Chapter 196 (2/2)

”Mr. Du! In fact, this UAV was not developed by our 969 group, but manufactured by the next Mr. Wang and his company. Besides electronic components, all other things of this UAV are designed and manufactured by themselves, including a series of core equipment such as the engine of this UAV!” Chief engineer Lin smiled and said to President Du.

”What! Chief engineer Lin! You're not kidding! This UAV is not owned by your company, but by President Wang and Tiangong technology. Besides electronic components, other UAVs are developed and produced by themselves, including engines!” Du Haili couldn't help shouting after hearing chief engineer Lin's words.

Because chief engineer Lin's words really surprised him. Even the engine was made by themselves. You know, this is the engine of a large UAV!

According to the large-scale jet UAV developed by previous official units, the engines used are basically manned jet aircraft engines

In other words, the engine used on the UAV can also be used on a real manned aircraft, which is what shocked him most.

After all, as an aircraft manufacturer, he is very aware of the difficulty of manufacturing aeroengines. In fact, the helicopter they are preparing to test fly has failed several previous test flights. The most important reason is also on the engine.

In fact, at the beginning, when they designed the aircraft, they also prepared their own engine. Of course, they did not have the ability to develop a real turboshaft aeroengine, but prepared to use a piston engine as the power of the helicopter.

But their company completely ignored the difficulty of developing aeroengines, even the piston engines used in helicopters.

Therefore, when their helicopter was successfully designed and ready for manufacture, they found that the piston aeroengine they developed was still at the beginning of the project, there was no progress at all, and there were many difficulties. It was impossible to develop it for a while.

Therefore, in the case of no way, their company can only turn to other domestic engine production companies to buy their products to make their own helicopters.

However, even so, when they built the helicopter and began to test fly, they found that even if they had used the products produced by domestic mature engine companies, there were many problems.

At the same time, the performance of the aircraft can not meet the requirements of their design, which makes them very upset.

You know, since the aircraft was manufactured, it has gone through more than ten test flights, but more than ten test flights ended in failure. At the last test flight, it was due to the engine that almost destroyed the aircraft and killed people.

It is for this reason that they stopped using the engine immediately after the last test flight, and instead purchased the piston aeroengine at a high price from foreign manufacturers.

Of course, their company has not stopped the engine R & D, and now continues to invest a lot of money, manpower and material resources, but the progress of R & D is still very slow.

It is precisely because of this that they know more about the difficulty of developing an aeroengine, even piston type, than other private enterprises.

However, in front of him, Tiangong technology, which he had never heard of, successfully developed a jet aeroengine, which didn't surprise him!