In 1985, a sudden decision hit Ma Fengshan, a genius research expert in the aerospace field.
China's first self-developed large passenger aircraft, the Y-10, which carried all the efforts of his technical team, was forced to be removed from the shelves due to financial and resource problems.
Even if Ma Fengshan tried all the ways within his ability, he couldn't prevent this fact from happening.
Work on independent serial production was limited, and we had the option of purchasing airliners from abroad.
But because of a miscalculation, China has paid an economic price of trillions of yuan and suffered a huge blow to the aviation industry.
A generation of superstars who witnessed all the processes also died with hatred after 5 years, leaving many regrets.
What kind of mental journey did Ma Fengshan have in the development of the Y-10? What is the miscalculation that caused China to bear a huge economic cost?
In the 50s of the last century, Ma Fengshan, who returned from studying in the Soviet Union, was organized and assigned an important task to develop a bomber belonging to the Chinese.
At that time, we were already working on the research and development of advanced technologies such as atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs, and the development of bombers was precisely to cooperate with them.
It is no exaggeration to describe China's air construction field as a blank space at that time, whether it is the construction foundation or technical resources, we are quite lacking.
What Ma Fengshan and others need to do is to build high-rise buildings on the blank land, and how difficult this is can be imagined.
In particular, when Sino-Soviet relations were cold and the Soviet Union refused to provide us with any further assistance, the difficulty of our work increased exponentially.
Although many researchers have the will to stay the course, they do not have much confidence in the results.
But Ma Fengshan is different, when he was studying in the Soviet Union, he was the best of his classmates, and he recorded many learning experiences and valuable materials one step ahead of others.
These things can become the confidence in his scientific research work.
With the full efforts of him and his colleagues, the H-6 was born and shook the whole world.
In the field of aerospace, he has become one of the few leading experts.
After completing a big project, Ma Fengshan didn't plan to take a break, because he had a new goal in mind.
The more he gets in touch with the aerospace industry, the more he can understand how many shortcomings the motherland has.
Not only are we far behind Western countries in the field of military aerospace, but we also have no representative products in the civilian sector.
Therefore, Ma Fengshan vowed to make a stunning appearance of China's large passenger aircraft in the world.
It is precisely because of his determination that the Y-10 can become a milestone in China's civil aviation field.
Bombers and passenger planes are two completely different models, but Ma Fengshan has found similarities between the two.
They all had the same transport function, with the former transporting atomic bombs and the latter transporting people.
Therefore, they must have something in common in terms of structure, and as long as they find inspiration from the bomber transport plane, the airliner will have a design direction.
As the saying goes, draw inferences from one case and integrate the other, when others take a step, Ma Fengshan has already seen ten steps.
Throughout the work cycle, Ma Fengshan has always maintained a high degree of enthusiasm, and he is full of enthusiasm when he thinks that Chinese will be able to fly in the aircraft he designed in the future.
However, despite the high degree of secrecy of our work, some rumors were heard in the West, as well as in the Soviet Union.
At that time, many countries did not believe that we could really achieve anything.
Some Western countries even said that there are only 3 countries in the world with the production capacity of large passenger aircraft, and China wants to become the fourth, which is really beyond its capacity and absolutely impossible.
There are so many things that Western countries have predicted that China will not be able to do, such as bombers, didn't they once think that we were just making a small fuss?
And we use our strength to prove that the country that will be slapped in the face has never been China.
It's the same this time, there are more countries that are not optimistic about us, but our research and development work can still be carried out steadily.
In 1980, the Y-10 was completed.
Before the first flight day, Ma Fengshan didn't sleep well all night, and he hadn't experienced this long-lost feeling of excitement for a long time.
In the following inspection link, every technical index and efficiency index of the Y-10 reached the standard perfectly, and all flight missions were successfully completed, showing strong performance.
Seeing the Y-10 soaring in the sky, Ma Fengshan was full of emotion.
As long as this passenger plane can smoothly enter the production link, then in the near future, the flight of the Chinese will no longer be subject to foreign interference.
It is a great joy to be able to solve a bottleneck project for the country.
But before they could get excited for long, questions followed.
The relevant departments told Ma Fengshan that at present, the state cannot provide special production funds to subsidize their work, so many links are facing a shutdown at any time.
At the same time, Western countries are pressuring us one after another, threatening China with ** orders and cooperation projects, trying to force us to stop production.
Because they know that once the Y-10 comes out in large quantities, China's dependence on the Western market will be greatly reduced, and they will no longer be able to manipulate China at will.
Under the combined effect of internal and external pressures, we had no choice but to stop the mass production of the Y-10.
This decision made Ma Fengshan like a lightning strike.
Y-10 is not only his own effort, but also the contribution of the whole team, it is like everyone's children, it is the most important thing in their hearts.
And now, all the efforts have been wasted, how can this not be heart-wrenching?
In order to save the situation, Ma Fengshan made a final effort.
He first approached the relevant departments, hoping that the state would give them a little more time and provide more support.
He also promised to speed up the speed, shorten the construction period as much as possible, and save more resources on the basis of quality and quantity.
But helplessly, the country's key construction project at that time was by no means only the Y-10, and this choice was also a last resort when a trade-off had to be made.
I found a lot of places and tried a lot of methods, but Ma Fengshan still found nothing.
He could only watch as the Y-10 production line stopped, and watched as the materials that were once precious to him turned into a pile of broken copper and iron.
In the event that our own production lines are withdrawn, we can only cooperate with foreign airlines to support the needs of passenger aircraft transportation.
McDonnell Douglas in the United States was the partner chosen after much deliberation at that time.
In fact, the problems existing in the company's business have been understood by our representative team during the research process.
There were big shortcomings in their aircraft design at that time, and there was no way to solve them in a short period of time.
These problems do not affect flight safety, but they can affect things like the performance speed of the aircraft.
But all in all, it's not a fatal problem.
It is precisely because of the flaws that McDonnell Douglas gives a relatively low number at the time of **, which is lower than the other objects in our selection range.
Comprehensive cost performance, our country finally set them as partners.
However, this decision was a complete miscalculation.
The design shortcomings have caused McDonnell Douglas to lose a certain degree of international competitiveness, and it has also lost its advantages in the subsequent financial mergers and acquisitions and other processes.
The company, which had signed a large number of contracts with us, was eventually acquired by Boeing, and the capital structure and the way the entity operated completely changed.
We don't expect these situations, and when they do, there's no way to undo them.
China's production line has been completely infiltrated because of the game of these international capitals, and the vital links in the research and development of passenger aircraft have also been completely covered by them.
Overall, our direct economic losses at that time exceeded one trillion yuan, which is simply a sky-high figure.
The relevant departments repented of this misjudgment, and Ma Fengshan was even more heartbroken after learning about the incident.
He kept wondering, what is the purpose of his persistence for so many years? Is there any point in these persistence and dedication?
He was discouraged for a while, but eventually decided to get back on his feet.
Because he knows that the country's aviation industry still needs him, and many of the younger generations who are growing up still need him.
It doesn't matter if the achievements of the past have been overturned, the Chinese have never lacked the courage to start over.
At the low point of his career, Ma Fengshan received encouragement from many people.
Juniors, students, everyone told him that he couldn't just give up, and everyone was still waiting for him to return to his post and continue to shine.
Even if the Y-10 is taken off the shelves, China still has other aviation projects that he needs to take the lead into, and the students still have many problems that he needs to lead to overcome.
Therefore, when Ma Fengshan saw the huge economic losses of the country, he brought up the old matter again, hoping that the country could overcome all difficulties and rearrange the project of building a domestic passenger aircraft.
Otherwise, we will continue to be controlled by others, and we will suffer more losses and lose more interests in the international market.
So in 1989, the country decided to restart the plan, and Ma Fengshan took office again as the general director.
However, at this time, he is no longer the same as he was more than ten years ago.
Restricted by age and physical condition, Ma Fengshan has no way to work as hard as before, and he does not have the energy to deal with technical problems that last for several days and nights.
Now, he can only play a role in overseeing the overall situation, and some specific tasks and tasks are all handed over to young technical research and development personnel to complete.
But even so, his hard work was almost boiled dry.
In 1990, Ma Fengshan, who was in an important position, fell.
He refuses to accept old age and does not admit defeat, but his body has sounded the alarm bell for him again and again.
The doctor told him the truth, he is now at the end of his life, and only by resting well can he prolong his life as much as possible.
However, how could Ma Fengshan, who had finally waited for the resumption of the production of domestic passenger aircraft, take a solid rest?
He has endless documents and materials, and he has an endless heart, even if he is lying on the hospital bed, his heart has already flown to the workplace.
In April of this year, Ma Fengshan was already terminally ill, and he knew that his time was running out, and he regretted it in his heart.
Whether it is in front of his family or students, he will say that the saddest thing for him is that he can't see the results of everyone's work.
He knew he wouldn't make it that day.
The matter of Yun-10 has always been a scar buried deep in Ma Fengshan's heart, and at the end of his life, this scar began to ache faintly again.
In the end, he no longer had the strength to read the documents, and he didn't even have the strength to speak, only his eyes were still telling his unwillingness.
Ma Fengshan's hatred has been transformed into the driving force of everyone, and we have never stopped the follow-up research and development.
Today, the Y-10 has become China's industrial heritage, a testament to our feats.
It's a pity that the wheel of fate can't move forward, otherwise it would not just be a legacy, but a real achievement.
If the old man Ma Fengshan is in the spirit of heaven and sees the results of the country's scientific research work today, he must also feel very gratified.