In the mid-1920s, the Soviet Union's country was still mainly agricultural, and most of the people in the country were farmers.
The situation of the citizens on the Chinese side is almost the same.
Engineers, technicians in various industries, as well as scientists, chemists, and physicists are there, but the number is not very large and only accounts for a small part of the country.
If you want to compare with the industrial development of Western Europe and the United States, it is incomparable.
Especially in aircraft manufacturing, all related infrastructure, such as non-ferrous metals, carburetors, electronic equipment, and ball bearings, are not available.
Even the raw materials for making airplanes, such as rubber, aluminum, and copper, need to be imported from abroad.
Therefore, the Soviet aviation industry can be said to have been built from scratch.
The time when it started was during the short period of more than 20 years from the October Revolution to the Second World War.
The Soviet aviation force also went from nothing to becoming the largest flying force in the world, and even produced some outstanding fighters and bombers.
However, during this period of development, the development of the Soviet aviation force also encountered many problems that needed to be solved.
For example, in order to speed up the formation of the aviation force at the beginning, they used cheap aircraft manufacturing technology and unfinished raw materials to develop and produce aircraft.
Moreover, when the Soviet aviation industry was in its infancy, there was a severe shortage of various related technologies for developing aircraft, scientific research talents, aircraft technology equipment, and industrial systems.
For example, the design and manufacturing of aircraft engines, the manufacturing of radios, the manufacturing of electronic equipment, and even precision mold manufacturing are problems.
Finally, even aluminum and magnesium, the most important raw materials for aircraft manufacturing, were in short supply in Soviet aircraft manufacturing factories, so in order to solve this problem, they used plywood, wood, and crude steel to replace aluminum and magnesium.
The most important raw materials are used to crudely manufacture their domestic aircraft.
The consequence of this is that the weight of the fuselage is particularly increased, so in order to solve this problem, the Soviet aircraft factory also adopted a more powerful aircraft engine to assemble the aircraft.
However, the Soviet army's simple process and low-tech method of manufacturing aircraft also allowed them to greatly reduce their manpower, material and financial resources.
At the very least, the power, raw materials, and manpower consumed are many times less than those of the German, Western European, and American armies.
And it can also carry out mass production and manufacturing.
The most important point is that the Soviet army was able to use such a simple technology to manufacture aircraft processes. In the late war, it was able to develop and produce a series of relatively excellent aircraft, such as the Yak-38 fighter, the Yak-9 fighter, and the La-7 fighter.
, and defending the Eagle IL-2 fighter jet.
Among these fighter jets, Zhou Wenhua was relatively familiar with them, especially the wooden "Soviet War Eagle" Yak-9 fighter jet, which almost completely suppressed the German Air Force and became the Soviet fighter jet with the largest production volume during that period.
However, Soviet fighter jets are famous for their mid- and low-altitude combat in air combat. For high-altitude combat, they do not have this ability. It is their wooden manufacturing shortcomings.
As for the training of Soviet pilots, before the mid-1930s, it was all conducted in flying clubs.
The funding sources of these flying clubs mainly come from donations from the main flight members, and organizations such as the Soviet Army’s semi-official organization Defense Aviation Support Society Flight School.
The training time of these early Soviet pilots was basically in their leisure time after work, rather than full-time time like organized training during the war.
So before Zhou Wenhua arrived at the gate of Songhu Aviation Factory, he was thinking in his mind about how to learn these simple aircraft manufacturing processes and technologies of the Soviet Army and start from scratch.
While Zhou Wenhua was thinking about these things, his car team arrived at the gate of Songhu Aviation Factory without knowing it, and had already met the new factory director Fan Zhifei with a bright smile, accompanied by a large number of technical backbones, and
The management warmly welcomes his arrival.
Seeing this, Zhou Wenhua also restrained his thoughts, showed a gentle smile, got out of the car, shook hands with the new factory director Fan Zhifei, and greeted each other.
Fan Zhifei, the new factory director who had just met Zhou Wenhua, was also surprised by Zhou Wenhua's young appearance. He was worried that he had mistaken the wrong person. However, after saying hello to Zhou Wenhua,
He also confirmed that the other party was Zhou Wenhua, the latest talker of the Zhou family who was coming to discuss business with him today.
In this regard, the new factory director Fan Zhifei also had to lament that it is good to have money. He can have so much money at such a young age and still have power in terms of family business.
But no matter what,
After being surprised, the new factory director Fan Zhifei still received Zhou Wenhua warmly and hospitably, and also took his key technical staff with equally surprised expressions and the management to the reception room to entertain Zhou Wenhua.
Zhou Wenhua was also generous and followed them into the guest house. As for the bodyguards behind him, they also followed behind.
However, they did not enter the guest house, but guarded Zhou Wenhua's safety outside the guest house gate.
In the reception room,
After Zhou Wenhua and the new factory director Fan Zhifei briefly chatted about off-topic topics,
He also got straight to the point, handing the design drawings of the Soviet-made aircraft that he had already prepared to manufacture here to the new factory director Fan Zhifei.
"This is the Soviet aircraft I want your aircraft factory to imitate and assemble for me!"
"The bomber Tebo-1 (Ante-4), the first heavy bomber developed and produced by the Soviet army in 1925, is equipped with two M-17 engines with a power of 500 horsepower. It is an imitation of the German BMW-6 type, with liquid
Cold type, using take-off booster, and equipped with 4 machine guns..."
"The other one is the I-5 fighter jet, the latest fighter jet produced by the Soviet Army in 1930!"
"Equipped with two m-22 engines with a power of 480 horsepower, imitating the Jupiter "Jupiter" type of the British Bristol Company, 9-cylinder air-cooled, and equipped with 2 machine guns..."
"For the time being, I want to imitate these two Soviet aircraft and produce one for me. As for the raw materials, I can import them for assembly. In the process of imitation and assembly, I can study and learn from other people's aircraft.
Craftsmanship!”
"As for when the time comes, I will come over to personally supervise your assembly and imitation process and work!"
"As for the money required for imitation, I can pay it in advance. Even if you have the access, you can directly buy me the original bomber Tebo-1, bring it back with the I-5 fighter jet, and then dismantle them for further processing.
Research it and give me another copy!"
"I will pay all the funds!"
When the new factory director Fan Zhifei took the aircraft design drawings handed to him by Zhou Wenhua, Zhou Wenhua also straightforwardly got straight to the point again.
In his previous life, he was a high-tech entrepreneur, and he also spent many years studying aircraft manufacturing technology and processes during the Soviet-German War, so he was able to draw design drawings.
However, since the current domestic aircraft manufacturing technology and industrial capabilities are basically zero, basically aircraft manufacturing raw materials need to be outsourced and imported for assembly.
Because of this, Zhou Wenhua also directly asked them to outsource and import the raw materials he wanted for the Soviet aircraft to imitate.
They can even find ways to use their own channels to purchase original versions of Soviet aircraft, and then dismantle them for research and imitation.
In response to Zhou Wenhua's words and deeds, the new factory director Fan Zhifei opened his eyes and was shocked after reading the Soviet aircraft design drawings he gave him.
This was a confidential design drawing. He couldn't figure out where the young Zhou Wenhua got it from.
At the very least, the I-5 fighter jet has only been developed for more than a year, but now Zhou Wenhua has complete and detailed design drawings, which even indicate what type of raw materials are used to manufacture it.
So you can imagine how wonderful the shocked expression of the new factory director Fan Zhifei was.
Because these confidential aircraft design drawings and manufacturing processes were not available to him.