Chapter 1045 The world’s most powerful early warning aircraft!
2003 is indeed a special year.
What happened in the previous life was repeated exactly on this timeline.
Fortunately, today''s Chang Haonan is not a student who can''t help himself.
In order to avoid possible risks, he simply stayed in Haojing after going back to do an annual work report in early January.
?Of course, there must be another explanation for this on the surface -
The first is to follow up on the research and development of the Air Police 2000 airborne data system, and the second is to some extent...
Avoid suspicion.
This is what Zhu Linyu reminded him.
After winning the Philippine Prize at the end of 2002, Chang Haonan, who holds one international award and three major national science and technology awards at the same time, was enough to ignore the age issue and was included in the 2003 academician selection.
?It is said that he is included in the selection, but in fact anyone with a discerning eye can see that the results in his hands and the relationship behind them are too hard, and there is almost no possibility of losing the selection.
?On the nomination and recommendation letter alone, more than a dozen big names including but not limited to Du Yishan, Ding Gaoheng, Song Jian, Liu Zhenxiang, Li Jie, Wu Wenjun and even Qian Lao signed at the end.
In fact, many people included Chang Haonan as a nominee in the 2002 National Top Science and Technology Award selection.
Even ranked second in the entire list.
?Only in the final decision-making process, the superiors only approved academician Jin Yilian, who pioneered the Chinese supercomputer industry.
Mainly considering that the nature of this award when it was established was closer to the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Giving a lifetime achievement award to a person who is less than twenty-seven years old...
Other people’s careers have just begun. How can you sum up their lifelong achievements in this way?
It will inevitably give people a bad sense of déjà vu…
It is more reasonable to wait until you leave the front-line research position.
In short, unlike most people who need to move around frequently during the critical stage of selection, what Chang Haonan needs to do is to stay away from the capital as much as possible at this time.
Lest anyone engage in performance art.
??For example, jumping out and exclaiming that Xue valve is invincible.
?Perhaps this label is a bit strange to put on the head of a person of this age.
?But it’s not surprising that strange things happened to Chang Haonan.
After all, being an academician under the age of 30 is an extremely unconventional thing.
??Although this kind of clown is unlikely to affect the final selection result, as the first in the entire aerospace power group, at least the first academician, Zhu Linyu still hopes to minimize such troubles at the level of public opinion.
? And this just suited Chang Haonan’s wishes, so he followed the trend and plunged into the workshop of Haofei Group...
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In fact, by the end of 2002, most of the subsystems of Air Police 2000 were already ready, and the only ones that really needed to be tackled were the data link and air command system.
?Now, half Haofei, half Electrical Engineering 14, and Chang Haonan himself are all focused on Air Police 2000.
Project progress is naturally not a problem.
What''s more, Chang Haonan also adopted a hardware-first development strategy to minimize the impact on the final assembly schedule.
Finally, with the hard work of multiple units and thousands of people.
On February 15, 2003, Air Police 2000 left the apron for the first time completely relying on its own power and drove slowly along the taxiway to the waiting area...
?This is certainly not the first time it has been in this position—
Prior to this, the prototype aircraft numbered 2000-01 had completed four taxiing experiments.
Even in the last test two days ago, it had reached a speed of 120 knots and achieved a smooth wheelie.
Prove that the aerodynamic design, especially the center of gravity and directional stability, has no major flaws.
But today is especially special.
Because Air Police 2000 will truly fly into the sky for the first time.
?In the flight control room of the tower, dozens of eyes were fixed on the aircraft in the distance.
Even for a "veteran" like Chang Haonan, although he has already gone through the entire development process of multiple models and has confirmed all the test results before Air Police 2000, he still has to face the first flight of such a key model. , it is unrealistic to say that there is no psychological pressure at all.
Not to mention Liang Shaoxiu, who is fully responsible for the first time as the model manager.
After all, as long as it is a project, there will be hidden dangers.
And God’s project will maximize the consequences of hidden dangers…
As time passed by, the No. 2000-01 aircraft continued to get smaller and smaller in everyone''s field of vision, and finally stopped at the end of the takeoff runway.
Compared with the model of the same name that was modified from the IL-76 in the previous Ring Project program, the aircraft is almost one-third smaller, and the size of the radome is also smaller. At first glance, it appears that It does lack the visual impact from a large platform. However, thanks to the back-to-back straight antenna design, the array size and the number of T/R elements have not been reduced.
Coupled with China''s own progress in the field of electronic technology over the years, the effective detection range of this radar far exceeds that of all competitors around the world during the same period.
Among them, naturally, it also includes the Falcon system that China once couldn''t get.
“Unit 01 report!”
??The calm voice of test pilot Lin Hai came over the radio.
?It has been almost 7 years since Chang Haonan first participated in the project. The group of test pilots active in the mid-to-late 1990s have basically retired beyond their age.
Lin Hai is the leader among the new generation.
?Compared to everyone in the tower, he did not show much nervousness when facing the risk:
“We have arrived at the take-off area, all flight-related subsystems are running well, the engine speed and rudder feedback have been detected and confirmed to be correct, request to take off!”
The verification subjects for the first flight only cover basic flight performance and do not include the function of the mission payload.
In fact, the command system designed by Chang Haonan is still in the process of software debugging, and it will take some time to be installed on the aircraft.
“Permitted to take off, and I wish you all the best on the first flight!”
Even the flight controller’s voice fluctuated slightly.
Since the flight test institute is located here, Yan Liang’s tower has witnessed too many test flights and finalizations.
But there are actually not many models that actually made their first flight.
?Hence, if you only listen to the voices on both sides, you might think that Lin Hai is the one who stayed on the ground...
“Copy that! Get ready to take off!”
? Lin Hai''s reply came immediately over the radio, and the No. 01 aircraft slowly began to accelerate on the runway.
Compared to a tactical aircraft of more than ten tons, the Air Police 2000''s taxiing time before takeoff is very long.
And this is one of the most worrying processes in the entire test flight——
It is impossible to completely eliminate the downwash effect of the radome on the horizontal tail, and whether it is numerical calculation or wind tunnel testing, the simulation of this complex effect can only be limited to flight under certain conditions.
But when taking off and landing, the biggest risk is uncertainty.
?Hence, every angle change of the horizontal tail hits everyone’s heart like a heavy hammer.
So much so that in the end, everyone’s heartbeats were somewhat affected by the rhythm of the flat tail.
When approaching the middle of the 3,600-meter runway, aircraft No. 01 finally raised its front wheels.
The aircraft had actually already exceeded the minimum take-off speed, so the rear wheels also overcame gravity and left the ground lightly.
Only the scorching heat waves emitted by the two engines were left, washing over the early morning runway...
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For the first flight, as long as it can take off smoothly, saying 80% may be a bit excessive, but saying less is half the battle.
The remaining half is basically focused on landing.
Fortunately, the whole process was smooth sailing without any surprises.
?According to feedback from pilots, after optimizing the cross-sectional shape, the negative impact of the radome on flight quality is mainly concentrated on directional stability and reduced flexibility in pitch control.
This is not an unacceptable problem for a large aircraft that spends most of its time flying smoothly behind the battle lines.
“Not bad, very good.”
Chang Haonan put down the telescope and shifted his gaze from Unit 01, which had landed smoothly, to Liang Shaoxiu next to him:
“At least at a qualitative level, it is very consistent with the simulation results before your design.”
“As for the difference in control rates, it depends on the analysis after recovering the data…”
As an "old-timer" who led the latter on projects many years ago, this evaluation is basically equivalent to -
It’s time to leave.
Liang Shaoxiu also breathed a sigh of relief and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Looks like he wants to say something.
But I couldn’t say it in the end.
Just held Chang Haonan''s hand tightly.
And a little further away.
Project chief engineer Wang Xiaomo came to Qiao Chenqing, the head of the Air Force, and said what he had wanted to say for a long time but had been holding back until now because he did not want to open the champagne in advance:
“Commander Qiao, I can now confidently assure you that this is the most comprehensive early warning aircraft in the world, bar none!”
(End of this chapter)