Chapter 285 Yellow Sand Rolling
Chapter 285 Yellow Sand Rolling
On a rural road near the field airport, a tractor was pulling a truck of fertilizer, rumbling slowly past.
The topic discussed by the two middle-aged farmers in the car was exactly this field airport that was just expropriated last month and built in just one week.
The Xi’an Aircraft Corporation’s test flight airport is actually not very confidential. They mainly build large aircraft, which are so large that they can be seen clearly by satellites. In addition, the test flight is quite noisy, so there is nothing to hide.
There are large villages and farmlands near Xi’an Aircraft Corporation. People working nearby can often see Xi’an Aircraft Corporation’s aircraft taking off.
As the familiar engine sound sounded, a farmer immediately raised his head curiously and looked at the field airport next to him.
Then he immediately widened his eyes, patted the old man next to him excitedly and said: “Look, Lao Xu, this airport hasn’t been repaired yet, and they are flying a plane on it!!”
After hearing this, Lao Xu also raised his head quickly, and then showed the same shocked expression as the man next to him.
”Oh my god, they are going to fly a plane in my field!?”
What he said was not wrong. The land expropriated for this field airport, a few acres of which were actually Lao Xu’s farmland. They originally thought that this was to expand the original airport, and now only simple land leveling work has been completed.
Who would have thought that they would fly a plane on it just after the land leveling was completed!
And it was a large plane!
Boom——
As the roar of the engine became louder and louder, the gas ejected by the engine immediately created a puff of yellow dust behind the plane. When the plane began to taxi officially, the scale of the yellow sand expanded crazily, rolling and spreading like a sandstorm.
Seeing such a shocking scene, the two farmers were stunned on the spot.
”Hey, hey, hey! Jiu, the front of the car is tilted!”
Squeak——
Old Xu quickly pulled the brake, stopped the tractor on the side of the road and continued to look at the plane.
In just over ten seconds, the plane on the runway had begun to slowly take off the ground. After the fuselage angle tilted, the angle of the ejected gas also blew to more ground, so the result was that the scale of the sandstorm expanded again.
The rolling yellow sand and the huge plane that seemed to be racing with the yellow sand made people feel like they were in a doomsday special effects movie.
What’s more, it was immersive.
The strong visual shock made the two sit on the tractor stupidly, and they didn’t realize that they had to dodge.
So when they reacted, the rolling yellow sand swallowed them both.
“Ahem – I’m so good!”
The two of them quickly lowered their heads and closed their eyes, covering their mouths and noses with clothes.
After two or three minutes, they slowly raised their heads, and the dust had finally dispersed.
Looking at Ah Jiu, whose head was covered with dust and whose face was covered with dirt, Lao Xu suddenly couldn’t help but point at him and laugh.
”What are you laughing at? You look like a mud rat yourself, haha——”
The two people who laughed at each other were not angry because of this little episode. Anyway, they were all going to work in the fields, and they would be covered in mud sooner or later. After laughing, the two of them quickly recalled the shocking scene just now. Jiu couldn’t help smacking his lips and exclaimed: “What kind of plane is this? It can actually fly in my field?”
”Isn’t that a Y-20?”
”I know. What I mean is, when can the Y-20 take off in the field?”
”Who knows… Anyway, the people in Xi’an Aircraft Industrial Corporation are all scientists. Scientists, you know? They can turn mud into gold. What’s the big deal about making a plane that can fly in the field?”
”Old Xu, you know nothing!”
”…”
On the other side of the field airport.
Dozens of engineers and leaders hid in the minibus when the dust rolled in, but after seeing the shocking scene, some of them did not react in time, or wanted to take another look, and finally got covered in dust.
However, compared with the shock and joy in my heart, this little dust is nothing.
Although the plane had not landed yet, just seeing it take off easily at this field airport was enough to make the leaders feel uneasy for a long time.
After about ten minutes, Kunpeng made sure that everything was normal after taking off, and then turned around and continued as planned.Conduct landing tests.
Landing at a field airport is actually more dangerous than taking off. It not only tests the strength of the engine and fuselage materials, but also the pilots’ driving skills. They need to strictly control the impact force of the landing gear at the moment of landing. The landing speed cannot be too fast or too slow.
If it is too fast, the horizontal impact force will be strong, and if it is too slow, the falling speed will be too fast, which will also increase the burden on the landing gear.
However, Wu Shifeng and Sheng Hui are also ace test pilots of Xi’an Aircraft Corporation. In addition, Dong Jun and his team also went through a lot of calculations and simulations before the test, and obtained the best landing data. As long as there is not too much deviation, there is basically no problem.
Ten minutes later, this transport aircraft weighing hundreds of tons did not disappoint everyone. Under the control of the two pilots’ superb flying skills, the landing gear gently completed the landing action, and then the two upward reverse thrust devices were quickly opened, and finally the landing was successfully completed with a landing distance of 306.4 meters!
When the plane stopped, everyone’s heart finally settled down, and then there was warm applause.
Looking at the Y-20S parked on the sand runway, everyone’s eyes were shining.
It was like seeing a super beauty! The strategic value brought by the powerful mobility of the Y-20S is simply the dream of the military!
Just look at the White Elephant Country next door. For the same C-17, the purchase price of the United States is 150 million US dollars, and it is sold to the British Empire for 220 million, and the Kangaroo Country is 190 million. The purchase price of the White Elephant Country has directly become 580 million! Converted into RMB, one is 4 billion! But even if it was slaughtered like a pig, the White Elephant Country gritted its teeth and bought ten in one go.
It can be seen how delicious this thing is! The main reason is that the C17 is really in line with their national conditions.
The poor transportation infrastructure has made the transportation of their equipment and troops a huge problem, especially in the plateau area.
The performance of C17 can greatly alleviate this embarrassment.
Although China’s transportation and infrastructure capabilities are much stronger, those who have traveled to the west know that the area there is too large. No matter how strong the infrastructure capabilities are, they can only build a few main roads, and there are often traffic jams.
In addition, there are many frozen layers, and the cost of road maintenance is huge. Half of the year is affected by ice and snow and cannot be opened to traffic.
Although ice and snow weather does not affect the passage of military equipment, the efficiency will definitely be much slower.
But with this Yun-20S, which can take off and land at a field airport and has abnormal performance, it means that as long as a few bulldozers and rollers are mobilized, a field airport can even be built within a day. The Chinese military can continuously and rapidly deploy equipment and troops to any place in the country! Ground transportation, airport density, and deployment time will no longer be restricted! (End of this chapter)