northernbook Chapter 304: A-909 passenger plane's maiden flight to Xizhou, a shocking journey across thousan
Chapter 304: A-909 passenger plane's maiden flight to Xizhou, a shocking journey across thousan
In preparation for the first Jianggang International Air Show, Jianggang City invested a large amount of money in urban infrastructure.
The Jianggang International Aviation Exhibition Center was completed in September and put into use.
This international air show center has an investment of more than 1800 million yuan and covers an area of 59 square meters.
It has a fixed exhibition hall, an outdoor equipment exhibition area, a ground equipment dynamic demonstration area, etc., and can accommodate more than 100,000 people in the air show center.
If this international event can be held successfully.
It will bring unimaginable fame and economic benefits to Jianggang, and even drive the economic development of Jianggang.
The Jianggang City Hall understood this very clearly, so they provided both land and money and were very proactive.
As long as we can make the Jianggang International Air Show Center famous.
In the future, we can use this point to lead the whole and hold exhibitions of various levels.
For example, auto shows, sports events, etc.
This is also the main reason why City Hall has been so proactive.
At the first Jianggang International Air Show, the navy, army and air force were all gearing up, but the Strategic Rocket Force remained unknown.
However, the Strategic Rocket Force has also been preparing for a major event recently.
That is the test launch of a new type of strategic intercontinental nuclear missile and the test explosion of domestically developed nuclear weapons.
The Strategic Rocket Force is the most mysterious branch of the ancient country's national defense force, and it rarely appears even in paper documents.
The outside world only knows that the ancient country has a fourth military branch called the Strategic Rocket Force, but they don’t know what it does specifically.
It is normal to keep it confidential. After all, the equipment equipped by the Strategic Rocket Force cannot even be displayed, let alone sold at an air show.
I could only watch silently as the three brothers, Sea, Land and Air, ate meat with big mouthfuls.
But the real protagonists are the navy and air force.
As for the Army...it is destined to be a little transparent at the air show, and the attention it receives is far less than that of the Navy and Air Force.
The Army Big Brother is destined to never get up again.
It is not just the navy, army and air force that are gearing up for the fight, but also the ancient commercial aircraft manufacturing group and the top aviation manufacturers of Citi and John.
Among them, several major aviation giants in the United States have transported all of their most advanced aircraft here.
For example, Boeing and Douglas of Citi, Agusta and Ambrosini of Italy, Messerschmitt of Hans, and Vickers-Armstrong of John.
These companies have both military and civilian aircraft models.
In this peaceful era, there are few opportunities to promote your own products.
Therefore, they are also very happy to participate in this highly anticipated Jianggang International Air Show.
According to statistics from the organizers, the number of exhibitors from home and abroad exceeded 80.
More than half of the total is from China.
Jiang Hua was also shocked when he saw the number.
I didn’t expect that there would be so many domestic manufacturers participating in the exhibition.
As time goes by, November 11st is getting closer and closer.
The Guatemalan Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Group and Hans Airports have reached a cooperation agreement.
Civilian passenger aircraft of the ancient country are allowed to open temporary routes from the ancient country to major airports in Hans.
The reason why it is called a temporary route is that COMAC wants to use this opportunity to directly demonstrate the strength of COMAC Group to countries around the world.
No matter how much you talk, it won't be more convincing than actually flying a few times.
Of course, this actually involves certain risks.
If a crash occurs during this period, it will be a devastating blow to COMAC and this aircraft model.
However, the ancient country COMAC has strong confidence in its own products.
Hans and the ancient country had relatively in-depth cooperation in economy and military.
They are more dependent on ancient countries in terms of resources and military equipment.
The main resources are petroleum, rubber, tungsten alloy products, precious metals, etc.
Not to mention military equipment.
The army's tanks, the air force's fighter planes, and the navy's battleships and submarines all come from ancient countries.
So they had no reason to disagree.
They have nothing to lose anyway.
The news that the ancient country will open a temporary international route directly from Hans' main airport to the ancient country was also spread in Xizhou under the promotion of certain forces.
Sure enough, this action directly attracted the attention of people from all over Western Continent.
There are two Hans airports that have opened routes this time.
They are Tempelhof International Airport in Germania and Rhein International Airport.
Passenger planes from the ancient country will take off from these two airports and go directly to the four places of Shangjing, Shanghu, Yangcheng and Jianggang in the ancient country.
This is also an attempt by COMAC to conduct international direct flights and a warm-up for the upcoming air show.
Therefore, COMAC has no intention of making any money from air tickets.
This small amount of money is nothing compared to selling an airplane, but we can't refuse it.
The direct price was 200 marks, or 200 Chinese yuan.
Converted into US dollars, that's 80.
This price is considered very cheap in this era.
After all, this is an international route with a range of thousands of kilometers.
The $80 ticket price can make the airline responsible for operating the plane a small profit.
As a result, the phones at Tempelhof Airport and Rhein International Airport were flooded with calls, and the ticket halls were full of Hans people.
At the same time, people from John, Gaul, Italy and neighboring countries, and even some wealthy people, flocked to Hans.
If the two major airports had not controlled the ticket sales ratio.
The local Hans people alone were able to snap up all the remaining tickets.
The time agreed by both parties is from October 10rd to October 23st.
Tempelhof Airport once again welcomed a surge of people.
The last time was a few years ago, when a C-124 strategic transport aircraft from an ancient country landed at the airport.
This time, the airport welcomed a civil airliner from an ancient country.
In the airport there were tourists who had purchased tickets to go to one of the four cities of the ancient country, as well as Hans people who came to watch the excitement.
Jianggang International Airport is also a large civil airport built as part of the infrastructure plan and is one of the top ten civil airports in the ancient country.
This is also the first time that Jianggang International Airport has been put into use since its completion.
The first aircraft to take off from the airport was the A-909-95 passenger aircraft produced by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China.
A-909 is the model of this passenger aircraft.
The suffix 95 indicates the number of passengers the aircraft can carry.
Because there is not only one model of the A909 passenger aircraft, this is also to make it easier to distinguish.
In fact, apart from its appearance which is similar to the DC-7, this passenger plane is basically no different from the original DC-7 inside and out.
As the first ultra-long-range passenger aircraft of the ancient country's COMAC Manufacturing Group, they naturally put a lot of effort into it and directly upgraded it using existing technology based on the original basis.
The main upgrades are in power, avionics, and supercharging equipment.
The DC-7 was originally powered by four 3250-horsepower radial piston engines, totaling horsepower.
The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China replaced it with a high-power turboprop engine independently developed by the Aviation Power Company under the Aviation Industry Corporation of China.
Turboprop engines appear similar to piston engines in appearance, both having propellers.
But in fact, turboprop engines are a type of jet engine.
Jet engines include turboprop, turboshaft, turbojets, turbofans, gas turbines, etc.
Compared with piston engines, turboprop engines have the advantages of fuel saving, simple structure, stable operation and long life.
The only thing lacking is the noise.
This thing makes a lot of noise.
Therefore, COMAC has also made great efforts in noise reduction, using some noise reduction materials and noise reduction designs.
Finally, the noise was reduced to a level that the human ear can tolerate.
The replacement turboprop engine has a power of 4000 shaft horsepower.
The total power of the four turboshaft engines reaches horsepower.
The more powerful power also makes the passenger aircraft's take-off weight larger, reaching 70 tons.
This also allows it to hold more fuel and passengers.
Therefore, the A-909 passenger aircraft is also larger in size than the original DC-7.
It has more fuel and is more fuel efficient.
Therefore, the range of the A-909 passenger aircraft easily exceeded 1.2 kilometers, reaching kilometers.
Compared with the DC-7 passenger aircraft's maximum range of 8300 kilometers, it has increased by nearly kilometers.
In terms of avionics, the A909 passenger aircraft has added weather radar, approach radar, crosswind radar, side rain radar, landing radar, autopilot, etc.
The concept of radar has now emerged in the West.
Therefore, some restrictions have been lifted on civilian radar.
There's no need to worry about them stealing the technology.
If it were so easy to steal something, then radar technology would be too simple.
As the engines started, the A-909-95 took off empty from Jianggang International Airport.
Destination Hanstenburg Airport.
Because Tsarist Russia was a bit small, it was not willing to open a route to the ancient country.
Therefore, it is necessary to fly around to the Zhongsha area, and then pass through the airspace of Turkey to enter Xizhou.
The total distance is 1 kilometers.
If the A-909 passenger plane had not had a range of kilometers, it would probably not have been able to arrive at all.
The A-909 long-range passenger aircraft has an economic cruising speed of 460 kilometers per hour.
The entire 22-kilometer journey takes nearly hours.
However, compared to a ship that takes a month to travel, this speed is already very fast.
Even if a jet airliner arrived, the journey of tens of thousands of kilometers would still take more than ten hours.
Compared with the last intercontinental flight, this flight has a clear route planned.
It also has an advanced radar system and program-controlled autopilot equipment, so the flight process is relatively smooth.
Under the watchful eyes of the public, the A-909-95 passenger plane, painted in red, blue and white, landed smoothly on the three-kilometer runway of Tempelhof International Airport.
This landing still caused a great shock to this group of Westerners.
After all, the last plane that landed was a military transport plane.
This time it was different, it was a civilian airliner that landed at the airport.
And it is a civilian airliner that flies non-stop for 1 kilometers.
This also means that this passenger aircraft can operate any international route.
Taking off from Xizhou, you can even fly directly to the west coast of the United States, crossing the entire United States.
The eyes of the civil aviation company managers who personally observed the landing of the passenger plane began to light up.
They finally saw hope for the development of long-distance international routes.
If they can be the first to operate this passenger plane, it means that they are the first to try it out and can make a lot of money.