Technological Supremacy Chapter 537: They make airplanes, we make flying saucers!
Luo Jia went to COMAC because of the large aircraft project. After getting off the car, he met the president Li He in the exhibition center. He led two tall and fat white men to visit. After asking, he found out who the white men were. Officials from European and North American aviation authorities.
COMAC wants to sell the aircraft to the world, first of all, it needs to obtain the airworthiness certificate issued by Europe and North America, but Luo Jia found that things are not that simple, because of competition, Europe and North America are not willing Issuing certificates of airworthiness, they seem to be making things difficult on purpose.
Smiling slightly, Luo Jia took the initiative to greet her, introduced herself, and learned that the officer sent by the North American Air Traffic Management Bureau was called Farrell, and the European Air Traffic Management Bureau was called Collins.
They looked at Luo Jia with unfriendly eyes. After all, in the context of the Western media, Luo Jia, the leader of the Iron Straight Boys, is a notorious devil who is desperately attacking Western industries and employing a large number of hooligans Lawyers, launching a legal siege against competitors is very hateful.
"This test flight will be carried out over the East China Sea. We have prepared ground propulsion demonstrations and all-round monitoring installed on the test flight aircraft so that everyone can have a more comprehensive understanding of the aircraft's performance." Li He explained to everyone.
The test flight is a relatively dangerous thing. Except for the two test pilots, the rest of the crew members are robots sent by Star Technology. Luo Jia and the others are watching remotely on the ground. Thousands of sensors will collect a lot of data. Build a flight test model and discover hidden problems based on the collected data.
After leaving the exhibition hall, Luo Jia saw the aero-engine produced by himself in the empty yard. Although Star Aviation also uses a turbofan structure, the energy comes from electricity. The engine is an ultrasonic motor, not a traditional internal combustion engine. .
The other parts of the aircraft are consistent with the previous design, but with the efforts of Xingchen Technology, a lot of localization has been done. The flight control is written by the software department, the fuselage is customized by the material research institute, and the main control computer , landing gear, tires, and even cabin seats all come from the chemical fiber factory under Xingchen Chemical.
Western technologies are also used, such as Musk's Starlink. I have to say that at this stage, Starlink is really a miraculous existence. It is the only Starlink network on earth. There is only one company to connect to the Internet with broadband, and there is no other choice. In addition, small parts such as pitots and static pressure holes are also imported.
I don't know why, but Luo Jia is not surprised, and feels that everything in front of him is so ordinary that it is scary.
The ultrasonic motor is obviously a sharp weapon built for the era of the big universe. It is nicknamed the space motor and has stronger capabilities, but it is limited to subsonic flight.
Obviously adopting so many technologies that are unique in the world, the aircraft looks the same as it did decades ago, with ordinary gliding takeoff and landing, and ordinary rotor steering.
Hey~
Luo Jia frowned. As a person who would die without innovation, he really didn't have any interest in this kind of aircraft product that only switched from fuel to electric power, and the rest of the design was common to the last century.
The engineers excitedly introduced the excellent performance of the large aircraft, but what Luo Jia saw was overkill.
What makes Luo Jia even more dissatisfied is that Western experts point out that they must be tested according to their standards and conform to the rules they set, and all decisions are in the hands of the West.
On the way back to the company, Xu Chunbiao was still driving, but the atmosphere in the car was much more depressed than when he came. Luo Jia was thinking, and Shen Lang was also looking at the river outside the window for a long time without speaking. Xu Chunbiao felt the strangeness of the two of them. So he chose to shut up and didn't disturb them.
He went back to the company silently, got out of the car, Shen Lang was going to go to the office, but Luo Jia was going to go back to the meditation center to lie down, he always lay down when he was studying, and then opened more and more folders in his mind , with the continuous transmission of the golden dome over the years, Luo Jia's learning pressure is also increasing year by year. He must spend more than half of his time on learning new knowledge.
"How do you feel about the large aircraft project?" Luo Jia asked Shen Lang.
"I think projects that cannot be fully controlled by us are always very troublesome." Shen Lang scratched his hair with a smile and said, "If it were our own project, the result might be different."
The seemingly insignificant sentence made Luo Jia's eyes shine. He is indeed a rare military genius. Shen Lang said the most important thing in his words. The large aircraft project is not led by Xingchen Technology. So it is impossible to penetrate their will in the project, and this is the root of all troubles.
Assuming that Xingchen Technology is the main body of the large aircraft project, will they care about the West making things difficult?
Obviously, no.
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Early the next morning, there was a regular meeting of the Administration.
Luo Jia was rarely late. When he entered the conference room, the others had already been waiting for a long time. Cao Yuan even took out a handheld device to play. Those cultural influences that have already been deeply rooted will take time to change.
For example, Nintendo's handhelds, under the background of rampant mobile games, handhelds, a product invented in the last century, have gradually become a niche, but they still have the support of diehard fans like Cao Yuan, and they will never leave Never give up, this is the power of culture.
Nokia, which used to be extremely powerful in the mobile phone field, collapsed as soon as its products failed, but its cultural influence can last for generations, including Luo Jia himself, who still likes watching Japanese manga today, so It can be seen that calling culture the number one hegemony in the world is by no means a joke.
"Sorry, I'm late." Luo Jia said with a smile. This approachable boss has always been unassuming, and he will criticize things if he does something wrong.
"Have you stayed up all night? You look like you haven't washed your face." An Ran muttered looking at Luo Jia's gloomy face.
Actually, during the recent period, Luo Jia's mental state has improved a lot. Since discovering the secret net, Luo Jia has mastered the ability to fugue and learn while sleeping.
Logging into the secret net is a kind of mental withdrawal. The body is obviously resting, but Luo Jia's mind is studying. He can even use the flower of reincarnation to go to the blue star county where Lan Yu is, so he can study all night. will be greatly reduced.
"I went to see the big plane with Shen Lang yesterday, and I had some ideas, so I made it overnight." Luo Jia explained.
Everyone was slightly taken aback, and they inevitably felt a little more anticipation.
There is a breakfast prepared by the administrative department in the conference room, both Chinese and Western styles, with a variety of varieties. After all, the regular meeting of the management bureau is also called a breakfast meeting. Several leaders take advantage of the breakfast time to gather together to communicate. The meeting is short and fast, without delay Other jobs.
Luo Jia picked up a set of pancakes with his left hand, pulled the whiteboard with his right hand, and wrote quickly.
"Our plan needs to be changed." Luo Jia said in a deep voice: "According to the company's predetermined goal, first solve the problem of superconductivity, then lay superconductor roads and railways, and finally realize magnetic levitation. It's been too long."
Everyone nodded. As the largest scientific research group in the world, Star Technology has many plans. Maglev belongs to the long-term plan. It took more than ten years. After all, even if there are enough cheap superconducting materials, large-scale reconstruction of roads and railways , is not an easy task.
Reality is not fiction. The emergence of maglev must first solve the problem of superconductivity. Cheap and mass-produced superconducting materials are the pre-technology of maglev. It is not enough to install a few high-power electromagnetic coils on the car. .
After eating the pancakes, Luo Jia drank a few more sips of mineral water, and then said to everyone: "To solve the problem of aircraft, we don't necessarily have to learn how to build aircraft in the West. We can also use other things to make the aircraft easier. Get rid of it!"
Kill the plane?
Everyone was amazed, obviously their thinking had been impacted, but this was not surprising, Luo Jia had always had the habit of whimsical thinking.
"Yes, we have to think about a question, what is the essence of an airplane?" Luo Jia looked around the audience, and then said in a deep voice: "The essence of an airplane is transportation, as long as it can achieve fast and long-distance transportation, no matter we Whether you use an airplane or Dumbo, the result is the same, it is nothing more than sending people and goods from one place to another in the shortest possible time.”
"The problem now is that we do not have the right to speak about aircraft. If we build an aircraft, we must meet Western standards and be stuck by them."
"So we have to find another way, take a road that they haven't gone through, and can't control us, kill them by overtaking on a curve, and get rid of the so-called Western standards..."
Luo Jia talked eloquently, and everyone listened with enthusiasm. Overtaking on curves has always been the habit of Star Technology. Facing the rules set by the West, Star Technology broke the rules time and time again, forcibly overtaking, leaving countless legendary people behind. Wonderful record.
There was no sound in the meeting room. Everyone was waiting for Luo Jia's decision, and they were very excited.
However, when Luo Jia said his prediction, everyone was shocked.
"Since the West controls airplanes, we won't make airplanes, we'll make flying saucers!" Luo Jia said in a deep voice.
Puff~
After everyone listened, they almost sprayed, what the **** is a flying saucer? Have you read too much science fiction?
"I knew you would think things wrong." Luo Jia shook his head and said, "I admit that the name of the flying saucer is influenced by science fiction and magazines, and it is a bit of a gimmick. To be precise, my plan is called Butterfly Vertical take-off and landing convenient public transportation system.”
Vertical takeoff and landing! ?
All the smart people present quickly figured out the key point from Luo Jia's words, the aircraft that can take off and land vertically doesn't even need an airport?
Modern airports are often dozens of kilometers away from the urban area~IndoMTL.com~It takes a long time to go back and forth, which is a huge pain point. If the vertical take-off and landing system can operate in the urban area, wouldn’t it be as convenient as taking a bus?
Wait.
Luo Jia also said another word, public transportation?
Could it be that he intends to use a flying saucer that takes off and lands vertically to create a new mode of transportation?
If this mode of transportation can be successful, it will not be a matter of transforming the plane, but changing the entire transportation system!
Big plan!
This is definitely a big plan!
Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help looking at Luo Jia, only to see a sunny smile on his face.
"The West doesn't want us to subvert their aircraft supremacy, so we will overthrow the entire transportation system!" Luo Jia said with a slightly cold look.