Chapter 1045 The world’s most powerful early warning aircraft!
2003 is really a special year.
What happened in the previous life is repeated exactly in this timeline.
Fortunately, today's Chang Haonan is not a student who can't help himself.
In order to avoid possible risks, after he went back to do an annual work report in early January, he simply stayed in Haojing.
Of course, there must be other explanations for this on the surface -
The first is to follow the development of the Air Police 2000 airborne data system, and the second is to some extent...
avoid arousing suspicion.
This was what Zhu Linyu reminded him.
After winning the Philippine Prize at the end of 2002, Chang Haonan, as the person holding an international award and three 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 strong, and there is almost no possibility of losing the selection.
On the nomination 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 in the nomination for the 2002 National Top Science and Technology Award.
Even ranked second in the entire list.
Only when the final decision was made, the superiors still approved only one person, Academician Jin Yilian, who pioneered the Chinese supercomputer industry.
The main reason is that the nature of this award when it was established was closer to the Lifetime Achievement Award.
And to give 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 lifetime achievements like this?
It is inevitable that people will have a bad sense of déjà vu...
It would be more reasonable to wait until after leaving 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 Val is invincible.
Perhaps it is a bit strange to place this hat on someone 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 results, as the number one 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...
...
In fact, by 2002 At the end of the year, 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.
But 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 completely relying on its own power for the first time and drove slowly along the taxiway to the waiting area...
This is of course not the first time it has come to this position -
Before this, the prototype numbered 2000-01 had completed the 4-wheel taxiing experiment.
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 staring at the aircraft in the distance.
Even for an "old fritter" 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 has to face this It is unrealistic to say that there is no psychological pressure at all for the first flight of a key model.
Not to mention Liang Shaoxiu, who was fully responsible for the model for the first time.
After all, as long as it is a project, there will be hidden dangers.
The sky's engineering will maximize the consequences of hidden dangers...
As time passed by, the 2000-01 aircraft continued to get smaller in everyone's field of vision, and finally stopped at takeoff. The end of the runway.
Compared with the model of the same name that was modified from the IL-76 in the previous Ring Project program, this aircraft is almost one-third smaller, and the size of the radome is also one-third smaller. Circle, at first glance, it does lack the visual impact from a large platform. However, thanks to the back-to-back in-line 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 all competitors around the world during the same period.
Among them, naturally, it also includes the Falcon System, which China once couldn't get.
"Unit No. 01 reports!"
The calm voice of test pilot Lin Hai came from the radio.
It has been almost 7 years since Chang Haonan first participated in the project. The group of test pilots who were active in the mid-to-late 1990s have basically retired beyond their age.
And Lin Hai is the leader among the new generation.
Compared with everyone in the tower, he did not show too much nervousness when facing the risk:
“We have arrived at the take-off area, and all flight-related subsystems are running well, with engine speed and rudder feedback detection. Complete, confirmed, request to take off!”
The verification subjects for the first flight only include basic flight performance and do not include the function of the mission load.
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.
"Allow takeoff, and I wish you all the best on the first flight!"
Even the flight commander's voice fluctuated slightly.
Because 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.
Therefore, if you only listen to the voices on both sides, you may 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 Plane 01 slowly began to accelerate on the runway.
Compared to a tactical aircraft of more than ten tons, the Air Police 2000 has a long taxiing time before taking off.
And this is one of the most worrying processes in the entire test flight -
The downwash effect of the radome on the horizontal tail cannot be completely eliminated, and no matter the numerical calculation, Regardless of wind tunnel testing, the simulation of this complex impact can only be limited to flight under certain conditions.
But taking off and landing, the biggest risk is uncertainty.
Therefore, 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 slightly affected by Hirao’s rhythm adjustment.
When approaching the middle of the 3,600-meter runway, aircraft No. 01 finally lifted its front wheels.
The aircraft had actually 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...
"Huh——"
For the first flight, as long as it can take off smoothly, saying 80% may be a bit too much, 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 adverse effects of the radome on flight quality are mainly concentrated on directional stability and reduced flexibility in pitch control.
This was not an unacceptable problem for a large aircraft that spent most of its time flying smoothly behind 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 on a qualitative level, it is very consistent with the simulation results before your design."
"As for the difference in control rate, 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 start working.
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.
He just held Chang Haonan's hand tightly.
And a little further away.
The chief engineer of the project, 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, no one!”
(End of this chapter)