Chapter 73 Takeoff
"What!"
The moment he heard the researcher's words, Cao Liangcai felt a buzzing sound in his brain.
"How could such a big person disappear?!"
Cao Liangcai stared at the researcher in front of him with bloodshot eyes and shouted angrily in an impatient tone: "There are so many toilets in the institute, have you looked for them all?"
The researcher was almost crying.
Facing Cao Liangcai's questioning, he shook his head with a bitter face: "I... I looked for him everywhere, but I didn't see Professor Lu."
"Don't even mention Professor Lu, there's no one in these toilets in the institute!"
Cao Liangcai took a deep breath, turned his head and shouted loudly: "Surveillance! Turn on the surveillance for me!"
"Academician Cao, there is one minute left before the scheduled take-off time!"
A reminder came from the side.
Cao Liang gritted his teeth, sighed heavily and said, "Forget it! Let's solve the matter of Xuannv No. 1 first!"
"Since Professor Lu is not here, I will be in charge of the entire test flight of Xuannv No. 1!"
As he spoke, Cao Liangcai reached out and picked up the radio receiver on the command desk: "Attention, Xuannv No. 1!"
"Thirty seconds countdown to takeoff!"
…
Xuannv No. 1.
The three drivers stared intently at the instrument data on the console in front of them.
A figure in a white flight suit quietly appeared in a corner at the rear of the cabin.
The camera zoomed in and the face in the helmet turned out to be Professor Lu Yongchang who was supposed to be in the toilet!
Lu Yongchang tiptoed to the passenger seat behind the main driver's seat.
Because the three driver's seats were relatively tall, creating a certain blind spot in vision, the three drivers did not notice that there was an extra person sitting on the chair behind them!
I saw him skillfully grab the seat belt and tie it around himself.
A hint of satisfaction flashed in Lu Yongchang's eyes.
Not bad, not bad. It was worth his secret training so many times.
"Click!"
The sound of the seat belt buckles was particularly loud in the silent cabin.
Lu Yongchang's body suddenly stiffened, and he stared at the three drivers in front of him with trembling eyes.
"Gulp…"
Lu Yongchang's Adam's apple moved slightly and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
The plane hasn't taken off yet. Once it's discovered...
He was 100% sure that he would be kicked off the plane!
After a few seconds, seeing that the three drivers looked normal, Lu Yongchang breathed a sigh of relief.
It should be that the earphones in the helmet blocked the sound just now.
"…Countdown is thirty seconds!"
Lu Yongchang's eyes moved slightly.
About to take off!
There was a glimmer of excitement in his eyes.
"Xuan Nu No. 1 received!"
"The output power of the small fusion reactor is normal!"
"Prepare to activate the Hall thrusters!"
"…"
The broadcast sounds came from the headphones in the helmet.
Lu Yongchang couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
Even though he has lived two lives as a human, this is his first time riding on a space shuttle and his first time entering space!
"Three, two, one, take off!"
Following Cao Liangcai's order, Bai Yixiuan, who was sitting in the driver's seat, pushed the joystick on the console with a firm look.
A slight trembling sensation came from the soles of my feet.
The Hall thrusters were activated.
As soon as this thought flashed through Lu Yongchang's mind, he felt himself being pressed firmly against the back of the chair by a huge force!
…
In the Dousha live broadcast room.
"Why hasn't it taken off yet..."
"The flowers I was waiting for have all withered~"
Just when all the netizens were waiting anxiously, a steady command voice was heard.
"30 seconds to take off!"
Hearing this command, the netizens in front of the computer were suddenly cheered up.
In the live broadcast screen, a faint blue flame slowly appeared at the tail of the Xuannv No. 1 aerospace plane.
"What the hell! What the hell is that?"
"One, two, three, four, five... so many Mach loops!"
"Is this the tail flame of the Hall thruster? Love it!"
"Someone, come and roast me up to entertain the guys!"
The thirty seconds of waiting time passed in a flash, and as the take-off order was given, the dark blue flame at the tail of Xuannv No. 1 suddenly increased several times!
The next moment, driven by the Hall thrusters, Xuannv No. 1 began to accelerate slowly.
In just a blink of an eye, it arrived at the end of the runway!
As the nose of the plane tilted upward, Xuannv No. 1 leaped into the blue sky!
The moment this scene was recorded by the camera, there was naturally another burst of ghost howling in the live broadcast room!
"Take off! Take off!"
"Fuck, this tail flame, this shape... I won't say more, a ten-year-old fan of Xuannv No. 1 came uninvited!"
"Everyone says that Xuannv No. 1 is an aerospace plane, so where is the destination of this test flight? It can't just fly around in the sky, right?"
The host of the live broadcast seemed to have seen this comment and explained softly: "The destination of Xuannv No. 1 this time is the geosynchronous orbit 36,000 kilometers above the earth's surface."
"Hiss...it's actually a synchronous orbit!" Zhao Zijie, who was sitting in front of the computer, took a sharp breath.
Taking off from the earth's surface and heading directly to the synchronous orbit... the power of Xuannv No. 1 is probably more exaggerated than anyone imagined!
Not to mention how many satellites of other countries are in the synchronous orbit, or whether Xuannv-1 carries any weapons or equipment, even if it simply drops a tungsten rod, the consequences are something most countries cannot afford!
Under the capture of the high-speed camera, the figure of Xuannv No. 1 appeared clearly in the live broadcast.
After taking off, the dark blue flame at the tail of Xuannv No. 1 became even brighter.
Unlike ordinary chemical fuel engines, the wake of the Hall thruster is a high-speed plasma at hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius.
Therefore, within the atmosphere, the tail flame of Xuannv-1 appears particularly spectacular!
Countless Mach rings are densely distributed in the ten-meter-long dark blue flame!
Before the netizens could express their feelings, the nose of Xuannv No. 1 suddenly pulled upwards.
Driven by the Hall thrusters, the entire aircraft climbed upward at a slope of nearly 90 degrees!
"Bang!"
A loud noise came from the sky!
A beautiful sonic boom cloud instantly appeared around the fuselage!
The moment the sonic boom cloud appeared, the number of barrages in the live broadcast room instantly skyrocketed dozens of times!
"What the hell! What the hell!"
"Mom, come out and see God!"
"This is the speed of sound? My goodness, the maneuverability of Xuannv No. 1 is too strong, isn't it?"
…
As Xuannv No. 1 pierced straight into the sky, cheers suddenly came from the research institute!
Listening to the celebrations around him, Academician Cao Liangcai secretly took off his glasses and wiped his eyes with his hand.
How many years.
In the field of aerospace, Xia Kingdom has finally surpassed the Western powers in a true sense!
Before Cao Liang could be happy for long, an alarm suddenly sounded!
"Academician Cao! Xuannv No. 1's speed has suddenly slowed down a lot!"
"Xuan Nu No. 1 has deviated from its planned orbit!"