Then, Wang Bin and Yu Pingping sat in chief engineer Lin''s office for a while. When chief engineer Lin finished what he was doing, everyone got on the bus again and headed for the test flight field of their 969 group in the province.
Although the 969 group is a military industrial group mainly manufacturing land combat equipment, this does not mean that the 969 group does not develop and produce air combat units. On the contrary, the 969 group also has R & D projects for air units. However, compared with those professional aircraft R & D units, the aircraft developed by their 969 group is much faster, and the air combat units developed are basically unmanned aircraft, such as various types of UAVs.
Even the branch of 969 group in Wang Bin''s province also has an aircraft R & D department. At the same time, there is also a test flight site for their group in the province.
Soon, led by chief engineer Lin, Wang Bin and his team drove to a test flight field in the suburbs, which is more than ten kilometers away from the sea.
When the car entered the test flight field, Wang Bin found that they were not the only ones in the test flight field of their 969 group. In addition to them, there were many people from five or six teams who also carried out test flights in the test flight field. According to their clothes, these people were neither official units nor chief engineer Lin''s 969 group.
Obviously, these people are the R & D and flight test teams of some private teams and unofficial companies, which makes Wang Bin a little confused. Maybe they see Wang Bin''s expression. Chief engineer Lin explained: "Mr. Wang! Although it is said that this test field belongs to our 969 group, because our group does not have many projects in aviation and aircraft, it is difficult to come to carry out aircraft test flights several times a year. However, compared with Mr. Wang, you can see the area of this test field. At the same time, this test field is also very complete in terms of various test flights and other necessary equipment.
Therefore, it is not a way to leave him empty. After all, not to mention anything else, just the maintenance of equipment and site, our group needs to spend a lot of money every year. Therefore, the superior of our company decided to open this test flight field to some companies and private teams in the society.
In this way, not only will the salaries of the personnel in the test field be available, so there is no need to ask the company for money, but also the maintenance costs of the site and equipment will be enough every year, and even some savings can be made every year. "
After listening to chief engineer Lin''s words, Wang Bin nodded and then turned his head to the test flight field. According to their dress and equipment, Wang Bin judged that two of the teams conducting the aircraft test flight should be the kind without a company, or even just a student team, because of the flight they test The walkers are only micro four rotor UAVs, that is, UAVs for close-up aerial photography and other purposes.
According to the size of these rotorcraft, the flight range of these rotorcraft will never exceed two kilometers, and the flight altitude will never exceed 500 meters, or even 100 meters.
However, there is one thing that the UAVs of the two student teams cannot be compared with other teams, that is, the UAVs of the three teams are very excellent and fashionable, and even there are all kinds of LED lights on some rotorcraft.
In the test flight field, except for the two student teams, the remaining three teams are basically medium and large UAVs. At the same time, except that one team is testing a large eight rotor UAV, the other two teams are testing fixed wing propeller UAVs. According to the size of these UAVs, these UAVs should be Military UAV, which surprised Wang Bin.
But then he understood that, after all, there are many domestic UAV manufacturers. In addition to the official UAV manufacturing companies, there are many private UAV manufacturers, and even some have made a certain reputation in the world. The UAVs they produce, and the national restrictions on this aspect are not great. In addition, Wang Bin''s position The province is a large province of economy, industry, science and technology in the south of China. Naturally, there are many UAV production and sales enterprises in the province. Therefore, it is normal to see these people flying test here.
After all, they are the only test field in the provincial capital.
"Mr. Wang! Let''s go to runway 3 for test flight!" when Wang Bin looked at these teams, chief engineer Lin went to communicate with the person in charge here for a while and came back to talk to Wang Bin.
Wang Bin nodded and followed chief engineer Lin to runway 3 of the test flight field.
After arriving at runway 3, Wang Bin took a casual look. He found that the total length of runway 3 should be at least more than one kilometer, which is enough for the UAV they developed.
After all, according to Wang Bin''s design data, although their UAV is not comparable to ordinary UAVs in terms of size and quality, due to the use of jet power, the takeoff distance is not long. Even when it is full of oil and full load, it only needs a taxiing distance of about 500 meters.
Then, Yu Pingping, chief engineer of Wang Bin Heping, and others began to use professional equipment to unload the UAV on the truck. What he didn''t know was that when they began to unload the UAV, others in the test flight field stopped their test flight work and all looked at Wang Bin and them.
After all, the equipment used by Wang Bin to unload the UAV is all kinds of large professional equipment in the test flight field. In addition, the length of Wang Bin''s van is not small. Only the length of the container is up to 20 meters. Therefore, they know that the aircraft Wang Bin wants to test fly this time is certainly not small, In addition, chief engineer Lin is still wearing the work clothes of their 969 group, which is more attractive. After all, this is one of the largest military enterprises in China! Even if it is a branch of at least 969 group in the province, they are looking forward to it.
However, although these people have turned their eyes to this side, they did not use mobile phones to shoot Wang Bin, because they are very clear about the rules in the test flight field and know the danger of doing so.
Soon Wang Bin and they unloaded the UAV.
When the UAV was unloaded and placed on the takeoff runway, everyone present was stunned by the appearance of the UAV. All of them, including chief engineer Lin, stared at the UAV in front of them.
Because the UAV in front of them is really beautiful. It has a black body with glass luster, a sharp nose, a streamlined fuselage with stealth design, and a tail like a manned aircraft. In addition, there is no exposed screw, rivet, etc. on the UAV, the whole aircraft looks extremely beautiful, Even if we compare the most advanced drone of the bald eagle with it, its appearance is definitely not as good as the one in front of us, even if the main wing of the drone has not been installed at this time.