At noon the next day, a group of people arrived at the local take-off base purchased by Qingyan Airlines.
Called a "base", there is only a two-kilometer temporary runway and a small terminal building. The two sides of the runway are separated by low fences. It is usually a pasture and is converted into an airport when necessary.
"You are finally here!"
Arriving early, the vice president of the group who was responsible for installing the airport tower, radar and electronic equipment grabbed Zhou Yan's hand and didn't want to let go, "Mr. Zhou, you don't know, it's been raining lately and there's no place to play."
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"Okay, Lao Ning, after the equipment is debugged, you can take a vacation and relax..."
Qingyan Airlines is still a grassroots team, and in order to facilitate disassembly and assembly, the air traffic control, radar and electronic equipment of the tower are purchased as finished products, and there are also modular requirements.
"These devices don't look as pleasing to the eye as those used in large airport towers, but their functions are exactly the same, as guaranteed by other radars..."
In the evening, there was a reception and cleansing banquet, and all company employees, family members, and officers and soldiers of the mechanized infantry regiment were invited.
The menu is naturally based on local specialties, including beef and sheep, and the local specialties are so rough that many people don't even use chopsticks.
"Eat and drink enough, tomorrow the suffering will begin!"
On the second day after arriving at the test base, after breakfast, the track became busy.
The drone loaded into the container was reassembled, and then large and small wireless sensors were affixed to the stress concentration points on the fuselage, and the payload pod, which was originally just a decoration, was also equipped with data receivers for wireless sensors.
Originally, according to "tradition", aircraft were rarely painted before test flights. This was to avoid damaging the paint by attaching sensors and then removing them during testing.
However, Zhou Yan asked Qingyan Aviation to paint the drone directly, and the reason was also very strong: "The coatings are all self-produced, and they don't cost much. Moreover, after testing with the coating, the effect is better."
Close to actual combat..."
Here, the test team is busy attaching sensors, and over there, the ground crew is busy adding fuel and lubricating oil...
"Testing team, the measuring points have been installed!"
"Ground crew, ground maintenance completed!"
"Tower, please take off!"
"license!"
For a formal test flight, it is naturally impossible to fly into the sky and walk around for a while like in Sunit. It not only requires reliability testing of the entire machine and each system, but also stability testing.
The most basic overall structure flight test is mainly to verify whether the UAV structure can meet the design requirements when flying within the maximum flight envelope.
Although the material selection has left a considerable strength margin during the design, and the value of the safety factor is relatively conservative, after the actual test flight began, the designers still nervously stared at the data fed back by the test sensors.
The remaining engineers who had no tasks were also busy training the officers and soldiers of the mechanized infantry regiment in the conference room.
The entire base seemed orderly and everyone was busy.
Of course, there are exceptions. Zhou...
After arriving at the base, Zhou Yan was completely relaxed. After breakfast, he began to lead Cheng Lidong's family to visit the ranch.
Although the flight test base is not the earliest self-owned ranch under Xinghan Anxin Mall, the equipment is indeed the most advanced among all ranches: a dairy production line with a degree of automation that is only one step away from intelligence, a cattle and sheep slaughterhouse;
Complete sets of imported machinery and equipment from sowing, fertilizing, irrigation to harvesting and green storage.
However, these are not the focus of Cheng Lidong. What he cares about is the "primitive" means of transportation provided by the ranch for the cowboys: horses.
"Zhou Yan, it seems that these horses in the pasture are not all Mongolian horses, right?"
"There are some Sanhe horses and Ili horses, and some are Arabian horses imported from our own pastures abroad, Akhal Te golden horses..." As he spoke, Zhou Yan glanced at the golden foal that Cheng Lin was feeding.
, "If you like it, the horse is given to you..."
"Brother Xie Yan!" Before Cheng Lidong could say anything, Cheng Lin had already thanked him with a smile.
"You naughty kid, how can we have room to raise horses in our house?" Cheng Lidong's wife glared at her daughter fiercely, "Besides, do you dare to accept such an expensive gift?"
"How expensive can it be?" Cheng Lin didn't care and stroked the horse's mane happily.
"Zhou Yan," Cheng Lidong looked at it for a while, then turned around and asked a little uncertainly, "This should be a sweaty BMW, right? And this thing is usually given as a national gift..."
"I'm not sure either..." Zhou Yan touched his nose, "The horses are all collected by cowboys from overseas ranches. They don't cost any money. You can keep them if you like them!"
"Dad~"
Seeing his daughter acting silly, Cheng Lidong rolled his eyes helplessly: "Do you know how much it costs to raise a horse a year?"
"Brother Dong, you can definitely afford it..."
"That's right!" Cheng Lin quickly agreed when she heard someone supporting her.
"Then where should we raise her?" Cheng Lidong looked at his daughter with a smirk on his face.
"this……"
"You can stay in the horse farms around Yunzhong. It shouldn't cost a lot of money..."
"Let's do this, Linlin..." Cheng Lidong's wife rushed out of the shopping mall, rolled her eyes a few times, and had an idea, "Ma can stay, but we have to make a gentleman's agreement.
While you are in college, your dad and I will only ensure the basic survival needs of this horse. As for concentrated feed and high-end stables, we will give you different levels of rewards based on your academic performance.
Regarding the specific implementation details, I will draw up a reward and punishment system later. What do you think?"
"Do I still have a choice?" Cheng Lin saw that her mother was serious about it, so she had no choice but to accept the "unequal treaty".
"Xiao Ding..." Zhou Yan waved his hand and called the cowboy over, "Choose some horses and let Mr. Cheng and the others ride them around..."
"Okay..."
Watching Cheng Lidong's family of three ride away on horseback, Zhou Yan turned back and glanced at Qin Ruoshu, who was a little envious: "Daughter-in-law, we have several ranches at home with many beautiful ponies. I'll look back when I have time.
I'll let you ride until you vomit..."
"Come on, children alone are difficult enough..." Qin Ruoshu said with a warm smile on her face.
"How is that possible?" A trace of mystery appeared on Zhou Yan's face, "My parents, as well as my father-in-law and mother-in-law, aren't they anxious to hold the child? When the child is born, we will leave it to them, and we will go to the world of two ourselves.
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"Are there any fathers like you?" Qin Ruoshu feigned anger, picked up a handful of grass from the grass, and covered Zhou Yan who was lying on the grass.
"However, Mrs. Cheng is quite good at educating children, using retreat to make progress," Qin Ruoshu looked forward to it, "I just don't know if I can reach such a level..."
"I'm optimistic about you!"
"By the way," Qin Ruoshu, who was sitting on the grass, leaned next to Zhou Yan, "Honey, have you been busy lately?"
"I'm not busy." Zhou Yan looked up at the blue sky, "Their flight strength test will take a few days. During this period, nothing will happen..."
"Then let's take a walk around the area?"
"That's okay. I heard that there is a forest park nearby with good scenery, and it's not far from Erhao on the border. Let's go and experience the exotic customs..."