Chapter 302: Being a Teacher
"Thank you, Brother Lu, for teaching me!" Lu Xiao had said this, and any further refusal would have seemed hypocritical or timid. Wu Tong stopped refusing and turned to the point.
This was her first time to be the chief designer of a fighter jet. In this regard, she needed to learn more from Lu Xiao, her guide. In terms of learning, Wu Tong always listened to others' advice. She didn't mind learning more, such as team control and R&D experience of large projects. As long as others were willing to teach with their strengths, Wu Tong was willing to learn with an open mind.
Lu Xiao smiled and said, "No problem. I will tell you everything I know. Let's have a pleasant cooperation!" Wu Tong is in charge of core research and development, and he is in charge of monitoring the progress. With these two swords combined, they will surely be invincible and create the world's most powerful carrier-based aircraft!
"It's a pleasure working with you!" She and Brother Lu had always had a pleasant collaboration.
"The higher-ups have already allocated research funds to the J-35 project team!"
"Brother Lu, you should arrange the allocation of funds!" After the initial study, Wu Tong decided to leave the overall planning to Lu Xiao, who was more adept at it, and she would learn from him first.
"Okay, I'll report to you about the large amount of money! I'll transfer the initial material research and development funds to the cross-institute account first, and I'll wait for your good news on the material upgrade!" Lu Xiao had also worked as a deputy before, so he quickly got into the groove. Wu Tong's recent focus has been on material upgrades and engine research and development upgrades, and Lu Xiao took over the initial planning without hesitation.
Led by Wu Tong, the team has completed all the R&D and design. It is just a material upgrade plan that needs experimental verification. Naturally, there are no major problems. The two project teams are running in parallel. With the accumulation of time, they can get two-way results in one or two days, and then spend several more days repeating the preparation to verify the fine-tuning process... The implementation is very smooth.
The results one by one shocked almost all the participants in the experiment to the point of numbness. Lin Yanan and Li Yungui, the new substitutes to the core team, were even more amazed.
Since when did scientific research become so easy? They just tried and failed, tried and failed again! However, for Mr. Wu, it was as if the answer to the question was already known. He just had to follow the steps and as long as there were no operational errors, the results were basically beyond expectations.
One of them had performed outstandingly among the researchers in Mr. Cheng's team before, and was as capable as any man. The other was recommended by Zhang Shaoming, a capable student he had taught in recent years. They also entered the institute after its establishment and have been rooted in the ordinary team for several months. They have enough experience and were noticed by Mr. Cheng, who then reported them to Wu Tong, who screened and tested them and allowed them to become new members of the core team.
The candidate team members recommended by all parties have basically entered the institute. Most of them are from the disciples of Mr. Cheng or his old friends. The old man rarely speaks, so all those who have a friendship with Mr. Cheng or have been taught by him have been carefully screened and recommended. After multiple checks by the security department, those who can enter the institute are all reliable enough candidates.
Tao Ran and others have already achieved their own results, and have widened the gap between themselves and ordinary researchers. After entering the institute, these people were not immediately included in the core team. They are like seeds, nurtured in the big environment, sprouting and breaking through the soil. Only those with outstanding performance can enter the core team. This is an inevitable process.
Although Wu Tong's core team is small in number, they are elite and have a reserve base at the lower level of the research institute, so they are not in a hurry to expand.
Within twenty days, under the leadership of Wu Tong, the main materials needed for aircraft engines had completed the overall material preparation experiments and process cycle confirmation.
Data records, process records, core ratios... a lot of important information was gathered into a matchbox-sized USB flash drive, carefully placed in a titanium alloy safe, and directly buckled on the wrist of the leader who came to pick up the materials.
"Mr. Wu, the escort personnel are in place and can set off at any time!" As Wu Tong gradually became more established, Cai Yi and others spontaneously changed their way of addressing him to honorifics.
After the improvement of materials is completed, these process data need to be sent to Factory 114 for production and processing. In Cai Yi's hand, there is also an encrypted safe, which contains the most core research and development data of WS-B1, which is top secret!
She went to the 614th Institute at the same time. General Manager Yang Wei had been looking forward to it for a long time. The preliminary design drawings of the variable cycle engine WS-B1 had been escorted to the 614th Institute by the security department.
However, even after thoroughly understanding the design theory, they still have many difficult and confusing issues, and they urgently need personal guidance from Wu Tong, the R&D creator. At the same time, if WS-B1 is to achieve expectations, Wu Tong also needs to personally supervise improvements and optimize material matching.
"Mr. Wu, we finally got you here!" At a military airport in Chang'an, as soon as Wu Tong stepped off the special plane, Yang Wei immediately came up to him with a beaming smile.
"Teacher Yang, you can just call me by my name. It's nice to see you again!" Wu Tong shook hands with Mr. Yang and greeted him. It can be said that her basic knowledge of aero-engines was based on Mr. Yang's WS-15 research and development materials. Although they were not in the official teacher-student relationship, Wu Tong respected Mr. Yang as her instructor from the bottom of her heart.
"I'll take you to see where we're staying first, and then we'll have a simple meal!" Yang Wei said warmly.
They thought that Wu Tong had come from afar to teach them and bring them new technologies and new progress, so they had to provide a good reception first. On the first day of landing, no matter how anxious they were, they couldn't immediately ask Wu Tong to answer their questions, and they had to let Wu Tong rest.
"Teacher Yang, there's no rush. It's still early. Let's go to the research institute first and talk about the details!" Accommodation and meals. For Wu Tong, having a place to rest and decent meals is enough. She is not picky about these. She just needs Mr. Yang to arrange someone and Sister An to help bring the luggage to her residence. Since she has arrived at Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation, she will directly start discussing the research and development of WS-B1.
Those formalities can be put aside for now. As for the J-35 project, who says there is no requirement on how long it should be completed? However, Wu Tong is used to high efficiency in research and development. Now it is mid-November. If possible, she hopes to complete this research and development task before the New Year. On the one hand, it is the New Year, and she can give a gift to the motherland.
The second is to fulfill my small wish of returning home safely and spending the New Year reunion with my family.
Last year, she spent the New Year in the project team. Although there was nothing wrong with it, it was hard for her parents to travel thousands of miles, through Qinzhou and Xizhou, to accompany her to celebrate the New Year. It was her worry that made her family worry!
"Okay, let's go now!" Wu Tong was devoted to R&D, so Yang Wei would not hold him back. He was also crazy about R&D, and he would get excited when he talked about R&D progress. Immediately, Wu Tong got in the car and headed straight to the 614th Institute.
Following General Manager Yang into Institute 614, Wu Tong noted down the location of the institute as he introduced the institute's simple layout along the way.
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