Chapter 1108: Vitrified cockpit

1132 factory.
Time has entered the winter. The winter in the land of abundance is cold and humid. At this time, in the 1132 factory, it is still a scene of hot production.
"Our current production task platoon is very full." As we walked over, Tu Lao introduced to everyone: "Our J-7 fighters are being produced in an orderly manner to meet the needs of users at home and abroad."
Although the J-7 fighter is in the J-10, the J-11 is already a low-end aircraft, but after all, the price is low, so when the huge domestic J-6 fighter continues to retire, this low-cost fighter is still needed to fill the vacancy. The cost of the Eleventh fighter is quite high, and it is impossible to replace them one by one.
In addition to domestic use, a considerable part of it was exported to date palm countries, becoming one of their main fighters to seize air supremacy.
Gerhard and others followed and looked at the fighter assembly on the production line. They felt that it was almost the same as their own workshop. Their management was also in order, and the installation of every small screw was recorded.
"Let's go, everyone, follow me. The factory on the other side is producing the F-14 fighter." Tu Lao led everyone and continued to the factory next door.
The J-7 fighter is still a second-generation fighter, and when it comes to the J-14, it is a scene of a third-generation fighter.
Side strip wings, wing body fusion, cut-off delta wings, two-rib air intake, and bulge in the air intake, look more sci-fi.
"This is our F-14 fighter, and there are many orders for it now. Our factory implements three shifts, and the production line is stopped by people to continuously produce this fighter."
There are already many export targets, and the production of fighter jets is in full swing here. Due to the engine problem, all the airframes are produced here. After arriving in the exporting country, plug the engine into it and you can fly.
After the last meeting, the Hans people made a report with them in China. When they came to see Qin Guan again, they asked to go to the production line to have a look. Of course, Qin Guan agreed without hesitation to the other party’s requirements. , Took them to the 1132 factory, looking at the production line here to assemble fighters.
Qin Guan also had a great sense of accomplishment. The Xiaolong of later generations had been difficult to give birth, but was eventually built, but after it came out, it was already too late. The surrounding threats were already four generations of machines, and Xiaolong finally sold it. The number is not large.
But now it’s different. Most countries in the world are still dominated by second-generation aircraft. The market for this aircraft is too big. Unfortunately, the engine is limited. When the engine problem is solved in the future, the market will be even wider. .
Hans people value this fighter very seriously, and they are constantly staring at the production line.
The overall structure of this fighter is completely different from the J-7, it is completely the design concept of the third-generation aircraft, such as this rear fuselage.
The rear fuselage of the F-7 is directly dismantled, and the engine can be taken off. It is quite cumbersome. However, this F-14 fighter uses a push-back type, and the engine is directly inserted from the back. Field conditions The engine replacement can be completed in ten minutes.
"Can we go in and take a look?" Seeing that a fighter plane was almost completed, Gerhard couldn't help but want to go up and take a look.
"Yes, this aircraft is our ongoing new avionics test aircraft, it may be a little different from others." Tu Lao said from the side.
New Avionics?
With such a question, Gerhard stepped up, and when he stepped on the ladder, climbed up, and saw the layout of the cockpit, he was shocked: "There are actually three monitors inside?"
This is the first time he has seen a modern fighter cockpit. Like the cockpits of later generations, the densely packed mechanical instruments on the dashboard are gone. There are two screens on the left and right sides, and one in the middle below. A total of three screens are occupied. The main display area.
It seems too science fiction, how is this possible? The development of electronic technology in Han Chinese is too rapid, right?
When the aircraft first appeared, there were no instruments. With the development of the aircraft, various instruments were slowly developed, such as the horizon indicator, to know the status of the aircraft, such as the compass, the aircraft navigation, and the engine, etc. A lot of meters waiting.
The more the aircraft develops, the more instruments there are. Later, in the fighter cockpit, the instruments in front of the pilots are densely packed.
Therefore, pilots often have to look down at the instruments to find the data they need. This has a negative impact on the pilot's tactical control and reduces the safety of low-altitude flight.
In order to allow pilots to focus more on flying and fighting, Eagle Country was the first to reform and produced a head-up display. Using the development of electronic computers, various data needed to be displayed on the CRT display were projected onto the front head-up display.
This greatly improved the reliability of flight and became the standard configuration of Western fighters in the 1970s. Especially after the integration of the cannon hotline, it met the needs of pilots.
However, its display area is too small to display a large amount of data. For example, in the mid-1970s, a standard fighter had more than 100 cockpit instrument controls, and numerous instructions and signals dispersed the pilots. Attention.
Eagle Country then launched a research work on the display, trying to make up for the defects in the aircraft structure, and hoped that the flight and combat data could be integrated, and the flight location map could be understood more easily, and finally a complete glass was formed. Cockpit system.
The so-called "glass cockpit" is a modern display system in which all or most of the traditional instruments are replaced by computer screens.
It corresponds to the old-fashioned electromechanical instrumentation equipment, which is composed of multiple different individual meters, each part responsible for different functions.
The glass cockpit no longer adopts this multi-device form, only some backup or redundant tasks are retained. Most of the panel is a computer screen, and the screen displays multiple options of the same group of instruments or similar instruments according to user needs. All these functions are integrated in the system to reduce the pilot's workload, including flight planning and weapon control. For this reason, the glass cockpit can be called a revolutionary innovation.
At present, the glass cockpit is under research in the West. The first modern glass cockpit fighter is the F-18A. This fighter entered service around 1983 and is the initiator of modern fighter jets with a vitrified cockpit.
Who could have imagined that at the end of 1981, the export-oriented F-14 fighter aircraft of Han was equipped with three large display screens, and only a few internal instruments were left!