Brotherhood
(2023-03-25 12:15:21)
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"Everyone says that Qian Xuesen is worth five divisions, but no one knows that Guo Yonghuai is worth two of me!" This is Qian Xuesen's lament in grief when the sad news of Guo Yonghuai's death in a plane crash came in 1968. The friendship between Qian Xuesen and Guo Yonghuai, the two martial brothers, is moving. Now, I will write down the story of their acquaintance for 30 years to entertain the readers.
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GuoYonghuai (first from right) and Qian Xuesen (second from right) discussed technical issues at the test site (May 1965).
Acquaintance
Whenit comes to Qian Xuesen's acquaintance with Guo Yonghuai, it begins in the 1940s.
Inthe summer of 1941, Guo Yonghuai graduated as a master's degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, and went to the California Institute of Technology to pursue a doctoral degree. He studied aerodynamics under the guidance of von Carmen, the father of American aviation and master of fluid mechanics.
Here,he met his senior brother Qian Xuesen, who later influenced his life. At this time, Qian Xuesen had already obtained his doctoral degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1939, and remained with his mentor, von Carmen, to work as a teaching assistant. Qian Xuesen sometimes guides Guo Yonghuai and has become his "little mentor.".
In1945, Guo Yonghuai completed his paper "Discontinuous Solution to Transonic Flow", which solved the world problem of sound barrier, and thus obtained a doctoral degree. Qian Xuesen commented, "Yonghuai found a topic that no one wanted
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