Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 327 Luan Bird Aeroplane
Under the guidance of the staff, Zhong Cheng and Ye Wenxin boarded the Luanniao aerospace plane and entered a two-person box at the front of the cabin.

The second half of the plane is ordinary seats, which are still the same as civil aviation planes on the earth, with hundreds of people in one cabin, but divided into many cabins.

After closing the door of the box, Zhong Cheng introduced the situation of the Luanniao aerospace plane to Ye Wenxin.

This is the second-generation aerospace passenger transport aircraft produced by the Red Star Ship Manufacturing Company in 2028, which is specially used to transport personnel from the earth's ground to the space station or the moon.

Luanniao Aerospace Plane 212 has a total length of 256 meters and looks like a sharpened pencil. The maximum diameter of the fuselage is 30 meters, and there are three wings at the tail with a wingspan of only 50 meters.

Three small Suihuang nuclear fusion engines were installed, with a rated power of 10 kilowatts, which not only provide thrust for the aircraft, but also provide electricity for the aircraft.

飞机的最大起飞重量为2000吨，自重1200吨，携带核聚变原料20吨以及喷射物质280吨，可运载货物500吨或乘客5000人。

The Luanniao space plane is different from the launch vehicles and space shuttles of the old era. They mainly rely on the burning of chemical fuels, namely liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, to provide thrust and get rid of the gravity of the earth.

Take a launch vehicle with a take-off weight of 2000 tons as an example, 80% is fuel, 16% is its own weight, and 4% is the weight of cargo or passengers. It is expensive, wasteful and inefficient.

SPACEX has a commercial launch mission in 2021. A top rich man spent 2 million US dollars on a chartered flight, only bought four tickets, and only went to the earth's low-Earth orbit for a circle.

Now, a one-way ticket to the moon costs 20 SGD for ordinary fares, and 80 SGD for high-end tickets.

(The new currency is a global currency launched 3 years ago, which is equivalent to the original Huaxia currency.)
The most important thing is that the physical requirements of ordinary passengers for space flight have dropped significantly, and the physical fitness of normal adults can take an aerospace plane.

And all this is the result of the advanced technology of Luanniao aerospace aircraft.

While such fares still exclude most people, today's working class can already travel to the moon.

In fact, there is a larger aerospace plane besides Luanniao Aerospace Plane 212, with a maximum take-off weight of 5000 tons, but it is only used for material delivery.

As for the aerospace plane that Red Star Company will enter the sky next year, it is the brand new Luanniao Aerospace Plane 305, which is undergoing final debugging at the Red Star Ship Manufacturing Company.

At this time, a reminder sounded in the box, and the plane would take off in 10 minutes.

Holographic images appear in the box to repeatedly demonstrate what passengers need to do, as well as safety tips.

Under Zhong Cheng's guidance, Ye Wenxin put on a light and fully enclosed anti-G suit, and then sat on the seat.

Ye Wenxin tried it, and the communicator in the anti-G suit did not hinder talking.

After Zhong Cheng was also ready to sit down, the door of the box lit up with a green light.

He pressed a button on the bulkhead, and the entire bulkhead became transparent, allowing him to see the outside scene, which was actually a holographic image formed by the sensor.

In fact, Zhong Cheng went through the "back door". Normal passengers who want to travel to the moon must book three months in advance and undergo strict health checks.

If it is the first time to go to the moon, it will take a month of related training, and the cost is not low.

Without a certain amount of net worth as a guarantee, and with money you can't buy air tickets, traveling to the moon is not as popular as Zhong Cheng imagined.

A few million people is a drop in the bucket compared to 80 billion humans, and many of them are workers!

At 9 o'clock, the Luanniao Aerospace plane started and slid from the pick-up position to the flight runway.

After the Luanniao aerospace plane got on the runway, it began to accelerate and taxi towards the due east. The plane will use the rotation of the earth to reduce the consumption of lift-off.

Zhong Cheng looked at the operating parameter interface in the box. The acceleration of the plane was very high, reaching an acceleration of G, but Ye Wenxin did not feel any discomfort.

Today's anti-G suit is even more powerful!
In less than 2 minutes, the speed of the aircraft had reached 3 times the speed of sound, and the fuselage left the ground at an elevation angle of 30 degrees.

After the plane entered the air, it was still in a state of continuous acceleration and elevation.

When rising for about 3 minutes, it reached a height of 50 kilometers, passed through the earth's troposphere and stratosphere, and entered the middle layer!
In about 10 minutes, it reached a height of more than 100 kilometers, with a speed of 7.8 kilometers per second, and has entered the earth's low-earth orbit.

This is the ionosphere of the atmosphere, the air is already very thin, and the earth's gravity has been significantly reduced.

The air density of the atmosphere decreases with altitude, the higher the air the thinner it is.

The thickness of the atmosphere is about 1000 kilometers or more, but there is no obvious limit.

Zhong Cheng suddenly pointed out of the cabin, and Ye Wenxin followed his finger to look diagonally downward, and saw above the clouds, a huge triangle-shaped aircraft and Luanniao aerospace plane passed by.

"Qinglong Aircraft Carrier?" Ye Wenxin exclaimed in surprise.

"It should be the aircraft carrier Xuanyuan!"

Only the Xuanyuan aircraft carrier can cruise in this route, and the five Qinglong aircraft carriers all fly along the latitude of the earth.

Zhong Cheng calculated that from the day when the aircraft carrier Xuanyuan took off, there were still a few days left, which was 11 years.

I don't know how Deng Yongxing and other officers and soldiers are doing now?

Perhaps most of the officers and soldiers have retired, but Zhong Cheng knew that Deng Yongxing must still be there.

He silently paid a military salute to the departing aircraft carrier Xuanyuan, "Deng Yongxing, I wish you good luck."

In the next life, we will be Chinese national defense soldiers together again.

On the eve of the establishment of the Asian Federation, the Red Star Company carried out shareholding reform and at the same time converted the army to civilians. Zhong Cheng and others have already taken off their military uniforms and retired.

He rejected the Union Army's invitation, only willing to be an ordinary federal citizen.

In the same situation as Zhong Cheng, there are many former soldiers of the National Defense Forces of China. They were criticized as conservative and stubborn, and did not know how to keep pace with the times. At that time, they were given a nickname by the Internet media: "Old Soldiers".

However, like the Qinglong aircraft carrier, the old soldiers have also faded out of people's sight with the advancement of the times.

At this moment, Ye Wenxin pointed out the window, and there was a halo in the distant sky, a faint beam of light that was moving at any time.

Here are the auroras, the rare visitors to the equator, marching from the poles of the earth in majestic splendor!
Zhong Cheng put aside his depressed mood and began to appreciate the wonders that he had never seen on the ground.

Half an hour later, the Luanniao aerospace plane flew to the top of the Earth's low-Earth orbit about 2000 kilometers above the ground.

Here is the outer layer of the Earth's atmosphere, also known as the exosphere, extending to 1000 kilometers from the Earth's surface.

The outer atmosphere is also called the magnetosphere. It is the outermost layer of the atmosphere and is the region where the atmosphere transitions to interstellar space. There is no obvious boundary outside.

The temperature here is very high, up to thousands of degrees Celsius, and the atmosphere is extremely thin, with a density of one-billionth of that at sea level.

The principle of high temperature in the exosphere is the same as that in the thermosphere. Atmospheric molecules are heated by absorbing short-wave radiation from the sun.

But because the atmospheric density of the exosphere is too low to feel any warmth, an ordinary thermometer will only measure below zero degrees Celsius.

The Luanniao aerospace plane has reached a speed of 40 kilometers per second at this time, and will no longer accelerate.

After arriving in the earth's parking orbit and adjusting the direction, it flew towards the moon.

The moon is only 38 kilometers away from the earth, and the Luanniao aerospace plane will reach the moon in more than 2 hours at this speed.

(End of this chapter)