Interstellar Industrial Age

Huangping Town Xinghe Aerospace Industry Base.

Originally, the entire huge industrial base was relatively deserted, but in recent months, the entire huge industrial base has become lively.

With the launch of the "Undergraduate Engineer" program, tens of thousands of graduates from major universities across the country have gathered here, injecting youthful vitality into the entire aerospace industry base and even the entire Huangping Town.

Tens of thousands of graduates are just the first batch, and they are mainly used to train as aerospace industry engineers.

Well, of course, this is a nicer argument, but in fact, it is actually an aerospace worker.

Of course, their remuneration is also quite high, one level higher than that of ordinary clerical employees in the group company, but not as good as the people in the company's research institute, somewhere in between.

Tens of thousands of employees are enough for the current Galaxy Aerospace Industrial Base, but if private anti-gravity vehicles start to explode in the future, tens of thousands of employees will definitely not be enough, and they will continue to recruit people at that time.

The entire aerospace industry base is regarded as an integrated production-university-research base.

There is a huge factory area. There are 10 factories for building large spaceships alone, and nearly 100 factories for building Qingyun aerospace fighters, private anti-gravity spacecraft and other small aircraft.

There is a huge research base, and the tens of thousands of undergraduate engineers are now recruiting. They are not just as simple as aerospace workers. In the future, their development direction will also develop towards the scientific research system. Of course, here, the main research is on spacecraft and so on.

There is also a huge teaching base. The construction standards of the whole huge teaching base are based on the standards of universities. There are many teaching buildings, many laboratories, and several huge libraries.

As for the living area, it is of course indispensable, and it is completely self-proclaimed as a system, and it also implements a very strict militarized and closed management.

After all, it is a military enterprise, and it also produces the sharp weapon of Qingyun aerospace fighter. It is only the security team. There are thousands of people in the entire aerospace industry base, all of which are composed of outstanding veterans, and they are also fully armed. Such advanced security equipment, instruments, etc., even a mosquito flew in can know immediately.

At this time, in a factory building No. B001, Qin Yi was wearing a white coat and Liu Peiqiang, Lu Qingwei and others were studying the mass production of the Qingyun aerospace fighter.

In the aerospace industry base,

The workshop is divided into two types. The A-type workshop is used to manufacture large anti-gravity spacecraft, and the B-type workshop is used to manufacture small anti-gravity aircraft.

Now it is the B001 factory that is actually under construction and in use, which is used to produce Qingyun aerospace fighters.

The factory building is very large, dozens of meters high and several kilometers long.

The lights in the workshop are bright, and the incandescent lamps on the top of the workshop illuminate the place brightly. Even in the daytime, the lights here are always on.

A long assembly line extends from the head of the factory building to the end of the factory building. Above the assembly line, in some areas, there are groups of engineers and scientists in white clothes debugging and modifying the entire assembly line.

At the front end of the assembly line, the prototypes of several Qingyun aerospace fighters are quietly parked on the assembly line. On both sides of the assembly line, there are many kinds of machines, equipment, etc., and the undergraduate engineers who have studied for a few months are very Seriously learn to control the machine and so on.

"Our first production and assembly line has been basically debugged, and then we can almost achieve the goal of producing 100 aircraft per month and 1,000 Qingyun aerospace fighters per year."

Liu Peiqiang pointed to the assembly line in front of him and said.

This assembly line is actually an assembly line, which is specially responsible for assembling the Qingyun aerospace fighter. As for the core anti-gravity engine of the fighter, it is produced and assembled in another factory.

"For the production of our entire Qingyun aerospace fighter, we refer to automobile manufacturing, and we produce the core components ourselves. For other components, we can purchase all the outsourcing, but we can't purchase them, and we produce them ourselves."

"The core anti-gravity engine plant has almost been debugged and can be put into production soon. At that time, there will be a problem of excess production capacity."

"The order for the 300 Qingyun aerospace fighters above is expected to be completed by March 2022."

Liu Peiqiang is the general manager of the project, and he is very clear about all aspects of the Qingyun space fighter.

"Actually, if our production line is operated at full capacity, we can have an annual production capacity of 10,000 Qingyun aerospace fighters."

"But now it's a peaceful era, so we can't use that many fighter jets at all, and we can't sell to the global market. We can only reduce our production capacity to 1,000 aircraft per year."

Qin Yi listened carefully, and nodded after listening. For military products, Qin Yi had no plans to make much money. The orders from above were too few, and they could not be sold globally. It was destined that Galaxy Aerospace's military product project was for the sake of cooperation with the top. Do a good job of relationships and improve your presence.

What really makes money is the private anti-gravity spacecraft. Once the private anti-gravity spacecraft becomes popular, it will continue to replace the car and become a tool for people's daily travel and transportation.

That market is huge.

Globally, the annual production of cars exceeds 100 million, and the total number of cars in the world exceeds 1 billion. The domestic car ownership in Huaxia alone exceeds 300 million. It is conceivable that once private aircraft begin to become popular, this cake How huge would it be.

This is what Qin Yi likes, and it is what Qin Yi has been working hard for all the time.

"How about the core antigravity engine production line?"

Thinking of this, Qin Yi asked Liu Peiqiang.

"Our estimated output is to be able to produce 100,000 anti-gravity engines per year, but now all aspects are still in the trial operation stage. At most, we can only achieve an annual output of 10,000 anti-gravity engines."

"Of course, if we take the civilian route, the performance requirements of the anti-gravity engine can be reduced a lot, and our production capacity can be increased a lot."

Liu Peiqiang reported the data.

The Qingyun Sky Fighter has very high performance requirements and other aspects. As the core anti-gravity engine, its performance requirements are naturally also very demanding.

However, the requirements for private anti-gravity vehicles are much lower.

No matter in terms of speed, maneuverability or load, etc., private aircraft are naturally far inferior to military-industrial Qingyun aerospace fighters, and the corresponding requirements for core anti-gravity engines are much lower.

The cost is also correspondingly much lower.

The cost of a Qingyun aerospace fighter is hundreds of millions. The core anti-gravity engine requires a lot of rare metals, and the cost is high.

Ordinary is a private anti-gravity aircraft, because the requirements in various aspects are greatly reduced, and the rare metals used in the core anti-gravity engine are very few, and even some common materials can be used to replace them, and the cost is much lower.

The same large-scale anti-gravity spacecraft like 'Hou Yi' has a huge size, a large take-off weight, and it can fly in interstellar space, its core anti-gravity engine is even more expensive. More rare metals need to be used, and the cost of such an anti-gravity spacecraft is tens of billions.

The larger the anti-gravity engine, the more expensive it is, and they all show a linear upward trend.

"In terms of production, let's not care too much. Anyway, for now, the order we have obtained is only 300 Qingyun aerospace fighters. In terms of private anti-gravity aircraft, I estimate that it will not be launched until next year."

"So the key now is to train our team, sharpen a capable professional team, and cultivate this team as a seed, and continue to replicate and cultivate a larger team in the future."

"Focus on team building and quality assurance, and secondly on research speed."

Qin Yi thought about it and nodded.

The manufacture of anti-gravity aircraft is an extremely huge project. There are tens of thousands of large and small parts of a Qingyun aerospace fighter.

Most of the parts are purchased from outside. Galaxy Aerospace does not produce them at all. Galaxy Technology only produces the most important and core anti-gravity engines, control systems, mind control systems and assemblies.

As soon as some people see the assembly, they will think that the assembly is very untechnical. On the contrary, in the aspect of anti-gravity aircraft, assembly is also a really technical thing.

This is like a high-precision machine tool. If you disassemble an original machine tool imported from abroad and then reassemble it, it will be difficult for you to achieve the original accuracy. The reason is the same.

There is no technical content, the assembly must be very simple.

However, the assembly of the anti-gravity aircraft is related to the whole aircraft, and it is also a very technical process. It is impossible to outsource the assembly to Foxconn.

Taking the assembly of the Qingyun aerospace fighter, there are several very special assembly areas on the entire huge assembly line, including one assembly area. ten degrees.

At such a low temperature, the material will undergo thermal expansion and contraction. According to the different coefficients of thermal expansion and contraction of different materials, when assembled at low temperature, after returning to normal temperature, when thermal expansion and contraction are different, some parts of the assembly are assembled. , the link can achieve the effect you imagined, such as the simultaneous mosaic connection, assembled at low temperature, and the material expands at high temperature, the mosaic can be very perfect, leaving no gap.

So don't think that assembly is a work without technology. In the real high-tech industry, assembly is also a very skilled job.

PS: I heard that some Japanese car engines are assembled in the freezer, using the different coefficients of thermal expansion and contraction between different materials, low temperature assembly, after returning to normal temperature, the performance of the engine is very good Superior, I don't know if it's true or not, but I think it should be groundless.