Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 875: Chapter 455 Academician Zhao is Indeed Testing Us!_2

After a brief conversation with Fei Zhengbin and mentioning the requirements of the Warhawk team, as well as urging him to expedite the cooperation of other research institutes, Zhao Yi began to outline the tasks that the team needed to undertake.

First of all, it was the preparatory work for the manufacturing of the engine prototype.

The manufacturing of an engine prototype is very complex, with many components not being completed within a single factory. The manufacturing of turbine blades, booster blades, stator blades, and front fan blades was all extremely troublesome work. Therefore, manufacturing had to be prepared in advance, and communication with the factory had to start early to begin mould production. Even if direct manufacturing was not immediately underway, effort had to be put into preparation because after all, time was money and could not be wasted.

"Captain Yuan, you need to closely oversee the manufacturing of the various blades. Take the existing parameters with you, and if they don’t cooperate, go to Director Liu in the Science and Technology Division—I will speak to Director Liu in advance."

"Report back immediately if there are any technical issues!"

"Understood."

Zhao Yi also tasked Wang Zhixin, Sun Lei, and Li Rongmao to each oversee the preliminary work of the prototype manufacturing. They were all assigned to go down to the factory, to supervise the manufacturing of the moulds and the preparations for the prototype manufacturing, and so on.

As a result, only a few members remained in the Warhawk group.

Zhao Yi was not concerned.

He even felt that he alone was enough; the engine prototype manufacturing was a major affair, and all other matters could be put aside. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

Once he had delegated the work, Zhao Yi brought the conversation back to aircraft design, mentioning the equipment issues of the Warhawk-1, "We want the most stable, most advanced equipment."

"That’s the requirement for every part."

"Stability is most important, advancement comes second. Because aircraft manufacturing is a long-term process, perhaps within a few years the equipment will need to be upgraded again. For us, the most important thing is to get the aircraft flying. Advanced equipment is a concern when the aircraft enters formal mass production and service."

That was something beyond Zhao Yi’s consideration for the time being.

What mattered most at the present was to design the aircraft and push the engine directly into the prototype manufacturing stage, but no matter what, the aircraft design also had to pass review.

This was not easy.

Therefore, the stability of aircraft performance was of utmost importance. The primary considerations for aircraft design finalization were performance and stability issues.

In terms of the design of the exterior, Zhao Yi was very confident in the performance and stability, but whether the equipment would be stable was unknown. The optimal solution for selecting equipment was stability, and the design would also be tailored according to the most stable equipment for exterior design adjustments.

Such a design would definitely pass the evaluation.

In fact, there was still an issue with the current exterior design—the weight was slightly on the higher side. Even a perfect design had its imperfections. The system capability did not consider the weight issue, and some designs were truly cutting-edge and high-end, but they also required more shell material, leading to an overall increase in weight. Luckily, the increase was not too significant and remained within the engine performance coverage and tolerance range.

"Reducing the weight further might be more trouble than it’s worth because every area of the design is already perfect."

"Foldable wings, adjustable upper air inlets, adjustable modified tail fins, reserved landing gear, weapon bays..."

Zhao Yi scrutinized the exterior several times over but still felt that there was no room for adjustment. A streamlined version was not something that could be made just by wishing it into existence. He somewhat understood why the media always talked about the weight problem of M Country’s F-35; a fighter jet that wanted every feature became feature-complete, but trying to keep the weight down was incredibly difficult.

...

The meeting ended.

The entire Warhawk team became busy, with only Lei Yong and Bao Enhong remaining idle. They weren’t assigned any tasks; it seemed like the work of the Warhawk team had nothing to do with them. To be accurate, they belonged to the ’Warhawk Special Research Group,’ and the work of the Warhawk Special Research Group at the moment was just to communicate with other research institutes, without any design tasks.

However...

"The design is done, so what do we do now?" Lei Yong and Bao Enhong sat in the office together and suddenly began to feel a sense of panic. They had been quite idle the previous days, but when everyone else enjoyed the leisure, it was fine to do so as well.

Now that everyone was busy except for them, it felt somewhat wrong.

Bao Enhong was slightly better off.

Though she was always thinking about exterior design, her personality was such that she was content with whatever came her way. She wasn’t the type to delve deeply into matters, and a bit of leisure actually relaxed her.

Lei Yong couldn’t relax at all. He kept thinking about what happened in the meeting and suddenly said loudly, "Bao Enhong, did you notice?"

"What?" freewёbnoνel.com

"In today’s meeting, Academician Zhao didn’t seem to talk about the exterior design issues. I thought the meeting was about discussing the exterior design."

"Yeah..."

Bao Enhong thought about it and finally realized what was off.

Normally, even if one finished the exterior design, there would still be a discussion with others about what might be lacking in the design, where there could be issues, and to justify every detail.

But after Academician Zhao finished the exterior design, he only asked others ’Does it look good?’ without addressing even a single technical issue.

This was a bit strange.

"Have you ever thought about it?"

Lei Yong pondered and said, "Maybe Academician Zhao has a deeper purpose. You see, after we came here, we just worked on a toy plane and made a detailed validation report."