A new month has started again, and Xiaomo kneels down to beg his brothers and sisters for monthly ticket support!

After spending a night in Ushuaia, Tang Feng made a lot of gains, not only finding the end of the big tunnel, but also harvesting 5,500 tons of highly enriched uranium. Therefore, early the next morning, Tang Feng couldn't wait to return to Rio Grande, because even in Ushuaia, Tang Feng had already felt the wind gradually subside.

Sure enough, when Tang Feng arrived at Rio Grande for breakfast, Sigman happily told Tang Feng that the wind had stopped today, and although the maximum wind force still exceeded level nine, compared to the thirteenth level gale a few days ago, this wind was nothing at all.

All kinds of equipment and supplies have already been placed in the luggage compartment of BA609, and all Tang Feng needs to do is to board the plane directly and then fly to the Antarctic Peninsula.

On this boarding, Tang Feng felt the discomfort of this plane, because this plane is not small, but the size of the cockpit is a little unsatisfactory.

Although the cockpit length of BA609 is more than 5 meters, the height is too short, only 1.45 meters, after a big man like Tang Feng enters, he has to bend over and walk in it, and the width of the cockpit is only 1.52 meters, which is about the same width as a double bed.

But if you sit inside, it's not a big problem, and the cruise speed of this aircraft is up to 509 km/h, which is almost twice as fast as the cruise speed of a normal helicopter. That is, it takes almost two hours to take off from Rio Grande and reach Admiral Brown Station on the Antarctic Peninsula.

The most important thing is that the BA609's ceiling can exceed 11,000 kilometers, which is almost no different from an ordinary passenger aircraft. Although it is impossible to fly to such an altitude this time, it is necessary to fly at an altitude of more than 7,000 meters. No matter how strong the wind blows, it won't affect the plane. If it weren't for the wind at the time of landing, you could have set off yesterday.

The driver of the BA609 was a man named McCarrow. Under Ricardo's control of the white man in his thirties, the nearly five-ton BA609 was quickly lifted into the air, and it was until it had risen to a certain height. The two propellers, which were originally horizontal, began to tilt, until the propellers were perpendicular to the horizontal plane, and the BA609 began to fly rapidly towards the south at a cruising speed of more than 500 kilometers.

The thirteen-force wind, which had been blowing for two days in a row, had wiped out all the clouds over the Drake Passage, and now the weather was clear and there was not even a trace of clouds in the sky.

It's just that at this latitude, even if the sun is shining, it still doesn't make people feel a little warm. This is one of the characteristics of the polar climate.

BA609 flies at an altitude of 7,000 meters, and through the porthole, Tang Feng can clearly see the Drake Strait below. This strait is worthy of being the widest strait in the world, even at an altitude of 7,000 meters, you can only vaguely see the white continent in the far south.

Compared to the huge white continent, Drake Passage is more like a sapphire, and the blue waters are bluer than the sky.

At an altitude of 7,000 meters, Tang Feng could clearly see the traces that appeared on the sea level. Tang Feng knew that those traces were the waves set off by the ocean-going freighters leaving the port. And the original huge ocean-going freighters, at this height, all of them are like the size of ants.

Looking down at the Drake Passage from above, it's hard to imagine that this strait is the most dangerous strait in the world.

In fact, the origin of the name Drake Strait is also quite legendary. Reputedly. The first person in the world to reach this strait was the Spaniard Josesi, the famous Spanish navigator is said to have discovered the strait as early as 1525 and personally directed his ships through it. In accordance with international practice, Josesi named the strait the Josesi Strait.

Merely. The name Jose Strait did not spread, but was later replaced by a more legendary name. This name is the famous Englishman Francis. Drake.

We are pirates

Fierce pirates

Holding a wine bottle in his left hand

He holds the treasure in his right hand

We are pirates

A pirate with skills

Beautiful girls

Please come to my arms

We are pirates

Free pirates

Under the guidance of the Skull Banner

Toil to survive

We are pirates

There is no pirate of tomorrow

There is never an end

Pirates drifting across the seven seas......

This "Pirate Song", which has been circulated for hundreds of years, although it is impossible to find out who composed it, but for hundreds of years, along with this song, there have been one famous pirate after another.

Among the top ten pirate kings of the past few hundred years, one of them is Francis. Mr. Drake.

One of the top 10 pirate kings, Francis. Drake, not only is a famous pirate king, but also the best of the ten pirate kings, because this pirate king eventually became the British vice admiral canonized by the Queen of England, and once led the LinkedIn Navy to defeat the Spanish Armada.

Born in the middle of the 16th century to a poor peasant family in Devon, England, Drake worked his way up from apprentice to sailor and eventually as a merchant captain, patron of Queen Elizabeth. Because in those days, the sea overlord was the Spaniards, as early as the fifteenth century, the great navigator Columbus discovered the American continent under the patronage of Spain and Portugal (the relationship between Spain and Portugal was very close, and it was once merged into one country), and later Magellan completed the circumnavigation of the world, so that Spain's understanding of the sea far exceeded that of other European countries, Spain was the first to enter the Americas, and the Portuguese drove into India.

In 1519, the Spaniards found the legendary gold country, and after destroying the Aztec and Inca two Mayan descendants, they completely controlled the South American continent and controlled the gold mines of Peru.

In 1568, Drake and his cousin John? Hawkins led five slave ships to Mexico, which were badly damaged by a storm, and at first, the Spanish governor allowed them to enter the harbor for repairs, but a few days later suddenly ordered an attack and all the British crew members were executed, except for Drake and Hawkins, who escaped and saved their lives. So Drake vowed to take revenge on Spain during his lifetime, and thus determined the trajectory of his life.

Four years later, Drake first gathered a group of people to sneak to the Isthmus of Panama in a small boat, and crossed the Isthmus of Panama like the explorers of the year, and saw the vast Pacific Ocean, and then he and his partners robbed the Spanish convoy transporting gold, and robbed several Spanish galleons, and successfully returned to England to become a hero, the significance of this operation is not only to obtain gold, but more importantly, Drake proved that the Spaniards are not inviolable, and he was summoned by the queen, and soon became a close confidant of the Queen.

Five years later, in 1577, under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth, Drake sailed to the American continent again on his flagship "Pelican", and robbed the Spanish fleet in South America all the way, becoming the pirate king of the Spaniards.

The Spaniards never dreamed that someone would dare to mess around in their own backyard, and when they sent warships in pursuit, Drake had already fled to the south, but due to the Spanish blockade, he could not pass through the narrow Strait of Magellan, and in a violent storm, the "Pelican" was separated from the rest of the fleet, and was blown south by as much as 5 degrees, and came to a place that the Spaniards had never been, which was the Drake Strait that Josesi had reached.

Here, Drake renamed his flagship the "Golden Deer", and led the flagship through the Drake Passage, into the Pacific Ocean, and then all the way west across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and finally rounded the Cape of Good Hope and returned to the British port of Portsmouth, becoming the second person to circumnavigate the world after Magellan.

This voyage Drake brought back tons of gold and silver, enriched the Queen's pockets, and more importantly, Drake opened a new route for Britain, greatly promoting the development of British seafaring, and he also discovered the wide Drake Strait, since then, the Pacific Ocean is no longer the inland sea of Spain, since then, this strait has been named "Drake" Strait, and with the gradual growth of the empire on which the sun never sets, it has spread all over the world. (To be continued.) )