A big country of aerospace with black technology

Rongcheng, an aircraft factory.

The WS-10 engine was loaded on the Su-27 after its maiden flight in October.

Within more than two months, several test flights were carried out, and the flight time of the first WS-10 engine reached 300 hours.

And after the overhaul, it was found that even after 300 hours of flight, the various parts of the engine were still in good operation.

It is estimated that the working life can reach more than 1200 hours. You must know that the working life of the AL-31F engine of Damaojia is only 900 hours these days.

Because the WS-10 engine does not borrow too much technology from the AL-31 in this world, it actually avoids some problems of the AL-31 itself.

The WS-10 engine was originally intended to be used on the newly developed third-generation J-10 fighter jet.

The J-10 prototype manufacturing speed is much faster than the WS-10 engine development speed.

The development and manufacturing of the first test machine was basically completed a few years ago, but the development of the engine has been encountering various obstacles.

This has not been able to complete the research and development and manufacturing of the aircraft.

However, this year, the research and development progress of WS-10 has advanced by leaps and bounds. In just a few months, many major problems that had plagued the development of the engine have been solved.

Let the engine suddenly surpass the AL-31F of Damao's family from the original state of Feila.

When it surprised many people, it also made the J-10 aircraft project team who had been waiting for the domestic engine and was ready to switch to the AL-31F engine of Da Maojia very happy.

After all, WS-10 is almost customized for J-10, and a lot of preparations have been made in all aspects.

Unlike the AL-31F engine, if the J-10 really wants to use this engine, then a lot of modifications will be made in all aspects of the aircraft.

In this way, it is not known when the J-10 will actually make its first flight.

But fortunately, the development and manufacture of WS-10 has been successfully completed, and the J-10 fighter does not need to work so hard to adapt to the AL-31F engine of Da Mao's family.

The first flight time of the J-10 fighter jet, as well as the subsequent deployment time for service, can be greatly advanced.

This can greatly relieve the current pressure on the Air Force. We must know that the vast sky of the motherland is almost guarded by J-7 and J-8.

The dozens of Su-27 fighter jets imported from Damao's family can almost only equip an aviation regiment, and they are as rare as treasures by those units equipped with Su-27 fighter jets.

It is too difficult to rely on these Su-27 fighter jets to guard the long border of thousands of kilometers of the motherland.

If the J-10 fighter jet is successfully developed and mass-produced, it will greatly enhance the Air Force's ability to defend the country.

In the aircraft factory, Zhang Zhengjiang, the chief engineer of the WS-10 project, is communicating with Song Tianxing, the chief engineer of the J-10 project.

"Old Zhang, you did a good job this time!"

Song Tianxing, with a naive face, was joking with Zhang Zhengjiang.

"I didn't expect you to solve so many problems in just a few months."

"Amazing!"

Facing Song Tianxing's praise, Zhang Zhengjiang was not proud, but very humble.

"To solve the problem, the main work still relies on the help of our brother units. It is difficult for us to solve so many problems so quickly by ourselves."

For this answer, Song Tianxing was not very surprised. After all, he was familiar with the members of the WS-10 project team and understood the abilities of the members of the WS-10 project team.

If they just rely on themselves to slowly chew through these problems little by little, it will take at least three or four years.

But they solved it in a few months, and people from other units must have helped.

"Which unit?"

"It's so awesome, and the problem is solved for you in such a short time."

Song Tianxing couldn't help but ask.

"The materials laboratory of the Rocket Research Institute, their newly developed high-temperature materials have very strong performance, and have solved the material problems that have plagued us for a long time."

Mentioning the reason here, Zhang Zhengjiang said with emotion:

"And their high-temperature powder metallurgy process also appears to be advanced, producing parts that are almost entirely arranged in single crystals."

Song Tianxing was a little surprised at this time. After all, in terms of rockets, the Rocket Research Institute may be in a leading position in the country.

But in terms of material R\u0026D and manufacturing, the Rocket Research Institute can only say that it is not ranked high.

Hearing that they had made such a significant progress in materials, Song Tianxing had to be surprised.

"Didn't they have an accident at the beginning of the year?"

"It's been slowed down so quickly, and so many results have been produced, it's amazing!"

Zhang Zhengjiang is already used to other people's thinking, after all, the things here are really outrageous.

"Let's not talk about that, WS-10 is loaded with J-10, are there any difficulties at present?"

After chatting for a while, Zhang Zhengjiang and Song Tianxing got down to business.

As a supporting engine for the J-10, the WS-10 itself was developed for it.

As the chief engineer of the WS-10 engine, Zhang Zhengjiang is most concerned about loading J-10 fighter jets.

Seeing Zhang Zhengjiang's expression of returning to work, Song Tianxing became a little more serious, and took a summary of various problems with the WS-10 installation by the J-10 project team before Zhang Zhengjiang came.

"The current installation problem is actually not particularly big. Our engineers have tried to install it before, and have conducted a certain degree of ground testing."

"It's just that there are some relatively small problems, there are no major problems."

"Now these small problems, we have almost solved."

"However, you also know that the actual operation at high altitudes is completely different from the ground conditions."

"If you want to get real data, you must conduct a test flight."

Zhang Zhengjiang was not particularly surprised by this. The flight test is a very important link in the entire design improvement process of the aircraft.

If you want to get real and detailed data, you must rely on a lot of flight tests to get it.

"How is the preparation for the test flight? When will the first flight be possible?" Zhang Zhengjiang asked.

"It is now approaching the end of the year. It is estimated that various preparations will not be completed before this year. The time for the first flight may be after the end of the new year."

Although Song Tianxing also wanted to make the first flight of the J-10 as soon as possible, but the preparation progress was not very satisfactory, and there must be no hope before the year.

In addition, there were many messy things at the end of the year, which involved a lot of energy and had to slow down the preparation work.

"How is the pilot training for the first flight? This flight is still very risky."

"The first batch of test pilots have completed all the training subjects and are ready to fly the J-10 fighter at any time."

"As for the personnel for the first flight, Lei Gang is currently tentatively scheduled to be the test pilot for the first flight of your WS-10 before!"

The training of pilots is much faster than the preparation of J-10 fighter jets. Now almost all of them are waiting for fighter jets, waiting to drive the latest generation of fighter jets of the motherland straight into the sky!

Even in this process, you will not hesitate to sacrifice your own life!