On October 8, 1902, the weather was clear and cloudless. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

A wingspan of 12.9 meters, a wing area of 51.4 square meters, a length of 7.21 meters, and a total weight of 510 kilograms, the "Flyer 1" took off in the suburbs of New York, flew for one minute and eleven seconds, and then landed on the ground.

In total, Flyer 1 flew a distance of less than a kilometer during this flight.

Compared with the historical Wright Brothers' Flyer One, the Hunter Aircraft Manufacturing Company's Flyer One is undoubtedly much more advanced. For example, it is larger and nearly twice as heavy, but it has a more powerful engine and a more reasonable fuselage. The engines provided by the Huntelaar Automobile Company were undoubtedly countless times stronger than the engines developed by the Wright brothers themselves, and the abundant funds and manpower provided by John allowed the Wright brothers to conduct thousands of experiments in a year!

After hard work, there was a great success in today's test flight!

It's just that this flight didn't cause any waves in New York City. Because under the orders of Mr. Huntelaar, the Huntelaar Aircraft Manufacturing Company only sent people to register the patent, and everything else was silent. Even the other people who went to watch the flight test were given a ban, and they were not allowed to leak the slightest rumor......

……

In the luxurious study, there was silence.

"Sir, it looks like he's succeeded again."

A middle-aged man had a very complicated expression on his face as he said these words. There is annoyance, unwillingness, and a trace of admiration in this expression.

"yes, he's successful again."

After a long silence, JP Morgan let out a long, incomprehensible sigh.

As a financial giant on Wall Street, he is still one of the most powerful people in New York City and even North America, even though Morgan-controlled Northern Securities is being sued by the U.S. government and facing the fate of dissolution. So Morgan, of course, already knew about the movements of the Huntelaar Aircraft Manufacturing Company. It's just that what he didn't expect was that their success came so fast that he didn't have time to react at all!

Morgan wants to follow the trend, and is still looking for relevant talents!

Seeing that Morgan's expression seemed to be getting more and more gloomy, the middle-aged man hesitated for a moment before cautiously asking, "Sir, what ......is that?" Shouldn't our aircraft manufacturing companies invest more? ”

"Hmm...... Never mind. ”

Suddenly, Morgan waved his hand with some interest: "The matter of preparing for the company has stopped, and the matter of recruiting talents has also been abandoned, and the matter of building aircraft will not be considered in the future." ”

"Huh? Belch...... Good. ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then nodded helplessly.

He has been in charge of planning the aircraft manufacturing company for half a year, and he was still ambitious to catch up with the Huntelaar family, but he didn't expect that his company had just begun to study, and the other party's plane was actually in the sky, which made the middle-aged man a little disheartened for a while.

"Maybe ......"

Looking at Morgan, whose face was ugly, the middle-aged man sighed secretly: "Mr. Morgan is keeping an eye on the Huntelaar family, and the idea of trying to get ahead of them is impossible in itself, after all, in addition to being the best surgeon, he is also the world's top physicist......"

I don't know when Morgan started staring at John? Mr. Huntelaar.

The acquisition of the Flying Pigeon Bicycle Company gave Morgan a taste of sweetness, and then Heinz Pharmaceutical Company, Automobile Company, etc., let him see John? Huntelaar's astonishing ability to make people rich, and the establishment of the New York Electric Power Company and the rapid development after it was later renamed the American Electric Power Company, made him understand one thing, in addition to the use of the power of capital in this world, science and technology can also bring great wealth!

Therefore, despite the danger of falling out with the Huntelaar family, Morgan opened his own car company, pharmaceutical company, etc., and also funded Tesla's research.

It's a pity that reality tells Morgan that he is far from that one when playing technology!

Not to mention that the pharmaceutical company has not developed a decent drug so far, and the automobile company has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, just to say that his investment in Tesla's research is almost lost! Tesla was undoubtedly a genius, and he did develop wireless power transfer technology, but to Morgan's great disappointment, this transmission was directionless, that is, anyone could freely accept it within the scope of the power supply.

For the capitalists, this is naturally impossible.

However, the disappointed Morgan did not give up after stopping his funding for Tesla, and after John's spending spree last year, he started his own small moves. However, he did not send people to Texas to grab land with the other party, nor did he think about organizing the development and growth of the Huntelaar family's shipyard and weapons manufacturing company, but chose to continue to follow the trend: send people to study aircraft manufacturing, send people to study radio, send people to study synthetic ammonia......

The slightest bit of information from commercial spies made Morgan invest a lot of money.

So the news that the Flyer 1 had successfully lifted off and flew nearly a thousand meters from the inside line gave Morgan a heavy blow! Because his company was just starting out, and there were no aero engines on the market, Morgan had to find his own loss-making car company to design; Before he could develop an airplane, he had to recruit inventors who had to come up with ******......

Everything was just getting started, and Flyer One was lifted into the sky.

Morgan has never been afraid of failure. But those failures were in the financial field, and when Morgan's failures frequently appeared in the technology field, and the opponent was still a person who could not be defeated by financial means, Morgan felt a sense of powerlessness for the first time, and he was not even sure whether the radio and synthetic ammonia he sent someone to study were meaningful......

……

"To be honest, I'm not surprised at all."

Facing his respectful subordinates, John calmly took a sip of tea and smiled slightly: "It is definitely not an accident that Mr. Morgan can have his current identity and status. Therefore, in this era, only he can keenly discover the significance of my investments, and he is the only one who has the courage to break his wrist...... Of course, the investment in Tesla is a little bit more lost, and it can be regarded as paying the tuition. ”

"Uh...... Yes, sir. ”

The subordinate in front of him couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth, and his forehead seemed to be a little shiny.

I am afraid that there are really not many people who dare to use such a ridiculous tone to talk about Mr. JP Morgan these days. At least in his mind, Morgan, who had just begun preparations to help the U.S. government develop the Grand Canal in Panama, was a big man to look up to!

But......

"Tsk, the boss seems to be a little more powerful!"

While secretly admonishing himself to straighten his ass, he said respectfully: "Sir, then I will continue to pay attention to Morgan and his investments in the future, and I will report to you at any time if there is any situation!" ”

"Well, hard work."

Waving his hand, John chuckled and said, "I'll have something to do later, you can go back first......"

Morgan's loss has nothing to do with John.

The great success of Flyer 1 made him smile, but at the same time, he also saw the huge crisis behind the success. Aircraft building in this era is simply too simple. The simple engine structure, the simple aircraft structure, and the simple manufacturing process all make the aircraft a simple "high-tech"!

Any company can do this in two or three years if they have enough investment.

So John did not be superstitious about the Wright brothers, nor did he send people to publicize it, but ordered the insider to keep it secret, and at the same time, he immediately invested another 200,000 dollars in the aircraft manufacturing company!

Continue to recruit technicians and work on more advanced aircraft.

If the historical trajectory does not change much, the plane should not attract too much attention in the next few years, after all, every time it takes off for a minute or two, the thing that can only fly a few hundred meters is of no use at all except to attract attention...... Not at least until 1908.

If all goes well, there will be at least six or seven years left.

Not everyone can see the great prospects for the future of aircraft, and not everyone can see how quickly aircraft manufacturing technology will develop, especially catalyzed by war. So as long as John invests enough money, this time is enough time for the Huntelaar Aircraft Manufacturing Company to establish an unbreakable technological advantage...... (To be continued.) )