Chapter 1361 C929's Beautiful First Flight

What is the difference between a test pilot and a pilot for a civil aircraft?

The main task of a pilot in an airline company is to fly, while for a test pilot, flying is only a small part of the job. A lot of other time, they also need to participate in the study of regulations, the formulation of test flight plans, and the verification of flight data.

A pilot must fly the plane smoothly and safely, while a test pilot must fly the plane to its limits. Although there is only one letter difference between the two, these are the two limits of aviation driving.

Pilots fly aircraft with mature designs, while test pilots fly aircraft that have not yet been finalized and need to fully verify the flight data under various extreme conditions. The danger is self-evident.

Just like shooting, for pilots, the closer they fly to the center of the target, the better their flying skills. For test pilots, sometimes the task is to fly outside the circle.

"Outside the circle" is the dangerous area.

For example, if the plane stalls, it is like "a hand holding you up, but suddenly that hand is gone", the plane will lose control and enter a spiral. If it cannot be corrected, the consequences will be disastrous. Pilots will never encounter this situation in their entire career, because there will be many alarms before the stall point, but for test pilots, this is a compulsory course. There are also minimum takeoff speed, minimum control speed, equipment failure simulation, etc. For the safety of passengers, these must be tested one by one.

For the civil aircraft industry, without a mature test flight team, the large aircraft development chain is incomplete.

It is the mission of the test flight academy to buckle an important link in the industrial chain.

In the test flight academy, aerodynamics, aircraft performance, flight mechanics, flight control system, structural integrity, engine theory, aircraft system theory, etc. are only basic theoretical training courses.

An excellent civil aircraft test pilot needs to master a lot of theoretical knowledge and receive a lot of training.

An excellent civil aircraft test pilot must be an excellent captain, but an excellent captain is not necessarily an excellent civil aircraft test pilot.

To become a test pilot, you must not only have a firm belief and love for the cause of domestic large aircraft, but also have good psychological quality, physical quality and superb driving skills, as well as the spirit of retreating and facing difficulties.

That is why the test flight academy has extremely strict requirements for the selection and training of test pilots.

For example, the C919 large passenger aircraft project has hundreds of test flight subjects, many of which are difficult and high-risk flights!

As the most powerful test flight academy in China today, it has the most test pilots, the strongest team, and the best treatment.

This is true for both military and civil test pilots.

Liu Tao watched the first flight crew enter the cockpit with respect, because every test pilot is a brave man of mankind.

The success of an aircraft is absolutely inseparable from the test pilots' fighting for their lives, which is truly hovering between life and death.

In the entire Panshan Group system, the treatment between test pilots and pilots is generally much higher than that of pilots.

This is because of the special nature and importance of test pilots!

Although C929 is just an advanced model of C919, many aspects are the same, but as a brand-new aircraft, no one knows what hidden dangers exist before flying. Perhaps a hidden danger is enough to destroy the entire aircraft and kill people.

Even if Panshan Group has established a strict and complete quality system from the beginning to fully control the quality of products, after all, products are produced by people, and errors are inevitable. All systems are implemented by people. No matter how well they are implemented, they can only reduce the danger, but cannot eliminate the hidden dangers.

Under the eyes of everyone's expectations and concerns, after a period of taxiing, the huge C929 aircraft began to rise, the front wheels left the ground, and then slowly rose, and the last rear wheels also left the ground.

Take-off, very smooth!

Just like a mature model.

Many people couldn't help but applaud and cheer.

At this step, the plane took off smoothly, which means that the first flight is halfway completed.

The next step is to see if it can land smoothly.

About half an hour later, the C929 finally appeared in everyone's sight. The C929 kept descending in altitude, and then landed on the runway very gracefully and taxied on the runway. After taxiing for a distance, the speed of the C929 was very slow, and the crew stopped the C929 on the apron.

At this moment, everyone finally applauded and cheered.

When the five crew members got off the plane, they were greeted by applause and flowers.

Even Liu Tao couldn't help but applaud.

Because this time the C929's maiden flight was completed very beautifully.

The head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China couldn't help but say happily: "Leader, with the C929, we don't need to import Boeing or Airbus in ten years. Our domestically produced large aircraft are enough to meet our air transport needs!"

Liu Tao smiled and didn't say much.

By now, China has long been the largest market for civil aviation passenger aircraft. With the rapid development of China's civil aviation, more and more people will choose to travel by plane, which has also led to a rapid increase in China's passenger aircraft demand.

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This kind of growth is difficult to meet even for the passenger planes produced by China itself.

Of course, now, for regional and domestic trunk aircraft, there is no need to import Boeing and Airbus aircraft. China's own production is sufficient to meet the needs. The aircraft imported from Boeing and Airbus are mostly intercontinental flights.

The last time China imported Boeing and Airbus medium-range aircraft was because it was to obtain the European airworthiness certificate and the North American airworthiness certificate for C919.

This is also a kind of transaction. Europe and the United States get an order, which is equivalent to a bribe. Then C919 obtains the European airworthiness certificate and the North American airworthiness certificate, and the aircraft can fly to Europe and North America.

In the current situation, C929 will also adopt the same strategy, that is, spend money to buy Boeing and Airbus aircraft, and then exchange them for the North American airworthiness certificate and the European airworthiness certificate, so that intercontinental flights can fly to Europe and the United States.

This is the first-mover advantage.

However, it will not be long before this situation will be gone forever!

"Your Civil Aviation Administration should grasp the overall situation and let each civil aviation company know the general situation and support domestic aircraft more!" Liu Tao said.

Liu Tao, this is a warning!

Not long ago, a domestic civil aviation company spent a high price to buy ten Boeing 737s, which is simply outrageous.

Now, Boeing 737 is not an advanced product, and the price is even higher than the international market price.

The head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China felt nervous and said quickly: "Please rest assured, we will definitely grasp the overall situation and never let a bad apple spoil the whole pot of porridge!"

The head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China knew what Liu Tao meant, which made him very angry. The people under him were simply unorganized and undisciplined!

Although the Civil Aviation Administration of China has never issued any documents or said anything in public meetings, some hints have never stopped, but I didn't expect that someone would still commit crimes against the wind. (End of this chapter)