Is it true that Chinese Americans spent 90,000 to build airplanes?

When many people regard "flying an airplane" as an unlikely wish, Li Xianghong, a Hunan native who works in the United States, has built a two-seater airplane in his garage. On July 2, 2017, he flew the plane on a cross-border flight from the United States to Canada.

The aircraft, called the "RV-7," has successfully flown for more than 300 hours, and it took him three years and one month to build it with an investment of $90,000. Now, he is preparing to build a second four-seater. Li Xianghong's construction of the plane caused a sensation in the local Chinese circle.

Li Xianghong was born in 1971 in Zhuzhou 331 Factory, Hunan, and since he was a child, he thought he was "cooler" than other children, because he had a father who drove bombers. Every once in a while, he and his mother would visit his father at the army station.

Li Xianghong recalled that his father drove the "H-5" at that time. When he was six or seven years old, he could often see bombers taking off and landing at night at the troop station, and the guiding lights on the ground of the airfield were constantly flickering, and with a loud roar, his father took off again with a fighter plane.

In May 2007, when he and his family were on vacation, they saw a small plane whizzing by, and "I couldn't hold back the urge anymore." He told his wife that he had to fly a plane, so he got his pilot's license that year.

But buying an airplane is expensive, even if it is a general-purpose small plane, it also costs more than 1 million US dollars. Even if you get a pilot's license, you can't fly an airplane. If you can't buy it, you can make it yourself.

The United States has nearly 100 years of flight culture accumulation, a large number of flying enthusiasts among the people, and also has the world's most complete general aviation environment. Li Xianghong began to plan to buy the architecture, drawings, and parts by himself, and prepare to build the plane by himself.

From the moment he planned to build an airplane, his spare time was basically full, and he converted his garage into an "airplane factory".

There are three main steps in building an airframe, the first is to determine the architecture (airframe), which is not difficult because there are many public parts to choose from on the market; The second is to install the instrument cluster and electronics, which are also available as open parts; Finally, it is necessary to install the assembly of parts such as engine, oil circuit, fuel pipeline, etc.

After more than 1,000 days and nights, using more than 20,000 rivets, looking at hundreds of kilograms of drawings and materials, and spending 90,000 US dollars, Li Xianghong finally completed the final assembly procedure of the plane in the garage.

At present, Li Xianghong has set out to build his second plane (four-seater), and he has an even more ambitious goal: to fly his own plane back to China from the United States.

In 1950, due to the immaturity of aviation technology, there were no airplanes that could be used directly.

It may be quicker to apply for a family visit visa, and when you arrive in the U.S., you can change it with the help of a lawyer.

If you can find a job related to computer science, the income will be good. Expect a monthly salary of $2,000-$3,000. It's hard to get a good job without getting a Social Security number.

Get a job delivering food at a Chinese restaurant, and the money will come faster. Even tips, you can earn 60-70 US dollars a day, you don't have to pay taxes, and you can get food. The monthly expenditure budget is about 1,000 US dollars, and the average monthly income is 1,000 US dollars, and you can earn more than 200,000 yuan in three years, which is enough to start a small company!

Anyone who does not have a work visa is not allowed to work in the United States. Arrested, imprisoned and repatriated. It's not easy to get a job in a Chinese restaurant. If you have a specialty, you can apply to stay, but it is not easy.

How can people take you in without a skill! It's going to be fast, too!

Without a work visa, Chinese people are not allowed to work in the United States!

Depending on what you do, the buyer is more profitable.

You need a letter of invitation from a U.S. company to work part-time.

Since you have relatives, you may want to check with them, after all, the locals know more about the United States.

According to the 2000 Census Bureau, there were 2,879,636 Chinese Americans, or about 1% of the U.S. population. (Of these, 144,795 declared as Taiwanese.) ）

According to the U.S. census, the total number of overseas Chinese in the United States was 430,000 in 1970, 800,000 in 1980, and 1.8 million in 1990. According to the 2000 U.S. demographic data, the total number of overseas Chinese in the United States was 2.88 million. It is mainly distributed on the east and west coasts of the United States, and is mostly in large cities.

The number of overseas Chinese is 1.12 million in California, 500,000 in New York, 200,000 in Texas, 170,000 in Hawaii, 100,000 in Massachusetts, and 100,000 in Illinois.

The first person in China to build an aircraft was Feng Ru, and his basic situation is as follows:

Feng Ru, male, formerly known as Feng Jiuru. Han nationality from Guangfu, born in Enping, Guangdong. Born into a poor peasant family.

Since he was a child, he has loved making toys such as kites and cars and boats. is full of yearning for mythological stories, especially flying stories. At the age of 12, he crossed the ocean with his father to the United States to make a living.

He witnessed the advanced industry in the United States and believed that the country's prosperity and strength must rely on the development of technology, and that it was necessary to learn machinery and develop technology to change China's poor and backward appearance. He invested in aircraft manufacturing on the basis of developing some machinery, and after the first failed test flight of the aircraft, the second manufacture and test flight was successful, which was praised by Mr. Sun Yat-sen and overseas Chinese in the United States, and at the same time obtained the first-class pilot certificate issued by the American International Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which greatly increased the ambition of the Chinese. There are also books by Feng and the same name.

Feng Ru is a native of Enping County, Guangdong Province.

No need! Just go to the space station and take a ride! The space shuttle costs a lot!

Those who say that the space shuttle is not safe are all dogs! The space shuttle has made 156 manned flights in its career, with a total of two failures, is this called low safety? China has not developed rockets and manned space flight more than 10 times.

There are 3 design ideas for flying aircraft carriers. 1.Large floating structure, less dense than air. 2.Very large transport aircraft scheme. 3.A combination of a powerful upgrade engine and a maneuvering engine.

The theoretical technical proof of idea 1 was completed by German engineers at the beginning of the last century, installing decks on giant airships and drifting at extremely low speeds by thrust fans. Theoretically, this idea is very difficult to produce, but the safety and reliability are even much lower than that of the Zeppelin, and in the event of an accident, it is completely impossible to take any evasive measures.

Idea 2: Through the theory of the giant transport aircraft, only the idea and the imagination of the writer, the more feasible solution is to reduce the size of the nose similar to the C5 Galaxy transport aircraft to ensure that the cargo hold is fully passable. With current technology, the United States has a theory of being able to produce a light aircraft the size of a World War II piston fighter that can carry and take off. The former Soviet Union may have had the same capability, but Russia no longer has it.

The problem with this scheme is that the weight of the take-off and landing aircraft is much lower than the weight of cruise missiles under the same technology, which leads to no combat effectiveness at all.

Idea 3 is the most perfect idea, which can make the existing aircraft carrier fly on the premise of ensuring its attack and protection capabilities. The carrier in the Avengers is called Helicarrier, and it is mentioned in S.H.I.E.L.D. that it uses anti-gravity technology and the equivalent of Iron Man's Giant Ark Reactive Thrust Energy technology. With current technology, the GE90, the world's most powerful jet engine, would need about 14,667 units to propel the USS Ford.

If it is lifted by the Saturn V launch vehicle, it will take 30 to work at the same time, or 32 Energy Vehicles, or 123 Long March 5 vehicles. The cost of a single Saturn V was $500 million, the cost of the USS Enterprise nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the same era was $100 million, and the GDP of the United States at that time was about $900 billion. Today, the GDP of the United States is 17 trillion US dollars.

The Saturn V may now cost more than $8 billion, so the cost of $240 billion could make Ford float for more than 100 seconds. In other words, the money that makes Ford float for 100 seconds can build 15 more Fords.

It's possible with the technology now, but it requires very, very large rotors (4 revolutions in the movie) and very high energy, so it's impractical, and no one will try it.

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Feng Ru, September 21, 1909, Feng Du

For example, when it was close to dusk, he made his first test flight next to a circular hill near Odaokran, a place far from the settlement, and three of his assistants were present, in addition to the reporters.

When the plane flew a kilometer after takeoff, and was about to make a turn from the ground, the propeller suddenly stopped, the plane fell to the ground, and Feng Ru was thrown out of the plane, but fortunately not injured. The cause of the accident was due to the propeller shaft screws being tightened too tightly, resulting in the breakage of the propeller root.

In March 1910, Wright and Adratic performed in Los Angeles. Feng Ru made a special trip to visit in order to learn from advanced technology, but the performers were very conservative and restricted the audience to stay away from Sanli. Although Feng Ru did not get a lesson, he had the ambition to work hard.

In July 1910, Feng Ru built a second airplane based on Curtis's "Golden Arrow" and the Wright Brothers' "Flyer I", and from October to December, Feng Ru piloted it to Auckland for a successful air show.

In February 1911, Feng Ru refused many offers from the United States and returned to China with his assistant and two planes. After the Xinhai Revolution, Feng Ru was appointed as a flight captain by the Guangdong Revolutionary Army.

On August 25, 1912, Feng Ru died in a crash in a flight show in Yantang, Guangzhou, and was posthumously awarded the rank of army major, and his body was buried in Huanghuagang, and a monument was erected to commemorate it, and he was respected as "China's first flying master".

Feng Ru, the first aircraft designer in China. Invented in 1908.

In April of the 34th year of Guangxu (1908), Feng Ru built the first airplane, and when he carried out a test flight, it was unsuccessful. Then, the factory in Auckland caught fire, and all the materials and equipment of the factory were burned, and Feng Ru was in a predicament. In May, Feng Ru rented an 80-square-foot house at 359 East 9th Street in Auckland as a factory and named it Guangdong Manufacturing Machinery Factory.

In February 1909, Feng Ru built a second plane, the plane flew for a test flight, and it had risen several meters into the air, and suddenly fell, but Feng Ru was not injured. On the afternoon of September 21, Feng Ru conducted the first test flight. In October, Guangdong Aircraft Company was formally established, with Feng Ru as the chief mechanic, and publicly raised preferred shares, recruited 67 preferred shareholders, and raised 5,875 US dollars.