Chapter 1814 Supercomputing (Part 1)

Guo Tailai placed an order for ten Tiangang helicopters in front of the directors of the aviation department. In addition, the orders of several foreign guys who have already agreed to purchase have been placed together. Anyway, as long as the airworthiness certificate from the United States is in hand, the goods can be shipped. In addition, two film props specially made for James' crew, the start There are more than twenty orders.

Those who order Tiangang helicopters are either celebrities or rich people. Driven by them, the sales of this helicopter will not be too bad in the future.

"Next, you can start thinking about the supersonic airliner I want." After Guo Tailai waited for everyone to calm down, he began to issue new mission instructions to the aviation department: "I have been buying several times in the United States for their B1B bomber and The Valkyrie bomber was used to transform a private airliner, but unfortunately they refused. Of course, you also know that the Tu-160 is not for sale. But I really hope that I have a supersonic private jet.”

Everyone knows that the boss likes supersonic aircraft and the feeling of supersonic speed. Space skydiving can be done, and it seems normal to go to the United States to find someone to buy B1B Lancers. Of course, everyone is from the former Soviet military design institute, and knows what Guo Tailai wants to buy. Can a country's active strategic bomber be sold to private individuals and transformed into private jets? Obviously impossible. It is no surprise that the Russians refused to sell the Tu 160.

It's a pity that Ukraine was fooled and limped. It destroyed a batch of Tu-160s that were originally stored in Ukraine, and the rest must be returned to Russia. Otherwise, with the current bad economic situation in Ukraine, Guo Tailai might be able to buy it with a little more money. It's just that there is no if, so the boss's desire to buy a ready-made supersonic private jet has come to naught.

"I don't want Concorde Tu 144, but since there is no other model to choose from, I can only choose to design and manufacture it myself." Guo Tailai said this in front of everyone, and here is no exception. It's already a half-open secret.

The last time Guo Tailai recruited submarine experts all over the world, he didn't recruit many people at first. At that time, many people secretly laughed at Guo Tailai. But in a blink of an eye, Guo Tailai recruited a group of Ukrainian experts, and then brought in a group of Wuchang experts. Now that luxury private submarine has sold more than 200 ships all over the world. Those who laughed were slapped in the face.

This time Guo Tailai failed to buy a supersonic bomber, and a similar thing happened again. If the submarine is not big, technical difficulty may not be a problem, and Guo Tailai's net worth can still be made regardless of the cost of investment. But the supersonic airliner can be made by private individuals if they want to play? In a country as big as China, the money is tens of thousands of times more than that of Guo Tailai himself, and the number of technical personnel is many times more than that of Guo Tailai's group. But is there a domestically-made aero engine that can be sold now?

Far from reducing the number of people who ridicule, it has become more. Almost everyone is laughing at Guo Tailai's overreaching, supersonic airliner, Concorde Aircraft Company's market value of tens of billions, didn't they also support this shelf? How much is Guo Tailai's personal net worth, can it compare with Concorde Aircraft Company? Even if you have money, do you have people?

It is true that there are hundreds of Ukrainian experts, but these experts are from the field of large aircraft, and there are at most dozens of experts in aviation development. The technical level of the An-225 large aircraft is high, but large transport aircraft and supersonic passenger aircraft, this is not a concept at all, okay?

Not to mention anything else, an aero-engine can make Guo Tailai bump into walls everywhere and feel like dying. What Guo Tailai needs is a supersonic airliner, so it is by no means an ordinary aviation engine. Now ordinary civil aviation engines are all subsonic. Those that can go supersonic are either military or embargoed. No matter how good the relationship between Guo Tailai and GE and Rollo-Royce is, I am afraid that neither of them will nod, let alone Pratt & Whitney. How many companies in Russia should I go to? Can Emperor Pu nod his head?

Rely on Huaxia's self-produced engine? Yes, maybe for military use. However, this is a civilian aircraft, so the engine cannot be overhauled in three to five hundred hours, at most seven to eight hundred hours, right? The aviation hair produced by Huaxia seems to be at this level now.

Bite the bullet and stick to it, this plane can only be operated in China at most, and the foreign airworthiness certificate cannot be obtained. Even if it is a private jet, it is not necessary to have an airworthiness certificate, but in the end, Guo Tai came to play alone, and he had to take the risk of accidents at any time. Spending a lot of money to get a second-rate product that will need an engine overhaul in no time, it is better to buy an old Concorde and remodel it!

If the final result is like that, those who laugh at Guo Tailai have every reason to continue to laugh at Guo Tailai. They were always looking forward to seeing Guo Tailai slap themselves in the face. Can the famous Mr. T afford to lose this person?

"But, boss, any aircraft is the same, first determine the engine, and then decide the model." The chief engineer of An 225 in Ukraine said to Guo Tailai at this time: "The same is true for helicopters. The TG36 is after the boss first confirmed the use of the GE-701 engine. The model design has just been carried out, so what kind of aero engine does this supersonic airliner need to use?"

It is a common practice in the aviation industry to design aircraft for engines. In the future, the Boeing 737Max will actually violate this convention. For the sake of environmental protection and economy, the engine of the mature model 737 has been replaced.

Guo Tailai wants to build a supersonic airliner, but he doesn't just talk about it, nor does he just spend hundreds of millions of dollars for investment. It is a huge system project, and it cannot be carried out immediately by the boss saying "I want to build a supersonic airliner". Even if Guo Tailai wants the chief teacher and the others to start work, there must be a basis for starting work! It's true that he is the chief teacher of An 225, his level is very high, and the team is also very good, but it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!

"It's not confirmed yet." Guo Tailai said honestly, seeing what the department head wanted to say, he shook his head and explained: "I'll think about a solution for the aero engine, and I'll talk about it after it's confirmed. But now there is still a problem to be solved. , you can attack the key points in advance."

There are many technical problems that need to be tackled in advance, and everyone is quietly waiting for the boss to speak.

"Noise." Guo Tailai said the answer, "Everyone knows that because of the noise of supersonic passenger planes, it is forbidden to turn on supersonic speed over land, and it can only be accelerated when it is over the ocean. I hope my future supersonic plane will not There is such a big noise problem. So everyone can try to solve this problem first, and determine the shape of the aircraft by the way."

"But, boss, we can't solve these problems alone." The chief teacher knew that Guo Tailai knew technology, so he directly talked about technical problems: "This requires a large-scale high-speed wind tunnel for testing. In addition, a large supercomputer may also be required. to complete the calculation.”

"I'll solve the wind tunnel problem. As for the supercomputer..." Guo Tailai hesitated before saying, "I'll place an order right away."