Back in 1978, I was admitted to Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Chapter 174 Hand-Crafted Battle Axe
Because he hadn't slept well the night before, Qin Liang was in a daze all morning, constantly dozing off in the lecture hall.

Anyway, he wasn't the only one who came, so others could handle it, especially Director Luo. In the academic lecture hall, he chatted and laughed with Yang Tian, ​​and could talk endlessly about any field, which Yang Tian greatly admired.

In the afternoon, at the MIT Aeronautical Laboratory.

The laboratory is huge, taking up half a floor. Going up the stairs and opening the door that sealed off half the floor, you enter a spacious room that's big enough to host a concert.

Inside, several rows of tables were neatly arranged, with computers, experimental equipment, and long tables specifically for students to do design work.

“Professor Yang, this morning we listened to the presentation from our friends from the East and we are very interested in Eastern technology.” Sure enough, Christian spoke up: “Now, this laboratory is where we can get hands-on, so… how about we invite the Easterners to use the equipment in our laboratory to assemble a model airplane?”

“Assembling just one model airplane isn’t very interesting. Why don’t we have a competition to see who has a higher level of technical skill in building their model airplane!” A student who was busy in the lab stood up. Anyone can be a shill! After making the arrangements last night, this student named Peiqi had been thinking about it all morning, considering all possible arguments from the other side, so that he could shut them up no matter what they said.

Qin Liang glanced around the entire laboratory, then shook his head: "No."

"What's wrong? Is there anything inconvenient? Please tell us if you have any difficulties. Is it that our equipment here is not satisfactory?"

"The equipment is so-so, but the model airplane parts they can provide here are of very poor quality! They can't meet our needs."

"What? The parts here are the most advanced you can find in the whole country! Look, this piston engine is used in many model airplanes, and it's a favorite of our MIT aeronautics department..."

"Piston engines are outdated!" Qin Liang said. "We haven't worked with those for a long time. Do we have jet engines?"

"Of course there are. Look at this, an electric jet engine that can generate 100 Newtons of thrust. The jet fighter model we make all use this kind of engine."

Looking at the cylinder that Page held up, Qin Liang shook his head: "No, it's too small! Is this all MIT is capable of?"

The locals present all looked disgusted. What did you mean by this? Are you looking down on us? You can't hit someone in the face; you have to save face!

Yang Duo'er's big, watery eyes showed concern. "Brother Liangzi, what are you doing?"

"Too small? What size do you need?"

"The thrust needs to be at least two or three thousand Newtons for an engine to be sufficient! I bet MIT doesn't have that kind of engine, does it?"

Two or three thousand oxen? Are you kidding me!
Paige's eyes widened: "Why do you need such a big engine? We're just making a model airplane!"

"What's the point of making those model airplanes that are only a few tens of centimeters long? If we're going to do it, we'll make big ones! Model airplanes that are less than five meters long and weigh less than one ton are beneath our Northwestern Polytechnical University!"

What?
"Is this even a model airplane?" Qin Liang said. "Professor Yang, I think we should forget about it!" "The model airplanes that MIT makes are for kids to play with, they're not very interesting."

"Hmph, it's just a big one, we have those at MIT!" Page said. "Professor Yang, when we were studying aero-engines, didn't we have a few Williams F107 engines?"

Yang Tian frowned: "This engine... is for military use. We at MIT can use it for teaching, but using it as an engine for model airplanes... is a bit inappropriate."

"There's nothing wrong with it, please wait while I make a call!"

Page walked up to the telephone in the lab and dialed a number.

"Hey, damn it, I'm in the aviation lab and I need to set up a few training engines... Okay, got it. Send someone to deliver them to us as soon as possible!"

After hanging up the phone, Page said with a proud look on his face: "Professor Yang, my father will send someone to deliver the engine soon. I want to see what kind of model airplane my Eastern friends will make with this engine!"

“Okay, Paige, now that your father has taken care of things, we don’t need to worry anymore. I’m also very curious about what kind of model airplane our Eastern friend is going to make…”

Peppa Pig? His dad is Daddy Pig? Thanks, Daddy Pig! He introduced us to the classic F107 engine. And now…

“Professor Yang, we need about a week to build the model airplane. During this time, we need a dedicated space to prevent our technology from being leaked…”

“No problem, our big lab can be divided into individual cubicles... We can have Duoduo come over every day to pick you up and drop you off.”

"No need, we'll stay in the lab! We Easterners are the most diligent, there's an idiom for it... working so hard we forget to eat and sleep. By the way, aren't you going to compete with us? Why don't you join us in making a model airplane?"

"We...we won't do that!" Christian said. The model airplane, over five meters long, was larger than anything at MIT! They didn't have one ready-made, and if they were to make one on the spot, a week definitely wouldn't be enough. They'd better see how the Asians fared!
"Alright, then please take a look at the technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University!" Qin Liang said. "See you in a week!"

The partition was opened, and the several hundred square meters of space became an independent place. Qin Liang picked up paper and pen and began to write quickly.

Half of the students in Class 5381, together with students from the Department of Aero Engines, worked together to survey the F107 engine!
The remaining students in Class 5381, let's design the shape of the model airplane together!
Students from the Mechanical Engineering Department are responsible for operating the machine tools to process the designed shapes!

Students from the Electronic Engineering department are responsible for making the circuit boards...

There are no hidden cameras in this era, so it would be difficult to set up surveillance here, but there are definitely eavesdropping devices!
Other things are easy to discuss, but we can't let them know about something as important as surveying the engine!
Daddy Pig was so generous, sending me an F107—the engine used in Tomahawk cruise missiles! And all the other long-range attack missiles that followed used this engine! Although I couldn't take it with me, I could disassemble it, do the mapping, and then the aero-engine department at Northwestern Polytechnical University could build it! Now I had what I promised Professor Liang!
Director Luo looked at Qin Liang with a complicated expression. After he finished his work, he wrote a sentence on the paper: Liangzi, what kind of model airplane should we make?
Swish, swish, swish! A few words were written below.

Hand-crafted battle axe!

(End of this chapter)