Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

Dong, dong!

As the knocking on the door came again, the sun had already set in the west. Natalie lay on the bed with a pale face, weakly shouting, "The door isn't closed."

"Ms. Natalie, how are you feeling?" The door was pushed open, revealing Nie Xiaoqian's pretty face, now full of concern.

"It's not working at all! My… that area still burns with pain! God, how could you deceive me?"

"No, this calamine lotion is very effective! The doctor from the factory's affiliated hospital prescribed it."

"Effective? I've eaten half the tube, and it hasn't worked at all!"

"What?" Nie Xiaoqian's expression immediately changed. "Eat it? How could it work if you ate it? This is for external use, not internal!"

"External use?" Natalie suddenly felt a wave of nausea in her stomach, rushed to the bathroom, and threw up into the toilet.

Wah, wah… She threw up until bile came out, and her whole body was even more weak and limp. "You, why didn't you say so sooner!"

"When I put the ointment down, I asked if you needed help, and you said no," Nie Xiaoqian said, feeling very wronged. This is ointment, naturally for applying. What else could it be? How would I know you're so foolish?

"Do you want me to help you apply it now? You are our distinguished guest, and we can't have anything happen to you."

Natalie almost collapsed in the bathroom. Hearing Nie Xiaoqian's words, she originally wanted to nod, but a chill suddenly ran down her spine. "No, I'll do it myself."

The medicine works like magic. After applying it, that area no longer burned.

It seems that Nie Xiaoqian didn't deliberately try to harm her. It's just that she was too arrogant. She should have humbly asked for instructions when the medicine was delivered.

"That's good. What do you plan to eat tonight? I'll get you some food."

"No, I can't eat anything right now, but it's too strange. Yesterday you said the five flavors—sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty—how come the other four don't affect that area, only spicy? Why is that?"

"Because God didn't intend for humans to use that place for eating," Nie Xiaoqian said, repeating the explanation Qin Yang had given.

Wah!

Natalie immediately started retching again. That explanation was too disgusting!

Watching Natalie rush to the bathroom again, Nie Xiaoqian's face revealed a satisfied smile. Let you seduce my man! This is the price you pay for seducing my man! Hmph, this is still light. If you don't give up, I have even worse!

More than ten minutes later, Natalie lay back on the bed, tears welling up in her eyes. At this moment, she admitted that she was homesick.

Nie Xiaoqian left, saying she would get her a bowl of porridge, but she didn't want to eat Eastern food anymore. She only wanted to eat sandwiches, Peter fish, even just pita bread!

Just as she was savoring the delicious food of Israel, rapid footsteps came from outside.

Dong, dong!

"Who is it?"

"It's me, Amos."

Amos went to the wind tunnel area early in the morning for testing. He's back after just one day? Didn't they say the wind tunnel was in a very far place?

"Come in." Natalie weakly sat up from the bed and looked towards the door.

The dark and thin Amos came in, his face full of surprise. "Natalie, what's wrong with you? You look like you're sick?"

"No, just not used to the environment. Did you take the model to blow in the wind tunnel?"

"That's right, I blew it," Amos said. "I left in the morning, arrived there at noon, blew in the wind tunnel for an hour, and then came back."

"So fast?"

Blowing in the wind tunnel isn't like using a hairdryer to blow-dry hair. It often takes hundreds or even thousands of hours to determine a reasonable layout. Amos actually came back after blowing in the wind tunnel for an hour?

"Well, the results are already out. In the subsonic range, our shape is perfect, but after entering the supersonic range, the resistance our aircraft experiences suddenly increases rapidly. When it reaches Mach 1.3, the resistance translated to a real aircraft can exceed one hundred kilonewtons!" Amos said, "Our aerodynamic layout has a big problem. I need to go back and report this conclusion. I came to say goodbye before leaving."

At this moment, the events of today were still echoing in Amos's mind: He carried the precious fighter model all the way, carefully fixed it after arriving, and then started the test!

Wind Tunnel

The wind speed gradually increased. Amidst the howling of the blower, he looked at the data displayed on the instrument, which was exactly the same as the tests they had done in the United States.

Bang!

As the wind speed continued to increase, a sound rang out in the wind tunnel, and the test entered the supersonic range.

Then, the data began to increase rapidly. The horizontal line on the computer screen began to rise rapidly, like a poisonous snake. Looking at that devilish curve, he was dumbfounded on the spot.

What's going on?

When the wind speed increased to Mach 1.3, there was no need to continue the experiment. The resistance the aircraft experienced already exceeded the engine's maximum thrust. The aircraft simply couldn't fly to that speed!

"Go back and report? Then what?"

Amos was stunned. "I don't know."

"The most correct thing for you to do is to continue staying here and test, find the problem, and then modify the design." Although Natalie's body was almost broken, her mind was still clear, and she immediately suggested the correct approach.

Does the aircraft still want to continue development? If it wants to be developed, it has to cooperate with the Easterners! The Easterners have in-depth research on aerodynamic layouts. They can spot problems after taking a few glances. Who else to turn to for help now but them?

Just as Amos and Natalie were communicating, Old Song was also communicating with Qin Yang.

"President Qin, there really is a problem with their model!" Old Song said with an excited face, "We originally planned to tamper with the wind tunnel data output, but even without tampering, it's already like this. After entering the supersonic range, the resistance of their model will greatly increase! President Qin, how did you see that?"

"I guessed," Qin Yang said indifferently. "As for the specific reason, we can explain it like this later…"

When Qin Yang and Old Song were researching on the plane, Qin Yang's explanation was that the Lion fighter had not been blown in a supersonic wind tunnel, and how we should tamper with it, etc. Anyway, it was all planned by Qin Yang, and the 611 Institute really didn't have R\u0026D funding, so Old Song agreed.

However, after testing in the wind tunnel, it was discovered that there really was a problem with the aerodynamic layout of the Lion fighter! Old Song was shocked at the time. President Qin is just that amazing.

"Mm," Old Song nodded. "Next, they need to improve, so they have to continue using our wind tunnel and need the technical strength of our 611 Institute to participate in improving the shape. President Qin, how much funding should we ask for this time?"

There's business, and there's money!

"We can't ask for too much at once. Ask for five million first. After asking for it three or four times, there will be an income of twenty million US dollars. Take this opportunity to get our project off the ground."