Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 253 Liu Guangqi's Talent (Subscription Request)

"Comrade Yang Ning, has the design of the J-8 been completed?"

As soon as he learned that the design drawings of the J-8 were completed, Director Zheng found Yang Ning immediately and asked excitedly.

"That's right!"

Yang Ning smiled and nodded. He knew that the entire Air Force and even the entire leadership of the J-8 project were paying attention to this fighter.

After all, this fighter jet may very well be the last one that the Air Force will equip in large quantities in the next 10 to 20 years.

In the future, the Aviation Research Institute may develop other more advanced fighter jets, but that will only be a technological accumulation, and at most a few prototypes will be produced. No matter how advanced they are, they will not be equipped in large quantities.

"Great!"

Looking at the rendering of the J-8 in his hand, Director Zheng said excitedly.

Due to the limitations of electronic technology, the J-11 fighter may be inferior to the J- in low-altitude maneuverability.

But compared with its big brother Su-70 from the 27s, it is not much different.

As a heavy fighter, the J-5.6 is designed with ten pylons that can carry all airborne missiles including air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles and anti-ship missiles, and can carry a maximum of tons of ammunition.

The aircraft is designed to have a cruising altitude of 1.8 meters, a maximum altitude of 2.2 meters, a cruising speed of 1200 kilometers per hour, and a maximum speed of Mach 2.2.

When equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks, the maximum combat radius reaches 2000 kilometers.

Of course, these are just data calculated based on the design drawings. The actual performance of the J-8 can only be known after it is built.

In that case, let’s build it!

So, the factory started to get busy.

Before the design drawings of the J-8 were completed, the authorities first asked the factory to practice with the J-6 and J-7 and to manufacture some spare parts for these two fighters.

When the drawings of the J-8 began to come out one after another, the factories under their jurisdiction began to trial-produce the J-8's parts according to these drawings.

Although you made some adjustments to some parts later, you still have the corresponding technical accumulation.

Therefore, after obtaining the final design drawings of the J-8, the entire trial production began to proceed in an orderly manner.

Although the overall design drawing has come out, it is only a preliminary drawing. Some improvements and adjustments will need to be made based on the specific performance of the prototype. Therefore, the entire project team cannot be disbanded before the J-8 is finally finalized.

Yang Ning handed over the subsequent tasks to other project teams. In order to complete the finalization of the J-8 as soon as possible, he spent most of his time at the subsidiary factory.

After all, the J-8 adopted many new technologies in its design. Although the subsidiary factories had already accumulated some technical experience in these new technologies, Yang Ning was still worried.

Before the prototype is completely finalized, the factory must produce the J-8 model in addition to producing various components.

After all, you can only tell whether a plane is good or not by blowing it up.

The models here are not the model toys on the market, but high-precision models produced in proportion according to the design drawings.

"Director Yang!"

That day, when Yang Ning came to the production workshop of the subsidiary factory, everyone greeted him.

When Yang Ning first came here, everyone thought he was just playing a supervisory role, but as time went on, everyone put this idea behind them.

After Yang Ning completed the design drawings of the J-8 and came to the subsidiary factory, whenever there were technical difficulties in the production process, Yang Ning would solve them as soon as possible.

After all, in addition to calculation and memory, Yang Ning's abilities also include super body control.

After entering the super brain mode, Yang Ning's control over his body also reached its peak.

Because of this, Yang Ning was not only able to solve the technical problems encountered in the production process of the J-8, but also able to pass on the technical solutions to others.

This established Yang Ning's high status in the hearts of these workshop workers.

After all, when the J-8 is finalized and enters mass production, most of these workers, except for the necessary ones who stay behind, will be assigned to other units for technical guidance.

After all, the Aviation Research Institute alone cannot meet the Air Force's future production needs for the J-8.

If they could learn a few tricks from Yang Ning, it would be helpful for their future technical rating and promotion.

Perhaps because the engine was the last one to be designed in the J-8 project, most of the problems encountered during the production process were concentrated on the engine production.

When Yang Ning arrived at the engine production workshop, Liu Guangqi came over with a drawing.

When seeing Liu Guangqi, Yang Ning felt very complicated.

Although this guy has some flaws in his character, we have to admit that he is very talented in technology and is willing to devote himself to studying.

In just half a year, he became the technical backbone of the engine workshop.

Although he could not take technical assessment for three years because of the last incident, as his skills continued to improve and he settled down, the unit also made some compensation for him in other aspects.

For example, now, his main job is to follow Yang Ning. While being responsible for the communication between Yang Ning and other workers, he can also learn some techniques.

Yang Ning didn't say much about this arrangement. Although he would not give Liu Guangqi special care, he would not deliberately target him either.

Since he was able to use his own strength to get the workshop leader to arrange for him to study with Yang Ning, Yang Ning just had to treat him like everyone else.

Yang Ning even suspected that the reason why the second uncle was so good to Liu Guangqi was not only because he was the eldest brother, but also because among the three brothers of the Liu family, he was the only one who inherited the second uncle's technical talent.

Speaking of which, even though the second uncle is always yelling and has a low level of education, he is probably more talented than the first uncle in terms of technology.

Although the last uncle is an eighth-level worker and the second uncle is only a seventh-level worker, that is only because the second uncle suffered a little disadvantage in terms of cultural level and interpersonal skills.

After all, no matter how dirty a man's heart is, he still looks very bright on the surface.

The fact that Liu Guangqi was able to become a technical backbone of the engine workshop in just half a year also proves that he is indeed talented.

"Director Yang, this is today's production task arrangement, please confirm it."

Yang Ning felt complicated when facing Liu Guangqi, and the same was true when Liu Guangqi faced Yang Ning.

Who would have thought that Yang Ning, the leader of the "Three Idiots" duo in Siheyuan whom he looked down upon back then, has not only achieved such success now, but also become the boss of his immediate boss.

The more Liu Guangqi understood the situation in his unit, the more he realized how big the gap was between him and Yang Ning.

As for his technical level, he is currently only a technical secondary school graduate with a technical level of 16, and he cannot be promoted within three years.

As the director of the Aviation Research Institute, Yang Ning is already a third-level chief engineer.

As Yang Ning made more and more contributions in recent years, his technical level was upgraded several times. After the integrated circuit computer was developed, he became a third-level chief engineer.

"Let me see!" Yang Ning took the production task book handed over by Liu Guangqi and knew at a glance that today's production task was very heavy.

“Producing turbofan blades today?”

"Yes!" Liu Guangqi put away his complicated thoughts and said respectfully: "There are no technical problems with other engine parts. Now only the blade production is left."

"After all, the air hole design above cannot tolerate the slightest mistake. Now everyone is waiting for your technical guidance!"

Otherwise, why is it said that Liu Guangqi is the second uncle's most doted son? After learning that he might never catch up with Yang Ning in this lifetime, he wanted to please Yang Ning.

Having received a good education, he is much more insightful in this regard than his father, the second uncle.

He knew that Yang Ning didn't like those messy things, so he worked hard to improve his technical level, believing that one day he would be able to catch Director Yang's attention.

"Okay! Then we'll start producing the leaf fans today."

Yang Ning handed the production plan back to Liu Guangqi and took the technical drawings to look at them.

To be honest, even Yang Ning felt a little guilty about using a three-axis CNC machining center to complete the production of the J-8 fighter engine blades.

When Yang Ning arrived at the operating table of the machining center, the table was already surrounded by technical workers who had been waiting for a long time.

"Director Yang, all the workers responsible for blade production have arrived."

When workshop director Lei saw Yang Ning and Liu Guangqi, he immediately came over to them.

Everyone in their workshop had tried it before. Even an eighth-level worker in their workshop couldn't produce qualified fan blades with the existing equipment.

Only a single national treasure-level skilled worker can barely produce it using a combination of semi-automatic and manual operations.

However, if they continue to produce in this way, even if the old craftsman works himself to death, he still won't be able to produce enough blades, so now they are stuck on using CNC machining centers to produce the blades.

This is also the reason why blade production was arranged today. After all, Yang Ning might stay in their workshop all day.

If Yang Ning hadn't come here today to solve this problem, it would have been difficult for their workshop to complete its production tasks.

"Then shall we start now?" Yang Ning said with a smile.

To use a CNC machining center to complete blade production, each process requires accurate input of control instructions.

Even with Yang Ning's powerful computing and control abilities, it still took him more than half an hour to complete the production of the first fan blade.

"Quick! Measure it quickly to see if it's up to standard!"

When the blades were produced, Director Lei couldn't wait to take them in his hands, and after carefully touching them for a while, he handed them to the inspector beside him.

After the inspector took the blades produced by Yang Ning to the testing room, Yang Ning began on-site teaching.

Others also took out their notebooks to write down the hundreds of control instructions. Yang Ning explained them while operating them. When the second blade was produced, the test results of the previous blade also came out.

After all, as the cradle of our future aviation technology, the Aviation Research Institute has a complete range of testing equipment.

"Director Yang, the indicators of the blades produced previously fully meet the design requirements."

Although Yang Ning had anticipated this result after the blades were produced, he still couldn't help but feel very excited when he heard the news.

"That's great!" Director Lei excitedly waved his fist and then led the applause.

At this moment, everyone around was convinced by the young director Yang Ning.

"Although Director Yang is young, he is very capable!"

"That is, as the old saying goes, that means being able to handle both the office and the kitchen."

"Director Yang is not only able to research airplanes in the laboratory, but also to produce them in the workshop. I can't help but admire him!"

Listening to the discussions of people around him, Yang Ning felt a bit amused and helpless.

Listen to what you say, what does it mean to be able to work in the parlor and in the kitchen? Is this a word to describe a handsome man like me?

Now that the control instructions are available, it all depends on how others actually operate the system.

Although the CNC machining center will automatically produce after the command is input, due to technical limitations, it cannot achieve the level of inputting commands and then forgetting everything like in later generations.

In specific operations, technical workers are also required to grasp the timing of each instruction based on actual operations.

With repeated experiments by other workers, it was finally determined that only technical workers at level eight could produce qualified engine blades with the cooperation of the CNC machining center without systematic training in the operation of the CNC machining center.

A technician who can skillfully operate a CNC machining center has very high technical requirements himself.

But what is unexpected is that Liu Guangqi, who has only been in the field for half a year, has been able to produce qualified engine blades using a CNC machining center with his outstanding talent.

This not only surprised others, but even Yang Ning looked at him differently.

After all, we judge by actions rather than by heart, and no one is perfect when it comes to heart.

No matter what Liu Guangqi thinks in his heart, at this moment, he can produce qualified blades in just half a year after joining the factory. He is a rising star in our aircraft manufacturing field.

It would be inappropriate to continue to let such a talent bear the punishment.

So when Yang Ning mentioned it in passing, combined with Liu Guangqi's performance in the past six months after he joined the field, the Aviation Research Institute conducted research and decided to cancel his previous punishment.

"Director Yang! Thank you, thank you very much. I will never let you down in the future."

As soon as Liu Guangqi's punishment was lifted, he excitedly found Yang Ning's home and spoke excitedly.

"That's all!" Yang Ning waved his hand and said, "Just work hard in the company from now on."

"The fact that your punishment was cancelled this time is also the result of your own efforts."

"If you still think about this and that like before, even if I propose it, it won't be passed at the meeting."

"I know. I will improve my skills in the future and not bring shame to our hospital!"

You see, this kid is worthy of being the second uncle's son. He can't stand being praised. Once praised, he will take advantage of it.

As soon as I gave him a little good look, he started to make friends with me.

(End of this chapter)