Chapter 517 Challenger Aeroplane Test Flight
Wang Bin and the official also gave positive responses to this. After all, if their company successfully tests this aerospace plane, it will definitely be a great progress for the entire human civilization, and it also means that human civilization can successfully create aerospace plane without the help of Wang Bin with its own abilities.
So, the exaggerated atmosphere test flight of the x-space company, which they named Challenger, was early in the morning of the day.
Wang Bin and Mr. Jin and other senior executives of Tiangong Technology took a Phoenix-1 supersonic passenger plane from Tiangong Technology to the Aerospace Industrial Zone located in the Bald Eagle Desert area, the x-Aerospace Company's aerospace plane manufacturing test flight base, and met Mr. Mark, the person in charge of x-Aerospace Company.
At the same time, just when Wang Bin and his team got off the plane, he saw the official plane landing on another runway.
The person who came to participate in the test flight this time was Wang Bin's old acquaintance, the head of the official aerospace agency, Mr. Qin.
Wang Bin was not surprised by this. After all, this test flight by x Aerospace Company is of great significance to the entire human civilization.
Although, once x Aerospace Company successfully tests this space flight, it will break the monopoly of Wang Bin and Tiangong Technology in the manufacturing and production of medium and large aerospace planes.
This will make Tiangong Technology have a strong competitor in this regard in the future. Wang Bin is even sure that even if the space shuttle of x Aerospace Company has many fatal flaws, many people will definitely buy it.
Because although the current human civilization has discovered the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and threatened the security of the entire human civilization, the entire human civilization has emerged unprecedented unity at this time.
However, many factors cannot be eliminated in a short period of time, especially the long-standing ideas before. At the same time, the entire human civilization must compete with each other. Only by competing with each other can we develop more and more advanced products.
Take x Aerospace for example. In order to break the monopoly of Tiangong Technology, Wang Bin has clearly known in the past three years how much time, energy and money they have spent.
If before Tiangong Technology appeared, if anyone asked their company to spend so much time, energy and money to build a space plane, then their company would not agree.
At the same time, Wang Bin also knows that as x Aerospace Company manufactures this aerospace plane, no matter what the test flight results are, it will definitely stimulate more people and make larger investments in this area, and then there will be a second, third or even more institutions that can develop and manufacture aerospace planes.
Neither Wang Bin nor Tiangong Technology intervened in these situations. After all, with the foundation of today's Gong Technology, if Tiangong Technology really intervened, it would be impossible for these companies to successfully develop this aerospace plane.
Although the emergence of these companies will damage Tiangong Technology's interests in this regard.
But in fact, this is not the case. With the rapid development of Tiangong Technology in controlled nuclear fusion technology and ion engine technology, Tiangong Technology has now begun to change its focus.
In the past, the production and development of small and medium-sized aerospace planes were indeed the most important part of their many core interests of Tiangong Technology. Once a problem arises, it will affect the subsequent layout of Tiangong Technology.
However, after three years of precipitation, the research and development of super-large aerospace planes has been successful, and the construction of real spacecraft has begun. Therefore, Tiangong Technology has turned its center towards the research and development and manufacturing of super-large aerospace planes and real spacecrafts.
In fact, this is also the reason why Tiangong Technology provided design drawings and materials to the official aerospace agencies before. After all, once Tiangong Technology's center is transferred, then in the production of small and medium-sized aerospace planes, someone will inevitably accept this huge market.
Therefore, instead of being cheaper to outsiders, it is better to be cheaper to your own people.
Even if other aerospace agencies in the world have successfully developed their own aerospace planes and aerospace plane engines in the future, there will definitely be a big gap compared with Tiangong Technology and the official ones who have obtained Tiangong Technology.
Just as Wang Bin was thinking about this, after a series of preparations of X-Space Company, the Challenger spacecraft finally completed the final inspection, and it was time to take off.
So Wang Bin and the others stopped chatting, and everyone looked at the aerospace plane.
At this time, the ground crews around the aerospace plane also began to evacuate one after another.
When everyone evacuated, the crew of the plane finally issued a takeoff request to the tower.
And the tower naturally agreed to their request immediately.
Then, the plane began to slowly glide in the eyes of Wang Bin and others, and its speed became faster and faster, and finally soared into the sky.
There was no surprise on Wang Bin's face. After all, they already have enough experience and data in the research and development of aircraft and engines in the atmosphere, and the chance of failure is very small. If it fails, that's strange.
However, when the speed of this aircraft reached the speed of sound, Wang Bin's face only showed a serious and worried look on his face.
And this scene was just seen by Mark, the president of x Aerospace.
So, a happy smile suddenly appeared on Mark's face.
However, if anyone knows what Wang Bin thinks in his heart and Mark, he will definitely tell Mark that he is wrong.
Because, in Mark's eyes, the reason why Wang Bin is like this is because as their x-space company's space flight test flight and is about to succeed, it means that they have broken the monopoly of Tiangong Technology in this area and threatened Tiangong Technology's authority in this area, so Wang Bin is like this.
But in fact, Wang Bin is not thinking about this at all. The reason why Wang Bin's face is very serious is because as the boss of Tiangong Technology, he knows very well how dangerous it is once the aircraft enters super high-sonic state.
At this moment, the speed of this aerospace plane finally reached Mach 2, and the fuel inside the plane was also being consumed fiercely.
Mach 2.5, Mach 3.0, Mach 3.5, Mach 3.9. When the speed of the aircraft reaches Mach 4.0, the aircraft will finally no longer accelerate because the variable cycle engine on their aircraft is not a pulse-detonation engine, and can only provide the aircraft with a speed of about Mach 4 at most. Once the speed exceeds Mach 4, the power of the aircraft engine will drop sharply, and finally reach full power.
Of course, when the speed of the aircraft exceeded Mach 4, the altitude of the aircraft had reached 40,000 meters, which is 40 kilometers high. However, even so, the aircraft's variable cycle engine did not stop operating.
Chapter completed!