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Chapter 248 Geniuses Are Not Here

The assistant handed the briefing to Mr. Xu. After receiving it, Mr. Xu skipped the previous content and came to the column of Aviation Development Institute.

And above the title, it is impressively written, "The Aviation Development Institute has completed the engine test run, with a peak thrust of 106 tons."

'106 tons! 'Even with Xu's experience, he was momentarily stunned when he saw this number.

At his level and position, he has witnessed many high-tech breakthroughs over the years, such as J20, electromagnetic gun, Long March rocket, and Beidou satellite.

Although in the eyes of the public and even opponents, it seems that it succeeded overnight.

But in fact, they know internally that these projects have already been established internally, and they have all gone through a long process of improvement and iteration.

Just like an aircraft carrier, you have to buy someone else's one for research first, then copy one yourself, and then make a breakthrough on this basis and add some of your own things, which is how No. 003 was launched.

After all, there are certain objective laws that you cannot break. No matter how good you are, everything must be done step by step.

But today, his cognition has been completely broken, and there are really some people who do not follow common sense.

I asked you to build my one-story bungalow into a two-story building to prevent the villa next door from completely stealing the limelight. In the end, you directly helped me build a palace. This service is too value-added.

Old Xu could only smile helplessly and shook his head. Indeed, laws are used to restrain ordinary people, not geniuses.

"Mr. Xu, yes. What's the matter?" Seeing that Mr. Xu was calm at first, then shocked, and then with a helpless smile on his face, the persons in charge of the various airlines had no idea what happened, so they could only ask in a low voice. road.

Mr. Xu also realized that the meeting was still in progress, put down the briefing at hand, looked at the crowd, coughed lightly twice, wanted to show calm but still couldn't help laughing, and said:
"The new engine was successfully tested at the Aeronautical Development Institute."

"New engine?" This news made the heads of various airlines shine. This is good news. It may not be practical for the time being, but it is another small breakthrough from the perspective of scientific research. A breakthrough deserves to be happy.

"How many tons of thrust? Is there 30 tons?" One of the aviation company's people joked, and the others laughed when they heard it. After all, everyone knows that this is a joke. How could it jump from 13 tons to 30 tons? Woolen cloth.

But Mr. Xu didn't wave his hand and say 'need to improve' as they expected, but just smiled lightly and said: "Not only."

"More than that?" Mr. Xu's words made all the chief executives of the airlines present uneasy. We casually increased the number, but you said it was more than that. Can this still make people have a good chat.

"Then 50?" another airline leader cautiously probed.

Elder Xu still smiled lightly, and said, "Go ahead and guess."

This directly messed up everyone, more than 50, guess it is the GE9X on the other side.

But someone still tried again: "Could it be the same as the opposite one, 61 tons of thrust?"

Mr. Xu took a sip of water unhurriedly, then looked at this person, and said, "You can guess more boldly."

Everyone swallowed their saliva and looked at each other. What's the situation, let's guess up if it's 61 tons, and let's be bold, explaining that even if 61 tons is still far away, you can't tell me that I can break through 100 tons, right? .

If we can really reach 100 tons, we will resign collectively immediately, and in the future we will go full-time to shine shoes for the chief designer. I feel that the contribution we can bring to the aviation industry may be better than being the top leader of the airline company.

"Mr. Xu, don't let us guess, just tell us." Everyone's hearts were beating wildly at the moment, looking forward to the appearance of that number, and they were so nervous that they couldn't even report the next guessed number.

Mr. Xu has never played this kind of guessing game with others, but this value is really amazing, so he couldn't help but keep it a secret and let them guess.

Seeing that these guys are sitting there tensely leaning forward, holding and releasing their hands, releasing and holding them again, their palms are probably sweating, so he won't tease them anymore.

He held up an index finger, swept around the crowd, then made a ring with the index finger and thumb, and then stretched out the thumb and little finger after making a fist.

Matching the numbers drawn in his hands, he read out the final answer: "106 tons, 106 tons!"

As soon as Mr. Xu's words came out, the chief executives of the airline company were not even emotionally coherent, and two of them even coughed due to choking on the air.

106 tons, just kidding, when they saw Mr. Xu put up a finger at first, they thought it was 71 or 81 tons, but in the end, you told me that the number you put up is actually the first digit, and what’s so special about it Hundreds digit.

The aero-engine with 3-digit thrust is the first time the earth has seen such a thing in the past billions of years.

Some airline companies immediately corrected the newly established flag in their hearts. I just said that I resigned to shine shoes for others when it exceeded [-] tons.

Everyone waited for a long time, and there was another shocking discussion among each other, before they finally accepted this number slowly.

And as senior veterans who have been deeply involved in the aviation industry for many years, they also quickly began to think about the changes that such a powerful engine could bring to their own side, especially their own airline company.

"Everyone, let's talk about what's on your mind." Mr. Xu naturally knew that they were thinking about it.

Someone spoke first. As civil aviation, he first considered civil aviation, saying:
"I think first of all, our C919 can be replaced with our own heart, so that our localization rate will reach a very high level.

And with such a powerful engine, our domestically produced large aircraft can even skip the water testing period and directly reach the level of rivaling the other two. "

Everyone nodded in agreement, although the increase in engine thrust is generally not directly used to increase the speed of civil aviation, because the current speed of civil aviation is about Mach 0.7, the economic cruising speed.

If the speed is increased to above Mach 0.8, shock waves will be generated and then wave resistance will be generated, which will increase fuel consumption and be uneconomical.

But looking at it from another angle, this part of the thrust increase can be used to increase the passenger capacity. The passenger capacity of existing passenger aircraft is about 200, and the largest wide-body passenger aircraft can also carry more than 300 people.

But with high-thrust engines, it is not uncommon for an aircraft to carry 500 to 1000 people in the future, and the economic benefits brought to airlines are indescribable.

It's like crossing a river. Is it better to use a yacht to pull 500 times back and forth with two people to save fuel, or is it more cost-effective to pull all 1000 people across the river in one big boat?The answer is self-evident, scale is benefit.

Moreover, after the passengers are more concentrated, the number of takeoffs and landings can also be reduced, avoiding a large number of flight delays caused by queuing up of planes.

Tickets are cheaper, and the punctuality rate has been greatly improved. This will greatly enhance the competitiveness of our own aircraft, and even improve the competitiveness of the entire civil aviation compared with other travel methods. The value is inestimable.

And another airline leader, he is an Air Force pilot who changed his job, so he has a lot of opinions on military uses, and he also expressed his own views:
"I think it's not just civil aviation, but the engine thrust increase this time will bring greater benefits to military use!"

(End of this chapter)