Carrying his luggage, when passing by the sports field, he gave the fake note signed by the principal to the leading instructor who was supervising the students' drills, and then left in a chic manner, without taking away a trace of trouble......

How can this be a cool word?

Weiss and Nikolai walked through the shooting range and exited the military academy through the south gate. At this time, the sun had just risen, and there was no one to be seen on the sandy road outside the walls of the military academy.

On the other side of the dirt road is a private farm with thousands of tamed sheep and a large number of quail chickens. The farm has a large area of meadow, a sheepfold, a chicken coop, a warehouse, and a freshwater lake with a circumference of more than ten kilometers.

At this time, most of the snow on the farm has melted, and it looks orange as far as the eye can see.

Weiss followed the baby-faced brother and climbed over the wooden fence into the farm. After walking a few steps, his boots were already covered in mud.

"Where are we going?" He finally couldn't help but ask.

Nikolai said without looking back: "Go to the city of Somsonas!" ”

Weiss said, "We're going to wait here for the flying battleship to come?" Or, you know magic, you can open a portal and let us go straight to it? ”

On a planet with thousands of years of civilization, magic is found in many legends and stories, but technology is king!

Nikolai walked ahead, but he moved lightly than Weiss, and tried to choose a place where the ground was hard, and his beautiful black boots were only slightly muddy.

"Flying battleships? No, we're not going to fly on a battleship. Of course, I don't know magic! ”

It's not a flying battleship, it's not black magic, so if you want to cross thousands of miles in ten hours, you can use either an airship, an airplane, and is there a third possibility? Weiss muttered.

Nikolai said as he walked: "Have you forgotten? As I told you, I'm an honorary director of the Flyers Club! ”

Weiss didn't answer, but continued to mutter in his heart: Okay, you told the real dragon Clumber Haysen, that guy has been scared to death by the snow, and I am me, a different fireworks......

After walking a full two kilometers on the soft and muddy grass, they finally reached the lake.

The lake is a place for sheep tamers to drink and play, so the lake is even more muddy.

Nikolai carried his small reddish-brown suitcase and looked at his watch: "It seems that he is still on the way, wait a little longer!" ”

Idle is also idle, Weiss knocked on the side and said: "The scale of the Flyer Club you said is not very large, right?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately got Nikolai's eyes: "More than 5,000 officially registered members, 33 club activity points, and nearly 200 flying machines, this is not a big scale?" Clubs engaged in aircraft sports in other countries may not be as large as our club combined! ”

Aerocraft? Well...... This pleasant term immediately aroused Weiss's curiosity and expectation.

What kind of technical level of aircraft will appear in front of you later? Shouldn't it be as rudimentary and unreliable as the Wright brothers' "Flyer 1"!

Seeing Weiss's strange expression, Nikolai explained: "Flying battleships are military, so they can land in the military academy, and the Flying Fighters Club is a purely civilian organization, and the flying machine is different from the flying battleship, and there are special requirements for the landing site, so I want to come here." ”

Weiss thought for a moment and replied casually: "So that's ......"

Nikolai went on to explain, "Because the Star Source Stone is strictly controlled by the military, it is impossible for the people to get even a tenth of a pound for any reason. Therefore, the military is keen to build flying warships and disdain to develop flying machines, and ordinary people have no choice, and if they want to fly, they can only build flying machines. ”

As he spoke, there was a faint buzzing sound in his ears.

Following the prestige, a pelican-like "big white bird" flew low from the southwest.

Yo ho, sure enough, it's an airplane, a seaplane!

Weiss's mood suddenly jumped.

In his subconscious, the huge but clumsy flying warships were like the sea hegemons of the age of giant ships and cannons, which were rampant for a while, but eventually gave way to planes and missiles.

On the first day of his arrival in Aocheng, Weiss roughly deduced the level of internal combustion engine technology in this world through the car sent by the Grumman Group to pick up the station, and on the first day back at the military academy, he took Nikolai's "luxury car" to correct his judgment.

Obviously, the current internal combustion engine technology is enough to provide flight power for heavier-than-air aircraft!

From the air, the Barston Military Academy is a striking reference, and there is such a lake nearby. The pilot of the "big white bird" circled and soon landed in the posture of a pelican perched on the water.

Weiss stared intently at the white plane. It adopts a two-wing structure and a boat-style fuselage, in order to accommodate the large engine, the upper and lower wings are widely spaced, and the propeller blades are placed behind the engine to provide reverse thrust, and the square rudder and elevator are like three puff fans inserted in the tail, and when the aircraft lands on the water, the two pontoons suspended under the fuselage and wings jointly provide buoyancy and maintain stability in the floating state......

Unlike the shock of the first time he saw a flying battleship, Weiss had a natural affinity for this sparse and uniquely constructed seaplane. In the modern history of mankind, it is possible to find a number of aircraft that are similar or even similar to them, such as Curtis's "Airship", Super Marin's "Sea Lion", Savoia's "S.bis" and Markey's "M.bis" series.

While they are not the best in their class, they are by no means the worst.

When the "big white bird" came to him, Weiss suddenly realized that in this world where everything is too big, the size of this biplane seaplane is a bit small - its wingspan is only seven or eight meters, which is almost the lower limit of the lift provided for the aircraft in the piston engine era; The fuselage is about five meters long and two meters high, and can only accommodate two pilots.

Correspondingly, a small engine and propeller blades made of wood are mounted on top of the aircraft.

From a mechanical point of view, the bigger the aircraft, the better, but to adapt to the level of material technology. Judging from the appearance of the seaplane in front of you, it should be a wood-bone fabric skin or steel-bone skin structure - the wooden skeleton is lighter and weaker, and the steel skeleton is stronger but heavier. Either way, the compressive endurance performance of its fuselage, wings, and propeller blades has great limitations, and it is not suitable for supporting overly large aircraft.

It was not until the practical application of aluminum and aluminum alloys that aviation and air combat technology really entered the threshold of modernization.

After the seaplane landed, an uncle with a beard climbed out of the cockpit, stepped on the muddy ground on the shore nonchalantly, and grinned at Nikolai: "I'm sorry, Mr. Leboyd, I encountered a little trouble when we set off, and I kept you waiting!" ”

The engine did not turn off, it was very noisy, and Nikolai pulled his voice in a rare voice: "Thank you, Mr. Lenk!" My friend and I were in a hurry, and I didn't have time to send you back first, so I should have said sorry! ”

With that, he took out a bill of unknown denomination from his pocket and stuffed it into Uncle Beard's hand.

The uncle didn't shirk it, he put the banknotes directly into his pocket, and still said in a roaring way: "There is a problem with the reducer, and it doesn't work, so I suggest you try to fly as low as possible, in case the engine stops, just find a place to land." ”

said calmly, but Weiss on the side was depressed: What is the fun thing about forced landing? Delay the trip is a small matter, a little careless, seriously injured, disabled or even lose your life, who to talk to?

Nikolai responded very proudly: "The problem that can't be solved by tinkering, the parts should be replaced, but it really can't be done, even the engine has been replaced." ”

The uncle said: "I did suggest so, but you also know Mr. Antonio's temper - you can save it, never waste it, hehe...... I can't help it. ”

Nikolai seemed to be very familiar with this uncle, and after some complaints, he handed his suitcase to the other party: "Okay, I know, we are in a hurry, we have to leave quickly." ”

The uncle carried a suitcase in one hand and put the other on his arched thigh to give Nikolai a lease of strength. The baby-faced brother stepped on the wings and took the suitcase from the uncle, and the beautiful black leather boots were still not stained with much mud.

What a guy who loves cleanliness!

Weiss walked over to his uncle with envy. It's not easy to step on the uncle's body with his feet full of mud, so he had to let him carry the luggage on his behalf, and he climbed up awkwardly from the wing root position.

The uncle tilted his head and said to Nikolai: "When I set off, the fuel tank was full, I have been flying for half an hour, and I can fly for another two hours with a tailwind. ”

Nikolai expertly sat into the driver's seat, donning a fur hat and windscreens, while Weiss had to climb into the slightly narrower passenger seat behind him, with no instruments or joysticks.

In this position, I feel a little crowded in terms of my body shape, what can I do if a big man comes up?

After some inspection, Nikolai gave Uncle a thumbs up.

The uncle pushed the plane hard from the shore, and then made it turn in the same direction with a thousand pounds in four or two.

"Sit tight, Mr. Clumber-Haysen!" Nikolai turned his head and said loudly, "Welcome to the Flyers Club's Liberty 2 aircraft, where special pilot Nicola Leibold will be at your service every step of the way!" ”

Weiss took the opportunity to say: "Okay, reward!" ”