Gao Fenglin
CCTV News:Gao Fenglin, male, born in March 1962, Han nationality, party member of the Communist Party of China, is a special fusion welder and senior technician of Capital Aerospace Machinery Co., Ltd., the First Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
Gao Fenglin has participated in a series of major aerospace projects, and the welded rocket engines account for nearly 40% of the total number of rocket engines. It has overcome the technical problems of Long March 5, and made outstanding contributions to the smooth implementation of national key projects such as Beidou navigation, Chang ‘e lunar exploration, manned space flight and the development of the new generation launch vehicle of Long March 5.
Honors won: second prize of national scientific and technological progress, national model worker, national May 1st Labor Medal, national moral model and most beautiful worker.
Gao Fenglin, male, born in 1962, Han nationality, party member of the Communist Party of China, is a special fusion welder and senior technician of Capital Aerospace Machinery Co., Ltd., the First Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. In his hands, the welding torch is a needle, and the arc light is a line. He pursues the welding light and welds a sky on the "golden thread" of the rocket engine. He is the special fusion welder of Capital Aerospace Machinery Co., Ltd., the First Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the team leader of the rocket engine welding workshop, and the national senior technician — — Gao Fenglin.
It is said that Gao Fenglin is a "golden hand welding", not only because early people called the welder trained by argon gas, which is more expensive than gold, "golden hand"; It is also because the object he is welding is very expensive, and it is an engine known as the "heart" of the rocket; But also because he has reached a height that ordinary people can’t reach in the field of rocket engine welding. "Golden Hand and Sky Welding" is a portrayal of Gao Fenglin’s superb skills and repeated difficulties in welding technology, and it is also the embodiment of the elegant demeanor of high-skilled aerospace workers in the new era.
First, I am determined to serve the country and practice welding skills in the aerospace industry.
Gao Fenglin, who just stepped out of school, entered the argon arc welding group of the rocket engine welding workshop with abundant talents, and studied skills with the first generation of argon arc welders in China. In order to practice basic skills, he used to use chopsticks to gesture welding and wire feeding when eating, used to hold a jar full of water to practice stability when drinking water, held an iron block to practice endurance when resting, and even braved the high temperature to observe the flow law of molten iron. Gradually, Gao Fenglin’s accumulated energy generate came out.
In the 1990s, the welding of the large nozzle of a new type of high thrust hydrogen-oxygen engine designed for China’s main rocket Changsanjia series launch vehicles once became a bottleneck in development. The length of all welds is nearly 900 meters, and the pipe wall is thinner than a piece of paper. If the welding torch stays for 0.1 second, the pipe may burn through or leak. Once burn through and leak occur, not only the large nozzle will be scrapped, but also the development progress and launch date of the rocket will be affected. Through continuous exploration, Gao Fenglin and his colleagues overcame two major difficulties, namely burning through and welding leakage, with superb skills. However, the X-ray inspection of the first welded large nozzle shows that there are more than 200 cracks in the weld, and the large nozzle will be sentenced to death. Undaunted, Gao Fenglin made an analysis and investigation from the aspects of material performance and structural characteristics of large nozzle. In the end, at the high-level technical analysis meeting, he boldly said in the questioning voice of many technical experts that it was a fake crack! After the cutting test, it is shown that his judgment is correct under the microscope of 200 times. In this regard, the first large nozzle was successfully sent to the test bench, and the successful application of this new type of large thrust engine greatly improved the carrying capacity of our rocket.
With more and more urgent and difficult jobs, Gao Fenglin has shouldered more and more burdens. In the welding research of a certain type of ejector, he made bold improvements, which solved the unsolved problems in the past year and a half and ensured the delivery of products with an output value of nearly 100 million. The launch system of a national submarine-based key model is in trouble near the critical moment of launch. Under the direct instruction of the model chief engineer, Gao Fenglin studied and adopted special techniques, and eliminated the fault overnight, thus ensuring the launch of this product as scheduled.
Second, the courage to innovate, self-breakthrough achievement expert workers
Gao Fenglin dared to try in his work, persisted in innovation and breakthrough, and turned countless "impossible" into "possible". The qualified rate of a certain engine component is only 35%. It takes half a year for the model to produce a large number of qualified products. This product is processed by soldering, while Gao Fenglin’s major is fusion welding, which is a cross-disciplinary research. Gao Fenglin understood the mechanism from the theoretical level and grasped the key from the technical level. He ran to the library, browsed professional and technical websites, and tried his best to search for relevant information at home and abroad. Every day, Gao Fenglin led the team members to conduct experiments in an operation room of more than 20 square meters, and conducted hundreds of experiments in two months, clarifying the genetic mechanism of the two materials, and repeatedly improving them from the aspects of environment, temperature and operation control. The final processing technology made the qualified rate of the product reach 90%.
The continuous success did not make Gao Fenglin feel high. Instead, he felt the value of knowledge more and more, and thought that operators should arm their minds with wisdom to better guide the practical operation. After leaving school for 8 years, Gao Fenglin re-entered the campus, picked up his textbooks and began his hard spare-time study for 4 years. During the day, he shuttled to the work site, training ground and classroom, and at night, he studied with two thick stacks of books until 3 or 4 o’clock. Due to excessive tension and fatigue, his hair fell off in handfuls when he was less than 30 years old. Everything comes to him who waits. Gao Fenglin first achieved good results in practice and theory in the technical competition, and soon got a college diploma that he had been looking forward to for many years. After that, he completed his study from undergraduate to graduate.
Not only can you do it, but you can also write it to guide others to do it. Gao Fenglin has been asking herself this way. In the butt welding of engine nozzle, which is very difficult to operate, Gao Fenglin studied the characteristics of the product and applied what he learned flexibly, and put forward the "anti-deformation compensation method" to control the deformation. Later, this process won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress; He also edited the first model engine welding technical operation manual and other industry specifications, and was appointed to participate in the formulation of relevant aerospace standards for many times. Through the process of self-study, practice, summary and re-practice, Gao Fenglin has gradually become an authoritative welding expert in China and an expert worker who combines profound theory with exquisite skills in everyone’s eyes.
In 2006, the antimatter detector project involving 16 countries and regions in the world was in trouble because of the manufacturing problem of low temperature superconducting magnets. The proposals put forward by two groups of international and domestic technical experts failed to pass the review of the international alliance led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). At a loss, Professor Ding Zhaozhong, a Nobel Prize winner, inquired about Gao Fenglin and asked him to help. Gao Fenglin went to the site to conduct basic research and textual research. He pointed out: according to the traditional control method, the previous two schemes are impeccable, but there are great hidden dangers for this special structure. He stated his design scheme, which was finally recognized by NASA and the League of Nations. An expert commented on Gao Fenglin: "You have both profound theory and rich practical experience. You look at the problem from two dimensions. It seems that highly skilled talents are of great use!"
Third, be willing to give, and work hard to witness the ordinary greatness.
The particularity and risk of aerospace products determine that many problems must be solved under very difficult and dangerous conditions. Gao Fenglin is willing to devote himself to the front line of welding, working hard, facing up to difficulties at the most needed moment, and has made extraordinary achievements in his "ordinary" post.
In order to meet the launch of large-capacity and large-tonnage satellites, China has built the largest full-arrow vibration test tower in Asia, in which the welding of the vibration girder is the key, which belongs to the first-class weld, and the material used to make the vibration girder is very special and the welding is very difficult. In order to meet the welding requirements of vibrating girder, Gao Fenglin should operate continuously at high temperature. The surface temperature of the weldment reached several hundred degrees, and Gao Fenglin’s hands were baked dry, and a series of blisters were bulging. In order to finish the task on time and with good quality, he gritted his teeth and finally welded a qualified vibration beam. During the later manned spaceflight project, the vibrating girder was upgraded and tested. The results show that the welding quality of the girder is good, and the bearing capacity can be increased from 360 tons to 420 tons, which can continue to serve for the development of launch vehicles in China. The vibrating girder has stood the test of time, and Gao Fenglin’s hands are still scarred by severe burns.
During the development and production of Long March 5, the engine suddenly leaked from the inner wall during the launch pad test. Standing on the test bench facing the product, behind him is a mountain stream of tens of meters, and Gao Fenglin is fearless in times of crisis. Because of the special environment, the fault point can’t be observed, and the operating space is very narrow, Gao Fenglin managed to finish the "emergency rescue" by using superb skills and special techniques under the condition that he could barely fit into one arm.
Gao Fenglin has been rooted in the front line of aerospace and engaged in the welding of rocket engines. He has overcome more than 200 difficulties in major research projects of aerospace product engine models. He has also actively contributed his talents to fill technical gaps in titanium alloy bicycles, large vacuum furnaces, ultra-thin large bellows and other fields, creating value for the national economy. Foreign-funded enterprises have been hired with high salary and housing, and he is unmoved; Many times can be promoted, Gao Fenglin also gave up. He always believed that his roots were in the welding post.
Fourth, willing to educate people, preaching and teaching paved the way for peaches and plums.
It is not spring to outshine others. Apart from being a master of skills, Gao Fenglin also has a significant job, which is to continuously train more outstanding aerospace high-skilled talents like him.
In terms of technology inheritance, Gao Fenglin unreservedly passed on his accumulated rich experience to young people. He groped and summed up a set of methods for talent training and management. His advocacy of "mentoring by teachers" and "One Belt and One Belt" and his creation of "welding" education method have been widely recognized and applied in practice. It has cultivated five national technical experts and one central enterprise technical expert. He was invited by the Central Organization Department and Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China to have an exchange of "artisan spirit", participated in the "activities of artisans from big countries entering the campus" and "exhibition of innovative achievements of workers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait" of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, and actively promoted the spirit of model workers, labor spirit and craftsman spirit.
In 2005, Gao Fenglin’s team was jointly named "Gao Fenglin Team" by China National Defense Posts and Telecommunications Union and Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, becoming the first team named after a model worker in the First Aerospace Institute. As a demonstration base for team building, Gao Fenglin team has fully played a typical demonstration and radiation-driven role in producing models, achievements, talents and experiences. Teams and teams have teamed up with more than 30 teams inside and outside the space system to carry out various exchanges and cooperation. Through technical cooperation, more than 20 major scientific research topics such as aerospace engine welding and development have been solved. Received many training courses for national excellent team leaders of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, as well as visits and exchanges from nearly 200 brother units such as China Commercial Aircraft, China Electric Power Branch and Shougang Group. Under the leadership of Gao Fenglin, the team has successively won many honorary titles such as "National Worker Pioneer", National Learning Excellent Team, National Safety Production Demonstration Team and Central State-owned Enterprise Learning Red Flag Team "Benchmark" with its impressive performance. In 2011, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security awarded Team Gao Fenglin as a national skill master studio. In 2017, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions awarded Gao Fenglin Team as a national model model worker and craftsman talent innovation studio.