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Chapter 212 Eagle Feather Six-Axis Attitude Control System! Wait, are you playing with inch-stop?
Li Jiajun watched Rajesh on the other side of the screen looking like he was about to have a heart attack from excitement, but he felt no waves in his heart.
'Excited already?'
'It seems this Curry bro hasn't seen much of the world. An engine modified from a fire extinguisher can turn him into this.'
Thinking this, he calmly unscrewed his thermos and took a sip of goji berry water.
To him, the Pangu Engine sounded intimidating, but it was just a large fire extinguisher nozzle with a supercharging function. Since the thrust issue was solved, according to the process, it was the other party's turn to make the next request.
On the other end of the video, Rajesh finally managed to steady his breathing after experiencing a brief mental climax.
At this moment, he also realized that he had been so busy being excited that he hadn't even seen the specific details of the blueprints just now.
Damn, I was totally hoodwinked.
However, the name 'Pangu' alone had already convinced him that the power system was solid!
Since the power was solid, the next thing that gave him the biggest headache was that damn 'hyperactivity' issue.
One should know that several of ISRO's previous launches failed because after the rocket ascended, the attitude control system was weak; the rocket was like a drunkard, drawing S-curves in the sky, and finally had to self-destruct.
That scene was simply his nightmare.
Rajesh cleared his throat, trying to make his expression look like a picky buyer rather than a person in charge in desperate need of a lifeline.
"Mr. Li, that... Pangu Engine indeed sounds wonderful."
He used broken Chinese, gesturing as he spoke:
"But, I have one small request for this toy sky rocket."
"You know, when we set off fireworks, we are most afraid of them flying randomly. If it flies into a neighbor's house, it's very troublesome."
"So I hope this sky rocket can fly particularly steadily! Particularly straight!"
"The kind where... even if the wind by the sea is very strong, it can pierce straight into the sky like a nail! It can't wobble around like a headless fly!"
To make himself clear, Rajesh even stood up, twisting his body to mimic a rocket wobbling, his movements so ridiculous they looked like he was doing some kind of Curry dance.
...
Li Jiajun watched his ridiculous appearance, his mouth twitching.
No wonder people talk about Curry monkeys; look at this guy, he's a total monkey.
But complaints aside, the customer's demand was an imperial decree.
"Steady, right?"
Li Jiajun nodded, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the table. "That means the attitude control needs to be done well, with strong wind resistance."
This was indeed a technical task.
After all, for something like a sky rocket, once the thrust is large, even a slight airflow disturbance or a slightly off-center gravity would make the flight trajectory unwatchable; god knows where it would land.
To maintain stability under high thrust, relying solely on the aerodynamics of the tail fins was definitely not enough.
There had to be an attitude control system.
'How to do it?'
Li Jiajun frowned slightly, falling into deep thought.
He habitually picked up his phone, intending to look up some information, but his finger slipped, and he started scrolling through short videos again.
"When in doubt, scroll through a video to relax."
He muttered to himself.
A sports channel highlight happened to pop up on the screen.
It was a world-class badminton duel.
In the video, two players were engaged in a suffocating multi-shot rally.
The white shuttlecock was being smashed fiercely by the rackets at speeds exceeding three hundred kilometers per hour!
Snap!
A crisp sound.
The shuttlecock was like a white bullet, rushing toward the other side with an afterimage.
However, during the flight, a magical scene occurred.
No matter how distorted its attitude was when hit—whether it was tumbling or spinning out—
In the instant of flight, the ring of feathers at its tail used air resistance to immediately pull the head of the ball back to the front!
The originally chaotic attitude became extremely stable within tenths of a second, tracing a perfect parabola and accurately hitting the corner of the baseline.
And the moment the ball landed, the opponent seemed to have foreseen the future, getting into position a step early and gently flicking the ball back up.
Li Jiajun watched this scene, his gaze frozen.
In his pupils, there was only that constantly flipping, correcting, and steadily flying shuttlecock.
All surrounding sounds disappeared.
Only the trajectory of that shuttlecock was infinitely slowed down and deconstructed in his mind.
'The shuttlecock head is the payload... the feathers are passive stabilizing fins...'
'The striking angle of the racket is the vector thrust...'
'The athlete's anticipation is the calculation of the fire control radar...'
'If... I combine this passive aerodynamic stability with active thrust fine-tuning...'
Ding!
[You observed the aerodynamic structure of a shuttlecock and, combined with a top athlete's precise prediction of the landing point, instantly understood the composite control algorithm for passive aerodynamic stability and active vector thrust fine-tuning!]
[You have gained insight into the Eagle Feather Six-Axis Attitude Control System!]
Boom!
It was as if a door to a new world had been kicked open!
Countless complex structural diagrams and plans flooded his brain. Gyroscopes, aerodynamic layouts, linkage devices for vector nozzles, and that core algorithm mimicking an athlete's anticipation swept in like a storm.
"Brilliant! Simply beyond words!"
Li Jiajun snapped awake and slapped his thigh hard. It really hurt, but he didn't care at all.
Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he bounced up from his chair, grabbed a marker, and rushed to the whiteboard again.
"Wahahaha! I have an idea!"
"Your request was practically made for this design!"
Li Jiajun shouted excitedly and pulled out another whiteboard.
The Netizens in the livestream watched this scene, completely stunned.
The bullet comments drifted across like snowflakes.
"???"
"Wait... wasn't he just watching a badminton match?"
"Am I seeing this right? Gaining insight into rocket attitude control technology from badminton?"
"Is this a brain that a carbon-based lifeform can grow? I feel like the Main Streamer's brain structure is different from ours!"
"The national badminton team reported the Main Streamer's livestream overnight on the grounds of suspected theft of national secret tactics!"
"It's over, I'll never be able to look at badminton the same way again. This isn't a sport; this is clearly ballistic missile science!"
And Rajesh, on the other end of the call, had his face pressed against the screen.
In his deep-set eyes, a greedy and fanatical light erupted.
And at that moment, Li Jiajun suddenly tilted the camera angle to the side!
The lens that was originally facing the whiteboard instantly became half-facing the ceiling and half-facing the bare wall.
And that wasn't all.
Li Jiajun operated the phone screen a few more times and directly zoomed out the camera.
In the current frame, only a blurry view of Li Jiajun's back could be seen from a distance as he wielded his marker before the whiteboard.
As for the drawings on the whiteboard?
Forget details; even the lines were blurred into a mess.
"This..."
Rajesh froze completely.
He maintained his neck-stretching posture, his mouth wide open, like a crocodile preparing to swallow its prey, only to be suddenly kicked in the face by the prey.
That feeling of being left hanging made him feel so uncomfortable he wanted to vomit blood.
"Mr. Li! Mr. Li! I can't see!"
Rajesh shouted anxiously, "Can you turn the camera back a bit? Just a little bit!"
At this moment, he felt like he was being edged, his heart dangling in suspense.
—Don't ask me what edging is, I don't know either; anyway, it's one of those 'good kids won't understand' series.
"Can't do that, big brother."
From off-camera came Li Jiajun's voice, full of professional integrity:
"This is called the Eagle Feather Six-Axis Attitude Control System; it's an exclusive patent I just came up with."
"We haven't signed a contract yet. If I let you see it all, wouldn't I be giving away my technology for free?"
"You know, business is hard these days; one must be wary of others."
As Li Jiajun spoke, he gave himself a thumbs-up in his heart.
The Netizens in the livestream burst out laughing at this scene.
"Hahahaha! The Main Streamer really knows how to mess with people's heads!"
"LMAO, look at that Curry person's expression, it's like he ate a dead fly!"
"Just now, when that Curry person saw the Main Streamer drawing, his neck stretched out and his eyes almost popped out, then the Main Streamer tilted the camera and zoomed out."
"This is totally baiting the Curry Stick like a fish!"
"Main Streamer: Want technology for free? No way! Want to see? You gotta pay extra!"
"I give this move full marks! This is what you call professional!"
And Rajesh, who was being baited, didn't get angry even though his heart felt like hundreds of ants were crawling on it.
On the contrary, he became even more excited.
Because he heard that name—
eagle feather!
Ying Yu!
As half an expert on the Eastern Country, he naturally knew the weight of these two characters.
Eagle, the overlord of the sky, with keen vision and precise capture.
Feather, light and agile, dancing with the wind yet able to maintain balance.
Combining these two characters...
Rajesh's brain worked rapidly, combining it with the blurry lines he had just glimpsed.
'High-precision laser gyroscope... combined with bionic micro-vector thrust...'
'This is absolutely a god-tier attitude control solution, surpassing existing technical levels!'
In his mind, he instantly completed a deciphering that favored himself.
Although not seeing the blueprints drove him crazy, this precisely proved the value of the technology!
If it were some trash technology, would Li Jiajun hide it like this?
Definitely not!
Only true black technology is worth being guarded so strictly!
'Found the right person! This time I really found the right person!'
Rajesh trembled with excitement; he took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the longing in his heart.
Anyway, as long as the order is placed and the physical product is obtained, when the time comes to take it apart and look, what technology can't be gotten?
Current endurance is for better free-riding in the future!
Thinking of this, Rajesh's face once again piled up with that sincere yet awkward smile.
"eagle feather system, it sounds very powerful just from the name!"
"So, the stability issue is solved."
Rajesh rubbed his hands together, striking while the iron was hot, prepared to toss out his third and very crucial request.
After all, for something like a rocket, besides flying high and flying steadily, it also has to be durable.
Especially when passing through the atmosphere, that temperature...
Rajesh's eyes flickered, and he said, revealing his true intentions: "Mr. Li, look, this flying steadily is fine, but I still have one small concern."