After about 200 minutes, "Yuntian 1" successfully arrived at the launch site. Under the intense and orderly operation of the staff on the scene, "Yuntian 1" was on the launch tower like a rocket.

Because the continuous thrust of the vector secondary engine is limited and the aerodynamic layout is not considered too much, if you want to consider lift, the main wing will inevitably be added. Then this pair of wings is definitely more exaggerated than the An-225 transport aircraft. The overall empty weight will inevitably increase significantly again, and all data will be relatively changed.

When Li Chuan designed "Yuntian 1", he adhered to the rough principle that as long as the engine is sufficient and bricks can fly as the design concept, the thrust-to-weight ratio can meet the requirements of vertical takeoff.

Another one is economical and practicality. In order to allow the fuselage to take off horizontally, the main engine design must be one pair or two pairs, and the cost will increase significantly. As the first generation of aerospace transport aircraft, Lichuan did not have too high requirements for it.

This series of reasons ultimately made the "Yuntian 1" launch like a rocket. After all, it is not a military transport aircraft. If it is a military transport aircraft carrying troops rather than cargo, it has to consider the battlefield survivability, which is another matter.

There is such a big noise here, and there are a large number of melon-eating people in the sky "strengthly watching". A commercial satellite under Google is on the outer space above the top. The weather is particularly good today, and everything on the ground can be seen clearly by the satellite.

The news that Huasheng Technology has made now is concerned about it. The space powers in Europe and the United States, major commercial aerospace companies, such as Elon Musk's SpaceX company. After all, this is a potential strong competitor and it is impossible to ignore the actions of Huasheng Technology.

However, the outside world's onlookers did not affect the test flight plan of Huasheng.

Under the launch tower, hundreds of front-line staff were busy. At this time, two determined men wearing Chinese space suits walked slowly, and there was also a short-haired woman, three people wearing space suits, with a space helmet sandwiched on their waists and arms, heading towards the launch tower.

Liu Peng, Wu Zhen and Wang Xueyan, these three are all outstanding astronauts in China and appointed by the Air China Administration.

Speaking of which, Huasheng Technology was originally going to recruit retired pilots. After the superiors learned about "Yuntian 1", they learned that it would be fine for Huasheng Technology to let retired pilots fly. "Yuntian 1" is a cargo aerospace plane in Li Chuan's eyes, but in the eyes of the superiors, especially in the military, it is the first opportunity to pry open the aerospace forces.

It can be said that the superiors are more concerned about the success of this test flight mission than Huasheng Technology. They are simply making a fuss about Li Chuan and his "crazy" test flight plan.

Therefore, not only did the Aviation Administration send a group of engineering and technical personnel to coordinate, but the military also set up observation stations in various oceans, etc.

It is treated completely as a major space launch mission.

"I'm used to driving a cargo spaceship on the mountain. I'm really uncomfortable when I drive a plane into space for the first time." Astronaut Liu Peng couldn't help but say.

"You didn't say that when you were simulating flight last week." Wang Xueyan responded with a smile. The three of them were heading towards the launch tower and arrived at the scene soon after. The three of them saw the "Yuntian 1" standing here in front of them, and looked up along the body and looked as if they were straight to the sky.

It was very shocking. The length of "Yuntian 1" is nearly 100 meters, and the Long March series launch vehicle is only more than 60 meters. When it arrived in space, the main body of the rocket had been separated, while "Yuntian 1" flew into space as a whole and could also return to the ground and descending platform.

Looking at this shocking scene, Wu Zhen beside him couldn't help but exclaim: "This is the largest aircraft I have ever seen, and the space station in Tianshan is not as big as it is."

"I'll drive it to heaven later..." Liu Peng said expectantly.

The vertical large guy in front of me weighs almost 200 tons of empty weight, and can carry more than 280 tons of materials into space. Currently, the Huaxia Space Station in orbit is only more than 30 tons, which is equivalent to the mass of nine Huaxia Space Stations being transported to space at one time.

At this moment, a staff member of the launch station tower walked towards the three astronauts in small steps. After talking for a few words, he led the three astronauts to the launch tower. The load crew of "Yuntian-1" was 6, but two astronauts could make the plane fly, and the third astronaut in this test flight was responsible for collecting data.

Under the leadership of staff, three astronauts entered the lifting platform in the launch tower. The elevator slowly rose, and led the three astronauts to a height of nearly a hundred meters from the bottom of the launch tower.

Finally, three astronauts entered the cockpit of Yuntian 1 along the passage connecting the cabin door, and several other staff members were also inside.

With the assistance of the staff, the three astronauts entered their own car seats. The main and co-pilots were Liu Peng and Wang Xueyan. When the staff were preparing in a tight and orderly manner, Liu Peng said lightly: "Yuntian 1 is simpler than the fighter jets or cargo spacecraft we used to drive."

"Huasheng Technology is really good." Wu Zhen also said with approval.

In the past, the cockpits were almost dense and complex instruments or buttons. They looked very high-end, but in fact they were a reflection of backward technology and were more stringent for pilots.

With the development of the times and the advancement of science and technology, people have also found that the instruments in the cockpit of the new generation of aircraft born after the new century are constantly decreasing, not to mention the contemporary era. Just say that the cockpit of "Yuntian 1" is definitely different from what the public imagines, and there are no dense instruments or various buttons.

Instead, advanced artificial intelligence is used. Many instructions only require voice input authorization. Moreover, data display problems, different data used to require an instrument, such as booster, airflow, altimeter, etc.

On Yuntian No. 1, numerous data displays can be displayed on a display panel and can also switch windows, just like computer web pages, and only voice input is required. Artificial intelligence will respond without manual operation.

Naturally, the entire cockpit has become simpler and wider, which is very comfortable for astronauts, and these are inevitable trends in technological progress.

In fact, Huasheng Technology's choice to recruit pilots to serve as test pilots is not the "lucky" and "nonsense" in the eyes of Air China, but the reason for technological progress. It can even be said that the driving difficulty of "Yuntian 1" is lower than that of the J-20.

However, the superiors and the Aviation Administration of China attached too much importance to the success or failure of the test flight of "Yuntian 1", and it is obviously more safe to use astronauts with more experience, so Li Chuan also happily accepted this.

At this moment, the three astronauts were fixed in the driver's seat. Although they were sitting, since "Yuntian 1" was vertical at the moment, the astronauts should actually be said to be lying in their seats.

About five or six minutes later, the staff in the cockpit walked out of the cockpit, leaving only three astronauts inside.

Wang Xueyan ticked the display panel a few times, and saw that the cabin door closed on its own, and the actual data of the cabin door was directly fed back to the display panel in front of Wang Xueyan.

The launch and takeoff of the "Yuntian 1" has entered the countdown stage, and the staff of the launch station tower have begun to evacuate in an orderly manner.
Chapter completed!