Rebirth of Military Workers

Chapter 1346

Xie Kai did not hold any title in the entire Chinese negotiating team, but the Soviets knew that Xie Kai was in charge in the previous negotiations.

What’s more, now Ukraine also has ideas, and naturally there is little possibility of problems.

Xie Kai did not expect that when he visited the Antonov Design Bureau, he was actually treated as an over-spec.

As soon as the car stopped at the gate of the Antonov Design Bureau, a group of young men were already waiting for him.

Xie Kai didn’t know a few people, and didn’t know who was who.

As soon as he got out of the car, Diminov pointed to a bald, chunky old man and introduced Xie Kai.

“This is the chief designer of the Antonov Design Bureau, the chief designer of Piotr Vasilievich Barabye. He presided over the design of An-124 and An-225…”

big cow!

Xie Kai exclaimed in his heart, stretched out his hands with a smile on his face, and held Barabye’s hand tightly.

With a look of surprise, he said: “The chief designer, I didn’t expect that I could still meet the chief designer of the world’s largest aircraft, let alone you greet me personally. It is a great honor, a great honor! You presided over the design of the An-225 heavy transport aircraft. , Is the world’s most outstanding large aircraft, we have advanced the current limit of human aviation manufacturing capabilities, regardless of the transportation capacity, or its flight performance, the whole world is amazed…”

Xie Kai is not stingy with compliments at all.

The old man in front of him is definitely the top talent in the Soviet Union.

Can they be ordinary talents who can design airplanes like An-124 and An-225?

Especially An-225, it only took 3 years from design to construction, which is incredibly fast for any country.

Dig him back!

Such a crazy idea suddenly jumped out of Xie Kai’s heart.

Looking at the chief designer of Antonov, Xie Kai is completely fanatical.

However, Xie Kai soon calmed down.

It is impossible to poach the chief engineer of the Antonov Design Bureau. Even if the Soviet Union collapsed, the top head of the Antonov Design Bureau would still be a pivotal figure in the Ukrainian aviation industry.

It is quite possible to dig their deputy chief designer.

“Thanks, welcome your visit.” Antonov’s chief designer said to Xie Kai with a smile on his face.

Diminov pointed to a tall, middle-aged man who was in his 40s and under 50 years old and introduced Xie Kai to him.

“Thanks, this is General Manager Antonov, Yuliav.”

Yuliaf also smiled and stretched out his hand to Xie Kai.

“Welcome to visit the world’s top large aircraft design and manufacturing plant.”

Xie Kai also smiled and held his hands with both hands, “It’s a great honor.”

Together with the chief designer and the general manager, they are all the core figures of Antonov. In Xie Kai’s heart, he has already begun to plan how to wield the hoe for digging talents.

After some greetings, senior designers and managers like Antonov accompanied Xie Kai to visit the Antonov Design Bureau.

During the visit, different people introduced to Xie Kai the various agencies of the entire design bureau and the work that each agency was responsible for.

These big bosses in Antonov’s bureau gave Xie Kai the feeling that they were like leaders who came to inspect their superiors.

The whole process is to introduce Antonov to Xie Kai in the form of reporting work.

The Antonov Design Bureau is huge.

At least much larger than the Yun-10 team.

Xie Kai, who has never seen anything in the world, can only be compared with the largest Yun-10 team in the domestic aviation manufacturing industry.

Ordinary designers are busy with the pile of office drawings.

Although they seem to be busy, Xie Kai sees the deep worries hidden in the eyes of many people.

This may be caused by the difficult life of the Antonov Design Bureau.

Without the Soviet financial appropriation, there are few production tasks and even wages cannot be paid.

Everyone can’t afford to eat, how can we not worry about the prospects?

Similar to the mental outlook of the 404 who was on the verge of bankruptcy.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

The offices of the Antonov Design Bureau are very spacious, and many office supplies are more luxurious, but they are also a bit outdated.

Computer-aided design has been fully introduced in the 404 subordinate units, and the world’s largest aircraft design unit, the microcomputer is almost invisible.

After visiting the design room and learning about the entire Antonov’s design process, the visit did not end.

Diminov and others took Xie Kai to various laboratories.

Here, Xie Kai fully experienced the core design test process of a large aircraft for the first time.

I also learned how the Soviets divided the work and coordinated the work of the various systems in the process of designing these large aircraft.

The Yun-10 team has always been under the jurisdiction of 404. Xie Kai is very familiar with the entire Yun-10 design team and management team, and even runs to the Yun-10 project team to talk to them from time to time, and visit the Yun-10 research if there is nothing to do. For Xie Kai, this is the first time he has fully understood the development and test process of a large aircraft.

In many experiments, there is a big gap between China and Antonov.

No wonder people can produce the An-225, the world’s largest heavy transport aircraft with a full-load take-off weight of more than 640 tons, while China can only produce the 110-ton C-910 in China. Even the 150-ton Yun-15 has not yet completed the design work.

Next to the Antonov Design Bureau is the manufacturing plant.

This factory is only an assembly line for large airplanes, and does not have much mechanical processing and production.

Regardless of the production of raw materials and mechanical parts, they are all produced by other factories and assembled here.

Outside the workshop, a huge plane was parked.

This is the An-225 taken by Xie Kai from Paris to Ukraine.

Diminov saw Xie Kai staring at the huge An-225, his eyes straightened, and said to Xie Kai: “During the last flight, the turbocharger stopped working, and the technical team is currently undergoing a full overhaul. Avoid it. error occured.”

This aircraft has not undergone several flight tests from its production to the present.

“The high-level aircraft officials of the Ministry of Aviation Industry are very relieved of the products designed by our best designers.

Seeing the change of expression on Xie Kai’s face, Diminov hurriedly explained.

He knew that during the flight from Paris to Ukraine, the situation of An-225 really scared Xie Kai.

The aircraft has not undergone long-term flight tests, and it does not ensure safety performance. Sitting on it is completely possible to die at any time. It is strange not to worry.

Especially Xie Kai doesn’t understand their technology.

“The one parked next to that is An-124, right?”

Xie Kai pointed to a huge plane next to An-225 that was similar in appearance, but much smaller, and asked Antonov’s executives.

Compared with the An-225, this much smaller aircraft is like the An-124, but Xie Kai is not sure.

Yuliaf followed Xie Kai’s gaze, “Yes, An-124. The one that has just left the factory will be delivered to the Air Force soon.”

Diminov did not want to introduce An-124 to Xie Kai.

Under his gesture, the chief designer Piotr Vasilievich Barabye introduced the An-225 aircraft to Xie Kai.

“An-225, due to the short development time and heavy tasks, in order to reduce the difficulty of research and development, we designed according to the An-124 transport aircraft design concept, and the technology used is mature. Because the main purpose of the An-225 is to transport and launch the Blizzard spacecraft. And rockets, so in terms of life support, the consideration is not very comprehensive…”

Xie Kai knew about these conditions a long time ago.

In order to show respect and leave a good image, Xie Kai still pretended to listen very seriously when Barabye introduced.

Seeing Xie Kai listening carefully, Barabuye continued to introduce, “The design started in the spring of 1985, the factory was shipped on November 30, 1988, and it first flew on February 21. The first flight with the Blizzard was completed on May 12 this year. task……”

At the introduction, the chief designer was very proud.

An aircraft like the An-225 really gave him the capital to be proud of.

As the world’s largest aircraft, even if it is to enlarge the An-124 aircraft, the difficulty in design and manufacture is not a little bit higher.

The strength of the main structure needs to be increased a lot.

Compared with the An-124, the An-225 has increased by 50% in both its maximum take-off weight and load capacity.

The main cargo hold is designed to carry 250 tons, and the top shelf has a carrying capacity of 200 tons.

When the entire aircraft can carry cargo in the inner cabin and the back shelf at the same time, the real maximum load capacity is 320 tons!

Xie Kai does not doubt this set of data.

The Western world guessed that the An-225 had a transport capacity of at least 300 tons, and the Soviets reported 320 tons, which is certainly not an exaggeration.

Even he felt that the data reported by the chief designer of the Antonov Design Bureau and the founder of An-225 was still conservative.

The An-225 has an empty weight of 175 tons and a load of 320 tons, which is less than 500 tons.

And the maximum take-off weight of this aircraft is 640 tons!

He doubted that the real transport capacity of this aircraft could reach 350 tons.

Such a load-bearing aircraft has a significant effect on the transportation needs of the entire 404.

Xie Kai listened and drooled out.

Diminov became more and more satisfied with his reaction.

He immediately said to Xie Kai: “Thank you, the An-225 that is being built in the factory is half completed. Are you interested in seeing it?”

“Yes, I’m so interested.” Xie Kai didn’t install it now.

These guys are definitely trying to sell An-225 to themselves!

Xie Kai knows that the An-225 in the factory has only completed its fuselage, but the wings have not yet arrived.

Antonov’s production workshop is very large, which is in line with the usual style of the Soviets.

The width of the entire production workshop exceeds 100 meters, and the length is nearly 200 meters.

Otherwise, it would not be possible to produce a huge aircraft such as An-225 with a length of 84 meters, a wingspan of 88.4 meters and a height of 18.1 meters.

In this factory, people seem very small.

In the workshop, not only the An-225 is produced, but also an An-124 without wings and several small turboprops, and I don’t know what model it is.

Seeing the chaotic situation of assembling several aircraft at the same time in a workshop, Xie Kai was speechless.

Even the domestic aircraft production line was changed to pulsed production under the proposal of Xie Kai, instead of being fixed in one place from the beginning to the end of assembly like the Soviets.

This assembly method is very inefficient.

Xie Kai knew that the production design and production line of Western fighters could not be open to the Soviets.

Even the production lines of large aircraft manufacturing plants could not be shown to the Soviets.