Chapter 289 The Intimacy of a Foreign Country

The copy of the Apollo program training camp was in 1969. If the blonde beauty is not lying, then he is now fourteen years before the Apollo program started.

If Zhang Heng remembers correctly, even NASA hadn’t been established at this time, but its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), was established in 1915. In fact, he followed the blonde beauty to the laboratory and saw After the other intern students and the laboratory supervisor, Zhang Heng finally figured out what the Lewis Flight Power Laboratory is.

It is the third laboratory under NACA. It was originally called the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. It was originally established to solve the backwardness of American engine manufacturing. When World War II broke out in 1939, European liquid-cooled engines compared with American air-cooled engines. There are speed and altitude advantages in combat. Some people of insight realized the lack of national engine research facilities in the United States, so they pushed Congress to approve the proposal to build an engine research center near the airport in Cleveland, Ohio in 1940.

It was against this background that the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory was established. It was renamed the Lewis Flight Dynamics Laboratory in 1948 to commemorate the late George W. Lewis, director of NACA's Aeronautical Research Division, but its more widely known name is actually Glenn Research. The center (renamed again in 1999) is an important research institution of NASA, specializing in the research of aerospace engines.

Although this transitional dungeon was forcibly opened by the system in response to a bug created by Zhang Heng, it did not completely break away from the main dungeon of the Apollo Project Training Camp, but gave him an MIT graduate student status and threw him away. At the Lewis Flight Dynamics Laboratory fourteen years ago, if there is no accident, he will return to the copy of the Apollo program training camp after the time-stop is over.

As far as the result is concerned, this is of course not a direct stop. He can eliminate competitors in a static world, which is equivalent to clearing the level in advance, but judging from the previous notification, because it is impossible to determine whether he is cheating, the system is protecting other players Under the premise, he also made some compensation.

The Lewis Flight Dynamics Laboratory is an important laboratory under NACA. The people working in it are all the top scientists and engineers in the United States at that time. After NACA was disbanded, it was merged into NASA. Here you can directly learn the future aviation knowledge, but you can make up for the previous knowledge of physics, engineering and aerodynamics in advance.

Moreover, the Lewis Flight Dynamics Laboratory is next to the Cleveland Municipal Airport in Ohio. Although he could not complete the main task of seeing the earth from a different angle in advance, if he is lucky, he can at least drive the plane around the sky twice for the Apollo program. The T-38 trainer aircraft for training has not yet been developed at this time, but the predecessor T-33 was introduced into flight training in the early 1950s.

The jet that Zhang Heng saw on the runway before was a T-33 if nothing else happened.

But before that, he had to solve a problem. The system gave him an identity as a graduate student of MIT, and soon Zhang Heng knew why the Lewis Flight Dynamics Laboratory recruited a group of graduate students for internships, because NACA launched a Hypersonic Research Engine Program.

——X-15, directly using rocket-powered engines, has a maximum speed of Mach 6.72, close to six times the speed of sound, and a maximum flight altitude of 107.8 kilometers from the ground. It directly rushes out of the Karman line and enters space. It is still the fastest human being until the 21st century. Manned aircraft.

In 1955, the X-15 research and development program was officially launched, and the Lewis Flight Dynamics Laboratory also participated in it. Zhang Heng and his group of MIT graduate students were recruited to assist the engineers and scientists in the laboratory to conduct related research, but the problem is that Zhang Heng The master's degree is sent by the system with phone charges. He hopes to learn relevant knowledge in the laboratory, but once he exposes that he has no foundation, it is more likely that he will be sent back to school directly.

And even if the situation develops in the best direction, he can still stay in the laboratory. With such a heavy scientific research task, who would be willing to make up lessons for him from scratch.

Before Zhang Heng had time to think of a countermeasure, the blond beauty in charge of human resources had already begun to assign this batch of intern graduate students to the engineers in the laboratory. Of course, if the engineers have special needs, they can also call names directly, and there are two engineers among them It should be that he had contacted some of the graduate students and directly picked the one he wanted.

However, most of them just told the blond beauty about their needs and waited for the manpower to be allocated, but Zhang Heng didn't expect to see a yellow face in it.

You must know that this is not the future. In the United States in the 1950s, especially in the top scientific research institutions, there were not many Asians. What's more, judging from the appearance of the other party, there is a high possibility that they are Chinese.

So Zhang Heng tried to say hello to the other party in Chinese, and the latter showed a look of surprise on his face, and obviously understood Zhang Heng's question, but Zhang Heng's current appearance has been systematically corrected, and the characteristics of Europeans and Americans are more Obviously, that's why the Chinese engineer was a little surprised.

Zhang Heng had no choice but to say again, "Hi, may I be your assistant?"

"What's your major? I'm doing research on turbomachinery flow theory. I wonder if you're interested?"

"Economics, a sophomore." Zhang Heng was ashamed. He couldn't hide this kind of thing. Rather than revealing it after the task was assigned, it would be better to confess it now.

"..." The other party was also obviously stunned by this answer, unable to speak for a long time, wondering if this was some kind of American humor, or some kind of invisible discrimination. After all, he has been studying in the United States for so many years. discriminated against.

"Sorry, I need to stay in the lab for some reasons, and if possible, I hope to learn some engineering knowledge. If you really find it troublesome, I can try my luck with other people."

Because the above dialogue was conducted in Chinese, other than the two of them could not understand, so Zhang Heng was not worried that other people would listen to him, and he was not too worried that the other party would tell others about him, because Chinese people abroad basically hold the attitude that more things are worse than less things.

However, if the other party rejects him, it will not be easy for him to fish in the laboratory all the time.

Fortunately, I don't know if it was because Zhang Heng's fluent Chinese moved the other party, so that the other party felt a sense of intimacy in a distant foreign country. After hesitating for a while, the man opened his mouth again, and there was only one simple word, "Okay."

After that, he went to the blonde beauty and asked for Zhang Heng, plus another MIT female student who was assigned, these were his two assistants.

When the matter came to an end, he returned to the laboratory and stretched out a hand to Zhang Heng, "I don't seem to have introduced myself, Wu Zhonghua, Chinese."

"Zhang Heng." Zhang Heng also reported his real name, paused, and then added, "Chinese."

Note: Wu Zhonghua, Qian Xuesen in China's aviation industry, graduated from MIT with a Ph. Like a generation of scientists, he gave up high salaries abroad, and then returned to China from Europe with his wife in the name of traveling. Both the couple are the founders of China's aviation industry, but he has actually returned to China at this time in the real world. When I write about him, besides the needs of the plot, I also have a little selfishness. I hope more people can know about these older generation scientists. In addition, the transition script is not the point, it will end soon, and the focus is still on the Apollo program.