Chapter 265 The wine is still warm

Author: September Sauce

Chapter 265 The wine is still warm

The successful trial production of the variable cycle engine means that there is only one final hurdle left before the H-20’s first flight:

Assembly test.

In this regard, Chen Nian has never worried about the level of domestic engineers.

After all, although the word "craftsman spirit" has become a negative word full of mockery in the era he lived in, now it is a real praise for those hard-working workers.

You know, the workers in this country are all ruthless people who can torment dozens of people day and night just for a micron difference.

You can call them stubborn, you can call them silly, you can even call them stupid, but you can never question their level.

In an era without precision machinery or high-performance computers, they could even achieve similar results with their own hands and minds.

What they represent is the limit that human beings can achieve.

And it's the same now.

What's more, a large number of advanced technologies and equipment have been introduced into the H-20 manufacturing process. With the support of these things, they will only be able to complete their original work better.

With this thought in mind, Chen Nian bid farewell to Chen Guo with satisfaction, left the office, and walked to the H-20 assembly workshop.

It was exactly three o'clock in the afternoon, and the workshop was busy.

At this time, he no longer had any restrictions in Institute 603. If he wanted to, he could even treat the core confidential workshop as his own home.

Tang Changhong had already prepared an identity for him, which was enough to explain the past both externally and internally.

The same is true today.

After Chen Nian entered the workshop, engineer Liu Xuejian, who was inspecting the installation of the landing gear, noticed him and quickly stood up to say hello.

"Mr. Chen, are you free to come over and take a look today?"

In his eyes, Chen Nian was a talented young man specially trained by a certain brother's research institute. He came here specifically for training and exchanges. He had extremely high confidentiality and had some big boss backgrounds behind him.

Under this understanding, he has always been polite to Chen Nian.

Of course, this politeness was originally mixed with a touch of superiority.

After all, the era of "general tigers" has passed, and today's second generation generally does not have much real ability.

At first, he thought that Chen Nian was also such a person.

But unexpectedly, after several contacts, he was directly impressed by Chen Nian's professionalism.

In addition, Chen Nian helped them solve several difficult technical problems. Now his attitude towards Chen Nian can be described as sincere and crystal clear admiration.

"Yes, I heard that the variable cycle engine will be shipped over for assembly soon. Let me see how everyone is preparing."

"Hey, you don't have to worry about me, just do your own thing."

"I'm so familiar with you, why should I greet you?"

Hearing Chen Nian's words, Liu Xuejian chuckled and replied:

"You have to greet me whenever you come. This is the rule."

"We asked a master to try the titanium-aluminum combined riveting hole-making method you told us about last time. Hey, guess what, it's awesome!"

"We specially found experienced fitter masters to test it, and no one who has learned from it said it doesn't work."

"You know Master Liu Shiyong, right? He is our most senior fitter. Even he said that someone who can come up with this kind of operation must have been an expert for at least decades."

"I told him that it was the young man who suggested it, but he still didn't believe it. Didn't he hide and watch you last time? You didn't pay attention."

Chen Nian couldn't help but smile and said with a hint of ridicule:

"Next time, ask Master Liu to come to me directly. Maybe we can still communicate."

"Of course, I'm just talking on paper. If I were to put it into practice, I might not even be able to carry a rivet gun."

In fact, although Chen Nian has never actually met Liu Shiyong, he is very familiar with this name.

From beginning to end, this person has called himself "an ordinary aircraft riveting fitter", but in fact, he is an honorary man with countless project experience, and even took the lead in the frame structure modification design of the J-10 modification project.

The big cow.

The "titanium-aluminum combined riveting method" that he proposed before was actually expanded on part of his research results.

However, during this period, although Liu Shiyong had outstanding abilities, he still needed more time to accumulate, and he did not have many outstanding achievements.

It's no wonder that he doesn't dare to talk to himself directly about technology - he probably still has some inferiority complex of "thinking he is at the bottom".

Thinking about this, Chen Nian added another sentence:

"I'm not joking. You can find an opportunity to talk to Master Liu some other time and let him talk to me when he has time."

"The subsequent assembly work of the H-20 is very complicated. As the leader, he must be aware of it."

"If you have any difficulties, I will help if I can."

"Your words are enough, Mr. Chen!"

Liu Xuejian's expression perked up, and after a moment of pause, he laughed sheepishly again.

"Don't tell me, Mr. Chen, we really have a little trouble here."

"If you have time now, would you like to help us take a look?"

Liu Xuejian's expression revealed a hint of confusion, and his tone also contained some subtle guilt.

What the hell, I came here to learn, but after studying for more than a month, I didn’t bring anything back. Instead, I gained a lot of “technical wool” here.

Is this still communication?

Is it purely technological poverty alleviation?

——

Maybe he was originally here to help the poor with technology, but he just chose such a name to make 603 Institute look good.

Chen Nian nodded slightly and asked:

"What's the trouble? Is it the assembly process?"

Liu Xuejian shook his head and replied:

"It's not about the assembly process, it's about the materials."

"We have tested the H-20's take-off and landing system before and found that the current landing gear is sufficient if used on other fighter jets and even other civil aviation aircraft."

"But the H-20 is different. Due to its special body design, the H-20's approach speed is faster when landing, and the landing impact is relatively large."

"If we still follow the previous design ideas, the phenomenon of stress concentration in the landing gear will be more obvious."

"As a result, the life of the landing gear will be greatly shortened."

“Originally, this was not a big deal—at most, it was just a matter of regularly replacing the wearing parts of the landing gear.”

"However, the H-20's landing gear compartment and magazine have interoperability in mechanical structure, and it is estimated that later maintenance will be very troublesome."

"So we were wondering if there was any way to solve this problem once and for all."

"We have been studying this matter after get off work these days. Mr. Chen, I think you have quite an idea. Why don't we take a look at it too?"

Chen Nian scratched his head and asked with some confusion:

"Does this thing still need to be discussed?"

“Isn’t this problem directly solved with the anti-fatigue technology system?”

"Surface quality improvement technology, surface strength enhancement technology, and edge finishing technology for structural parts. Huh? You don't know?"

Seeing Liu Xuejian's confused expression, Chen Nian suddenly reacted.

Good guy, hasn’t this system appeared yet?

its not right!

Isn’t the stress concentration-free anti-fatigue technology system a concept proposed by Zhao Zhenshi around 2003?

As of now, we are about to enter 2007 in a few days. Has the improved 300M steel not appeared yet?

He quickly stopped talking and asked:

"Is the landing gear now made of 300M-2 steel?"

"No! It's made of 300M steel."

Liu Xuejian answered with questions on his head.

what happened?

Obviously I am already an expert in this field, but why have I never heard of the concepts mentioned by Chen Nian?

Seeing his reaction, Chen Nian's heart skipped a beat.

Damn it.
To be continued...