This is not just a story about sacrifice, but a story about “how life can be transformed into eternity.”
When an individual's heartbeat joins the pulse of national development, and the passing of the flesh gives rise to a spiritual rebirth, a finite life can attain immortality in another form, upon wings of steel.
Chief Engineer Luo used his life to show that the weight of a great nation's most powerful weapons is never just the weight of metal. It is also the weight of the lives poured into them by countless people like him.
Based on Comrade Luo Yang, former chairman of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation and an outstanding figure in China's aviation industry, this book records the birth of the “Flying Shark.”
This story is dedicated to all those who silently carved the measure of their lives into the skies above their motherland:
Their lives have an end, but their vows do not.
Their hearts will stop beating, but their dreams will not.
They forge their flesh into wings of steel,
compose their heartbeats into the roar of engines,
and carve their gaze into the eternal starry sky.
Their vows are silent,
yet they resound through the heavens,
shining alongside the sun and moon,
and enduring with the river of stars!
