Chapter 1045 The World's Most Powerful Early Warning Aircraft!

2003 is really a special year.

What happened in the previous life was repeated exactly on this timeline.

Fortunately, today's Chang Haonan is not a student who can't help himself.

In order to avoid possible risks, he simply stayed in Haojing after going back to do an annual work report in early January.

Of course, there must be another explanation for this on the surface——

One is to follow up on the development of the Air Police 2000 airborne data system, and the other is to some extent...

avoid arousing suspicion.

This was what Zhu Linyu reminded him.

After winning the Philippine Prize at the end of 2002, Chang Haonan, who holds an international award and three major national science and technology awards at the same time, was enough to ignore the age issue and was included in the 2003 academician selection.

It is said that he is included in the selection, but in fact anyone with a discerning eye can see that the results in his hands and the relationship behind them are too strong, and there is almost no possibility of losing the selection.

The nomination and recommendation letters alone were signed by more than a dozen big names including but not limited to Du Yishan, Ding Gaoheng, Song Jian, Liu Zhenxiang, Li Jie, Wu Wenjun and even Mr. Qian.

In fact, many people included Chang Haonan in the selection for the 2002 National Highest Science and Technology Award.

It even ranks second in the entire list.

However, when the final decision was made, the superiors still only approved Academician Jin Yilian, who pioneered the Chinese supercomputer industry.

The main reason is that the nature of this award when it was established was closer to the Lifetime Achievement Award.

And to give a lifetime achievement award to a person under the age of twenty-seven...

Other people's careers have just begun, how can you summarize their lifelong achievements?

It is inevitable that people will have a bad sense of déjà vu...

It would be more reasonable to wait until he leaves the front-line research position.

In short, unlike most people who need to move around frequently during the critical stage of selection, what Chang Haonan needs to do is to stay away from the capital as much as possible at this time.

Lest anyone engage in performance art.

For example, they jumped out and exclaimed that Xue valve was invincible.

Perhaps this label is a bit strange to put on someone of this age.

But it's not surprising that strange things happened to Chang Haonan.

After all, being an academician under the age of 30 is an extremely unconventional thing.

Although this kind of clown is unlikely to affect the final selection results, as the first in the entire aerospace power group, at least the first batch of academicians, Zhu Linyu still hopes to minimize such troubles at the level of public opinion.

And this just suited Chang Haonan's wishes, so he followed the trend and plunged into the workshop of Haofei Group...

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In fact, by the end of 2002, most of the subsystems of Air Police 2000 were already ready, and the only ones that really needed to be tackled were the data link and air command system.

But now half Haofei, half Electrical Engineering 14, and Chang Haonan himself are all focused on Air Police 2000.

Project progress is naturally not a problem.

What's more, Chang Haonan also adopted a hardware-first development strategy to minimize the impact on the final assembly schedule.

Finally, with the hard work of multiple units and thousands of people.

On February 15, 2003, Air Police 2000 left the apron for the first time completely relying on its own power and slowly drove along the taxiway to the waiting area...

This is of course not the first time it has come to this location——

Prior to this, the prototype aircraft numbered 2000-01 had completed four-wheel taxiing experiments.

Even in the last test two days ago, it had reached a speed of 120 knots and achieved a smooth wheelie.

It proves that the aerodynamic design, especially the center of gravity and directional stability, has no major flaws.

But today is especially special.

Because Air Police 2000 will truly fly into the sky for the first time.

In the flight control room of the tower, dozens of eyes were fixed on the aircraft in the distance.

Even for a "veteran" like Chang Haonan, although he has already gone through the entire development process of multiple models and has confirmed all the test results before Air Police 2000, he still has to face the first flight of such a key model. , it is unrealistic to say that there is no psychological pressure at all.

Not to mention Liang Shaoxiu, who was fully responsible for the model for the first time.

After all, as long as it is a project, there will be hidden dangers.

And God's project will maximize the consequences of hidden dangers...

As time passed by, the No. 2000-01 aircraft continued to get smaller and smaller in everyone's field of vision, and finally stopped at the end of the takeoff runway.

Compared with the model of the same name that was modified from the IL-76 in the previous Ring Project program, the aircraft is almost one-third smaller, and the size of the radome is also smaller. At first glance, it appears that It does lack the visual impact from a large platform.

However, thanks to the back-to-back in-line antenna design, the array size and the number of T/R elements have not been reduced.

In addition, China's own progress in the field of electronic technology over the years has made the effective detection range of this radar far exceed that of all competitors around the world during the same period.

Among them, naturally, it also includes the Faircon system that China once couldn't get.

"Unit 01 report!"

The calm voice of test pilot Lin Hai came over the radio.

It has been almost 7 years since Chang Haonan first participated in the project. The batch of test pilots active in the mid-to-late 1990s have basically retired due to age.

Lin Hai is the best of the new generation.

Compared with the people in the tower, he did not show too much nervousness when facing the risk:

"We have arrived at the take-off area, all flight-related subsystems are operating well, engine speed, and rudder feedback detection have been completed, confirmed to be correct, request to take off!"

The verification subject of the first flight is only basic flight performance, and does not include the function of mission load.

In fact, the command system designed by Chang Haonan is still in the software debugging at this time, and it will take some time to be installed on the aircraft.

"Allow take-off, and wish you all the best for the first flight!"

Even the voice of the flight commander fluctuated slightly.

Since the flight test institute is located here, the tower in Yanliang has witnessed too many test flights and finalization.

But there are not many models that actually took off.

Therefore, if you only listen to the voices from both sides, you might think that Lin Hai is the one who stayed on the ground...

"Received! Prepare to take off!"

Lin Hai's reply was immediately transmitted on the radio, and the No. 01 aircraft also began to slowly accelerate on the runway.

Compared to tactical aircraft weighing more than ten tons, the taxiing time of the KJ-2000 before takeoff is very long.

And this is one of the most heart-wrenching processes in the entire test flight-

The downwash effect of the radome on the horizontal tail cannot be completely eliminated, and the simulation of this complex effect can only be limited to flight under certain conditions, whether it is numerical calculation or wind tunnel testing.

But the biggest risk of takeoff and landing is uncertainty.

Therefore, every angle change of the horizontal tail hits everyone's heart like a heavy hammer.

So that in the end, everyone's heartbeat was a little affected by the rhythm of the horizontal tail adjustment.

When approaching the middle of the 3,600-meter runway, the No. 01 aircraft finally lifted the front wheel.

The aircraft had actually exceeded the minimum takeoff speed, so the rear wheel also followed to overcome gravity and left the ground lightly.

Only the scorching heat waves from the two engines were left, washing the runway in the early morning...

"Huh——"

For the first flight, as long as it can take off smoothly, it may be a bit too much to say that 80% is a success, but at least half of it is successful.

The remaining half is basically focused on landing.

Fortunately, the whole process was smooth and safe.

According to the feedback from the pilots, after the cross-sectional shape optimization, the adverse effects of the radome on the flight quality are mainly concentrated on the heading stability and the reduced flexibility of the pitch control.

For a large aircraft that flies steadily behind the front line most of the time, this is not an unacceptable problem.

"Not bad, very good."

Chang Haonan put down the telescope and shifted his sight from the No. 01 aircraft that had landed smoothly to Liang Shaoxiu next to him:

"At least at the qualitative level, it is very consistent with the simulation results before your design."

"As for how much the control rate differs, it depends on the analysis after the data is recovered..."

As an "old predecessor" who led the latter to work on the project many years ago, this evaluation is basically equivalent to-

It's time to start a master.

Liang Shaoxiu also let out a long sigh and wiped the sweat off his forehead.

He seemed to want to say something.

But he couldn't say it in the end.

He just held Chang Haonan's hand tightly.

And a little further away.

Wang Xiaomo, the project chief engineer, came to Qiao Chenqing, the head of the Air Force, and said what he had wanted to say for a long time, but had been holding back because he didn't want to open the champagne in advance:

"Commander Qiao, I can now confidently assure you that this is the most powerful early warning aircraft in the world, no one else!"