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Preface
A miscalculation will set China's space technology back by at least 15 years; A miscalculation cost China, which was already strapped for funds, trillions; A miscalculation has also made the United States frantically grasp China for several years.
In 1985, the Y-10 passenger aircraft had already gone through layers of audits, and just when it was about to enter mass production, the above urgently notified the suspension of this research project. This is China's aerospace giant Ma Fengshan led the team to develop for decades, if once stopped, the developed aircraft and equipment will all be reduced to scrap metal, this loss is not just a star and a half.
Not only that, but we in China will also lose our achievements in the field of aerospace. But no matter how Ma Fengshan applied upward, the above decision would not waver, and in this way, the Y-10 passenger plane disappeared directly from our field of vision.
Even many Western countries at the time lamented this decision, feeling that this decision was too arbitrary.
Ma Fengshan's team was also disbanded on the spot, but the aviation field still had to continue, so China chose to cooperate with McDonnell Douglas, the top three American aviation companies at the time, and signed an agreement to build 40 passenger planes.
As a result, Boeing, the No. 1 American airline, was crossed, and nearly billions of dollars were paid out.
Five years later, the depressed Ma Fengshan also suffered from illness and finally died of hatred, and before he died, he still thought about China's aerospace industry.
It wasn't until 2017 that the passenger plane belonging to China finally came out, so today let's walk into and understand Ma Fengshan's life together, and explore why China's aerospace road was so difficult back then?
01 The birth of Ma Fengshan, a generation of aerospace giants
In 1929, Ma Fengshan was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, and other people's childhood may only need to take care of their own food and clothing. But born in the wartime era, Ma Fengshan really experienced a war of resistance against Japan.
At that time, the sky was full of Japanese bombers, and a single missile could cause heavy losses to the Chinese soldiers. From that time on, Ma Fengshan understood the importance of air defense for a country.
Ma Fengshan also secretly set a goal, that is, he must build a bomber of his own for China.
In 1949, Ma Fengshan, who graduated from high school, was also admitted to the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of Jiaotong University with his own ability, determined to use his ability to serve the motherland.
You must know that as the first batch of aviation people, Ma Fengshan has to do everything from 0 to 1, from scratch.
The difficulty was really no less than climbing to the sky in terms of the situation at that time, but fortunately, China still had the help of the Soviet big brother at that time, so I had the idea of studying bombers.
In 1952, the Soviet Tu-16 bomber was one of the most advanced bombers in the world, and in order to closely follow the pace of the Soviet Union, China has always wanted to go to the Soviet Union to learn aviation technology.
Finally, in 1959, China finally waited for this opportunity and sent Ma Fengshan and others to the Tu-16 aircraft factory in Kazan, Soviet Union.
In order to seize this opportunity to learn, Ma Fengshan also made sufficient preparations in advance. Not only did I learn Russian on my own, but I also thought about all the important issues in the study of aircraft in advance.
After arriving there, the group began to concentrate on learning the imitation and technical problems of the bomber. And here they also appeared a small episode, that is, specialists of the USSR at that time.
It is specifically emphasized to Chinese students that they only need to listen carefully during class, and there is no need to take class notes. When you learn it, all of these materials will be mailed to China in their original form.
Everyone listened attentively to the teacher's lecture, but after the people who attended the lecture returned to China, our aircraft factory did not receive the data sent by the Soviet Union for a long time.
When China asked the Soviet Union when the information would be available, they were told that the Kazan plant was only a bomber replication factory, and did not have the right to design the bomber and did not have confidential data, this absurd reason made China panic.
In fact, everyone knew that Sino-Soviet relations were gradually deteriorating at that time, so the Soviet Union casually found an excuse to fool this matter.
Scientific research work has also stalled, and China's H-6 bomber is at a critical time, without this accurate data, all the previous efforts are wasted.
China was in a dilemma here, and just when he was at a loss, Ma Fengshan stood up and took out one of his notebooks.
The notes recorded all the important data during the lecture at that time, this note really helped China a lot, and Ma Fengshan also became the deputy engineer of the H-6 with his own ability.
He led the team to complete the research and development of the H-6 and became the main bomber of the Chinese Air Force, which promoted the progress of aviation scientific research.
Ma Fengshan's notes have also become a confidential document of the state and stored in the storage room, if anyone needs the data reference in this notebook, they need to go through layers of approval and political review to witness the appearance of the confidential documents.
02 The birth of the Y-10
The successful advent of the H-6 also let the world see our China's strength, but in Ma Fengshan's heart, our China's strength is far from this, so Ma Fengshan led his team and began to continue aviation scientific research.
On the basis of the H-6, our country has carried out transformation and upgrading, and upgraded the anti-resistance and anti-deformation of the aircraft. With everyone's unremitting efforts, the mainland has also become the fourth country that can independently develop passenger aircraft.
Y-10, the mainland's first large jet airliner, successfully completed a test flight in 1980 under the attention of the world. It was at the beginning of commercial operation and large-scale investment in production. Ma Fengshan's team was told that the project would be urgently halted.
When he received this news, Ma Fengshan couldn't even believe it, he kept applying to the organization, but he was blocked and vetoed one by one. I think that this is a difficult time for China's finances, and it would not be the right decision to spend a lot of money on it.
But if it doesn't continue, all the previous ten years spent will be in vain, and this passenger plane will become a scrap metal, and not only that, but even the equipment to make the aircraft will be all shelved.
But to no avail, no matter how hard Ma Fengshan tried, the project was shelved, the Y-10 airliner factory was withdrawn, and the entire research team was disbanded.
Even the Western countries at that time were feeling sorry for China, if they could insist, then China's aviation technology must be 15 years ahead of now.
We can't build airplanes ourselves, but the country can't do without passenger planes, so we have no choice but to cooperate with other countries, and the United States has become the country's first choice. At that time, the top three airlines in the United States became our partners.
McDonnell Douglas was second only to Boeing at the time, and because McDonnell Douglas planes had a little technical problem at that time, there were always problems with the planes, and the company was about to go bankrupt. At this time, China and McDonnell Douglas became the best complementary.
03 Placed together by the American space company
In 1992, our two airlines signed a cooperation agreement to build 40 passenger planes together. However, before the project began, it was intervened by Boeing, the No. 1 company in the United States.
Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas directly and took over all trade.
But from the beginning to the end, Lao Mei didn't seem to think about cooperating well, and Boeing directly terminated all the overseas trade of McDonnell Douglas and deducted all the funds invested before.
This time has also made China suffer a lot of losses, but it is a pity that if the Y-10 project had not been stopped, would we still be able to be manipulated by the United States like this?
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, China decided to start the development of the Y-10 from scratch, and in 1989, the organization found Ma Fengshan and began to re-develop it. But there was more than enough heart but not enough strength, Ma Fengshan was 60 years old at that time, and he could no longer do a lot of work by himself.
In addition, the research team at that time had already left their old roots, and there were a group of new technicians, so it was not easy to bring the team from the new.
Ma Fengshan, who has always insisted on his job, finally died in 1990, his condition deteriorated. Before he died, he did not personally see the mainland's passenger plane flying in the sky.
Ma Fengshan once said that he had personally experienced the bombing of Japanese imperialist planes and had also witnessed the massacre of the Chinese by the Japanese invaders.
He profoundly understands that only when the country is strong and the aviation industry is strong, can the motherland be safe and the Chinese people live a happy life.
27 years after Ma Fengshan's death, that is, in 2017, Ma Fengshan's aviation dream of the people of the whole country was finally realized, and the first test flight of the continental airliner C919 was successful.
In 2020, the Y-10 spearheaded by Ma Fengshan was also listed as an industrial heritage and protected.
Summary:
Ma Fengshan's life, although single but great, without his selfless dedication and perseverance, our country's aviation technology may not know how many years back.
At that time, he did not see the Chinese airliner soaring in the sky, but today, people all over the country and even the world know and see this Chinese aviation giant. He dedicated his life to the aviation industry, and once again sincerely paid tribute to Ma Lao.
Seeing this, I believe everyone has also understood the history of the development of China's aviation, what do you think about this, do you think Mr. Ma's life regrets? Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section to discuss.
Article information sources:
[1] Ma Fengshan, chief designer of the Y-10 aircraft: lifting China's large passenger aircraft into the air on November 27, 2009
[2] Chinese: China's large aircraft prequel: the development history of the untimely Y-10 Observer Network [cited 2016-03-5]
[3] Ma Fengshan Baidu Encyclopedia
[4] Chinese: Thirty Years of China's Big Aircraft: Yun Ten Horses Destroy R&D Platform Sina.com [cited 2016-02-3]
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