48 Hours a Day

The Apollo Project Camp was copied in 1969, and if the blonde had not lied, he was now 14 years before the Apollo Project began.

Zhang Heng remembered correctly, even NASA had not yet been formed, but its predecessor, the National Aviation Advisory Board (NACA), was founded in 1915. In fact, Zhang Heng finally figured out where Lewis Flight Power Lab was after following the blonde to the lab and meeting other interns and laboratory directors.

It is the third laboratory under NACA, formerly known as the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, which was originally established to address the backwardness of American engines, when World War II erupted in 1939, when European liquid-cooled engines had an operational speed and high advantage over United States air-cooled engines. Recognizing the lack of state-level engine research facilities in the United States, some intellectuals pushed Congress in 1940 to approve a proposal to build an engine research center near Cleveland City Airport, Ohio.

This is the context in which the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory was established, renamed Lewis Flight Power Laboratory in 1948 to commemorate the passing away of George W. Lewis, Director of NACA Aeronautical Research, but its more widely known name is actually the Glenn Research Center (renamed again in 1999), an important research institute for NASA specializing in research on space engines.

Although the transition copy was forcibly opened in response to Zhang Heng's bug, it did not completely disengage from the main copy of the Apollo Program Camp, but gave him the status of a Massachusetts Technological graduate student and dumped him at the Lewis Flight Power Lab 14 years ago. If not surprisingly, he would return to the Apollo Program Camp after stopping.

As a result, of course, it did not stop immediately, and he could solve his competitors in a stationary world, amounting to early clearance, but from the previous tone, because it was not possible to determine whether he cheated or not, and the system compensated him somewhat while protecting other players.

Lewis Flight Dynamics Laboratory is an important laboratory under NACA. The people who worked there were the top scientists and engineers in the United States. After the dissolution of NACA, they merged into NASA. The focus of these experts also shifted to aeronautical science and technology. Zhang Heng, although unable to learn about future aeronautics directly here, could make up for the foregoing knowledge of physics, engineering and aerodynamics in advance.

And Lewis Flight Power Lab is right next to Cleveland City Airport, Ohio, and although he can't complete the main line of work to look at the Earth from another angle in advance, if he's lucky, he can drive at least two rounds in the air for the Apollo planned training T-38 coach aircraft that hasn't been developed yet, but his predecessor, the T-33, was introduced into flight training in the early '50s.

The jet that Zhang Heng had seen on the runway before would have been a T-33 if it hadn't been an accident.

Until then, however, he had to solve a problem. The system gave him the status of a graduate student at MIT, and soon Zhang Heng learned why Lewis Flight Power Lab recruited a bunch of postgraduate interns because NACA had launched a hypersonic research engine program.

- X-15, using rocket-powered engines directly, with a maximum speed of up to 6.72 Mach, close to six times the speed of sound, with a maximum altitude of 107.8 kilometres flying directly out of the Carmen line and into space until the twenty-first century, the fastest manned aeroplane of humankind.

The X-15 R&D program was officially launched in 1955, with the participation of Lewis Flight Power Laboratory. Zhang Heng's graduate students were recruited to assist laboratory engineers and scientists in conducting relevant research, but the problem is that Zhang Heng's master's degree was systematically paid for, and he hopes to learn about it in the laboratory, but once he exposes that he has no basis, he is more likely to be sent directly back to school.

And even if the situation develops in the best direction, he can still stay in the lab, and under such a heavy scientific task, who would be willing to make up for him from scratch?

Zhang Heng had not been able to think out the countermeasures yet. The blonde responsible for human resources had already started assigning these internships to laboratory engineers. Of course, if an engineer had a special desire, he could also name them directly. Two of them should have had contact with some of the graduate students and directly picked out the ones he wanted.

However, the vast majority of people simply told the blonde beauty of their needs, waiting for the manpower distribution, and Zhang Heng did not expect to see a yellow face in it.

You know, this is not the next generation, and in the United States in the 1950s, especially in the top scientific institutions, there were not many people of Asian descent, not to mention from the other side of the spectrum, most likely Chinese.

Therefore, Zhang Heng tried to say hello to the other party in Chinese. The latter's face showed surprise and obviously understood Zhang Heng's question. However, Zhang Heng's face was now systematically corrected and the characteristics of the Euro-Americans were more obvious, so the Chinese engineer was somewhat unexpected.

Zhang Heng had to ask again, "Hello, can I be your assistant? ”

“What do you do professionally? I'm doing research on impeller mechanical flow theory, don't know if you're interested? ”

“Economics, sophomore.” Zhang Heng was ashamed that such things could not be concealed. Instead of saying them after the assignment of tasks, it would be better to confess now.

“…" The other party was obviously stopped by this answer, unable to speak for a long time, not to say whether it was American humor, or invisible discrimination. After all, he had not been discriminated against for so many years in the United States.

“I'm sorry, I need to stay in the lab for some reason, and I'd like to learn some engineering if possible, and if you're really in trouble, I can go and have a chance with someone else. ”

Because the above conversation is conducted in Chinese, no one but two can understand it, so Zhang Heng is not worried about not listening to others, nor is he too worried that the other party will tell the other people his details, because Chinese people basically have a less important attitude than one thing abroad.

But if they refuse him, it won't be easy for him to keep touching the fish in the lab.

Fortunately, Zhang Heng's fluency in Chinese touched each other, making the other feel a sense of affection in a distant exotic country. After a moment of hesitation, the man said again, "There is only one simple word,“ okay. ”

Then he went to the blonde, asked for Zhang Heng, plus another MIT student assigned to him, and these were his two assistants.

When he returned to the lab, he reached out to Zhang Heng, "I don't think I've introduced myself, Wu Zhonghua, Chinese. ”

“Zhang Heng.” Zhang Heng also reported his real name, after which he added, “The Chinese. ”

Note: Wu Zhonghua, Qian Xuesen of China's aviation industry, graduated from MIT, worked at Lewis Flight Power Laboratory, founded the internationally recognized general theory of impeller mechanical ternary flow, is a world-class scientist, like many older scientists in that era, gave up high salaries abroad, then took his wife back from Europe under the name of travel, the couple are the founders of China's aviation business, but this time point in the real world he has actually returned home, still wrote to him, in addition to the dramatic needs, I hope that more people will know these older scientists. In addition, the transition script was not the focus, and it ended soon, with the focus on the Apollo plan.