From University Lecturer to Chief Academician

"We want to combine and study with the anti-gravity vehicle?"

"But we are researching SMES batteries. Even though a lot of progress has been made, it is too early to be fully used..."

"Who said to merge? Academician Wang Hao? That's fine."

...

"Duan Gong, are you kidding? Combine and research with superconducting batteries?"

"Are we really planning to develop an aircraft? But, can the battery pack work?"

"Of course, I'm not questioning Academician Wang Hao, but it's too..."

"I don't understand it at all!"

Whether it is the anti-gravity aircraft research group or the SMES battery research group, they are a little confused when they hear the news of the merger. They really don't understand why they should do this.

The main content of the two research groups can be said to be future technology, but neither has completed the research, let alone mature technology.

In the design of some aircraft, it is indeed necessary to put various technologies together for research.

For example, fighter jets.

The design of fighter jets needs to consider various technologies, especially engine performance must be considered.

However, SMES batteries are not the same as aero engines.

Aero-engine technology has matured internationally, and the most advanced ones have even begun to develop the fifth and sixth generations. China also has complete aero-engine technology.

SMES batteries are different, they do not have mature SMES battery technology yet.

The anti-gravity aircraft research group has just started research, and they have not perfected the design system of the anti-gravity aircraft. They only have some technologies under development, such as horizontal anti-gravity technology, relatively mature electric propulsion, and the balance and automatic propulsion that are being improved. control systems, etc.

In short, compared with fighter jets, anti-gravity aircraft are far worse.

The people in the two research groups couldn't imagine how to cooperate in research and development together.

After Wang Hao decided to combine the two research groups, he immediately called the core technical personnel and held the first meeting.

The leaders of the two groups, Liu Mingkun and Duan Qingbai, came to the meeting room early, and they talked with surprise and confusion.

Liu Mingkun asked curiously, "Has your aircraft design been completed?"

"That's not true."

Duan Qingbai hurriedly waved his hands and said, "What's done, there's too much difference. Last time we just did the suspension test of the anti-gravity device, and the suspension was not stable yet."

"Isn't it the take-off test?" Liu Mingkun asked a little puzzled, and when he finished speaking, he knew that he had asked a stupid question.

take off?

In the absence of sufficient power supply, the anti-gravity device has to be connected to the ground with wires, and it is impossible to take off.

Duan Qingbai smiled wryly, "Looking at the posture of Academician Wang Hao, it feels like being a fighter jet. Call the technical team together and study together..."

"But the difference is too much!"

He asked, "How is your side? It is said that the progress is very fast."

Liu Mingkun also shook his head, "In terms of research progress, it is indeed very fast. Our new energy storage coil has passed the charge and discharge test, but this is the only technology left."

"In other words, you have no way to provide SMES batteries for use?"

Liu Mingkun's expression was a bit exaggerated, he spread his hands and asked, "Duan Gong, do you think it's possible?"

"...It's really impossible." Duan Qingbai twitched his lips.

What is the technology of SMES battery?

This kind of superconducting battery technology is simply unimaginable.

Even if there is some progress in research, it can be said to be the top international scientific and technological achievements, and it has already walked at the forefront of human science and technology.

While the two were talking, Wang Hao also walked in from the door.

He had already listened to it a few times before he said directly, "Duan Gong, Professor Liu, don't worry, we are not designing fighter jets."

"Academician Wang!"

"coming!"

Duan Qingbai and Liu Mingkun hurriedly stood up.

Wang Hao waved his hand to signal them to sit down, and he also sat beside him and said, "I heard you compare the designs of fighter jets just now, but they are actually completely different."

"The anti-gravity aircraft we design does not need to consider flexibility or high power issues, nor does it need to consider radar performance or combat modules. Our purpose is only one, to make the anti-gravity aircraft fly."

"Even if it's just like a civilian drone, it can do simple take-off and low-speed flight, which is enough."

Duan Qingbai and Liu Mingkun listened together and nodded.

If you just let the anti-gravity aircraft fly, without considering other factors, it is indeed relatively simple, only considering power and balance is enough.

It's like installing a battery on the drone. When powered, it is enough to make the drone fly.

think about it...

It seems really easy...a P!

Power, how to solve it?

Both Duan Qingbai and Liu Mingkun couldn't help but twitched their lips. Even though the research and development goal sounds the simplest, they must use SMES batteries, that is, superconducting batteries.

The reason is simple, and only superconducting batteries can continuously provide high power supply.

This is the hardest part.

Wang Hao did not continue to explain, but waited for other people to come to the meeting room, and then announced the official start of the meeting.

The meeting begins.

Wang Hao asked the two team leaders to introduce the technologies they have mastered.

The first one to stand up was Liu Mingkun. He said seriously, "We already have the energy storage coil technology that can be used, and the energy storage coil can be charged and discharged normally under human control."

"We've gone through several rounds of testing with this technology, including high-power delivery tests."

"But for the time being, it can only be controlled by humans. Many factors, including monitoring and power adjustment, cannot be automated."

To put it simply, they have mastered the energy storage coil technology at the core of the battery, but the accompanying control system has not yet been completed, let alone the manufacture of a complete superconducting battery.

Afterwards, Duan Qingbai also stood up and talked about the techniques he had mastered. He mainly talked about the test he had just completed.

After the heads of the two research groups finished talking about the technology, Wang Hao began to speak, "I know that many of you are wondering why our two groups should work together on research."

"Actually, everyone should know that the research on SMES batteries is prepared for anti-gravity aircraft."

This is a fact.

However, most people do not link the two research groups.

Many people think that the SMES battery research group is mainly working on the SMES power storage technology, rather than really developing superconducting batteries. They just didn’t expect the SMES power storage technology to be completed soon, so they officially started the research on the SMES battery.

In addition, the anti-gravity flight supported by SMES battery power sounds a bit too sci-fi.

Even though everyone thinks that anti-gravity technology represents the core aviation technology of the future, it is the "future" after all. It is only possible to realize the application of anti-gravity technology in aviation after a lot of related research is mature.

It is too early to talk about the development of anti-gravity aircraft.

For example, the SMES battery has not been developed yet, and there is no power to talk about aircraft?

Wang Hao continued, "The main reason why I decided to put the two research groups together is because we already have the energy storage coil charging and discharging technology."

"that's enough!"

"Many people may think that we can't make a working SMES battery yet, but we don't need to do that."

Wang Hao said and got serious, "We don't need to make a perfect SMES battery, and the anti-gravity aircraft doesn't need a perfect SMES battery either."

He stood up and walked to the whiteboard, drew a sketch of the anti-gravity device, and then said seriously, "Look at this sketch, everyone. This is the anti-gravity device. The dotted line drawn next to it is the horizontal anti-gravity coverage. area."

"From this picture, what can you find?"

The people in the conference room were stunned, they didn't understand what Wang Hao was going to say.

Liang Jingye thought about it and said, "Except for the central location, is there not enough space for batteries in other areas?"

"That's right!"

Wang Hao gave Liang Jingye a thumbs-up, "Xiao Liang is right. Superconducting batteries are also very heavy. With the current technology, even if it is further reduced, it will reach several tons, and may even exceed ten tons."

"Most of the weight is on the energy storage coils, and the coolant also takes up some of that."

A large number of superconducting metal materials are stacked to form several large coils, which are of course very heavy.

Wang Hao continued, "So we don't need to think about making a perfect battery and then connecting it with the anti-gravity device, but we need to embed the battery in the anti-gravity device."

He said and drew a circle with a pen.

"There is a gap in the middle of the superconducting material of the anti-gravity device. The largest gap in this circle is more than one meter away, and the space is enough to place a small energy storage coil."

"Then we can fully fill the energy storage coils in the first lap, which can also play a balancing role."

"In addition, everyone pay attention to the outer circle, the distance is more than half a meter."

"We can make the outer space into a cooling box, and fill it with highly compressed liquid nitrogen."

"The critical temperature of materials used in anti-gravity is around 100K, and the critical temperature of materials used in energy storage coils is less than 150K."

"Did you find it?"

"We can completely combine the cooling devices used to support the anti-gravity field and the energy storage coils to form a system."

Wang Hao began to explain carefully.

What he explained was the core design, mainly in the anti-gravity and superconducting batteries, all of which use superconducting technology, but the superconducting materials used are different.

The critical temperature of the superconducting material used in the energy storage coil is 46K higher than that used in the antigravity technology.

Both need to be cooled during operation, so a cooling system can be shared.

First let the coolant enter the anti-gravity system, discharge it and then enter the energy storage coil system, so that the two can be effectively combined.

Of course, the energy storage coil cannot be in the same system as the anti-gravity for a long time, because the energy storage coil needs to be charged.

However, the heat release process of the energy storage coil mainly lies in the discharge process. The discharge process requires a lot of cooling fluid to flow continuously, so it can be used as a charging system alone.

To understand it simply, the two ends of the energy storage coil system can be closed and charged on the ground.

After the whole system is in operation and enters the discharge mode, the two ends can be connected again to share a cooling system with the anti-gravity device.

This makes it possible to combine the anti-gravity unit with the SMES battery.

After Wang Hao finished explaining everything, the conference room fell into a brief silence.

Everyone who looked at the design content on the whiteboard was very shocked. They hadn't thought about this joint design problem at all.

Now embedding the superconducting battery into the anti-gravity device is definitely a very exquisite design, completely combining the two systems.

They no longer have doubts about joint research and development, but are looking forward to joint research and development.

...

Everyone in the two research groups is very motivated.

They could see that Wang Hao really hoped to develop an anti-gravity aircraft, and he also showed full confidence.

Since academician Wang Hao is so confident, what else do they need to think about?

The biggest difficulty now is the overall design and the electronic system.

Whether it is the quench monitoring and power regulation of superconducting batteries, or the balance and automatic control systems of aircraft, they can all be classified as "electronic systems".

Soft technology becomes the key.

In terms of the overall design of the aircraft, they also need to demonstrate the driving force issue, as well as some other technologies, including the issue of electric propulsion, single-rotating fan design, circular surrounding landing gear, and so on.

Through a series of demonstration meetings, Wang Hao quickly determined the main design plan. The aircraft will adopt a design of eight electric propellers, of which four electric propellers can achieve multi-directional twisting. On the one hand, it is an auxiliary balance The system, on the other hand, also acts as a drive for horizontal advancement.

The other four electric thrusters are only responsible for lift-off, landing and balance system.

After determining the main design scheme, several technical groups began to coordinate and cooperate to carry out the research work of detailed technology.

The work that the research team must do every day is to hold a demonstration meeting——

Liu Mingkun: "For the independent charging system of the energy storage coil, a special pipeline can be opened on the top to independently charge and maintain the cooling system."

Duan Qingbai: "The four electric thrusters under the main cabin can increase the direction of rotation, but the background control will be more complicated."

Liang Jingye: "During the flight, we can properly reduce the cooling temperature to ensure the safety of the power output process."

Hao Jun: "We can still add a single-fan design. When the flight reaches a certain altitude, the balance electric propeller can be turned off, which will make the aircraft more flexible."

"..."

Constant research, constant demonstration.

The design of the anti-gravity aircraft can be said to be progressing every day. After a design plan is finalized, the design of each part of the aircraft is constantly being improved.

soon.

A month passed.

The meeting on this day determined the design of the main cabin, and decided to independently build a raised main cabin above the center of the anti-gravity device.

This can ensure that the pilots controlled by the main cabin will not be affected by the lateral anti-gravity and cause health problems.

After the design of the main cabin is completed, the design of the entire aircraft is completed, and the perfect composition can be carried out on the computer.

Luo Yongjun of the aircraft group is in charge of the overall composition. After each design plan is finalized, he will compose the picture according to the plan and record all the content.

After completing the design and composition of the main cabin, you can reduce the composition of other parts and complete the external composition of the aircraft.

Luo Yongjun put all the parts together, and added a layer of gray skin on the outside to cover up the complicated equipment inside, and completed the conceptual drawing of the aircraft.

After completing the last step, Luo Yongjun kept staring at the concept map on the screen without moving his eyes, and he didn't even hear the person next to him yelling.

Duan Qingbai shouted in dissatisfaction, "Luo Yongjun, what are you doing? Didn't you finish it? Print it!"

"Oh okay, I know."

Luo Yongjun panicked and hurriedly printed the picture.

Duan Qingbai walked up behind him, saw the conceptual drawing on the screen, and couldn't help shouting in surprise, "Isn't this a UFO?"

This shout stunned several people in the office.

They'll all come over right away.

The conceptual drawing on the screen has a protruding prototype main compartment, and below it is the main disc. Because there are various equipment in the center of the disc, and there is a passage to enter the main compartment, it looks bulging in the center.

At the ends of both sides of the disk, there are only superconducting lines of the anti-gravity system, and there are no other devices, so it looks a little thinner.

The round landing gear takes up the most space when the disk is lowered, and the passage of the main cabin also protrudes a piece.

So overall...

Duan Qingbai opened his mouth halfway, pointed at the screen, and exclaimed again in surprise, "This is a UFO!"