Chapter 407 Attracting worldwide attention

December 15, 2018, came quickly with much anticipation, which was the day of the test flight of Arclight Aerospace’s aerospace aircraft.

In fact, we are not specifically waiting for Arc Light Aerospace, but because news in the aerospace industry has been constant these days, people have naturally paid more attention to it. After Arc Light Aerospace started to release news to the outside world, it also returned to the center of this news.

Just the day before yesterday, China's "Chang'e 4" was also launched. Now it has entered the lunar orbit and is decelerating in circles on the lunar orbit. At the same time, it is preparing to land at a predetermined location on the back of the moon. So in the past two days, China There is a lot of news.

In addition, ArcLight Aerospace itself is also a news point. As soon as today comes, the two and two are added together, and the information and popularity are immediately overwhelming.

Early in the morning on the 15th, Arclight Aerospace Exploration Company became busy.

Today, there are 100 people in the national observation group, ranging from soldiers to officials, aerospace researchers, and even the No. 3 leader, whom Dong Chen has met several times, is here in person, making the entire Arc Light Aerospace Exploration Company full of pride.

Although Dong Chen did not need this kind of BUFF blessing, other people were very fond of it. Before Dong Chen forcibly changed their minds or issued strong orders, their outlook on life and the world had not changed.

In addition, some people from all over the world and from all walks of life were invited to the scene and they were very happy.

Some of the audience members were selected from the user list of the Arc Light Group. It was a worthwhile trip to come to a place like this, which is closest to the stars, and to witness the legend of a private company's aerospace plane.

There are also some friends from the news media. The constant news these days has earned them a lot of traffic. How could they not come back to a moment like today that can be written into the history books?

What’s even more lively is the online live broadcast.

Compared to the small liveliness on site, there is real excitement online.

People from all over the world meet here. Hundreds of millions of people from different cultural circles are looking at the same page. Keyboard warriors have also picked up their equipment and are ready to attack at any time.

However, compared to those traditional rocket launches or space shuttle launches, Arc Light Aerospace is still somewhat different.

Because those things are to be launched, they will be erected on the launch pad early, and they will be constantly inspected and filled with fuel before launch.

So they will be noticed several days ago, because you are already there and you can't hide them even if you want to.

But the situation is different now. There is no huge rocket standing upright on the screen. There is only a long and flat runway, and the runway is also empty.

Because Arc Light Aerospace’s spacecraft is an airplane, final preparations are still being made in the nearby hangar and maintenance workshop.

"Why don't you come out yet? All the flowers I've been waiting for have withered!"

"It should be almost soon. The live broadcast is on. Didn't it say ten o'clock in the morning? It's only around nine o'clock now, it's the last few minutes."

"Yes, just wait for these few minutes. Don't you see that the keyboard warriors are all honest now? Just wait for these few minutes."

"I think they are waiting in vain. They are definitely doing this because they are very confident. There is a global live broadcast, there are so many media, live audiences, and national leaders are here."

"The person next to the head of China is Dong Chen, the founder of Arc Light Group, right? He looks so young."

"Today's protagonist is in the hangar, right? The aerospace plane called the X-KT01 experimental model won't really have to wait until ten o'clock, right?"

"I don't know. Logically speaking, the flight will take off at ten o'clock. We should have started preparations a few hours ago, otherwise it would have been delayed."

"They can really take off at any time, right? But isn't this the first test aircraft?"

"I don't know..."

"Ah, it's coming out, it's coming out!"

"Damn, can the person in front of you speak more seriously!"

"It's the aerospace plane that's finally coming out, and the hangar door is opening."

But no, while they were waiting, the door of the hangar where X-KT01 was parked slowly opened, and the white fuselage was revealed in the lens.

Without the traction of any towing vehicle, the aerospace plane drove out slowly on its own and stopped steadily on the long special runway. The streamlined fuselage looked particularly beautiful in the winter sunshine.

As the chief engineer of the X-KT01 experimental aerospace plane, Xiang Wu was explaining its various functions to the No. 3 director and a deputy director of the China Space Administration named Yu, while Dong Chen was also listening. .

Although most of these technologies were provided by Dong Chen, and he had also participated in some technical seminars, in the end he didn't really understand what they had done with the aerospace plane, and he didn't let No. 1 pay attention to it.

He has been busy recently with the body strengthening agent, constantly improving it, increasing the success rate, and constantly reducing costs.

Seeing that the space age is coming, it is impossible for the physical fitness of the large number of "astronauts" to be inadequate.

Now they have walked to the comprehensive control tower and watched the aerospace plane come out. Xiang Wu no longer asked them to look at the information to explain, and directly looked at the images on the big screen and started to explain intuitively. The No. 3 leader who listened was He nodded frequently, which showed that he was also very interested in this technology, but the deputy director kept writing something in a small notebook.

This time it is not just a simple test flight, but it will fly directly to space for a preliminary test flight.

And a large number of flight experiments will be carried out in the next period of time. Once there are no problems in the experiments, these data and experiences will be quickly used on the large aerospace transport aircraft being manufactured, and will also lay the foundation for later space passenger aircraft. .

Of course, the main technologies already exist, provided by Dong Chen, but they are not all technologies in the radiation world, but are technology upgrades carried out by Dong Chen with the help of No. 1.

What they need now is actual experimental data on Earth, and then combined with these data, they can design and manufacture a good and complete large aircraft.

While they were chatting, Bai Hongxian, the commander-in-chief of this mission, came over and said, "Chairman, Chief, X-KT01 is all ready and ready to take off at any time."

Dong Chen looked at Chief No. 3 and the deputy director, and said politely, "Chief, how about you issue the takeoff order?"

"Haha, why am I here? You and I can only take charge of the take-off procedures, satellite coordination, and the mobilization of the Yuanwang survey ship. For your company, you should do it yourself." Chief No. 3 said with a smile.

Dong Chen knew this would be the result, so he asked as a courtesy, so he signaled to Chief No. 3 and Deputy Director Yu, then turned to Bai Hongxian and said, "Commander Bai, let's start. I guess the people outside I can’t wait too much.”

"Okay, Chairman."

Bai Hongxian was the manager who was pulled over for training. He was about the same age as Gao Ze and others. After he came back, he became the commander-in-chief of the mission due to his outstanding performance.

He walked to the main console and pressed the intercom and said, "X-KT01, X-KT01, this is the arc control center. You can take off. You can take off."

"Arc Control Center, X-KT01 understands, take off immediately."

On the specially designed runway, the aerospace plane, whose engines had been warmed up long ago, slowly began to slide under everyone's attention. Hot golden-red flames spurted out from the nozzles of the two engines. The video recorder next to it could see the air near the nozzles. It was shaking violently.

In the footage, the X-KT01 aerospace plane began to accelerate rapidly under this huge driving force. It quickly crossed the runway and took off in just a few seconds.

However, after the aircraft took off, it did not accelerate directly into the universe. Instead, it hovered in the sky and made maneuvers from simple to complex to test the performance of the aircraft.

This is the advantage of an aerospace aircraft. It can take off horizontally like an ordinary aircraft and can maneuver like an ordinary fighter jet.

It can also fly at hypersonic speeds of 12 to 25 times the speed of sound in the atmosphere at an altitude of 30 to 100 kilometers.

It can also be accelerated directly into Earth orbit and become a spacecraft.

After returning to the atmosphere, it can land at an airport like an airplane.

This high degree of convenience and versatility makes it a means of transportation between heaven and earth.

However, this kind of versatility also means that its engine must also adapt to this "universality", otherwise it will not be considered, and it is precisely this comprehensive versatility that stumps everyone.

The technology of Arc Light Aerospace is so advanced that it completely abandons rocket launch technology. Many equipment and operating devices have been simplified. What you see most in the comprehensive command center are various large and small screens.

There are different data on each screen, and the staff are meticulously watching the changes in the data.

There are many data on it such as temperature, flight altitude, atmospheric pressure, aircraft speed, fuel consumption, aircraft sealing condition, etc.

In the above data, even a small change after a decimal point needs to be recorded in detail, and may even cause on-site technicians to become nervous.

At the same time, whether they were watching on the spot or in the online live broadcast room, they could not help but pay attention to the aerospace plane in the sky and the dexterous white elf.