This resulted in a sufficient bomb load but not as much range as the former. Therefore, Wang Zhu¡¯s expression was obviously bad. It could be seen that he was aware of the four-engine long-range bomber.  Yes, my good friend got the upper hand this time.

    This kind of competition is what Yang Qiu wants to see, not to mention that both aircraft are currently in the test flight stage, and there is still a lot of work to be done. Only by entering the Langshan Comprehensive Base can we say that we can get the order with one hand.

    The next jet experiment is the highlight. This test aircraft was jointly developed by the three major airlines and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Although it is short and thick like a barrel, it is ugly, but it is of great significance.  Yang Qiu did not dare to neglect, because both the United States and Germany were secretly developing jets. If the secrets were leaked, they would definitely go all out and might even surpass him. Therefore, after the plane landed, he immediately proposed to transfer the test of the jet to  The more secretive Langshan Comprehensive Base.

    Due to the intensive schedule, there were too many problems that needed to be inspected and solved, so Yang Qiu immediately took a train to inspect the construction status of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway after observing the test flight.  It wasn't until he was about to drive that he remembered that Yue Peng had come all the way to find him, and asked: "By the way. Zian, what do you want from me?"

    "This is the news I just received." Yue Peng compiled the information from his pocket: "The morning before yesterday, in revenge for the murder of one of their own officers, the Spanish left-wing alliance kidnapped and killed right-wing congressman Sotero on the street."

    "Sotero, who are you?" After Jiang Baili retired from the position of president of the National Defense University, he was hired by Yang Qiu as the presidential military adviser. However, he had been away from the General Staff for too long, so he was relatively unfamiliar with foreign politicians and only knew Spain.  The Left Alliance was controlled by the Soviet Union, and the right wing had deep ties with Germany and Italy.  Yue Peng explained for him: "Sotelo is a right-wing radical who often criticizes the Left Alliance in Congress and accuses them of being lackeys of the Soviet Union. He is also a member of the Falang Party, and the Falang Party has deep ties with Mussolini and Hitler.  , so General Franco has begun to prepare his troops, saying that he will avenge him."

    ¡°TheseThis gang is so lawless that they even kill members of Congress. Isn¡¯t this a deliberate attempt to undermine the republican system?  "Jiang Baili was dissatisfied. This chaos reminded him of the scene where the Bolsheviks broke their promises and betrayed themselves after the February Revolution.

    Yue Peng took a very open-minded view: "It is not our turn to take care of Spain's affairs. Even if we go there, it will arouse Europe's hostility towards us. I am here this time because of the affairs of those Jewish non-commissioned officers. What Yan Baohang means is that Moscow has been frequently  Volunteers are recruited from all over the world and are ready to go to Spain at any time to support the left-wing alliance. Civil war is about to break out, so it is recommended that we put back the Jewish non-commissioned officers in our hands."

    "Let them participate in the Spanish Civil War?" Yang Qiu's words caused the train to tremble and slowly pull out of the platform.

    Yue Peng took the tea cup from the guard and nodded: "Jin Bihui sent back the news that Hitler had hinted to the middle and lower-level officers that he would interfere in Spain's internal affairs, and was also preparing to send Goering to Spain to encourage Franco. So Yan Baohang and others predicted that,  Once the civil war breaks out, Germany and Italy will inevitably join the war! The relationship between Jews and Hitler is very bad. Stalin took advantage of this and sent many Jewish officers to Spain. There were more than 3,000 Jewish cadets in that year, and they are all currently training in Mongolia. If  If they all go back, the Zionist power will inevitably become stronger than ever. What Yan Baohang means is to find an excuse to send them to Spain for training after the Spanish Civil War begins, and then find a way to tell Hitler the news and specific location, so as to take the opportunity to contain the Zionist movement.  national movement.¡±

    "This Yan Baohang is darker than Chen Haohui!" Jiang Baili's eyes were bright and he slapped his thigh hard.

    Yang Qiu was also a little surprised by Yan Baohang's vision.  In order to attract the Jewish consortium to invade the United States, he promised to accept cadets. Although he later used various excuses to reduce the quota, there have been more than 3,000 students in more than ten years.  These people are not ordinary people. Once they go back, they will definitely strengthen the Zionist power. If leaks are leaked to the ears of Arab countries, the currently established Sino-Arab relations will seriously regress. Therefore, I have never thought of a good way to deal with this group of people.  I can only find excuses to be detained in China.  But detaining him for a long time is not an option, and the Jewish group has been asking for his release.

    It was originally the most worrying thing, but I didn¡¯t expect that Yan Baohang was actually planning to use the Spanish Civil War and the hatred of Jews and Nazis to eliminate them with the help of Germany.  However, this matter must be handled with caution. Once leaked, it will definitely cause a sensation. Therefore, the three of them discussed for a long time before deciding to wait for the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, send them there, and then look for opportunities to lure German submarines or bombers to kill both men and ships.  .
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