After the meeting, Mr. Jiang left, Mr. Nie and others also left, but Zhou Yang was left behind!
That evening, a grand celebration banquet was held inside the Liaoshen Aircraft Factory.
After all, the first flight was successful and it was highly praised by the Air Force's ace pilot. This is definitely a happy thing for Liaoshen Aircraft Factory.
What's more important is Mr. Jiang's last words, which boosted the morale of the entire factory staff and cadres!
As a military-industrial unit, the greatest success is to design weapons and equipment that are approved by superiors, and then mass-produced and installed in the troops.
This is not only a huge honor, but also related to the huge interests and life and death of the unit.
They have been studying the J-8 fighter for 10 years, and now they finally have the opportunity to mass-produce it. Can they not be happy or excited about this?
Therefore, at the celebration banquet that night, Director Zou personally awarded certificates and bonuses to the meritorious staff and cadres.
What Zhou Yang didn't expect was that Director Zou actually gave him a first-class merit award and gave him a bonus of 200 yuan.
After the celebration banquet, Zhou Yang, the deputy chief designer, quickly took up his post and then plunged into intense work.
However, what he is busy with is not the research and design of new fighter aircraft, but continuing to conduct various tests and modifications on the J-8 modification!
What has been completed before is only the first flight, and there is still a long time to go from the first flight to the actual deployment of troops.
Fortunately, with Mr. Jiang’s support, these steps were much easier.
But in order to make the fighter plane more perfect and more effective, Zhou Yang, Gu Zhenhua and others need to continue to conduct high-intensity testing of the J-8 improved version.
In addition, since the Liaoshen Aircraft Factory will need to conduct technical explanations and results review to the Aviation Commission, it will also need to invite the Air Force to inspect the aircraft.
After all, these fighters are for the Air Force, and the Air Force's opinions need to be sought for the installation and delivery of any fighter aircraft.
But now Liaoshen Aircraft Factory only has one J-8 modified No. 001, so it cannot meet the demand at all.
At Zhou Yang's strong request, the aircraft factory assembled two more J-8 improved models according to the latest design requirements.
While waiting for the new aircraft to be assembled, Zhou Yang, Gu Zhenhua and others also exchanged ideas on the design of the new fighter jets.
Originally, Zhou Yang planned to build a J-10 fighter jet for the simple reason that he was familiar with this fighter jet.
If we really want to do it, it won't be a brand new design at all. It's just a copy, and the design is not difficult.
Zhou Yang believed that with the help of Gu Zhenhua and others, the drawings could be produced in up to half a year.
But after some analysis, Zhou Yang found that his idea was not feasible.
The main reason is that the J-10 cannot be built with the current domestic technical level. In addition to the engine and avionics system not meeting the requirements, the aircraft's fly-by-wire system is also not good, and there are also huge problems with materials.
Although the F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18 of the Thief Eagle, the S15, S27 of the Bear Alliance, and our J-10 are all third-generation fighters, there is also a huge gap between the three generations of fighters.
This is like the division of realms in fantasy novels. There is Grandmaster Entry and Grandmaster Perfection. The difference in strength between the two may be double or triple.
There is no doubt that our J-10 has the advantage of being a latecomer and is definitely the best among all three-generation fighters.
With the technological strength we currently have, it is not difficult but completely impossible to perfectly reproduce the J-10 fighter jet.
After thinking over and over again, Zhou Yang came up with two plans. One was to build a Nordic Gripen fighter, and the other was to build a J-10 with a reduced configuration first.
The Gripen fighter is a light aircraft. The prototype is a third-generation aircraft and the improved version is a fourth-generation aircraft. It has a small body but good combat effectiveness.
Combining domestic technological strength, it is very possible to develop this small fighter jet.
As for the downsized version of the J-10, it has to sacrifice a lot of functions. Although it can be regarded as a third-generation aircraft, its combat effectiveness is not nearly as good as it is.
But just when Zhou Yang was considering which plan to adopt, he discovered a more serious problem.
This problem does not arise from technological strength or technical reserves, but from people.
Through communicating with Gu Zhenhua and others, Zhou Yang discovered that their understanding of third-generation fighters was completely wrong.
In the eyes of Gu Zhenhua and others, third-generation fighters are completely unfamiliar.
They believe that the difference between second-generation and third-generation aircraft lies in the engine, fly-by-wire system and static instability, but this is obviously wrong.
According to their understanding, what they can produce can only be an enhanced second-generation version of the J-8 fighter, rather than a true third-generation aircraft.
At this time, Zhou Yang finally understood that the inability to build a true third-generation mobile phone in China was not just a matter of lack of technological strength, but also a deviation in the design concepts of most designers.
There is really a long way to go to create a true third-generation machine.
The second-generation aircraft is high-altitude and high-speed, while the third-generation aircraft emphasizes high maneuverability. This is the difference between the two.
Just compare our J-8 and the Su-15 of the Mao Xiong Alliance. It seems that the J-8 is very similar to the Su-15, but the design ideas are completely different. The Su-15 is much faster than the J-8, but its maneuverability is worse. a lot of.
However, the overall layout of the J-8 modification is too old, resulting in the advantage of a large thrust ratio being restricted by the old layout and not fully reflected in maneuverability.
So in terms of combat effectiveness, if our J-8 fighter really encounters the Su-15, it will still be inferior.
Therefore, in Zhou Yang's view, the top priority is not to adopt that solution at all, but to let all designers, including Gu Zhenhua, understand what a real third-generation machine is.
After all, the concepts are wrong, and the products developed must not be up to standard!
Because of this, Zhou Yang did not directly discuss the design plan with Gu Zhenhua and others in the following time. Instead, he discussed with them what a third-generation aircraft was and what the standards for a third-generation aircraft were.
In fact, decades later, countries around the world have reached a consensus on the standards for third-generation aircraft. Although the standards were revised in 2005, this does not affect the basic judgment of third-generation aircraft.
When Zhou Yang listed the standards of the third-generation aircraft one by one, Gu Zhenhua and others were confused.
Originally, the characteristics of third-generation aircraft that they thought were completely irrelevant to the standards proposed by Zhou Yang, but through Zhou Yang's explosive modification of the J-8, they directly created a quasi-third-generation aircraft. Everyone has long been impressed by Zhou Yang's strength. .
Although I felt shocked, I still chose to believe Zhou Yang!
After a week of communication, all of them have made great changes in their thinking, and everyone finally converged on the design concept of the third-generation machine.
However, since everyone's current focus is still on the J-8 reform, Zhou Yang and Gu Zhenhua discussed it, not to directly invest in the research and design of the third-generation aircraft for the time being, but to mass-produce the J-8 reform first, and then concentrate their efforts. Make a third-generation machine.
Of course, this is to concentrate on doing big things, but also to buy Zhou Yang some time for himself.
After all, Zhou Yang still has the research and development work on an early warning aircraft radar system. In order not to lose sight of one thing or another, he also needs some time as a buffer.
Soon both parties reached a consensus on this matter!
On March 1, the two J-8 fighter jets No. 002 and No. 003 were successfully assembled. In the next two days, everyone conducted extreme tests on these two fighters.
After comparison, it was found that the performance of the two newly assembled fighters was better than that of the No. 001 aircraft.
After confirming that there were no problems, Gu Zhenhua and Zhou Yang unanimously decided to proceed with the technical explanation and results inspection to the Aviation Commission.
Since the next thing was mainly about other departments of the aircraft factory, and it had been some time since Zhou Yang came out this time, he bid farewell to the airport.
Director Zou, Gu Zhenhua and others knew that Zhou Yang was a busy man and could not stay in their factory for a long time, so after holding a grand farewell ceremony for him, they sent a plane to take him back to the capital.
In this way, after staying at Liaoshen Aircraft Factory for 13 days, Zhou Yang finally returned to the capital on the Lantern Festival!
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