Kurt Tank and Ante Pohlmann both nodded in agreement after hearing this. Fang Lang continued to speak to them:
"You two are both senior experts in aircraft. You must be familiar with the missiles that appeared in the later stages of the war!"
As Fang Lang spoke, he glanced at the furnishings in the office and found that there was no lounge area to sit down and meet guests. He couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed. There was not even a cup of tea available.
Ant Bolman was a very perceptive guy. Although he was listening to Fang Lang's words carefully, he still noticed Fang Lang's movements. When he saw Fang Lang swallowing his saliva, he realized that Fang Lang must be thirsty.
He quickly turned around, opened the office door, called out to the outside, and asked someone to bring a cup of tea.
Fang Lang waved his hands and said:
"I think what I'm going to say now may have a great impact on your future design direction. Why don't we just organize all the aircraft designers,
Let's get Mr. Horton together, find a meeting room, and discuss this issue.
By the way, let me also tell you another reason why I came here this time."
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Upon hearing this, Anter Bolman looked at Kurt Tank and nodded.
"No problem, boss. I'll arrange for someone to clean up the meeting room now. Professor Tan Ke, please help organize the colleagues in the design department. Let's gather in the meeting room together."
Kurt Tank nodded readily, said to the other party to wait a moment, then turned and went out, notifying everyone in the design studio outside to go to the conference room for a meeting.
After seeing both of them go out, Fang Lang didn't mind. He just continued to stand in front of the design drawing with his arms crossed and continued to observe other details of it.
Following the communication with Kurt Tank just now, Fang Lang couldn't help but apply the idea of adding a movable mechanism to the front of the wing that he had just thought of to the plane in front of him.
I just thought of the slimmed-down version of this aircraft, which is the MiG-15. As the first generation of jet fighter of the Soviet Union, which American jet fighter corresponds to it and can compete with it?
Soon a code name came into Fang Lang's mind, the F-86 jet fighter nicknamed Sabre.
What does this fighter look like? Thanks to the powerful memory brought to him by rebirth, the image of this fighter emerged in his mind little by little, and slowly the image of the entire fighter became completely three-dimensional.
Moreover, according to the slightly vague impression in my memory, these two fighters seem to have been developed with reference to a German swept-wing fighter project. Now it seems that the object of their reference is obviously the ta-183 in front of them.
If you ask Fang Lang, who is obsessed with appearance, which one is more beautiful between the MiG-15 and the F86, it goes without saying that he would definitely choose the F86. The reason why he thinks the F86 is more beautiful is because the big nostrils of the MiG-15 really don't conform to Fang Lang's aesthetic taste.
In fact, the air intake layouts of the two fighters are not much different. Both are located directly in front of the nose. Compared with the slightly rough MiG-15's wide air intake that almost occupies the entire nose, the F86 is obviously much more gentle.
As for why the F86's air intake is smaller and placed lower on the nose, the reason is very simple. Because an air search radar is installed at the nose, the air intake is moved down to become a jaw-type air intake, making room for the radar to be installed.
The MiG-15 does not have a radar device, so if we compare the avionics system alone, the F86 definitely has the advantage.
However, as a fighter jet, with machine guns as its main weapon, it is not enough to have an advantage in avionics alone when fighting within visual range.
The two fighters have their own advantages and disadvantages in terms of specific performance. First of all, in terms of weapons, the MiG-15 has three machine guns: one H-37 cannon and two HC-23KM cannons, which can carry 200 rounds of ammunition.
The first generation F86 was equipped with six Browning M2HB 12.7mm machine guns, and the bullets of the six machine guns would converge at one point 1,000 feet away from the nose of the aircraft.
Of course, it can carry 908 kg of bombs or 8 5-inch 127 mm unguided rockets. When it comes to the H type, it is changed to 4 20 mm caliber aircraft guns.
But in actual combat, the MiG-15's 37mm cannon can easily penetrate the F-86's aircraft armor, while the F86's 12.7mm machine gun obviously cannot cause fatal damage to the MiG-15.
Of course, some people will say that there are rockets on the F86, but the rockets of this period are unguided, which means that whether they can hit the target after being launched depends mainly on luck.
So, in comparison, the MiG-15 has an advantage in terms of weapons.
Secondly, in terms of maneuverability, the MiG-15 is not as good as the F86 in terms of horizontal hovering and dive acceleration. However, due to its high thrust-to-weight ratio and outstanding climbing performance, the MiG-15 has an overwhelming advantage over the F86 in vertical maneuverability.
Then, comparing the flight speed, the MiG-15 reaches a flight speed of 0.87-0.88 Mach, which can completely crush the F86's 0.78 Mach.
In general, these two jet fighters from the same school have their own advantages and disadvantages. In later actual combat, the exchange ratio between MiG-15 and F-86F was 1:1.17, which was basically a draw.
After gaining these insights, Fang Lang's first thought was whether he could combine the two aircraft to create a new fighter with its own characteristics and advantages.
He did it when he wanted to, and while the other two were outside convening a meeting, he picked up a pencil and a blank drawing paper from the table, spread them out on the desk, and began to simply draw the appearance of the MiG-15 and F86.
It is obviously impossible to fully reflect the appearance data of the two aircraft, but having a rough appearance can provide a good reference for the designers of your company.
The drawing time passed very quickly. Just when he finished drawing the MiG-15 drawing, Kurt Tank had gathered everyone together and walked into the office, ready to call Fang Lang to a meeting.
As soon as he entered the room, he found Fang Lang lying on his desk drawing a picture. This made him swallow back the words that were about to come out of his mouth, and his eyes were involuntarily attracted to the drawings on Fang Lang's desk.
With just one glance, he discovered that the blueprint drawn by Fang Lang was an improvement on his TA-183, and this aircraft had two long wing blades on its wings.
However, the entire body has been slimmed down, making it look much slimmer.
As a professional, he realized at a glance that this was a very excellent fighter, but he didn't know what its specific performance parameters would be.
After looking at it for a while, he couldn't help but cast his eyes on another drawing that Fang Lang was drawing. Obviously, both of these aircraft adopted the swept wing design.
However, the model Fang Lang was drawing did not have the wing blades protruding from the wing surface, and there was an obvious downward separation in the small section in front of the wing.
Moreover, this aircraft adopts a wing and tail layout that is different from its own ta-183 and the aircraft in the previous drawing. If the former model is a slimmed-down version of its own aircraft, the latter model can be regarded as a major modification to a certain extent.
The mid-wing was changed to a lower wing, and the height of the horizontal tail was also lowered, but it must be said that the designs of both aircraft are excellent.
This surprised Kurt Tank very much, and he looked at Fang Lang with fiery eyes.
Finally, after Fang Lang finished drawing the drawings of the two aircraft, he checked them carefully again. After finding no major defects, he marked the model numbers of the two aircraft in the upper right corner of the drawings.
This made Kurt Tank, who was watching from the side, a little confused, and he couldn't help but ask:
"MiG-15, F-86, are these the models you ordered for these two aircraft?"
Fang Lang, who was concentrating on checking the blueprints, was startled by the sudden voice beside him. He turned around and saw that it was Kurt Tank, who said unhappily:
"When did you come here? Why didn't you say anything?"
Kurt Tank touched his nose and said embarrassedly:
"I've been here for a while. I saw you were so serious about your drawing that I didn't want to disturb you."
After that, he pointed to the drawing on the table and asked:
"Boss, did you just design this?"
Looking at Kurt Tank who looked surprised, Fang Lang waved his hands and said:
"How could I have such ability? This is something I just thought of. When I went to the United States some time ago, I saw these two types of aircraft with swept wings in a confidential document of the US military.
I didn't think of it just now, but after you left, I looked at the drawings and recalled them carefully. I drew a diagram of the appearance based on my memory.
But this is just a rough outline I drew based on my own impression. The specific data such as the swept wing angle or the vertical tail angle are inaccurate.
Your design department can use it as a reference.”
Then he pointed to the MiG-15 blueprint and said:
"This jet fighter, code-named MiG-15, is the first generation of jet fighter designed and manufactured by the Soviet Mikoyan Design Bureau."
Then he pointed to the F-86 blueprint and said:
"This jet fighter, code-named F-86, was developed by North American Aviation for the U.S. Air Force. It is the first swept-wing jet fighter. If I am not mistaken, both of these fighters should have been inspired by your TA-183.
And I can tell you responsibly that both of these aircraft are excellent models, and if nothing goes wrong, both models should complete their maiden flights this year.”
After hearing Fang Lang's words, Kurt Tank did not fly into a rage as Fang Lang had expected, loudly cursing the Soviet Union and the United States for shameless plagiarism. Instead, he seemed very calm, staring at the drawings on the table without blinking.
He slowly asked:
"Boss, are you familiar with these two models?"
Fang Lang shook his head gently and said:
"I only have some basic understanding, such as the weapon systems of the two aircraft and their approximate performance, but I have no idea of the specific parameters."
Hearing this, Kurt Tank nodded seriously and said:
"Then please tell me about the general situation of the two aircraft you have learned about. We can also find some things we can learn from them."
Although Fang Lang didn't know much, the two aircraft models were actually still highly confidential. Even after the United States suffered a heavy loss at the hands of the MiG-15 in the subsequent Peninsula War, it tried every means to find out some information about the MiG-15, but failed.
It was not until two months after the end of the Korean Peninsula War that a MiG-15 from the north mistakenly flew into the south and was intercepted by the United States, and immediately sent back to the United States for research as if it had found a treasure. But this time was no longer of great significance.
Therefore, the situation that Fang Lang currently understands is actually far more important than he himself thought. The experience that Kurt Tank can draw from Fang Lang's description is unimaginable to Fang Lang.
As Fang Lang spoke, Kurt Tank took out his notebook and recorded everything bit by bit. All of this would greatly help his future design work.
The two of them chatted in the office for more than ten minutes without realizing it. Only after Fang Lang explained everything he knew did Kurt Tank close his notebook with a sense of unfulfilled desire.
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