Little people witness big times.
An Yingmei, who had just entered the age of ancient rarity, was born in 1951, which was also the year when the party founded the new Chinese aviation industry.
In the 1950s, the first generation of aviation people gathered from all over the world and took root in a desolate Weibei Plain. After the sudden evacuation of Soviet experts in the 1960s, the older generation of aviation people gritted their teeth and relied on themselves, finally walking through the mud to usher in a new life. In 1968, the H-6 aircraft independently manufactured by them was successfully tested, filling the gap in China's manufacturing of large aircraft.
A group of "young people" born in the 1950s was a new force at that time, with great vitality, and An Yingmei was one of them...
The neat and beautiful Xifei Stadium is now the best place for many Yanliang people to exercise, with a smooth track and green grass, and from time to time you can see the "aviation blue" walking by. An Yingmei, 70 years old, will come here every day at dusk to take a walk. It was a place she remembered fondly, and it was here that she became a glorious aviation person.
At that time, sitting on the ground in this open space, the cadres of Xifei told us that China already has its own aircraft, and in the future it will build bigger and better-performing aircraft, and you will be a generation that will create miracles, and so on. Although we had no concept of building airplanes at that time, our determination to do something for the motherland was very great.
In 1951, the new Chinese aviation industry was born. Xifei, where I am located, began construction in 1958, and by 1971, when I entered the factory, after more than ten years of construction, it had begun to take shape. Listen to the masters, the early stage of building the factory can be bitter. The factory building was covered overhead, and the bricks supported a door panel to start surveying and mapping and drawing. I caught up with the good times, and it was in full swing here, stepping up the production of the latest H-6 aircraft, and everyone was very energetic. I worked as a rivet, small in stature and with small hands, and at first I started slowly, but when I rested, I took a scrap aluminum plate and kept practicing. At that time, no one wanted to fall behind. After retirement, the children told me that it is now intelligently produced, and it is riveted with crawling robots. It's a new day.
"Yan Liang Yan Liang, a desolate, eating steamed bread and drinking paste, can not smell the aroma of meat", that is to say, the hardships of Xifei's initial period. From surveying and mapping imitation to independent research and development, breakthroughs in the research and development of transport aircraft, bombers and fighters have been realized, and a period of arduous exploration has been made.
The H-6 series aircraft, which we all call "handsome boy", has always been the main bomber of our country. In the 1990s, when I went to work in the design department, the design building was also lit up all day, and the designers were working on the development of 6K aircraft. I witnessed the glorious development of the H-6 series aircraft and was full of feelings for it. Now on TV, I will be very excited to see the Bomb 6K Battle Patrol South China Sea.
70 years ago, the older generation of aviation people with the firm belief of aviation to serve the country, the road is blue, hard work. 40 years ago, adhering to the mission of state-owned enterprises, the aviation industry looked at the world and opened the road of reform and development. In the new century, aviation people have given aviation a new connotation of serving the country, promoted enterprises to continuously innovate and create results, and embarked on the road of a new aviation power.
The flow of personnel, the change of years, the changes of the times, the changes of methods, the changes of faces, the genes of struggle and struggle flowing in the blood have never changed.
In 2018, during the aviation opening activities, An Yingmei and her colleagues met to return to the Xifei factory area where they worked and fought. Here, she got up close and personal with the Y-20 for the first time. Many retired elderly people were particularly encouraged that day, and they were amazed by the modern new factory building, the new intelligent production, and the various types of aircraft.
"Fat girl, they all call her that, the first time I looked closely, big, shocking!" Kunpeng spreads its wings and covers the sky, and this is really the case. I heard the children say that it took 5 years to develop it, which was something that I didn't dare to think about before. Our generation solves the problem of whether people have me or not, and when it comes to the generation of children, it is to build a better aircraft aviation power. We can do it, they can do it better, I have confidence. ”
After retirement, An Yingmei was hired to give party classes at the Aviation Vocational and Technical College, she likes to talk about the history of the aviation industry in New China, although not necessarily professional and comprehensive, she likes to integrate her own experience into it and tell it to children. Most of these children will be engaged in aviation-related careers in the future, and for her, this is not only a lesson, but also a responsibility.
The dream of the older generation of entrepreneurs
The ideal of the strivers of the new era
All are condensed in the four words of "aviation power"
Like a burning torch
Always pass on the torch
Endless