Chapter 163 Bird System
Hongsavadi.
Mongguan Township, Hukawng Valley, Kachin State.
Aoba Airlines - Factory 003 is located in this small town.
The factory is positioned to develop and manufacture large jet engines, as well as develop related jet aircraft .
Wright, the chief engineer who was poached from Embraer, as well as engineers poached from several South African aircraft manufacturers, and some staff transferred from Flying Fish.
Became the core scientific research team of this factory.
Wright and his family have immigrated to Hongsavadi. He is actually helpless. Now Pakistan Airlines is having a hard time. The aircraft manufacturing industry is a bit similar to the chip manufacturing industry. As time goes by, the strong will become stronger and the weak will become weaker. This is inevitable.
Currently, the global aviation manufacturing market is basically divided up by large European and American companies such as Boeing, Airbus, and Lockheed Martin.
Embraer and several South African aviation manufacturing companies are not having a good time.
Wright looked at the jet engine production line in front of him, his face twitching: "Manager Wu Feng, are you sure you want to produce this antique production line?"
"Production, this is the requirement from above." Wu Feng replied expressionlessly.
Wright reminded him speechlessly: "Even if the materials and some designs are adjusted, the performance of the jet engines produced by this production line can only reach the level of the 1980s at most. Although military aircraft can ignore fuel consumption, power and range..."
Wu Feng, however, seemed to have taken a heavy weight and was determined: "It doesn't matter. You just need to develop the best jet engine based on the existing ones."
"Okay! I'll try my best." Wright nodded helplessly.
In fact, Wright didn't know that Aoba Airlines actually had its own advantages, but this advantage had not yet been integrated.
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Luzon.
At the production base of Feiyu Company.
The company currently has 8 UAV production lines and 5 propeller aircraft production lines. It has also set up 34 supporting factories across Luzon, and most of the parts are domestically produced.
Chief Engineer Fang Bo and Manager Paul were observing a prototype at this time.
In a large enclosed workshop, this propeller plane draws on many modern classic propeller plane designs, but has its own characteristics.
What makes this aircraft different from conventional aircraft is that the surface of this aircraft is covered with a special structure, making it look like a strange metal bird with feathers.
Fang Bo introduced the flying bird system to Fang Xincheng and Garfield who came to inspect it, "This is the flying bird system we designed based on bionics. Although it cannot break the speed of sound, its energy consumption is 30% of that of a jet aircraft of the same level."
"30%? Chief Engineer Fang, can we really achieve 30% energy consumption?" Fang Xincheng was a little surprised at the company's scientific research capabilities.
Fang Bo nodded: "The specific technical principles are mainly bionics and chip technology."
Garfield approached the plane through the assembled support platform and saw the dense feathers on the wings: "Are these real feathers?"
"It is made of nano-silk and nano-bamboo silk through bionic textile technology. After being soaked in a special solution and coated with a waterproof and fire-proof coating, it has good performance in all aspects." Fang Bo explained.
Then he picked up a palm-sized bionic feather from the side and handed it to everyone for observation.
"The key to energy saving lies in these feathers?" Fang Xincheng asked curiously.
Fang Bo nodded: "Yes."
He took out a tablet computer disguised as a biological computer and roughly explained the principle to everyone in the simulation screen.
This large propeller transport aircraft is covered with a total of 1.2 million bionic feathers, which are inserted into the artificial leather layer below.
The artificial cortex is similar to the skin and muscles of birds. Its core structure is a genetically modified sponge honeycomb and a special solution. The concentration of the special solution in the honeycomb structure can be regulated by light signals, thereby controlling the direction of the feathers.
At the same time, on the surface of the artificial cortex, there is a comprehensive biosensor layer for sensing external factors.
All of these things are connected to the aircraft's biological computer core through optical fiber lines. The floating-point computing power of this computing core reaches 500,000 megabytes per second and is equipped with a bionic flight program.
As long as the aircraft completes the initial boost start, the bird system will operate synchronously.
Garfield put down the feather in his hand: "What are the parameters of this plane?"
"The aircraft is 35 meters long, with a wingspan of 42 meters, an empty weight of 32 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 70 tons, a maximum fuel capacity of 10 tons, and a maximum payload of 33 tons." Fang Bo continued:
"The maximum flight speed is 650 kilometers per hour, the cruising speed is 450 kilometers per hour; the maximum range with a full load is 6,000 kilometers."
Fang Bo then explained: "If the fuel tank is changed to 20 tons, the maximum range can reach 12,000 kilometers. This is a long-range model, but the maximum payload is 23 tons, or 280 seats."
"If it is a 10-ton fuel tank, the maximum range is 6,000 kilometers, and the payload is 33 tons, or 350 seats."
Fang Xincheng touched his chin. Although this parameter is weaker than Boeing 737 in terms of speed, it is obviously stronger than Boeing 737 in other aspects.
Especially in terms of fuel consumption, the largest expenditure cost for commercial airlines now is aviation fuel.
Not to mention reducing energy consumption by 30%, even if it is reduced by 3%, there will be a lot of airlines rushing to cooperate.
But Fang Xincheng couldn't help but smile bitterly. He was now a member of Spider Web and naturally knew that there were many sensitive technologies within the company.
Obviously, the Feiniao system and biochip cannot be commercialized now.
Zhiren Company and another alias, Aoba Group, have launched products such as viral antibiotics, coral cement, low-temperature glass, and iron bamboo, which already pose huge external risks.
Now, if the existence of the biochip is discovered by the great powers, America will definitely send its aircraft carrier fleet to attack it immediately.
The chip industry is as important as America's lifeline.
This is also why, although Sapiens has powerful biochip technology internally, it still purchases traditional electronic chips on the commercial Internet.
Before the nuclear bomb and missile technology matured, Sapiens did not want to overly stimulate America.
Recently, the security department of the Sapiens Company, Oak Leaf, has been making a lot of trouble in the Silver Triangle area of South America. In fact, it is to attract America's attention and buy time for the layout in Southeast Asia.
Compared with Southeast Asia, America actually attaches more importance to South America, its back garden.
After all, no matter how chaotic Southeast Asia is, it will have little impact on North America. But once South America gets out of control, it will pose a serious threat to North America.
Therefore, the Sapiens company launched the Three-Leaf Oak alias and started to cause trouble all over South America . Now, Three-Leaf Oak has developed a large number of subordinate organizations in the Andes Mountains and the Amazon rainforest.
Garfield inspected the aircraft of Exocet and the Typhoon series cruise missiles that were beginning to be equipped in large quantities. In fact, it was for next year, when he would officially take over Luzon.
Recently, he has been vigorously strengthening Luzon's armaments while cleaning out unstable factors within the Luzon army.
All of this is done so that we can be in our strongest form in the coming crisis to deal with threats from America and other major powers.
Garfield knew very well that without removing the stumbling block of America, neither the Sapiens Company nor Luzon would be able to move forward.
