88. Test flight

As soon as this news came out, City B suddenly boiled. It's been a long time since something so strange has happened in this realm. It was the first time that people had heard that people could fly like birds, and although they didn't know whether it was true or not, everyone wanted to see it with their own eyes.

In the former Qing Dynasty, there were manned hot air balloons in the army, and the Qing army also used the hot air balloon for lift-off training, but after all, the army training avoided civilians, and almost no one could see the scene of people flying in the sky. Besides, how can a hot air balloon compare to an airplane?

At that time, none of the Chinese people had ever seen an airplane, and a few people had seen pictures of airships through other means.

When the Gu's Aircraft Factory was publicizing, it described the appearance of the aircraft as like a bird, and when everyone heard it, it was particularly novel. Some people discuss whether the "plane" of Gu's Aircraft Factory can fly like a bird stirring its wings, some people speculate that it must be a behemoth, and some people bet that the so-called plane will definitely not be able to fly. From ancient times to the present, I don't know how many people have dreamed of flying to the sky, but who has succeeded? There are also people who say that before the test flight, any guess is not accurate, maybe the Gu factory has really developed such a thing?

Nowadays, society is developing rapidly, and if you push back a few years, who can know about the car? It can be seen that there are some things that cannot be judged based on the common sense of the past.

What's more, what is the Gu factory? That is the leader of the Chinese industry, and it is no worse than the factories of foreigners. Don't you see that many foreigners are still ordering products from Gu's? If other factories issued such a statement, there is no need to think about it, most of them are fake and grandstanding, but now that this statement was issued by Gu's, many people still have confidence in Gu Shuhan and Gu's factory. At least so far, Miss Gu has never spoken in vain, and all the words she said and the goals she set have finally been fulfilled. This time must be no exception, they just need to watch when the time comes.

On the day mentioned in the news, there were 10,000 empty alleys in City B. All the people who could come came to Gu's test flight site, waiting by the runway in a new way, and those who couldn't come in time asked someone they knew to tell them about the scene early.

Looking at the runway that had just been repaired, the people around couldn't help but point their fingers.

Obediently, that's the road that what kind of "plane" is going to use? It looks really different from the road they usually walk, and the road that the little foreign car has driven, as if it is a little interesting.

Although the conditions for the test flight were simple, Gu Shuhan still achieved the necessary conditions for the flight as much as possible.

The obstacle restriction surface is good to say, there are not so many high-rise buildings nowadays, and this piece is much easier to operate.

The team of bird repellent drove the birds in the flight area early in the morning, and today's birds are not like the general of later generations, after "thousands of tempers", they are relatively simple, so they are scared away by people.

Gu Shuhan himself acted as an air traffic controller, directing the planes in a makeshift tower. It is said that it is a tower, compared with the tower of later generations, it is really very simple, because there is no surveillance radar installed on the plane, Gu Shuhan can only observe the position of the plane through the guò theodolite, and then command it. Fortunately, she has a lot of experience in this area, and she can make up for some shortcomings.

Gu Shuhan and others are really lucky, today's weather is very good, the visibility is high, and it is very suitable for flying. The selected pilot is the first pilot in Huaguo, and at this moment, he is already on standby in the fuselage, and he is wearing radio communication equipment, and Gu Shuhan will use this method to control his air traffic.

It was evident that the young man was still a little nervous, although he had trained countless times before, and had successfully taken off and landed several times, but this was the first time he had flown an airplane in a high-profile environment. He understood how important his flight was to the Chinese people and to the Gu factory, so he was particularly worried that he would fail.

He could imagine that if the plane he piloted had any malfunction in the middle of the flight, it would definitely affect the confidence of the Chinese people in this newly born novelty, and it would also cast a shadow on the Gu's Aircraft Factory.

Before he knew it, his hands and palms were covered with sticky sweat.

Suddenly, a slightly cold, pleasant female voice came from the radio communication device he was wearing.

"Don't be nervous, don't be afraid of failure, you can do it."

"We're going to succeed, think about each of us, how much sweat we've put into it."

Such firm words greatly infected the pilot.

Sensing that someone was fighting with him, the pilot's feelings eased a lot, and he took a deep breath and gave an affirmative answer to the other side of the radio communication equipment.

Yes, they will not fail.

It's their debut, and they're going to be able to take to the top!

The senior leaders of City B also came to the site of the test flight and were arranged in an excellent observation position. They can get more information than ordinary people, and they naturally know about European and American airships, and at the same time, they think about problems from different angles than ordinary people. It is said that the people came here purely to see the excitement and freshness, but these leaders regarded the test flight of the plane as an extremely important matter. If the test flight of the Gu factory is successful, it will be of great strategic importance for them to be able to produce an aircraft with superior performance that does not belong to an airship in the future. Even if the current piston propeller aircraft can only carry ammunition and drop it at high altitudes, and cannot fire shells autonomously like tanks, it means that they are no longer a blank slate in air defense.

With a gunshot rang out, the flight officially began.

The propeller spun wildly, bringing up a stream of air, and the wooden plane taxied on the taxiway for a while, and after finding the right direction, it came to the entrance of the runway, and accelerated to take off and run!

The noise came from the propeller plane, but at this moment, no one paid attention to it, they all hugged around the railing in amazement, watching the wooden plane glide out of a certain distance and rise into the air at a thirty degree angle of attack, but in a few moments, the wooden plane had already jumped far away, leaving only a smaller and smaller point in their field of vision!

The wooden plane flew around in a circle, and then gradually flew back again. As it passed over people's heads, the crowd burst into cheers. It's incredible that something so hard and bulky can really fly like a bird!

The wooden plane, like a glorious warrior, circled over the heads of the crowd before landing on the runway. As soon as it stopped, a thunderous applause erupted around it, which lasted for a long time.

So far, this brand-new thing has really entered the field of vision of the Chinese people. Everyone's heart is full of indescribable excitement, pride and satisfaction.