As long as the engine is powerful, can bricks fly into the sky?

Friends who like and understand the military must often hear this sentence, that is, "as long as the thrust is large, bricks can fly to the sky."

Is this an online joke, or has someone said it?

In fact, this sentence has a source and is related to the early design of the F-22.

The F-22 was developed from the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) project.

In the early days, several companies bid together, namely Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Northrop and McDonnell Douglas. Everyone put forward a conceptual design scheme.

The picture shows the F- 1 17 Nighthawk stealth combat attack aircraft.

The result may be that Lockheed once designed the F- 1 17 stealth aircraft, so it is certainly the easiest to take the old road. So Lockheed's original F-22 predecessor scheme is like an enlarged version of F- 1 17.

The picture shows the conceptual design proposed by Lockheed in the ATF plan.

There is no doubt that the design of the above picture is the same as that of the freak F- 1 17. For stealth performance, at the expense of aerodynamics, the total design weight of the aircraft is 36 tons.

Later, someone commented on this early design. He is Bart Osborne, the project manager of Lockheed's ATF project.

Osborne), 1998, a magazine interviewed Osborne, he said this:

"We know that this design will have serious supersonic problems. Of course, our design can fly at supersonic speed, but it must be as stupid as a pig. Obviously, as long as the thrust is large, bricks can fly with enough.

Strength can make bricks fly. )……"

That's how this sentence came from. What he wanted to express at that time was this: the plane we designed,

There are bound to be many problems at high altitude and high speed. Of course, this does not mean that this design can't fly at supersonic speed, not at all, because as long as you push it, you can also make bricks fly in the sky and make them fly at supersonic speed.

Bart Osborne's evaluation is very pertinent. After Lockheed submitted this conceptual design, the US Air Force gave the worst evaluation of this design, ranking first from the bottom among the other seven project designs.

Later, the phrase "as long as the thrust is large, bricks can fly to the sky" was gradually used by military fans to express the importance of aero-engines.

Aeroengine is the heart of an airplane and the source of all power. Only when the engine is updated can fighters and passenger planes be updated accordingly.