After watching the Feilian transport project at COMAC, Chang Fuguo took a plane to West Air Flight Company in Chang'an.

Snail Industry and major domestic aircraft manufacturing companies have a lot of business dealings, especially Chengfei and Xifei, which have very in-depth cooperation.

The Storm Engine of Snail Industry is located in Baoji, and is very close to West Air Aircraft Corporation.

Come to the aircraft manufacturing base of West Flight.

He came to the assembly workshop of the Kunpeng transport aircraft.

Chief Engineer Academician Tang Changhong introduced to him: "This is the Kunpeng transport aircraft, which will be tested in January next year."

Fang Guoli, general manager of Xifei, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Mr. Chang, our Kunpeng has not officially appeared on the court yet, so he is directly behind."

Chang Fuguo said with a smile: "You can cooperate with COMAC. Feilian transport aircraft has a design plan, and Kunpeng can also be upgraded and modified."

"I'm just thinking." Academician Tang took out a flat plate and called out the design drawings of the Kunpeng transport aircraft and the Storm Engine of Snail Industry.

If Storm engines and new materials are used, Kunpeng's payload can be increased from a maximum of 75 tons to about 90 tons.

In addition, the powerful Storm engine only requires two to push Kunpeng to an altitude of 13,000 meters and reach a speed of 1200 to 1300 kilometers per hour.

However, in order not to destroy Kunpeng's aerodynamic layout, Kunpeng transport aircraft can only be equipped with 4 Storm engines. In this way, the fastest speed will be increased to 2400 to 2600 kilometers per hour, which is equivalent to twice the speed of sound.

Chang Fuguo asked another question: "If Kunpeng breaks through the speed of sound, will the previous aerodynamic layout be unmatched?"

As Kunpeng’s chief designer and chief engineer, Academician Tang naturally understood the risks, and he explained:

"Yes, the aerodynamic layout of the Kunpeng transport aircraft is not suitable for supersonic flight. If the Storm engine is modified, the fastest speed is 1,200 kilometers per hour."

Another engineer added: "Our plan is to use the surplus power as the power for vertical landing."

"Vertical landing" Chang Fuguo did not expect that the engineers of West Air will have a lot of ideas.

Academician Tang explained with a smile: "That's what we plan. After using new materials, the Kunpeng internal space has a lot of room for modification, which can provide space for transformation for vertical landing."

Vertical landing and takeoff can be achieved at the Feipeng level. It is naturally not difficult to apply to Kunpeng transport aircraft with only 220 tons.

Perhaps the only problem is to consider the adaptation of aerodynamic layout and vertical take-off and landing.

In this regard, Academician Tang and others are all professional. Chang Fuguo did not break the casserole - ask the final thoughts, but talked about the engine and Feilian transport aircraft.

"Storm engines are already in mass production. At present, Dalian Shipyard has orders for 20 Feipeng-class ships, and a total of 80 Storm engines have been customized. If you want to use the model on Kunpeng, you will definitely need to fine-tune it."

Academician Tang nodded: "It is indeed necessary. After all, there are still many differences between ground-effect aircraft and aircraft."

We discussed with the Storm Engine Engineer who came to Chang Fuguo and Academician Tang. The two sides discussed the issue of fine-tuning of the Storm Engine, the transport aircraft model, for more than half an hour.

Although the Storm engine has a huge power, it still needs to be adjusted and optimized when applied to Kunpeng transport aircraft.

This discussion was just to set a first draft direction to facilitate cooperation between both sides.

Due to the emergence of Feilian transport aircraft, Kunpeng can only work hard on vertical take-off and landing to make up for the shortcomings of Kunpeng's own small transportation volume.

In fact, the Air Force is now considering whether to equip Feipeng-level.

Although Feipeng-class transport ships can only use the energy-consuming mid-level flight mode on land, the transportation volume of 2,200 tons is a fatal temptation.

They contacted Snail Industry and China Shipbuilding Industry many times to ask whether they could develop a new mid-level transport aircraft by amplifying the wingspan and increasing the engine.

Regarding this requirement, Snail Industry and China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation are also discussing it.

If the wingspan is increased and the engine is installed, the Feipeng-level can indeed increase the flight altitude and speed.

However, after a series of supercomputing simulations, the result is that the flight altitude can be increased to about 6,500 meters and the speed can reach up to 620 kilometers per hour.

The payload dropped to 1,800 tons, and the maximum range also dropped from 7,500 kilometers to only 3,500 kilometers.

If another 300 tons of payload is sacrificed and the fuel compartment is installed, the range can be increased to 5,000 kilometers.

The problem is that such a magic attack has made the Feipeng class lose its ultra-low-altitude concealment, and the fastest speed is only 620 kilometers per hour and the cruise speed is about 500 kilometers per hour.

At such a slow speed, it would be fine to deal with weak chickens without air defense. If you use them to deal with areas with air defense, you will basically give away heads.

Even if you are equipped with a Skyguard Defense System, it may not be reliable. The Skyguard Defense System protects relatively low-speed targets and has very good results.

The Feipeng-class transport ships, which are not fast or slow, are prone to rush out of the defense circle on their own in the middle troposphere area.

As for the ultra-low altitude flight that is close to the ground, the danger is too great. The undulating terrain of the ground, as well as buildings and trees, the ground-mounted flight is obviously not suitable.

After the Air Force obtained the transformation plan, although considering the land-type Feipeng II, there are many shortcomings, its huge transportation capacity is still very tempting.

The Feipeng Type II is not impossible to use, but it needs to obtain air supremacy as a rapid transport of troops and delivery of materials.

As for the close contact with the opponent, the Feipeng class cannot even beat the helicopter. After all, the helicopter is cheap. Compared with the Feipeng class that costs more than one billion each, even if one exchanges for ten, the other party will make a lot of money.

This kind of behemoth is a big target unless it has a more advanced defense system.

Even so, Feipeng Type II still received two orders, which are probably for logistics support for rapid troop transport and delivery of materials.

After dinner, Chang Fuguo and the person in charge of Xifei rushed to Chengfei overnight.

Cheng Fei also plans to use Storm engines, but only needs small models. Currently, large Storm engines can only be used on large transport aircraft and ground-effect transport ships, and fighter aircraft need to be smaller in size.

Chang Fuguo also came here after hearing Huang Xiuyuan talk about Cheng Fei.

Although the overall combat power in China has been improved in recent years, there are still many shortcomings left over from history.

The problem of aircraft engines has always plagued a number of aircraft manufacturing companies.

Under the wave of equipment renewal, major aircraft manufacturing companies are under great pressure because after looking around, they find that they are the weakest.

Other companies either launch Huo Qubing-class nuclear submarines, or have developed sky curtain defense systems, multi-foot mechas, exoskeleton armor, ground-effect transport ships, etc.

Only their aircraft manufacturing companies have always been lukewarm.

The birth of the ground-effect transport ship this time brought them great stimulation.

When the Taihang engine is immature, if they want to obtain qualified aircraft engines, they can only choose Storm engines and install the rocket engine on the plane.

COMAC, Xifei and Chengfei both made the same choice and switched to Storm engines, making great progress in miracles.
Chapter completed!