Chapter 514 x Aerospace company's large aerospace plane
Although many people were praying in their hearts at this time, hoping that the test flight of the space plane would be successful, they forgot that science is not anything else. If it is a small matter in daily life, if you pray, miracles may happen.
But science does not, especially like aerospace planes, a technology-intensive product that combines the world's top technology, is rigorous, and any negligence may cause irreparable consequences.
"Mr. Mark, tell me the truth, how sure are you x-space company about this test flight?" Just as the offline ceremony was about to be completed and they were about to pull the red bra of this aerospace plane down, their official asked the president of x-space company again.
In fact, in this case, this official has asked the president of x Aerospace many times, but the answer they received was that their company was more than 90% sure about this test flight.
However, the words of Mark, president of x-space company, made his face full of uneasiness.
"Sir! As for this test flight, since it was a subsonic test flight within the atmosphere, I had more than 80% of the confidence in the successful test flight, but if this test flight was an exaggerated atmospheric flight, to be honest, I was less than 50%.
But isn’t success based on failure? Even if it fails, so what? At most, it’s just a matter of rebuilding an aircraft, which won’t take long. After all, when our company developed the interstellar spacecraft before, it failed many times in order to succeed. In the end, we were not successful!” Mark said with an indifferent look on his face.
Regarding Mark's words, the official staff member was confused. At this moment, he really had a lot to say in his heart.
You should know that this is not because they developed the interstellar spacecraft before, but an aerospace plane. The most important thing is that the inside of the aerospace plane is their best astronauts. If there is a problem with this aerospace plane, what should the astronauts inside the aerospace plane do? Even if there are many escape methods, the astronauts may not be able to survive. The most important thing is that he has no idea whether these escape methods are useful.
But in the end, the official sighed and said nothing. After all, as a capitalist, especially a large capitalist with many assets, he didn't care about these things at all. For him, all this can be measured by money. All he needs is to prove to the world that his company, that is, x Aerospace Company, also has the ability to develop aerospace planes, and can also develop and manufacture the engines of the aerospace planes.
As long as the world knows this, their company's stocks can definitely rise significantly, and their company's market value can naturally rise significantly. This is what he cares about the most.
It was precisely because he knew clearly that Mark was thinking about something at this time that he stopped talking. After all, even in this country, even if he was an official, he was unable to change these things.
So he could only pray that the test flight would be successful like everyone else.
At this moment, as a flash flashed, he, Mark and others finally pulled down the red cloth of the aerospace plane, and the aerospace plane finally revealed its true appearance to the world.
When the appearance of this aerospace plane finally appeared in front of everyone, many people liked the appearance of this aerospace plane very much.
However, in fact, the shape of this aerospace plane is indeed very beautiful. Even the shape of this aerospace plane is very similar to the Valkyrie plane they designed decades ago.
At the same time, from the appearance, it can be clearly seen that the wings of this aerospace plane are also variable wing designs. From this we can see that x Aerospace Company is still very attentive to the design of this aerospace plane. However, compared with Valkyrie, the length and volume of this aerospace plane are even larger, even larger than that of Tiangong Technology's Phoenix II series aerospace plane.
After all, according to their design data, the total weight of this aerospace plane is as high as more than 300 tons, and the carrying capacity of this aerospace plane is also very amazing. It can send materials weighing about 40 tons into orbits below 1,500 kilometers.
If you take fuel supply in space, there will be absolutely no problem when flying to the moon orbit.
The reporters present were naturally very happy about the aerospace plane. Amid everyone's praise, the aerospace plane was slowly pulled out of the frame by a tow truck, and came to their company's airport runway, ready to take off.
Like Tiangong Technology before, their company's aerospace plane also needs to conduct a series of inspections before the test flight. Moreover, due to the degree of intelligence inside the aircraft, it cannot be compared with Tiangong Technology, so the inspection time naturally takes longer.
And since they use basically manual inspections, some mistakes are inevitable. Therefore, in order to ensure that all inspections are in place, they must go through multiple inspections by ground crew members and aircraft manufacturing designers before taking off before taking off.
The inspection of the aerospace plane of x Aerospace Company took four hours to finally complete the final inspection. At this time, their aerospace plane was finally ready to undergo its first test flight.
With the command of the tower, the aircraft's engine finally began to rotate.
However, when the engine started to rotate, many people present found that the sound of the engine was somewhat wrong, because the sound of the engine was not like the sound of the knock pulse variable rocket engine, but rather like the sound of the turbofan engine when an ordinary aircraft took off.
This made many people very confused, but people who are familiar with the matter are different. They clearly know that the power of the aircraft is not the pulse detonation rocket engine, but the turbofan engine used by most aircraft in the atmosphere.
Of course, as a real aerospace plane, what is actually running on this aerospace plane is not a complete turbofan engine, but a variable cycle engine they have developed over the years.
After all, for them, compared with relatively unfamiliar pulse detonation engines, they are more mature in the field of turbofan engines and have a more thorough understanding of internal technology.
Chapter completed!