On this day 57 years ago, on January 6, 1968 (December 7, 1967 lunar calendar), the famous Chinese aircraft designer Xu Shunshou passed away. Xu Shunshou (August 21, 1917 - January 6, 1968) was born into an intellectual family in Wuxing County (now Huzhou City), Zhejiang Province. His father, Xu Yibing, followed Mr. Sun Yat-sen in his early years and joined the Tongmeng Association. He returned from Japan in 1908 and founded China's first sports school, the Chinese Gymnastics School, in Shanghai with his colleagues. Xu Shunshou was deeply influenced by his family and developed a strong, studious and enterprising spirit from an early age. He studied hard and loved mathematics. He won the first place in the Wuxing County Mathematics Competition. In September 1933, at the age of 16, he was admitted to the Aeronautical Engineering Group of the Department of Mechanics of Tsinghua University with excellent grades. After graduating in June 1937, he went to Hangzhou Jianqiao Aircraft Factory. Soon after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders launched a massive attack on Shanghai and bombed Jianqiao in Hangzhou. Xu Shunshou was determined to "save the country by aviation"; he was sent to the United States for an internship in September 1944 and returned to China in August 1946. In the spring of 1949, his Nanchang Second Aircraft Manufacturing Plant was forced to move to Taiwan. Xu Shunshou resolutely got rid of the shackles of the Kuomintang on the grounds of sending his wife and children back to his hometown. Under the guidance of his brother-in-law, General Wu Xiuquan (who served as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army after liberation), he brought his wife Song Shubi and daughter to Shanghai. With the help of our underground party, he crossed the blockade line and came to the liberated Peiping. From then on, he threw himself into the development and construction of China's In August 1956 in Shenyang created our country's first aircraft design room, Xu Shunshou as the chief designer, Huang Zhiqian, Ye Zhengda as deputy chief designer, the design room was established less than two years, it successfully developed China's first jet fighter trainer - JET 1, created a precedent for our country's own design of aircraft; in March 1958, Xu Shunshou together with the chief designer Huang Zhiqian and Lu Xiaopeng put forward the preliminary design of the "Qiangwu" aircraft; August 1961 as the newly established 601 (Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute) deputy director of technology, for the establishment of the Institute and technical reserves made a positive contribution, he personally organized and led the MiG-21 aircraft digestion work, pay close attention to professional construction In July 1964, he was transferred to 603 Institute (Xi'an Aircraft Design and Research Institute), one of the predecessors of the First Aircraft Design and Research Institute, as the deputy technical director and the first chief designer. He made positive contributions to the correct selection and overall design of the Y-7 aircraft and walked out a path for the development of civil aircraft in our country. Little known is that Xu Shunshou also made an important contribution to the "two bombs and one star". He accepted and led the design task of the sampler for nuclear explosion testing (code-named 09 Project) and the feasibility study of dropping hydrogen bombs from aircraft (code-named 816 Mission). He reported to Premier Zhou Enlai and made an important contribution to the central government's determination to use aircraft to drop hydrogen bombs. Thanks to his words and deeds, he paid close attention to basic skills and professional construction, and also laid a certain technical foundation for the successful development of the "China Flying Leopard" aircraft. He was brutally persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution on January 6, 1968, at the age of 51. Xu Shunshou was the earliest second-level engineer in the country, the first director of the Chinese Aeronautical Society, and the third deputy of the National People's Congress. He was awarded the rank of technical colonel of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He dedicated his life to our country's aviation industry and made significant contributions to our country's aircraft design. He wrote "Aircraft Performance Jet Algorithm", compiled the first "English-Chinese Dictionary of Aeronautical Engineering Terms", translated and published "Aircraft Structure" and "Aircraft Intensity". These two books were the only aircraft design guidelines and methods introduced in China at that time. They were selected as teaching materials by aviation schools established successively, and Xu Shunshou donated all the manuscript fees to resist the United States and aid Korea. It was during the adversity of the Cultural Revolution that he still compiled the book "Aircraft Life" due to illness, and co-edited the "Fatigue Translation Collection", which systematically introduced the fatigue problem of structures and the design principles of "safe life" to China for the first time. He attached great importance to the cultivation of scientific research teams, and personally organized the preparation of the "Basic Skills Outline" and "Designer's Manual" of various specialties, which were the only feasible basis for aircraft design in China at that time. What's more valuable is that he has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents and created a group of pillars of China's aviation industry, such as Gu Chanfen, Academician of the Academy of Engineering, Tu Jida, Academician of the Academy of Engineering, Chen Yijian, Academician of the Academy of Engineering, Guan De, Academician of the Academy of Engineering Lu Xiaopeng, Deputy Chief Designer Cheng Shi Shi, Chen Songlu, Guo Songlin, Huang Desen, Gao Zhongshe, Zhong Dingkui, Chen Shaoyou, Wu Keming, Gong Guozheng, Fu David, etc. The training and guidance is a historical proof that he has a good eye for talent and knows how to use people well. He believes that aircraft design requires two kinds of talents, in his words: "conventional Kuaishou, key experts". To achieve this goal, we must practice basic skills, read more technical materials, read more model drawings, draw more pictures, and practice imitating Song Dynasty characters. He has a mantra: "If you are familiar with 300 Tang poems, you will chant even if you don't know how to recite poems". He encourages young people to "sit down, get in, and come out" and strive to be the top technical. He particularly appreciates the "puppy swimming theory" of the Soviet expert Krasimov, and insists on giving priority to the cultivation of talents and eliminating them naturally. Xu Shunshou is upright, upright, and straightforward. He always insists on what he thinks is correct. He is outspoken and never goes with the flow. It is indeed commendable. Comments: The first aircraft designer in New China