MTL - The Rise of Space Technology-Chapter 208 , Skywalker

   Chapter 208, Skywalker

   Half a month later, in a factory building of the Xinghai Space Base, hundreds of scientists and engineers watched the newly built private anti-gravity aircraft.

  This private anti-gravity aircraft named 'Skywalker' is about five meters long, four meters wide, and two meters high. When viewed from above, it presents a perfect triangular curve shape.

The graceful curve is full of technological colors, and the cool shape makes people like it immediately. Coupled with its elegant posture, it is like a dancing swallow, even if it is not flying in the air, it is already able to. Imagine its heroic soaring in the sky.

   "It's so beautiful!"

   "Boss, I have to get one for me!"

   Tang Peng looked at the private anti-gravity aircraft in front of him and couldn't help but marvel.

   After a lifetime of aerospace research, I have finally created a beautiful aircraft.

   "Must be, at that time, all the senior managers of our company will be equipped with one first, and when the output comes up, all employees will be equipped with it."

  Liu Yuan naturally agreed, but he was also itching, and said, "I'm here for a test drive, and I can't help but want to fly in the blue sky when I see it."

   "Boss, boss, this can't be done!"

   Everyone said in unison.

  What a joke, even though he is full of confidence in his own skills, he would never let Liu Yuan go on the test drive himself. If something goes wrong, it will be a heavy blow to the entire Guo family.

   A monstrous genius scientist like Liu Yuan is a precious treasure of a Guo family, and it must not be lost.

   What's more, for Xinghai Technology, Liu Yuan is the soul here. If something goes wrong, Xinghai Technology will be finished.

   "Yes, yes, boss, there will be opportunities in the future. Let a professional person come for this test drive."

  Tang Peng also hurriedly persuaded, and then nodded to the pilot Tang Qing who had already prepared for a long time.

  Like a car, it is also set with a car key, and the car key is pressed lightly.

  “啾啾~”

   With the sound, its hatches slowly opened to both sides, revealing a dreamlike interior.

Like a car, it has only two rows of four seats. The front two seats are here, the left is the driver's seat, and there is a large central control screen. The large screen is surrounded by several small monitors and several corresponding ones. indicator light.

   also has a steering wheel, which can be used to control the left and right directions. At the same time, there are joysticks on both sides of the steering wheel. The left one is used to control the downward flight, and the right one is used to control the upward flight.

The control design of    is still very different from that of the aircraft. The control of the aircraft is basically done using the joystick, and there is no steering wheel at all.

   In the design of the private anti-gravity aircraft, more consideration is given to the driving experience of ordinary people, and the control and manipulation mode of the car is used for reference.

  Use the steering wheel to control, and it is more easy to accept and control.

   In general, things used by the public must be simple and easy to operate, just like there is a big difference between ordinary cars and professional racing cars. Without training, ordinary people will not drive professional racing cars at all.

Tang Qing sat in the driving position skillfully and fastened his seat belt skillfully. The seat belt of the private anti-gravity aircraft is also the safety system of the fighter plane. At the same time, the seat is also set according to the fighter plane. Bring a parachute.

   If you encounter a promotion situation, you can automatically eject and then safely land on the ground through a parachute.

   Of course, given the security settings of a private anti-gravity vehicle, this is impossible.

  In the case of an anti-gravity engine, if there is an upgrade situation, the automatic system of the aircraft will turn off the aero-engine for the first time, and then fall to the ground under the control of the anti-gravity engine, or directly suspend in the air waiting for rescue.

   After completing the safety work, Tang Qing put on the radio communication headset and made a ready gesture towards Tang Peng. Then, he pressed the button lightly, and the hatch slowly closed.

   "Ready to take off!"

   Tang Peng nodded, and immediately ordered.

   When everyone heard it, they immediately moved to the control and command center, and began to get busy, preparing to test and track the relevant data of the aircraft.

   "Control center, control center, No. 001 request to take off~"

  Tang Qing held the steering wheel of the aircraft. After being a pilot for many years, this is the same time that he drove the aircraft like driving a car, which made him have an illusion that he was not driving an aircraft but a car.

   "Takeoff allowed, takeoff allowed~"

   Soon, a voice sounded in the earphones.

   "001 is ready to take off, 001 is ready to take off!"

  Tang Qing started the aircraft gently, and the big screen of the central control was full of relevant data.

  The flight altitude is 0 meters.

  The flight speed is 0m/S.

   flight mode; low-altitude low-speed mode.

  Signal connection is normal.

  The satellite signal connection is normal, and the positioning, tracking and navigation system is normal.

  Number of aircraft within 10,000 meters: 0

   is very simple compared to airplanes.

   Like driving, Tang Qing drove the aircraft slowly out of the warehouse to the open space outside, directly to the large open space specially used for aircraft testing, and then stopped quietly.

   "Control Center, Control Center~"

   "No. 001 is ready, No. 001, ready, request takeoff, request takeoff~"

   once again applied to the control center for takeoff.

   "Take off is allowed, please take off immediately."

   Soon, the voice from the control command center sounded in the headset.

"take off!"

  Tang Qing clenched the steering wheel and gently pressed down the joystick on the right side of the steering wheel. With a slight vibration, the aircraft began to lift off slowly.

  Flying height of 1 meter~

  The flight height is 10 meters~

  Flying altitude of 100 meters~

   Soon, the aircraft reached an altitude of 100 meters. Although the wind in the high altitude was not small, it was very stable under the anti-gravity engine, with only slight shaking.

   "Control center, control center, No. 001 requests a low-altitude and low-speed flight mode test~"

   "Tests are permitted, and relevant flights are to be carried out immediately."

   After receiving the order, Tang Qing also began to control the aircraft, and with a slight step on the accelerator of his right foot, the aircraft began to fly at an altitude of 100 meters.

   At the same time, relevant instructions appeared on the large central control screen, requiring Tang Qing to fly with safety-related instructions.

  Tang Qing drove the aircraft to fly in the sky. The speed is not fast, that is, it is similar to the speed of a car. After reaching 25 meters per second, the speed can no longer be raised, and it is limited by the intelligent control system of the aircraft.

  Flying is similar to that of a car. There is absolutely no way to compare it with the driving experience of a fighter plane. It is impossible to turn over. You can only control the direction of the flight and control the climb or descent at the same time. This is already the most difficult way to fly.

   In fact, it is not much different from driving a car, except that one is on the road and the other is flying in the sky.

   "It doesn't make any sense~"

Tang Qing flew the aircraft for more than ten minutes, and suddenly felt that it was not interesting. He was used to flying fighters, and used to various maneuvering flights of fighters. Much more driving experience.

   "No. 001 requests a high-altitude high-speed flight test~"

   "Allow high-altitude and high-speed flight tests~"

   Soon, Tang Qing began to apply for high-altitude high-speed testing.

   Controlled the aircraft to fly up continuously, and the speed quickly reached 1000 meters.

   "High-altitude and high-speed flight mode activated~"

  The intelligent control system of the aircraft automatically unlocks the high-altitude and high-speed flight mode.

  Tang Qing was instantly refreshed when he heard it.

   While continuing to control the climb height, he also started to step on the accelerator. With the step on the accelerator, you can clearly feel the aircraft shake slightly. The auxiliary power system located at the upper end of both sides, the two small aero-engines started.

  The orange-red tail flame began to spit out, and the familiar feeling of pushing back came, and the speed began to soar.

  Tang Qing controls the flight while watching the speed displayed on the large screen of the central control.

  30 meters per second, 35 meters per second, 40 meters per second~

   "This acceleration is really slow, it's really an aircraft designed for ordinary people, this snail-like acceleration, when can it accelerate to five times the speed of sound."

Tang Qing stepped on the accelerator and was speechless. He wanted to experience the ultra-high-speed flight of the anti-gravity aircraft, but he found out that he stepped on the accelerator, but the speed was still very slow, and the feeling of acceleration was very ordinary. It's not as oppressive as driving a fighter jet to accelerate.

   In fact, this is also a security protection setting.

  There are two flight modes of the aircraft. One is the low-altitude and low-speed flight mode. In the area below 1000 meters, it can only fly at a low speed, and the speed is even lower than that of a car.

  When its flight altitude exceeds 1000 meters, it can switch to the high-altitude high-speed flight mode. In this mode, the auxiliary power small aero-engine can be started and enter the high-speed flight mode.

   At the same time, in order to prevent the passengers from being unbearable due to overloading, many settings have been made in terms of acceleration and deceleration. When flying at high altitude and high speed, only uniform and stepped acceleration and deceleration can be performed.

   That is to say, although its speed can be very fast, its acceleration is limited. Even if you step on the accelerator hard, its speed still cannot be increased to the limit speed all at once.

   It has to be accelerated step by step.

For example, after accelerating to 100 for a period of time, you can continue to accelerate to 200. The same is true for accelerating from 200 to 300. It will not let you accelerate from 100 to 100 in just a few seconds. Five times the supersonic speed.

  The pressure generated by such acceleration is simply not something that ordinary people can bear. Only those pilots who have undergone long-term professional training can bear such acceleration.

   Ordinary people may fall into a coma directly under such terrifying acceleration, or even endanger their lives.

   Therefore, Wang Chen, Sun Zilong, Tang Peng and the others also spent a lot of thought on acceleration and deceleration. After rigorous testing, the acceleration that ordinary people can withstand is limited and must be controlled within a reasonable and safe range.

The truth of    is actually very well understood. If there is no staged and stepped acceleration and deceleration protection, it may only take more than ten seconds to accelerate from 0 to five times the speed of sound.

Accelerating to such a terrifying speed in such a short period of time, the resulting acceleration is very terrifying, and it will form a huge overload pressure, which will create a huge pressure on the human body. even death.

However, if it takes more than ten minutes to accelerate from 0 to five times the speed of sound, and the acceleration is accelerated in one stage and one step, then the acceleration generated in the whole process will be much smaller and much smaller. Normal people can fully bear it. It's almost like accelerating a car.

In the high altitude, Tang Qing seemed very bored to drive the aircraft to carry out various flights according to the requirements of the ground. Because the acceleration was too slow, for him as a pilot, there was no difficulty or pressure at all. , it is very easy to drive.

   He even had the energy to pay attention to other aspects of the aircraft. He carefully looked at the large screen in the center control, which displayed the altitude, speed and level.

   There is also a display of power, fuel, and the time you can continue to fly, clearly showing how long you can fly at high speed.

  Like now, because it has just taken off not long ago, it clearly shows that the aircraft's battery can still fly for 12 hours, and the fuel volume can support it to fly for 10 hours.

   In addition, there is a three-dimensional space map, which clearly shows that in the surrounding three-dimensional space of 10,000 meters, only this aircraft clearly shows the flight trajectory.

  "You can still drive intelligently~"

Soon, Tang Qing discovered an interesting thing, this aircraft even has an automatic intelligent driving mode, which means that as long as the destination is set, you can lie down and fly over by the aircraft, as long as there is enough power and Just enough oil.

   "It's really an aircraft that is thoughtfully set up for ordinary people. It's too simple and mindless, and it even requires some simple flight training."

   "Popularize some relevant flight knowledge and know some flight rules and regulations. It is simpler than driving on the ground, and it is safer and more mindless."

While flying, Tang Qing also summed up, originally thought that this would be more troublesome, in fact, scientists and engineers have already considered many problems clearly, and carried out simple and brainless designs, even you don't need to Driving, the automatic intelligent driving system will control the aircraft to fly to the destination.

   Compared with driving a car, it is simpler, mindless, and much more comfortable.

PS; I have always felt that the more advanced the technology is, the more mindless and simple the products produced will be. Now you still need a driver's license to drive. In the future, I don't think a driver's license is needed. Basically, it's all automatic driving. What do you think? ?

   (end of this chapter)