An aircraft engine is a highly complex and sophisticated thermal machine, the heart of an aircraft, and its value accounts for 20%-30% of the total value of the entire aircraft. Blades are a special component in aircraft engines, numerous, complex in shape, demanding, and difficult to process, making them a key component in engine production.

Thrust-to-weight ratio is an important technical indicator for measuring engine performance. Given that the current achievable gas temperature in front of the turbine is higher than the load-bearing temperature of the turbine blades, the use of high-performance blade materials can increase the turbine inlet temperature, allowing the aircraft engine to obtain greater thrust without changing its weight, thereby improving the thrust-to-weight ratio.

Relevant research shows that for every 100°C increase in turbine inlet temperature, the thrust-to-weight ratio of an aircraft engine can be increased by about 10%.

"It is said that the average turbine inlet temperature of existing engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio that barely reaches 10 reaches 1600°C. Many future plans predict that the turbine inlet temperature of the new generation of engines is expected to reach around 1800°C." Cheng Huanan's voice was a little erratic with excitement.

"Our new T5 material can withstand high temperatures of 2400°C, directly surpassing the 2,000°C threshold!"

Academician Xie's emotions were equally surging. Having worked with materials for a lifetime, they understood very well what this data represented.

In other words, if their fighter jet engines use this new material, and match it with the new T4 titanium-aluminum alloy fuselage material that is much lighter than before, the combined effect will really achieve one plus one equals N, allowing their fighter jet thrust-to-weight ratio to leap forward, leaving the world's general level behind and making a significant step towards doubling.

What kind of concept is this? This is an unimaginable concept!

"Wu Tong, the organization should give you a great credit!" A fuselage material with the widest use, a blade material with the highest performance requirements, two-pronged preparation, optimizing the direction of engine improvement, and assisting in perfecting the aircraft design... Wu Tong has brought a leap-forward miracle of progress to China Airlines.

"It's thanks to Academician Xie's good guidance, and it's also the teacher who has been busy and made perfect preparations. I just did some design and time follow-up work!" Wu Tong shook her head. Apart from deducing and designing material models and arranging experiments with the teacher, she really didn't do much else and couldn't take credit for it.

However, she was still happy that the physical material reached the value she expected.

"Fortunately, everything went smoothly in the experiment. Teacher, Academician Xie, you have been busy all day, you should take a break. We will repeat the preparation and verification process tomorrow, and then we will put these blades into a truly extreme environment for further verification!" The materials that will serve the Chinese Eagle cannot be sloppy in the slightest, and must be tempered thousands of times. It is not surprising that they must be tested thousands of times. Every item must be extremely precise to be responsible to the people and the pilots.

"I'll sort out and deduce the preparation process again. I've finally lived up to your expectations!"

Wu Tong finally had time to check the time. It was already late at night. They had eaten lunch and dinner in the laboratory. Everyone's minds were focused on the experiment.

"Haha... This should be an unexpected surprise. You are all great contributors. Come on, I have prepared a midnight snack for you. Eat your fill first, and then I will arrange for someone to send you back to rest!" Zheng Hongming, who was in charge of confidentiality supervision and rushed over urgently after receiving the notice after the materials were produced, greeted them with a smile.

He rushed over in a hurry and just caught up with the final test of the materials. The superior performance data was so good that even someone like him who only had a little understanding of the materials could feel its excellence, and he was also excited.

"That's great! Xiao Zheng, you are the most attentive! Oh, there are also egg tarts and grilled wings, Wu Tong, these are what you young people like, you should eat more! The biggest contribution to the success of this project belongs to you. Without your deduction and design, our assistance will be of no avail!" Old Cheng waved his hand and smiled at Academician Xie.

Young people generally need a bit of humility, but Wu Tong really doesn't need to be. He can be as flamboyant as he wants, it doesn't matter at all. If they could have achieved such great things at Wu Tong's age, the world wouldn't have been able to accommodate them!

"Your teacher is right, being too modest is a form of pride, Wu Tong!" Academician Xie joked in agreement.

"Yes, yes, my God, you have to leave some way for us. Let us be humble!" Young experimenters such as Ruan Chengxu and Xiao Lu responded with a smile, and the whole lounge suddenly burst into laughter.

The experiment was an unprecedented success, and it would not be difficult to repeat the preparation. Everyone was in a relaxed and happy mood. Even if they had stayed up late into the night again, they were still as energized as if they had been injected with chicken blood and did not feel tired at all.

After chatting and laughing, everyone finished the midnight snack prepared by Zheng Hongming. Wu Tong sorted out the final data statistics and encrypted them for storage.

After the others finished tidying up the lab, they all went back to rest. With Cheng Lao's coordination, the auxiliary lab staff, who had signed confidentiality agreements, had quietly moved to the adjacent dormitories.

Zheng Hongming also arranged for someone to escort Wu Tong back to the dormitory. In just a few days, Wu Tong's importance to him had grown day by day.

Wu Tong has already informed Peking University that they are adjusting his dormitory, and he is expected to move to the faculty apartment on campus in the next two days. The single dormitories in Shaoyuan are mostly inhabited by overseas students, so they are relatively messy and not very safe from the perspective of confidentiality.

The day after the T4 new alloy material came out, which was the day the project was approved, Wu Tong's dormitory on campus and his residence in Yanyuan were carefully checked for risks by the confidentiality team in the guise of cleaners, after obtaining Wu Tong's consent.

As Wu Tong demonstrated her increasing personal value, her protection arrangements also increased. Now, Wu Tong's protection level was almost on par with Cheng Lao's.

Of course, this does not mean that Wu Tong’s benefits will catch up with those of an academician in a short period of time.

After all, the experts who can be selected into this level are basically top scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the country and fought for the country. They may not be as outstanding as Wu Tong for a while, but they have also contributed everything they have on the road of national development.

It's just that because Wu Tong is now leading a major national project, is responsible for the research and development and production of two top-secret materials, and has access to extremely high-level confidential information, security forces are given top priority.

Even so, Wu Tong has now been included on the national key list, making it a key protected species. Especially with the success of the T5 single-crystal nickel-iron alloy blade material, Wu Tong's importance is expected to rise even higher!