Guo Wenchang and Chief Engineer Li Shuguanggu chatted for a long time, and both sides benefited a lot. This inspection and test flight of the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet is also more targeted.

On the morning of the next day, under the arrangement of the French side, the delegation came to the air force base, where the French pilots guided Guo Wenchang on the simulator to test-fly the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet.

You must know that flight simulators are also very rare for China. After all, the French flight simulators are very advanced. I have to say that China’s top test pilots are indeed very powerful. They mastered flying in a short time.

Skill, the French pilot kept giving thumbs up.

Next came the real test flight, but for the first time, the French pilot was responsible for operating the aircraft, and Guo Wenchang could only sit in the back cabin to experience it.

The Mirage 2000 is a two-seater combat trainer aircraft that can be used for ground attack and pilot training. The rear cabin is the seat of the weapons operator or instructor, and the front cabin is the pilot or student.

Li Shuguang and the others also followed them to the airport and watched Guo Wenchang enter the cockpit.

Everyone is looking forward to this test flight very much and want to see how the flight performance of the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet is.

After all, it is a third-generation aircraft, so its maneuverability must be much better than the second-generation J-8.

Li Shuguang and the others returned to the flight command and control center, which was also modern and had a large monitor that allowed them to see the entire flight situation.

There were many staff working in front of the computers, and the Mirage 2,000 fighter jets in the hangar started their engines and made a huge roar.

Not long after, the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet slid out of the parking space and taxied along the taxiway towards the runway.

The Mirage 2,000 fighter looks smaller than the J-8 fighter, mainly because its body is shorter because it has no tail, and it has a large delta wing. The wing area is larger than that of the J-8, so from the appearance point of view

, there is indeed a sense of beauty, and the handsome man in the air is probably slightly inferior.

A leader looked at the Mirage 2,000 fighter jets on the runway and sighed: "The Mirage 2,000 fighter jets are indeed beautiful. The gap between our J-8 fighter jets is not small!"

Everyone agreed one after another. Although this would make Commander Gu feel very uncomfortable. After all, he is the chief designer of the J-8 fighter jet, but this is the fact and we have to admit it.

On the runway, the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet stopped at the take-off point. The pilot was doing a final check on the fighter jet. All the control surfaces of the fighter jet were moving. This was to ensure that there were no problems with the flight control system, otherwise

When you get up in the sky and find that you can't control the rudder, that's the end of it.

After the inspection, I saw that this Mirage 2,000 fighter jet had orange-red tail flames emitted from the engine tail nozzle. This meant that the afterburner was turned on and it was about to take off with afterburner.

Although the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet has a delta wing, its takeoff and rolling distance is obviously much shorter than that of second-generation aircraft like the J-8.

At a distance of about three hundred meters, the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet took off lightly, looking very relaxed.

I have to say that its aerodynamic design is indeed more advanced than the second-generation aircraft with delta wings. Coupled with the high-thrust engine, it has good short-distance takeoff capabilities.

Of course, if a pair of canards are added, the short take-off capability will be even better.

In order to demonstrate the flight performance of the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet, a French pilot piloted the aircraft into a high-angle-of-attack climb state just after takeoff and before it reached an altitude of less than 200 meters, fully demonstrating its high-angle-of-attack flight capabilities and

Climb performance.

In the control center, everyone applauded. This flight performance was indeed wonderful.

Soon the fighter plane disappeared from everyone's sight and passed through the clouds.

After a while, I saw the fighter jet roaring and swooping down again. The momentum was so strong that it didn't pull up quickly until it reached an altitude of about 500 meters and turned into level flight. After circling for a circle, the Phantom Two Thousand fighter jets entered low altitude.

The trajectory of the entire field.

I saw that its speed became very slow, less than 300 kilometers per hour, flying slowly over the runway in front of the control center at an altitude of about fifty meters.

You must know that this kind of ultra-low-altitude and low-speed passage is very difficult. The aircraft has to have excellent low-altitude and low-speed performance to dare to show it like this. It is absolutely impossible for the J-7 and J-8 fighter jets to do it, because they are all high-altitude and high-speed interceptors.

The low-altitude and low-speed performance is very poor. If it were to fly like this, it would probably be shot directly on the runway.

Next, the Mirage Two Thousand fighter jets also displayed several beautiful maneuvers, which made the leaders extremely excited. It would be great if the Air Force had such good fighter jets.

But everyone knows that French products have always been very expensive. I wonder what price the French will offer this time. If it is cheaper, there is still the possibility of importing it. If it is expensive, it will not work. Of course, the French must

Just share the technology.

The Mirage 2,000 fighter jets completed their flight demonstration and began to land.

It can be seen that its landing speed is also slower than that of the J-7 and J-8. Obviously, the difficulty of flying the Mirage 2,000 fighter is much less than that of the J-7 and J-8. After all, it is a third-generation aircraft.

At this time, Li Shuguang couldn't help but compare the flight performance of the Mirage 2,000 with the flight performance of the future J-10 fighter. From the current analysis, the future J-10 fighter is still stronger. After all, it has an extra pair of canards than the Mirage 2,000.

This is important.

Otherwise, why did the French later design and develop the Rafale fighter jet? It is a twin-engine canard layout fighter. The tailless delta wing layout of the Mirage 2000 is destined to be outdated, so it is better not to introduce it.

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Otherwise, the J-10 project may be discontinued.

It's about to be canceled before it even starts.

After all, there is absolutely no risk in buying the Mirage 2,000 fighter jet directly. You will get a third-generation fighter directly, and if you can learn its technology, you will not be able to build a J-10.

But if you develop a new fighter by yourself, the risk will be too great, and tens of billions of funds will need to be invested. You can just buy a lot of Mirage 2,000 fighter jets.

Therefore, many leaders of the Air Force are actually inclined to directly purchase foreign third-generation aircraft because they are worried that the aviation industry will fail again.

After all, there were so many models in the past, but none of them were finally released. As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the rope for ten years.

Just as Li Shuguang was thinking, the landing gear of the Mirage Two Thousand Fighter slowly extended, and the entire fuselage was quite stable, like a raptor landing, drawing a beautiful arc and landing on the runway.
Chapter completed!