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Chapter 199: Modified Airbus A320 (End)

Looking at the iron-gray passenger plane in front of him, the first thing that came to Chen Jue's mind was the legendary MiG-25 fighter jet from the former Soviet Union.

As a fighter jet with a fuselage made of a large amount of stainless steel, the MiG-25 had been breaking various aviation flight records since the 1960s.

With a maximum speed of Mach 3.2, it is one of only three manned aircraft in the world, along with the MiG-31 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft, that can break the thermal barrier (Mach 2.5).

Even after more than half a century, there is no other active fighter jet that can exceed the MiG-25's flight speed.

Before the advent of beyond-visual-range air combat, the F15 and F16 of the same era were like little brothers in front of it.

Even more exaggerated is that the MiG-25's 'stainless steel legend' is not only its cruising speed, but also its ceiling altitude!

According to existing records, Soviet pilot Alexander Fedotov once flew this fighter jet to a maximum altitude of 37,080 meters in 1976.

What is the concept of 37,000 meters?

The cruising altitude of commercial aircraft is usually maintained below 12,000 meters, and reconnaissance aircraft and weather detection balloons fly up to 25,000 meters at most.

Because exceeding 25,000 meters is the 'upper limit of altitude development' set by the aviation industry, exceeding the theoretical flight limit of aircraft.

The MiG-25 easily broke through this altitude, which can be regarded as entering the concept of a spacecraft.

Some military fans have proposed such a hypothesis on the forum: If the MiG-25 was better made, the airtightness was improved, and it was equipped with materials and equipment that could resist atmospheric friction and low temperatures in outer space, this stainless steel legend could even rush out of outer space in one go and become the first generation of aerospace fighter jets!

What Chen Jue is doing now is to replicate the 'stainless steel legend' on his private jet.

With the material assistance of MC [Iron Block], whether it is airtightness or fuselage strength, this Airbus A320 is enough to beat the crude MiG-25 of the old Maozi.

However, the Airbus A320 has a natural defect, that is, it is an active civil airliner with a large fuselage and high load.

The self-contained V2500 engine is a twin-rotor, axial-flow, high-bypass turbofan engine developed and produced by International Aero Engines.

Although the maximum thrust of the twin engines reaches 22 tons, which is basically the same as the parameters of the twin R15 missile engines equipped by the MiG-25.

However, the normal take-off weight of the MiG-25 is only 37.5 tons, while the A320 reaches 75 tons.

The nearly doubled mass leads to the reason why civil airliners are destined to not fly fast.

Of course, this only restricts ordinary civil airliners.

After recalling the performance parameters of the MiG-25, the 'stainless steel legend', Chen Jue had a better idea for improving this modified A320.

"The skin, keel beam, and wing parts are all made of [Iron Block] sliced materials. As long as the strength is up to par, the thinner the better."

"Except for the avionics and flight control systems, all other original aircraft materials that can be reduced will be cut off," Chen Jue ordered on the spot.

At this time, several iron men pushed the two disassembled V2500 engines to him: "Boss, how to modify this engine?"

"Simple! Except for the fan blades and floating wall combustion chamber, all metal parts such as the compressor and turbine are replaced with [Iron Block] materials. Also, add a guide and anti-icing device to the air intake," Chen Jue commanded while walking to a CNC gantry machining center himself.

The polycrystalline diamond composite sheet (PDC) tool set provided by Shenji, which was originally equipped with the machining center, was replaced, and a brand new tool set was polished with the previously synthesized MC [Diamond].

The reason why MC [Diamond] is used as the machining tool set is because Chen Jue has a strange idea: "Since we want to modify it, let's completely modify it to the end!"

The original hollow titanium alloy wide chord blades of the V2500 engine were directly replaced with [Obsidian], which is said to be second only to bedrock in hardness in MC.

You know, the hardness of obsidian in reality is basically similar to that of glass, with a Mohs hardness of only 5.6-6.2.

However, in the early MC version, the hardness setting of [Obsidian] reached an incredible 50 Mohs hardness!

Such an explosive hardness value is a full 5 times higher than natural diamonds!

It is exciting to think about using it to replace traditional titanium alloy single crystal blades.

In addition, MC's [Obsidian] has an explosion resistance of 1200 points. It is enough to use it as a barrier to resist hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius of artificial sun in tokamak fusion devices. It is simply 'overkill' to put it into the combustion chamber of an aero engine!

So, after this deep modification was completed, these two V2500 engines, which showed black, purple, and silver colors, were re-hung on the wings by the iron golems.

Since the equipment of this temporary aviation repair shop is limited, there is not even a platform for engine test runs.

Chen Jue simply didn't bother to test it!

"Test run?"

"Test it, my ass!"

"I'm not afraid even if it disintegrates in the air. If it doesn't work, just pour [Water Bucket] under my feet in the void. I won't die even if I fall from outer space," Chen Jue rubbed his fly hands with an indifferent look.

It seems that he is full of confidence in Steve's 10 hearts.

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For this second-hand Airbus A320 aircraft purchased for 36 million US dollars, Chen Jue and the Iron Golem team spent nearly a week successively to carry out in-depth modification construction and internal decoration after the machine was completed.

You know, the manufacturing time of this kind of civil airliner originally has very strict man-hour regulations.

After all, it is related to the lives of 150 passengers.

From design, production to assembly, each link requires strict quality control and time management. Even for a large international manufacturer like Airbus, it takes at least 16 months to manufacture A320 from scratch.

Unlike Boeing, which has various show operations, in order to catch up with orders and recover costs, it abruptly compressed the manufacturing time of the Boeing 737MAX to less than 9 days, and eliminated many of the necessary quality inspection links.

This has led to a series of quality accidents on Boeing 737MAX aircraft in recent years. Either the cabin door falls off in mid-air, or a plane crash occurs inexplicably.

Even the 'Boeing whistleblower' finally committed suicide in a confused manner, which shows how deep the water is.

Of course, Chen Jue dared to try the machine so boldly because he had the MC plug-in and could switch to the 'Steve' state anytime and anywhere.

When this Airbus A320, which was painted in pure black and had the Magic Cube Group LOGO printed on the fuselage, was dragged out of the hangar and shone with an unusual cool and resolute color in the sun, Chen Jue's face showed a bit of satisfaction: "Cool! It's worth my long vacation here!"

For a 'plastic model enthusiast' who likes to play with models in his bones, it is normal to spend time on his proud works.

As the side cabin door opened, Chen Jue boarded the boarding ladder and entered the plane.

Subsequently, with the assistance of the engines on both sides, this modified A320 quickly lifted off from the narrow valley runway.

After a substantial weight reduction, its take-off distance was shortened from 1,625 meters to less than 800 meters.

The 'powerful brick flying', which is rumored to be magical in the aviation circle, is vividly demonstrated on Chen Jue's private plane.

Of course, what is even more exaggerated is its flight cruising speed!

When this black A320 climbed to 12,000 meters for an afterburner test, it was far away in the terminal building of Tolmachevo International Airport in Novosibirsk.

A Russian air traffic controller who was staring at the real-time picture on the computer LCD screen suddenly widened his eyes and blurted out: "Sukablyat!"

Because just now, he found that this private passenger plane, which had just declared an international route and was numbered 'MF01', actually climbed from the normal passenger plane's 800 kilometers per hour to 1,300 kilometers per hour after reaching the scheduled flight altitude.

Moreover, judging from the satellite positioning data it returned, this flight speed seemed to be still increasing.

Although the other party's flight trajectory and flight direction did not deviate, this abnormal flight speed still made him pick up the microphone and ask in rap-like Russian English: "MF01, calling MF01! Your flight speed is too fast, which will cause certain interference to the international route ahead. Please slow down appropriately!"

Immediately afterwards, a muffled reply sounded from the other end of the radio channel: "Sorry, we cannot slow down for the time being. Our boss is in a hurry to return to China to discuss a big contract! In order not to affect the operation of friendly aircraft, MF01 will switch to a higher cruising altitude."

"Higher cruising altitude?"

The Russian controller was dumbfounded when he heard this!

Because according to the software display, this private passenger plane with the A320 label is currently cruising at an altitude of 12,000 meters.

Climbing higher, the air pressure will decrease, the atmosphere will become very thin, and the ambient temperature will also drop sharply.

For civil airliners with not very strong fuselages, they cannot withstand the higher cruising altitude at all.

"Climbing higher, isn't that courting death? Does this crew not want to live? Aren't they afraid of the cabin disintegrating?" Countless thoughts popped into the Russian controller's mind in an instant.

Just as he was about to reply and stop them, the altitude displayed on the computer screen shot up from 12KM, first to 15KM, then to 20KM, finally stabilizing at 25KM.

This exaggerated scene immediately made the Russian controller press the red button on the side of the keyboard: "Supervisor! Emergency code 7500! MF01 is suspected of encountering illegal interference!"