Ancient and modern aviation flies in the clouds, calling the wind and rain, perching above the blue sky, nine days away: this is the image of a dragon. The Chinese nation calls itself "the descendants of the dragon". In the minds of our ancestors, flying like a dragon has long been a desire. Therefore, in the glorious history of China for 5,000 years, there is a touching legend of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon.

Inspired by this fantasy, our ancestors kept exploring and making flying instruments. The earliest recorded efforts can be traced back to BC. According to Mozi Ruben. Famous craftsmen in the Spring and Autumn Period can already "cut bamboo and wood into magpies and fly away without a trace"; According to the legend of Zhang Heng in the later Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng, a famous scientist in the Eastern Han Dynasty, also made a flying wooden bird. More than two thousand years ago, the world's earliest practical airplane-kite was born in China. Tang Zhaoxin's book "Xi Deng Zhu Wen" records that when Chu and Han fought for hegemony, Han Xin used kites in the battle of Gaixia, and kites were officially used for military liaison in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In addition, many modern airplanes can be found in many documents and inventions of China. For example, Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty put forward the view that birds soar because of the updraft in Bao Puzi. Internal chapters. "Miscellaneous reaction", which is an important discovery of the flight principle of birds, including the original theory of gliders; The corpse lamp in the Five Dynasties was also called "Kongming Lantern". As we all know, it is a primitive hot air balloon that uses hot air to rise into the sky. The bamboo dragonfly, called "China Gyro" by western scholars, is generally regarded as the embryonic form of modern rotorcraft.

It can be seen that our ancestors made many brilliant achievements in aviation. Although they were not further developed due to the suppression of China's long feudal society's thought of "attaching importance to literature and neglecting reason", they had a great influence and enlightenment on the research of aircraft in later generations.

China Modern Airlines began in the late Qing Dynasty. 1840 After the Opium War, the country opened, and a large number of western theories poured into China, which had been closed to the outside world for thousands of years. Modern aviation knowledge is also introduced, and many articles and pictures about hydrogen balloons, airships and airplanes have appeared in China. Some people of insight began to explore China's own route. 1887, Hua, a math teacher at Tianjin Military Equipment School, designed and manufactured the first hydrogen balloon in China. 19 10, Li Bao and Liu Zuocheng, who returned from studying in Japan, were entrusted by the Qing government to set up an aircraft manufacturing shed in Beijing Nanyuan. They built the aircraft in April of the following year, but they crashed due to engine failure during the test flight. After the Revolution of 1911, the revolutionary military government set up an aviation corps, and some patriots interested in aviation devoted themselves to serving the motherland. One of the most famous is patriotic overseas Chinese Feng Ru. Feng Ru was the most successful aircraft designer and pilot in China at that time. 19 1 1 returned to China with his assistant and became the captain of the Guangdong revolutionary army government aircraft team. Unfortunately, in 19 12, he died young due to a plane crash. The government of the Republic of China erected a monument and praised it as "the first flying master in China". Other famous aviation pioneers include Tan Gen, who set a world record for the flying height of seaplanes, Yang, who returned to China to establish the Guangdong Aviation School, and Le Shiwen, who was successfully tested by Soong Ching Ling at random.

Thanks to the unremitting efforts of many pioneers and the fact that aircraft became a symbol of strength in the scuffle between warlords, old China finally established some aircraft repair shops and aircraft manufacturing factories, and began to imitate foreign aircraft, but it was limited to manufacturing and assembling fuselage. Many important components, such as engines and metal propellers, were completely dependent on imported finished products. At that time, most of the aircraft used in China were purchased from abroad. It is worth mentioning that during this period, China began to train aviation engineering talents. Some aviation schools and flight training institutions have been established in China, and a few international students have gone overseas, among which Qian Xuesen and Wu Zhonghua are more prominent.

Just as China's aviation industry grew tenaciously in adversity, wars broke out frequently. From 19 10, when the Qing government set up a factory in Nanyuan to manufacture aircraft, to the establishment of New China in 1949, China has accumulated a certain foundation in aviation in the past 40 years, but it has never had an independent aviation industry. Coupled with the indiscriminate bombing of Japanese troops in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the destruction caused by the collapse of the China People's Party in the Liberation War and the relocation of machinery factories in the war, the equipment was completely lost and the factory collapsed. By the time the new China was founded, except for some aviation technicians, only a few meager foundations were gone.

Our booming aviation industry today is built step by step, brick by brick, on the basis of "being poor and white". Over the past 50 years, countless aviation workers have sacrificed their lives for the aviation industry in New China, and finally China has entered the ranks of aviation powers. Although we still have a long way to go compared with today's aviation powers such as Russia and the United States, the Chinese nation has always been hardworking, brave and wise. As long as we continue to carry forward the spirit of hard work and unremitting progress, the descendants of the dragon will one day walk in the forefront of world aviation!