Chapter 620: Plans Are Bound to Be Postponed

The "Cloud Room" plan has officially started.

Kunpeng's frame has been built little by little from scratch with the efforts of hundreds of people.

Ti-64 titanium alloy is the main material, combined with composite materials to form a basic frame with light weight and high hardness.

Some locations close to the engine also require special alloys for heat resistance treatment, and places close to the radar department also need to use composite materials.

A large number of expensive alloy materials and parts are transported to the cloud room day and night.

It can be said that there are only a handful of countries in the world that can make these dozens of tons of metal materials.

China is a country that has been suppressed for many years and is used to doing everything by itself. It has slowly developed by relying on the scale of its steel industry to rank first in the world.

The United States is a country with technology but no industry. It just relies on the "Western interest group". Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Canada are all part of them, and they can complement each other in industry.

Russians. Russians have already played with stainless steel.

From a purely technical level, the die-casting processing capacity of titanium alloys in China is still inferior to that of the US and Western groups, mainly reflected in the size of parts and die-casting pressure.

But Zhou Rui said it didn't matter. That was the part that the system was worried about, and it had nothing to do with him.

Anyway, the system gave a perfect design like Kunpeng while matching the current domestic industrial situation.

This is just like the "Mach 3 stainless steel fighter" of the old Russian bear decades ago, using design to break the shackles of materials.

Don't ask, just ask that the designers are awesome!

Kunpeng's rack is particularly huge, difficult to operate, and has a large operating span. It can be said that it is the most complicated rack erection since the Republic had an aviation industry.

So many problems have arisen.

Four days after the start of work, the rack was about 10% complete, and there was only a prototype.

This efficiency is slightly lower than Zhou Rui's plan.

A full of enthusiasm cannot offset the occurrence of actual problems. Although everyone is twisting their strength, there will always be problems of one kind or another in large-scale projects.

If you want hundreds of people to work together without trouble, it is only a highly fixed, modeled process that has been executed many times.

And a new aircraft built from scratch with many technical challenges obviously does not belong to this category.

"How come this beam is already fixed! How can I operate it like this?"

"How do we know if your team is delaying the progress? Just drill in from the side and operate."

Under the rack that had just taken shape, two construction teams quarreled.

The reason was simple. In the same work area, Group 4 progressed too fast and blocked the operating space of Group 1.

"What a joke, how can we work if we drill in! Remove this beam first!"

Group 1 was already slow due to various reasons. It was a time of anxiety. Drilling in from the side would be more difficult, which would only make them fall behind.

"This is an aviation part. We have to re-measure the accuracy after disassembling it. Don't make trouble for no reason."

"How did you talk?"

Both sides were getting louder and louder, attracting many people to look over.

Zhou Rui frowned and walked over.

All the sounds disappeared.

"Chief Engineer"

"Chief Engineer"

Zhou Rui took a glance and roughly guessed the reason. He tried to say calmly: "Don't dismantle it. Group 1 will overcome it. Group 4 will take an hour to rest."

A little thing made both groups unhappy.

The people in Group 1 covered their heads while working, and the people in Group 4 said nothing.

To be honest, both groups were right. Group 4 executed according to the plan, while Group 1 was delayed because their work was more difficult and more delicate.

Every "unit" is correct, but it does not mean that they can be perfectly coordinated when combined together.

Zhou Rui waited for a while and left after confirming that the members of Group 1 could use the side to manipulate the space.

But there was a thoughtful look on his face.

Such problems are not uncommon in the four-day work.

In the construction planning, he and everyone in the research department have fully considered the difficulty, strength, manpower, and time.

It can be said that all aspects have been taken into consideration.

But in the actual operation process, various problems emerged one after another.

For him, this is a relatively unfamiliar situation.

This time he is the "chief designer", not the "Zhou engineer", and he can't just focus on carrying materials and screwing screws like before.

The "Yunfang" project has 400 people, and there are nearly 1,000 related personnel. Even if he works hard and does the work of ten people, it is better to coordinate in the middle and let everyone improve their efficiency by even 5%.

This is what he wanted to understand from the beginning. But it was not smooth in practice.

Problems with logistics, problems on site, problems with construction, and even problems with everyone's mood and temper. Management work is not easier to handle than technical work.

Another busy day.

At two o'clock in the morning, the staff who worked in two shifts gradually left. Zhou Rui took off his safety helmet and looked at the prototype of "Kunpeng" from a distance.

He roughly calculated the progress in his mind.

It was slightly delayed again.

It accumulated a little bit every day until the end. It might be several times the time.

"Mr. Zhou, haven't you left yet?"

Zhou Rui turned around and saw that it was the old expert Zhang Yuanchao.

The old man was still actively involved at an old age. He had never fallen behind since the "Drawing Room Project", but because of physical problems, he was placed in the research department.

"Senior Zhang, why are you here so late?"

Zhang Yuanchao is a skinny old man, but his hair is neatly combed, so he doesn't look that old.

Pushing up his reading glasses, Zhang Yuanchao raised the old notebook in his hand: "There is a component. I always have some doubts just by looking at the drawings, so I came here to take a look."

Zhang Yuanchao seemed to really just take a look. He came to the prototype of the rack and took a look. He opened the small notebook and wrote down some things before coming out again.

Zhou Rui was already sitting in his exclusive small convertible in the factory. He waved and said, "I'll take you back to your dormitory."

Zhang Yuanchao smiled: "Thank you, Mr. Zhou."

The night breeze in this season was still a little chilly, so Zhou Rui drove very slowly.

Zhang Yuanchao felt the buzz of insects at night and said, "I just took a look and it seems that the progress is behind schedule?"

Zhou Rui did not deny it and said: "Yes, there are some small problems every day."

"How much delay?"

Zhou Rui thought for a while: "Overall, it's about 10%."

Zhang Yuanchao felt much more relaxed and laughed: "It's only 10%! It's not much! When I came in just now and looked at your face, I thought it was delayed by 50%!"

Zhou Rui drove the car with one hand and said, "That's not true. This is only the fourth day. In the future, the process will become more and more complicated and there will be more and more problems."

He exhaled a thick breath and his eyes drifted away.

"If we continue like this, it may take two or three times as long."

Although it is worthwhile to make this kind of important national weapon in a year, it is not in line with Zhou Rui's plan after all.

There is an inexplicable feeling of boredom,

"I already have some doubts about whether I have the ability to be a 'chief engineer'."

In retrospect, even with Fului Technology and Kaisheng Intelligence, he left most of the actual work to Gan Yuan.

In fact, the number of participants in the "Cloud House" project exceeds that of all employees of the "Smart Building", and it is also a pioneering high-precision engineering problem.

Make a mistake every day and everything will be different.

While he was lost in thought, a skinny hand patted Zhou Rui's shoulder.

Zhou Rui glanced at senior Zhang Yuanchao out of the corner of his eye.

"Mr. Zhou, don't think like that. There is no way the plan won't be delayed."

"I have been in Rongfei for so many years and have participated in many large projects. In terms of the planned time before the start of construction, none of them can be on time."

"A plan is a plan for the future. A person can't even see his own future clearly, let alone the future of hundreds of people?"

Zhou Rui smiled and said, "Were Rong Fei's plans postponed before?"

"Of course! Isn't that what the J-20 is like? The aerodynamic shape was decided early, but the stealth skin technology was not as good as expected. It took a long time until you brought the Sixiang materials."

"Let me tell you, if Sixiang materials hadn't come out of nowhere, it would probably have taken several years for the J-20 to mature!"

Zhang Yuanchao seemed to be lost in memories and said:

"The same goes for the J-10. There was a problem with abnormal noise back then. We had to completely overthrow the whole factory and re-examine the design. It was a waste of almost two years. At that time, Chief Engineer Song was in his sixties, and most of his hair was originally black. It was almost completely white when it was over.”

"It's not like you've already done a good enough job in screwing on the assembly line. Don't think you're not good just because the progress is delayed or something goes wrong. What if you think you're not good enough? Don't we think we're going to die head-on?"

Zhou Rui laughed out loud, and Zhang Yuanchao also laughed out loud.

An old man and a young man headed towards the dormitory area with the slight hum of the motor.

Zhou Rui felt a little more relaxed and said, "That's right. There are hundreds of people, not hundreds of drones. What if something goes wrong?"

As he spoke, Zhou Rui suddenly became silent and became thoughtful.