Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 872: Chapter 454 Because he is Academician Zhao!_2

Lei Yong suddenly realized and said, "I’ve got it, actually, Academician Zhao probably just wants to test us!"

"Test?"

"Yeah, we’ve only recently joined this group, nobody knows what level we’re at, and Academician Zhao must be thinking of presenting a problem to test us, to see what we’re capable of. Only then can he entrust us with work, right?"

"That makes sense!"

Bao Enhong followed Lei Yong’s train of thought and also felt his analysis made sense. She immediately gave him an ’impressive’ look.

Lei Yong immediately felt quite proud, as if he had become the leading figure. He quickly said, "We all need to show our true abilities. Analyze as much as possible, discuss thoroughly, and write down everything we know and everything that’s relevant. If we can gain Academician Zhao’s approval, we might just become the main force in the Warhawk aircraft’s design work."

Bao Enhong nodded in agreement and said, "If there’s something I don’t understand, Lei Yong, you have to give me some pointers."

"No problem," Lei Yong said, thumping his chest confidently.

...

Lei Yong and Bao Enhong had officially started their jobs.

After completing the onboarding procedures and sorting out their living arrangements, the two of them formally entered their work mode. Free from life’s distractions, they seemed to work incredibly hard, spending over a dozen hours a day holed up in the office. When others passed by and paid attention, they noticed that much of the time, the two were in the same state—

intently examining an aircraft model!

The others immediately started gossiping, and Zhou Qing was one particularly curious individual, "Captain Yuan, have you noticed those two newcomers? It seems they’re engaged in aircraft design, they’re really professional."

"What about it?" Yuan Haitao asked, puzzled.

"Look at them, they’re always staring at that model airplane on their desk, and they each have one, identical." Zhou Qing leaned in mysteriously and said, "I’ll tell you, I recognize that model, it seems to be from some science fiction movie, Star Wars? Guardians of the Galaxy? Or something like that..."

"Anyway, it’s one of those foreign films, the really sci-fi kinds... What’s that movie called again, I can’t seem to remember?"

Zhou Qing said, falling into thought.

Yuan Haitao wasn’t concerned about which specific movie they were discussing; he just found the whole thing amusing, "Maybe, aircraft design is just like that, with science fiction movies representing the future, representing imagination; they need inspiration."

"That’s true."

Zhou Qing nodded continuously, "Just like when designing engines, I also often look at pictures of those top foreign engines!"

"You’re just a mechanic, and now you’re talking about designing engines? Have you no shame?" Yuan Haitao retorted with a smirk. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

Zhou Qing replied, disgruntled, "Even if we don’t design, can’t we have a look? I just hope to repair those kinds of engines in the future. But speaking of which, today has been an eye-opener. No wonder airplane designs are becoming more and more like those in movies. I saw a news report a few days ago, Y Country released a concept image of a sixth-generation aircraft, and it was beyond anything in the movies."

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Yuan Haitao stressed, "It’s the aircraft in the movies that resembles the real ones."

The two of them started to argue over this point.

Actually, it was as Yuan Haitao said, the designs of aircraft in movies consider real-world factors, making existing aircraft designs more technologically advanced to give the audience the impression of ’future aircraft’ and, hence, the feeling of something formidable and cutting-edge.

If the aircraft’s appearance were completely detached from reality, audiences wouldn’t recognize what they were seeing, and the movie would fall flat.

The daily discussions between Yuan Haitao and Zhou Qing actually revealed a situation: the Warhawk team, as a whole, was relatively idle, with only three people truly busy—Bao Enhong, Lei Yong, and Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi had been pondering where to begin. Initially, he wanted the incoming aircraft designers to present a set of proposals, but later he decided against it because the designers’ thinking would undoubtedly be limited if they lacked imagination, which would lead to a lack of creativity. Their proposals would likely be no different from other designs, perhaps even conservative or flawed due to their level of skill.

Zhao Yi came up with the idea of starting with aircraft models while shopping with Lin Xiaoqing, upon seeing intricately designed models in a toy store.

The models were from science fiction movies and had a very technological look; some components were designed so ’mysteriously’ that it wasn’t clear what their purpose was, but they could be analyzed in detail.

If there were a complete set of design narratives, they could then adjust the airplane’s physical design based on engine parameters.

This part was the most straightforward.

The Warhawk team was working on some directional designs based on the WZ-A1 engine parameters.

For instance, the most direct would be the appearance.

Before receiving specific parameters for components from other departments, it wouldn’t be possible to finalize the appearance, but they could build the primary framework, with the details subject to further modification and adjustment.

The most important part of this design was to base it on the engine, crafting a framework that would best enhance the engine’s performance, and enable the aircraft to be as agile as possible.

The advantage of the Warhawk team lay in the fact that they had all the engine parameters, which allowed them to design an aircraft according to those parameters and maximize the engine’s performance.