Chapter 235 Charter Flight
September 1st is close to the start of the semester for most colleges and universities across the country.
For college students in Xinyuan, they all arrived at school in advance and then gathered at Xinyuan's Class B base.
For most people, they are not unfamiliar with this place, but since the flight school moved to Hushan Airport, few people can come here.
Nearly two kilometers away from the base, the students on the bus can see two huge aircraft on the airport in the distance.
The first two aircraft of the An-1250, B4043 and B4143, were parked together at the airport. From a distance, they looked like two small hills, showing their figures exaggeratedly.
The students on the bus are basically students of the flight school. Of course, they have seen these two aircraft more than once, but they have never seen them in the air.
Every time the An-1250 takes off, the surrounding airspace must be cleared. If any aircraft is blind and approaches to eat the wake of the An-1250, it will be blown off course if it is lucky, and it will stall and fall directly if it is unlucky. This is no joke.
More than 70 buses drove into the airport, and then the trainees who had undergone paramilitary training assembled into a large team very smoothly, and then, under the guidance of the base staff, they began to enter the belly of this giant beast through the wide nose of the An-1250.
These two An-1250s have been specially modified and will be used to transport them to Qiongzhou, where they will stay for two days to watch the two launches of the Xinyuan-2 rocket as a welcome ceremony for the new students and the old students.
The previous way was to take a plane, and two flights were used to transport all at once.
The internal cargo hold of the An-1250 is 7.5 meters wide, 6.9 meters high, and 100 meters long.
Its cabin floor and bulkhead are evenly distributed with screw holes for fixing when transporting cargo, which can be used just right.
The cabin floor is arranged with 72 rows of seats in a layout of 3 on each side and 4 in the middle. A partition is added in the middle of the cargo hold, and another 72 rows are arranged, with up to 1,440 seats on two floors.
The seats are all simple steel tube tarpaulins, and the partitions are just a layer of composite board. The installation took one day and one night. With the ready-made fixing screw holes, the installation and disassembly are very fast.
The two planes have a total of 2,880 seats, and the students and related teachers add up to more than 2,700 people, which can be transported at one time.
There are only simple toilets on the plane, and there are no flight attendants, but the flight time is only more than two hours, so you can get through it after a while.
Xinyuan was very low-key in this student flight operation. It only disclosed to the outside that it chartered a plane to transport people, but it did not dare to say that it would use a transport plane to transport more than 1,000 people, otherwise it would be afraid of parents protesting in groups.
The students didn't care. They had all entered the flight school. Except for the freshmen, they basically had the primary training aircraft flight qualification certificate. They didn't feel any problem at all about squeezing into the belly of this giant beast, but were extremely excited.
For freshmen, it was similar. Due to the surge in the scores of majors cooperating with Xinyuan Company, the number of admissions also dropped significantly, but the enrollment experience told them that it was really worth it!
What kind of school-enterprise cooperation can take you to see the big rocket on a transport plane before school starts? And they were all made by themselves, so cool.
Although online communication was prohibited during the flight, the cabin was still in a mess. It took more than half an hour to get more than a thousand people in place.
As for the great General Lin, he will also go to Qiongzhou with them, but he will take his own ARJ21 (ultimate enhanced version) and will not squeeze into the An-1250.
In order to protect the lives and breathing of more than a thousand people, the two aircraft deliberately strengthened the air circulation system and ventilated at maximum power throughout the journey, making the cargo hold of the An-1250, which is famous for its quietness and stability, full of noise. It is still a bit painful to squeeze in.
After more than half a year of construction, the three axial compartments of the Fram space station were finally built.
These compartments directly refreshed the new height of human aerospace technology.
The giant compartments with a diameter of 14 meters, two of which have a mass of 100 tons, directly surpassed the 70-ton mass of the Aramco "Sky" laboratory in the last century, becoming the largest single compartment.
Needless to say, its manufacturing difficulty is not easy to explain. The most important thing is that it carries many equipment. As the core of the space station, it cannot be inhabited when the Fram rotates and generates gravity, but it has to take on the control and propulsion of the entire space station, and the cost is far beyond expectations.
When Androv first envisioned it, he thought the cost would be 80 million to 100 million, but the actual manufacturing price is - 390 million.
It exceeded 300 million, but most of it was the research funds needed for the breakthrough of giant cabin technology. In addition, some instruments were purchased from outside, and each one cost tens of millions. Moreover, the production volume was small, and it was basically a customized product, so the price was naturally expensive.
And many purchased equipment had to wait, otherwise the manufacturing of the cabin alone would be very fast.
Fortunately, the control computer uses thousands of X32035 chips, and the potential of SC09 is almost maximized. It is definitely the most powerful flight computer in space.
This saves a lot of money. Otherwise, the price of thousands of radiation-resistant and anti-interference aerospace-grade chips that can be used in deep space environments would be so expensive.
With such a large mass and in a vacuum, the center of gravity of the Fram must be constantly changing and not coinciding with its center of gravity when it rotates. The only thing the powerful SC09 can do is use the Hall thrusters on the future service module to make corrections constantly to avoid yaw.
These three axial modules: the node module, the navigation module, and the functional module, have a mass of 220 tons when launched, which is similar to the "Hilla" space station, making the mass of the manned space stations currently in orbit: Tiangong, Hilla, ISS, and Qianjin exceed 1,000 tons.
The largest is still the 400 tons of ISS, but basically 80% of the mass of the remaining three is manufactured by Xinyuan Company, which has surpassed ISS.
The three modules were transported to Qiongzhou a week ago and directly installed on two Xinyuan-3s.
Among them, the navigation module and the node module were installed on the Xinyuan-3 that flew together for the first time, but they were not docked and fixed. Instead, they were fixed to the rocket through a sturdy truss of more than ten tons, and then released for docking when they reached the orbit.
Otherwise, the vibration during the rocket launch may damage the connection. Anyway, the near-Earth orbit capacity of Xinyuan-3 is 247 tons, and these two modules plus the truss are only more than 130 tons, which is a piece of cake.
The other rocket, Xinyuan-2, was launched for the first time, and it was to carry an expensive functional cabin. It was unique in the world...
The two rockets were launched on September 2 and 3 respectively, and the announcement was made on August 30.
Although the Fram space station plan had been announced to the public long ago, it still caused a sensation that the cabin was launched so quickly a few months later.
NACA was still immersed in the joy of the three consecutive defeats of China's aerospace industry some time ago, and then saw the news that the three cabins that matched the data on the PPT were about to be launched.
On September 1, the general assembly building at the No. 4 workstation of the Qiongzhou launch site was briefly opened and photographed. The super-large fairing on the Xinyuan-3 rocket, which was 3 meters wider than the diameter of the rocket body, could not be faked, and it was obviously about to be launched.
Claire's short-lived good mood ended again.
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