Chapter 908 My Legend Is Everywhere in the World (New January, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 908 My legend is everywhere in the world (New January, please vote~)

After circling for about twenty minutes, the Airbus A320 finally received the landing order.

For the Chinese delegation, participating in the Paris Air Show is actually something they are familiar with.

More than ten years ago, China Aviation Industry came here for the first time when it went abroad.

In fact, if you look at the delegation level alone, this year is not even the largest one.

However, the equipment brought is definitely heavyweight——

The entire Chinese delegation has a total of 5 aircraft, excluding an A320 responsible for transporting personnel and an IL-76MF responsible for support tasks. The other three will participate in the exhibition in the form of ground display + aviation performance.

They are a J-10E, a JJ-9E and an FBC1A, also known as the JH-7A.

Because the J-7F has participated in too many air shows, and the appearance characteristics of the second-generation aircraft are still relatively obvious, it ultimately failed to get a valuable spot.

The delegation even considered whether to fly to Paris on a C808 passenger plane.

In this way, there will be one more model that can be exhibited.

But in the end, we still have to consider that after all, the C808 has just been put into commercial operation and is still at a high position on the bathtub curve of failure rate. Even when flying domestic routes, Hufei Group sometimes has to send engineers to participate in the guarantee, and it rashly flies long-distance international flights. The route requires three stops in the middle, so the risk is relatively high.

So I chose a safer option.

Anyway, the C808 has already obtained airworthiness certificates from Europe, the United States, China and the CIS, and there will be many opportunities to debut in the future.

When the members of the Chinese delegation descended to the apron through the ramp, the three exhibiting aircraft that had landed early had already been towed to their respective booths.

The JJ-9E and FBC1A are parked normally on both sides of the entrance to the Huaxia exhibition area.

But the J-10E was not with the other two, but had other arrangements...

After chatting with the representatives of the organizations stationed in France and representatives of the air show organizer who came to greet them, Guo Ruiqing also arranged the task of decorating the exhibition area in an orderly manner.

As for himself, he took several others, including Yang Quanzhi, to wander around the air show area that had been divided into zones.

This isn't exactly hanging out.

In fact, the reason why the superiors asked him, the head of the Science and Technology Development Department, to lead a team to participate in the exhibition this time, instead of looking for someone to take the lead from the foreign trade or publicity department, has another meaning -

Take this opportunity to track and judge the aviation industry level of each participating country and find the future development direction.

Therefore, in addition to the normal air show-related tasks, Guo Ruiqing also needs to submit an industrial development report for the new century after the air show.

However, as the leader of the team, he would be extremely busy after the air show opened, and would not be able to spend a lot of time to see the conditions in other countries' exhibition areas.

So we can only take advantage of the period before the official opening of the air show to get as much useful information as possible.

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If we must find one special feature about this air show, it would be that the number of Asian countries participating in the show has increased significantly.

In addition to China itself, which is already an old face, David, Japan, South Korea, and India also sent their own delegations.

The size of the exhibition area is not small.

However, as a new face, most products still appear in the form of models or display boards.

Especially Japan, due to restrictions on the three principles of arms exports, still attended in the name of "guests" instead of exhibitors.

However, they still brought a C1 transport plane and a US1 seaplane for real aircraft display——

Both models are unarmed and can be regarded as "edge balls" in a sense.

However, in addition to these two conspicuous big guys, Yang Quanzhi keenly noticed that there were two seemingly inconspicuous models placed in the corner of the Japanese exhibition area.

One of them is highly similar to an F16, but there are some slight differences in the shape of the wings.

As a manager of the Rongfei Group, he could naturally recognize that this was an F2 fighter jet that the Self-Defense Force had just put into service a few years ago.

Although it is designed based on the F16, its size, especially its wingspan, is actually much larger than that of the F16, but its power has not changed.

Compared to a fighter jet, it is closer to an attack aircraft or a fighter-bomber.

In fact, this is indeed the case in the establishment sequence of the Air Self-Defense Force.

As for the other one next to it...

Even as a model, it's a bit too rough, and it's obviously just a design concept.

If I have to say it, it’s a bit like a combination of F18 and F22.

Even Yang Quanzhi couldn't recognize it for a while, so he had to get closer and take a look.

"Advanced Technology Demonstration Machine Project X (ATD-X)..."

Yang Quanzhi pushed up his glasses, and then he heard a shutter sound coming from behind him.

He turned around and discovered that the team leader Guo Ruiqing was standing behind him, holding a camera in his hand.

"I mean, Lao Guo, this little... this Japanese guy is not very honest..."

It wasn't until he entered the next Indian exhibition area that Yang Quanzhi spoke to Guo Ruiqing in Chinese.

Two transport models were sent to attract attention at the door, but there were many combat models inside to test the reactions of all parties.

This is very consistent with the Japanese character of sneaking around.

"You can see it."

Guo Ruiqing nodded:

"In recent years, as our development speed has accelerated, the Americans have gradually relaxed their control over Japan and South Korea, especially Japan."

"Not to mention anything else, Japan does not have wind tunnels and high-altitude test benches. For example, the ATD-X project just now, it would be impossible to establish a project without the help of Americans."

As they talked, the two came to an aircraft model on the Indian side.

Single engine, light, two side air intakes, tailless large delta wing...

No doubt.

LCA "Glorious".

Of course, it is now 2001, and it has only been 17 years since the LCA was officially established.

For a third-generation fighter, this span is not very exaggerated.

In addition, the prototype has not yet made its first flight, resulting in no one knowing the details of this model.

Therefore, adhering to the principle of foreseeing the enemy, Guo Ruiqing still took some photos of the model seriously.

Compared with the Japanese counterparts who were quite cold and even somewhat hostile just now, the two Indian brothers standing here were very enthusiastic.

Seeing that someone finally stopped in front of their booth, they didn't care about anything and started to speak wittily.

The only problem was that because Chinglish and Hindi English were completely in different language systems, and the two of them spoke very quickly, Guo Ruiqing and Yang Quanzhi looked at each other in bewilderment, and no one understood what the other was saying.

In the end, they could only express their friendship and blessings briefly, and then ran away at the speed of light.

There was even less highlight in South Korea and David.

Therefore, after a brief review of the situation of his Asian counterparts, Guo Ruiqing decided to focus his main energy on the European exhibition area.

It is called the "European exhibition area", but it is actually the main exhibition area of ​​this air show.

In order to facilitate the media to take photos together, the more eye-catching models were parked together before the opening.

Just a few steps into the room, everyone has seen many classic scenes such as F15E and Su-27SM sitting in a row, and Rafale and Typhoon facing each other.

They are really not afraid of big things.

The J-10E brought by Huaxia, together with Saab's JAS39, was parked not far from the European Twin Wind.

"Good guy..."

Guo Ruiqing raised his camera and took a group photo of the four aircraft.

Four models that adopted the canard + large delta wing design appeared in the same photo at the same time.

There will probably not be many such opportunities in the future...

Then, he walked close to several aircraft.

And Yang Quanzhi followed closely behind.

Aviation Industry, especially Aviation Industry Rongfei, is still quite concerned about Rafale and Typhoon.

After all, they are considered to be the same level products of J-10E.

Although they can't compete in actual operation...

In addition to the aircraft, Britain actually brought its power, the EJ200 engine.

It was placed next to the EF2000 and exhibited as a separate exhibit.

As an old enemy that has been confronting Britain for hundreds of years, the French naturally did not want to be outdone and also displayed the M88 engine separately.

In this case, since he was here, Guo Ruiqing looked at them one by one in order.

Until...

"Hiss..."

When he walked to the display board of the M88-2 engine, he suddenly saw a few Chinese characters on it.

To be precise, it was a logo printed with a few Chinese characters -

an abstract shape that looked like an aircraft engine fan rotating.

Below it was written...

China Aviation Engine.

Further down was the English abbreviation.

AECC.

That's right, the logo of China Aviation Power Group.

It was printed side by side with the logo of Snecma Group in the corner of the M88-2 engine display board.

"Hua?"

Guo Ruiqing looked at this familiar yet unfamiliar name and felt numb:

"What about the most basic trust between people?"

"Didn't you agree not to bring real objects to the exhibition..."