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Chapter 199 Magic Modification of Airbus A320 (End)

Looking at the shining iron-gray passenger plane in front of him, the first thing that came to Chen Jue's mind was the legendary Soviet-era fighter MiG-25.

As a fighter jet with a large amount of stainless steel structure on its fuselage, the MiG-25 has been breaking various aviation vehicle limit records since the 60s.

With a maximum speed of Mach 3.2, it ranks alongside the MiG-31 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft as the only three manned aircraft capable of breaking the thermal barrier (Mach 2.5).

You know, even after more than half a century, there is no other fighter jet in human service that can fly faster than the MiG-25.

Before the advent of the beyond-visual-range air combat mode, the F15 and F16 of the same era were nothing more than younger brothers in front of it.

What’s even more exaggerated is that the ‘stainless steel legend’ of the MiG-25 is not only its impressive cruising speed, but the most terrifying thing is its ceiling altitude!

According to existing known records, former Soviet pilot Alexander Fedotov once set a maximum ceiling altitude of 1976 meters in this fighter in 37080.

What does 3.7 meters mean?
The cruising altitude of commercial aircraft is usually maintained below 1.2 meters, and reconnaissance aircraft and weather detection balloons can only fly to a maximum of 2.5 meters.

Because exceeding 2.5 meters is the "altitude development ceiling" set by the aviation industry, which exceeds the theoretical flight limit of the aircraft.

The MiG-25 easily broke through this height, which can be regarded as entering the concept of spacecraft.

A military fan once proposed a hypothesis on a forum: If the MiG-25 was better made, its airtightness improved, and it was equipped with materials and equipment that could resist atmospheric friction and low temperatures in outer space, this stainless steel legend could even rush out of outer space and become mankind's first generation of aerospace fighters!
What Chen Jue is doing now is to replicate the "legend of stainless steel" on his own private jet.

With the help of MC [iron block] materials, this Airbus A320 is enough to defeat the crudely made MiG-25 of the Russians in terms of airtightness and fuselage strength.

However, the Airbus A320 has an inherent defect, that is, it is an active civil airliner with a large fuselage and high load capacity.

The engine V2500 is a twin-rotor, axial-flow, high-bypass turbofan engine developed and produced by International Aero Engines Corporation.

Although the maximum thrust of the twin engines reaches 22 tons, it is basically the same as the parameters of the twin-engine R25 missile engines carried by the MiG-15.

However, the normal take-off weight of the MiG-25 is only 37.5 tons, while that of the A320 reaches 75 tons.

The difference in mass is nearly twice that of the other, which is why civil airliners are destined to fly slowly.

Of course, this only restricts ordinary civil airliners.

After recalling the performance parameters of the "stainless steel legend" MiG-25, Chen Jue had a better idea for improving this modified A320.

"The skin, keel beams, and wing parts are all made of [iron blocks] sliced ​​materials. As long as the strength is sufficient, they can be sliced ​​as thin as possible."

"Except for the avionics and flight control systems, all other original aircraft materials that can be reduced will be removed." Chen Jue gave orders on the spot.

At this time, a few iron fools pushed the two unloaded V2500 engines to him and asked: "Boss, how do we modify this engine?"

"Simple! Except for the fan blades and floating wall combustion chamber, all metal parts like the compressor and turbine will be replaced with [iron blocks]. Also, the air inlet needs to be equipped with guide and anti-icing devices." While giving instructions, Chen Jue walked to a CNC gantry machining center.

The polycrystalline diamond composite (PDC) tool set originally provided by Shenyang Machine Tool Co., Ltd. for the machining center was replaced, and a new set of tool sets was polished using the previously synthesized MC [diamond].

The reason why MC [Diamond] was used as the processing knife set was because Chen Jue had the bizarre idea: "Since I'm going to modify it, I'll modify it thoroughly!"

The original hollow titanium alloy wide-chord blades of the V2500 engine were directly replaced with [Obsidian], which is said to be second only to bedrock in hardness among MC.

You should know that the hardness of obsidian in reality is basically similar to that of glass, with a Mohs hardness of only 5.6-6.2.

However, in the early MC version, the hardness setting of [Obsidian] reached an incredible 50 Mohs hardness!

Such an extremely hardness value is 5 times higher than that of natural diamonds in nature!
It’s exciting to think about using it to replace traditional titanium alloy single crystal blades.

In addition, MC's [Obsidian] has an explosion resistance of 1200 points, which is enough to be installed in a nuclear fusion device such as Tokamak as a barrier to resist the artificial sun of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius. It is simply a waste of talent to use it in the combustion chamber of an aircraft engine!

So after such a deep modification was completed, the two V2500 engines, which were black, purple and silver in color, were reinstalled on the wings by the iron golems.

Due to the limited equipment in this makeshift aviation repair shop, there is not even a platform for engine testing.

Chen Jue was too lazy to even try!

"Test drive?"

“Try it~” “I’m not afraid even if it disintegrates in the air. If it doesn’t work, just pour a bucket of water under your feet. You won’t die even if you fall in from outer space.” Chen Jue rubbed his fly hands with an indifferent look on his face.

It seemed as if he was full of confidence in Steve's 10 red hearts.

……

For this second-hand Airbus A3600 aircraft that they bought for 320 million US dollars, Chen Jue and the Iron Golem team spent nearly a week on it, including the in-depth modification and interior decoration after the aircraft was completed.

You know, the manufacturing time of civil airliners like this one originally had very strict working hour regulations.

After all, it involves the lives of 150 passengers.

From design, production to assembly, every link requires strict quality control and time management. To manufacture the A320 from scratch, even for an international manufacturer like Airbus, it would take at least 16 months.

Unlike Boeing, which has carried out various outrageous operations, in order to meet orders and recover costs, it has compressed the manufacturing time of the Boeing 737MAX to less than 9 days and eliminated many necessary quality inspection links.

This has led to a series of quality accidents involving Boeing 737MAX passenger planes in recent years, with either the cabin door falling off in mid-air or the plane crashing for no apparent reason.

Even the "Boeing whistleblower" committed suicide in the end, so you can imagine how deep the water is.

Of course, Chen Jue was relying on the fact that he had activated the MC plug-in and could switch to the 'Steve' state anytime and anywhere, so he dared to do such a daring test.

When this Airbus A320, which was painted pure black and had the Magic Cube Group logo printed on it, was dragged outside from the hangar and shone with an unusually cool and stern color in the sun, Chen Jue showed a look of satisfaction on his face: "Cool! It's worth my long vacation to watch it here!"

For a model enthusiast who loves playing with models, it is normal to spend time on his favorite works.

As the side cabin door opened, Chen Jue took the gangway and entered the plane.

Then, with the help of the engines on both sides, this modified A320 quickly rose up and took off from the narrow valley runway.

After a significant weight reduction, its take-off distance was shortened from 1625 meters to less than 800 meters.

The miraculous "powerful brick flying" that was rumored in the aviation circle was demonstrated to the fullest on Chen Jue's private plane.

Of course, what’s even more exaggerated is its cruising speed!

It was far away inside the terminal of Novosibirsk Tolmachevo International Airport when the dark A320 climbed to 12000 meters for afterburner testing.

A Russian air traffic controller who was staring at the real-time image on the computer LCD screen suddenly widened his eyes and blurted out: "Sukabuleh!"

Because just now, he discovered that this private jet, which had just declared an international route and was numbered 'MF01', had suddenly increased its speed from the normal 800 km/h to 1300 km/h after reaching the scheduled flight altitude.

And judging from the satellite positioning data it feedbacks, the flight speed seems to be increasing.

Although the other party's flight track and flight direction did not deviate, the abnormal flight speed still made him pick up the microphone and ask in rapping Russian English: "MF01, calling MF01! Your flight speed is too fast, which will cause certain interference to the international route ahead. Please slow down appropriately!"

Then, a muffled voice responded from the other end of the radio channel: "Sorry, we can't slow down for the time being. Our boss is rushing back to China to discuss a big contract! In order not to affect the operation of friendly aircraft, MF01 will switch to a higher cruising altitude."

"Higher cruising altitude?"

The Russian controller was completely stunned when he heard this!

Because according to the software, this private jet with the A320 label was cruising at an altitude of 12000 meters.

As you climb higher, the air pressure will decrease, the atmosphere will become very thin, and the ambient temperature will drop sharply.

For civil airliners with flimsy fuselages, they simply cannot withstand higher cruising altitudes.

"If we climb any higher, wouldn't that be asking for trouble? Does this crew want to live? Aren't they afraid that the cabin will disintegrate?" Countless thoughts popped into the Russian controller's mind in an instant.

When the aircraft was about to perform the replication stop, the flight altitude displayed on the computer screen rushed up from 12KM, first to 15KM, then to 20KM, and finally stabilized at 25KM.

This exaggerated scene immediately prompted the Russian controller to press the red button on the keyboard: "Supervisor! Emergency code 7500! MF01 is suspected of being illegally interfered with!"

(End of this chapter)