The carrier-based aircraft, which was also reduced by 120 times, became only the size of a palm, with slender wings spread straight out, and flexibly took off and landed on the aircraft carrier model.

Their take-off, landing and even cruise flight are semi-automatic, and the testers who are remotely controlled more than ten meters away do not need to precisely control each of their movements, they only need to align the direction and give corresponding instructions, and then the processor on the aircraft will automatically execute the preset program, search for targets, read the ambient wind speed and direction, adjust the attitude, and then complete the specified action.

After more than three years of development, Bee has a very strong technical accumulation in the field of UAV attitude detection, self-balancing, electric power, and aerial camera. Although it is more difficult to achieve the take-off and landing of fixed-wing aircraft than quadcopters, it is still within their capabilities, as long as the wind speed is relatively low and stable, their aircraft can completely control all flight actions by themselves, and the controller who is responsible for giving orders for the aircraft to accelerate and accelerate, turn left and right, dive, climb, take off and land, becomes dispensable. If you let professional players who play model airplanes see this scene, they will definitely complain that they are fully automatic and have the fun of a bird?

But that's exactly what the design principles of the Bee UAV are about to make complex things simple, as was the case with the quadcopter of the past, and the same is true for today's miniature model airplanes, which should actually be considered drones.

After all, they are special remote control toys designed to be linked to online games, and the control ability of ordinary players needs to be considered, and they cannot be required by the requirements of professional model airplane players. Moreover, they are not real fighters in themselves, so it is really unnecessary and incapable of perfectly simulating all the movements and details of their prototype "Tomcat".

For example, the most famous feature of the "Tomcat" is that the swept wing cannot be imitated, and the wing sweep angle of these F14 models is fixed at 20 degrees, which is close to straight.

For an airplane, the straighter the wings, the greater the lift gained from flying forward, and the increased cross-sectional area of the wings also leads to increased drag, making it much more difficult for the aircraft to be supersonic. So we can see that the early planes basically had straight wings with a sweep angle of 0 degrees, and they were double or even triple, while the later jets basically used an inverted "V" shape to sweep back, and the wings were narrower to reduce flight drag and achieve higher speeds.

Then in the 60s and 70s, the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War successively focused on the "variable swept wing" design, so that the wings of the aircraft have the ability to "stretch and deform" like bird wings, and the wings open at low speed to get more lift, which is convenient for take-off and landing and low-speed cruise performance, and at high speed fold and shrink the wings to obtain faster speed. The representative of the American fungus is the F14 Tomcat heavy fighter of the HNA aircraft, while the representative of the Soviet army is the MiG heavy fighter.

However, it was later discovered that in order to achieve a variable swept wing, it was necessary to prepare a strong and lightweight wing sleeve structure to hold the wings, and the resulting increased weight, manufacturing costs, and maintenance costs greatly offset the advantages brought by the variable swept wing, so this design disappeared from the design of the new aircraft. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US military began to live a poor life, and a large number of equipment with high maintenance costs were forced to be decommissioned and mothballed, and the S "Blackbird" high-altitude reconnaissance plane and the F117 "Nighthawk" stealth fighter, which were once arrogant and arrogant and could reach three times the speed of sound, were retired one after another. The Tomcat was also abandoned by the U.S. Navy and was completely withdrawn from active service in 2006 due to the high cost of maintenance.

However, although it has been retired, the F14 with the ability of "air transformation" is still a classic, and because it has excellent low-speed performance that is rare among jet fighters, the Bee UAV team decided that it was it at the first time.

Of course, it is only the shape, and it is a rough shape, the movable flaps around the F14 wings have been greatly simplified, after all, the flight speed range of the model aircraft is much smaller than the real "Tomcat", and the flight performance improvement brought by the movable flaps is not obvious but increases the cost, so it has been omitted early. Also omitted are the cockpit details, as well as the interior details of the aircraft.

This is also a natural choice, although the bee can find the high-definition large picture of the "Tomcat" from all angles through the Internet, but the detailed photos of the cockpit dashboard and the interior of the aircraft are not easy to get. This is true even if this model has been retired. Besides, they didn't have the idea of building an airplane for the "Shuck and Beta", so the cockpit was actually omitted, and under the transparent cockpit canopy was a camera that could rotate 360 degrees in the plane and had a maximum elevation angle of 60 degrees, which was naturally used to simulate the pilot's perspective. When linked with Dreamwalker, the latter transmits the player's head angle data in real time to control the camera steering, which can get a very good immersive experience, no matter how rebellious CGI technology is, the synthetic picture is always less realistic in terms of reality and cost.

If you open up their delicate shells and let the model aircraft "look at its original form", you will see colorful wires, large and small electric motors, as well as a processor motherboard and batteries tucked into the wings.

Model airplanes generally have two power options, the first is electric motor drive, the advantage is that the structure is simple, the cost is low, the disadvantage is that the battery capacity is not strong, resulting in a cheating and speed, the second is a micro fuel engine, the use of simplified and reduced aircraft engine and fuel, you can get a longer endurance and better flight performance. However, this type of engine is more expensive and is usually only used by high-end large model aircraft. Bees, these small planes with a length and wingspan of only about 15 centimeters, naturally do not need such high-end and high-grade "aircraft engines", of course, they can only choose electric solutions.

Fortunately, the Bee UAV has long had its own special model airplane motor, and it performs well on the Big Dragonfly series quadcopter. At the same time, the bee drone has long developed a variety of special models for model aircraft, and has achieved good reviews among model aircraft enthusiasts, many of these players have been recruited by the bee to join his model aircraft team, becoming testers and even designers. Quadcopter can be completely relied on software, computer, mechanical and electrical talents to complete, but the model aircraft needs more professional talents, bees on the one hand from the national college aircraft graduates recruitment, on the other hand, also put their eyes on these professional players, they may play real aircraft is not as good as aviation students, but playing model aircraft is not inferior or even better.

Due to the limitation of battery capacity, the full power of these small aircraft is only ten minutes. While increasing the size of the battery and the size of the aircraft can lead to longer stay in the air, it was not necessary for this project. Ten minutes is actually enough for a general game, although these controllers only need to stand quietly on the ground or simply sit and lie down, and then stare at the analog screen on the screen or the plane overhead to give them orders, but the long air combat dog fight is also very tiring, the head is sore, the neck is numb, and the tablet is also a little pressing......

Liu Shumeng also controlled a small plane to play for a while, for him who has played with a quadcopter, the control interface looks very familiar and familiar, there is no difficulty in learning, the only difference with the quadcopter is that the quad axis can be "stationary" hovering in the air to keep the spatial coordinates unchanged without operation at all, and automatically return home after waiting for a period of time, and these small planes can not hover, they will maintain speed and altitude when there is no operation, and then they will automatically return home after confirming the operation timeout.

Putting down the special remote control tablet with two vertical antennas installed, which looked a bit like wireless routing, Liu Shumeng shook his head with some dissatisfaction.

"How to go, is there anything dissatisfied with Mr. Liu?"

"There are too many things that I am not satisfied with!" Glancing at the small plane overhead that was testing the climbing project, Liu Shumeng said: "What is the most famous thing about the tomcat? The swept wing and the AIM54 Immortal Bird long-range air-to-air missile, but all of you cats are kittens, and they don't look like gods! The wings have become fixed, the afterburner flight has disappeared, and the missiles have become decorations and cannot be sent out at all. ”

Just now, he found that although there were various missiles of all sizes hanging under the wings of these Tomcats, when he clicked the missile launch button on the control interface, he could only see the simulated missile flight screen on the screen, and the missiles on the plane did not change at all.

"We're not really building airplanes, so how can we really put a few pencil-sized missiles on them? Those missiles are really just decorations now, and they can't be ejected automatically. ”

Liu Shumeng did not answer directly, but looked fixedly at the eaglet model drawing circles on the calm artificial lake, and it was naturally easy to complain and pick thorns, but it was not so simple to put forward feasible suggestions for improvement.

Seeing the smile suddenly crawling on the third brother's face, Atletico couldn't help but be curious about his suggestion.

Their "Sea and Air" project is now in a confused and stalemate dilemma, and the weaknesses of Bees' long-standing emphasis on technology and neglect of planning and setting are exposed in this project. It is not difficult for their software and hardware siege lions to design and make an alpha technical verification version of the game model, and it only took more than a month to get it done, after all, the technical reserves of electric model airplanes and ship models have long been available, and the rest is just integration.

However, after this initial version was made, it was tested internally and received a bunch of "neutral reviews", which made the development team anxious.

All of Bee's software and hardware products have always adhered to the design concept of "transparent development", and great emphasis is placed on allowing end users to participate in the design of products, so as to avoid designers making products behind closed doors that consumers do not buy. After the company's operation is on the right track, out of the principle of confidentiality, before the open project is allowed to participate in the public, it will generally conduct a trial within the company to collect opinions and suggestions, but the sea and air war project has received a bunch of comments at this stage.

The evaluation system of Bee is obviously a reference to Taobao's online shopping evaluation system, where testers are required to give a good review when they are satisfied and surprised, and give a bad review when they are bored or dissatisfied, while the middle review indicates adjectives that sound like they are acceptable, okay, and average.

After further investigation and analysis, they were depressed to find that it seemed that they had lifted a stone and shot themselves in the foot. Comments such as the speed of the Kitty Hawk test ship is too slow, there is no feeling of rushing through the wind and waves, the Tomcat flying too slow, the aerial photography effect is not as good as the four-axis hovering shooting, the bad reviews that cannot be deformed, and the bad reviews that cannot put missiles are endless.

It can only be said that the four-rotor drone of the bee makes aerial photography and aerial perspective no longer unattainable, especially the people who are basically interested in the bee employees have already had one or more drones. The Tomcat's cool-looking cockpit perspective seemed to these people to be shaky and unclear, and the actual technical auto-flight feature didn't surprise the playlist because it had become commonplace on quadrotors.

Although I can comfort myself by saying that this is because many of the employees involved in the test have played with quadcopter drones and have little novelty for Tomcats, and the impression distraction will only be reduced when the trial range is expanded, in fact, everyone understands that the project is on the verge of failure. For bees accustomed to success, not being successful enough is failure.

And the big wave behind the scenes of this project, Atletico Madrid also couldn't sit still at this time, you must know that after a year of research and brewing, the list of the first batch of uninhabited islands that allow the transfer of use rights has been released, and the auction process will start soon, and the Yellow Sheep Island that he had previously fancied is also among them. Originally, Atletico Madrid had already planned to transform the island into an interactive tourism base with the theme of military war after taking pictures, and then get a bunch of famous ships of World War I and World War II (models) on Huangyang Island, so that tourists could rent them to play sea battles. As a result, there is a sudden situation that players may not buy it, so he can't help but be nervous.

Although he has not yet spent money to shoot the island, and the development cost of the sea and air war project is only two months' salary of the R&D team, and the timely stop loss has no effect at all, but he does not plan to take the project. After all, the basic plate of Bee Interactive Entertainment is this type of game that players can participate in personally, and the previous real battlefield series gameplay is not popular, and there are many people who appreciate it and few people who buy tickets to play in person. As housing prices rose and rents rose, Bee Games had to close many venues with too few customers, and now it has dumped the rest to Mutual Entertainment Company.

Although all kinds of equipment used are settled internally and will not lose money on the books, it is impossible to make a large profit, which means that the mutual entertainment company has not found his cash cow now. If this project fails, it means that Atletico Madrid's business strategy for Mutual Entertainment is wrong, and when the time comes, it will be impossible to change its course, either cheekily retreat into the traditional online game field, or plunge headlong into the pit of stand-alone machines.

Although driven by Bee Software, the domestic stand-alone game market has achieved rapid growth, but so far there is only a market size of 500 million yuan a year, and more than eighty percent is created by the software store of Bee Wisdom Center. Because the market plate is too small, Bee Software basically supports domestic stand-alone new games, not only providing technical support, but also tending to developers in revenue sharing. If Bee Mutual Entertainment rushes into the domestic stand-alone market, relying on technology and financial advantages, it may squeeze and kill many hard-working stand-alone developers, but if it goes out of the sea route, Atletico Madrid is not optimistic about them who lack the strength of planning and screenwriting.

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