Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 907: Chapter 466 This work efficiency is too slow!_2

Liu Jiankun listened and nodded intently.

Zhao Yi was globally acknowledged as the number one mathematician; questioning the computational aspect of his work was simply unnecessary. Moreover, he was not just a mathematician, as the design of the WZ series engines was enough to prove his top-tier expertise in dynamics and mechanical physics.

"I think, just by looking at the design’s appearance, even if we were to compare it to the F-35, I reckon it wouldn’t hold up."

Yang Cong commented with admiration, drawing a comparison.

"That amazing?" Liu Jiankun listened with surprise, "Even better than the F-35?"

"Based on what we know so far, this design surpasses the F-35, at least theoretically it does, but there is one thing..."

Yang Cong said seriously, "I’ve found the biggest issue with the design. If this issue is not resolved, the design might just have to be shelved in the archive, only to be taken out and used maybe ten years or several decades later."

"What’s the issue?"

Liu Jiankun became solemn and serious, knowing that Yang Cong was among the top aircraft designers in the country. If he said there was a significant issue, it likely truly existed.

Zhao Yi indeed excelled in R&D, but he was not a professional aircraft designer after all. Perhaps there were some overlooked aspects in the design that affected the whole project.

Yang Cong swallowed the food in his mouth, unhurriedly went to make a cup of tea, clearly with an air of playing it up. He kept on smiling, as if about to reveal some "major secret".

Liu Jiankun, however, was not in a rush and even helped carry the tea over, introducing to Yang Cong his top-grade Maojian tea.

Finally.

The two of them returned to their seats.

Yang Cong picked up the tea cup, took a light sip, and said with a smile, "There’s an issue with the overall control!"

"This design includes many auto-controlled parts, all uniquely designed. But if you let them change direction autonomously, achieving harmony for the whole system becomes very difficult."

"For instance, when the airplane switches from a dive to a rapid climb, the foldable wings will open at roughly an eighty-degree angle, but the flaps will not open quickly, and the automatic changes of the tail wing will also drag down the power for the upward dive. Under such circumstances, the auto-changing parts could all become a hindrance, may even be inferior to a regular design..."

"Therefore, for this design to achieve its ideal performance, an intelligent master control system is essential!"

"This is a must!"

"But as far as I know, even the top-tier electronic control systems in international fighter jets are not capable of achieving such flexible and coordinated control of so many components—this involves extremely complex calculations, and domestically..."

"Blah blah blah~~~"

Yang Cong continued on at length, casually showing off his knowledge. After a while, he noticed that something was off about Liu Jiankun’s expression. He paused, his eagerness fading, and asked, "General Manager Liu?"

"Cough, cough~"

Liu Jiankun forcibly suppressed the smile at the corner of his mouth, walked over to the sofa to grab a document, and handed it over, "Is this what you’re talking about?"

Yang Cong took the document and glanced at the title, "Intelligent Control System?" ƒrēewebnovel.com

He opened it and flipped through a couple of pages; his expression froze completely, experiencing the awkwardness of a ’social death’. He looked up at Liu Jiankun with a stiff smile and said, "It turns out... Academician Zhao had already thought of it."

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Elsewhere.

After submitting the design evaluation application report, Zhao Yi waited comfortably for news.

He was very busy.

With the Warhawk-1 design work completed, the next step was to await the design evaluation, verify the WZ-A1 engine’s targeting of Warhawk-1, then proceed to manufacture the engine prototype. The engine needed to be built before they could start on the trial model of the fighter jet.

The prototype engine work could be expedited by prompting Red Wind Industry; thanks to Zhao Yi’s cooperation with Red Wind Industry, the prototype manufacturing was green-lighted along the way, but since it wasn’t officially approved by the higher-ups for production, they could only design the molds internally and draft the component manufacturing plans.

These were tasks that could be done in advance.

When it came to Red Wind Industry, there was a need to pay special attention, especially to the spindle research being conducted together.

Red Wind Industry had sent over a lot of information.

Zhao Yi reviewed the industrial spindle manufacturing technical documents when he had time. The material was extensive, including not only the spindle manufacturing technology mastered by Red Wind Industry but also various information, parameters, and related data on different types of spindles, machine tools, precision engineering, and so on.

To develop and design spindles, it was essential to understand these aspects.

The advantage of studying manufacturing technology was that there were no abstruse theoretical contents. For Zhao Yi, reviewing technical documentation was no different than studying philosophy or economics. It was just looking at design, materials, parameters, etc. He could remember nearly everything after careful reading without the need to engage in serious calculations or thoughts.

Therefore, his speed at reviewing the documents was very fast. After about a week and a half, he had a general understanding of industrial spindle technology and Red Wind Industry’s spindle research and development.

Industrial spindles and machine tool spindles include many types, such as belt-driven spindles, gear-driven spindles, direct-drive spindles, and electric spindles.

Belt-driven spindles are widely used in the market, ranging from small to large machining centers. The speed of belt-driven spindles does not exceed 8000 revolutions per minute, they are relatively easy to assemble, have much less vibration than gear-driven spindles, but have the disadvantage that noise increases with speed, and controlling belt tension is difficult.

Many large and medium-sized CNC machine tools use gear-driven spindles for speed changes. Speed is reduced through a few pairs of gears to increase output torque, meeting the requirement for output torque characteristics at low spindle speeds. It is more powerful compared to belt-driven spindles, but the downsides are quite apparent—the noise and vibration are very significant.