"Baron Lilinthal and Baron Daimler, in recognition of your contribution to the aviation industry, your salary will be increased by 30% from now on. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info and the grant will be increased by 50 per cent. Of course, I asked you to come, not only to inform you of the salary increase, but more importantly, we need to discuss aviation technology, Aviator-1 only solves the problem of lift-off and basic operation, and is not a mature product, what we need is a more efficient and stable aircraft. Prince Ruprecht's words made the two barons opposite sit upright, and they didn't even dare to come out.

"The Flyer 1 is too big, too cystic, I mean big, it's hard for me to imagine a solo plane being so huge, the huge wing area and volume greatly increase the drag of flight, I think Baron Lilinthal will know this better."

"In the next step, I hope, our aircraft will be smaller and more compact. The body is more aerodynamic. And it can have a relatively closed body. Also, to improve the maneuverability of the aircraft. The most important point is to increase the load, I don't ask for much, at least a machine gun and a certain amount of ammunition, right? The prince said what he wanted.

"The Flyer One was a test piece, and when we designed it, it was more like a ******. In the next phase, we're going to try to refine the design of this aircraft, and we're going to use some metal parts inside the aircraft to increase the strength, which is certainly not going to work with pure steel, because that would add weight. We intend to use aluminium, or aluminium and composite wood. Baron Lilinthal said.

"The real trouble is carrying weapons. If it was in real combat, the pilot simply could not shoot with a machine gun while operating the plane, and the man had only two hands, unlike the octopus, which had 8 wrist ....... And there will be an overload when flying, and you need to pull the operating stick with both hands, and at this time it is simply impossible to shoot. Unless the machine gun is fixed and the excitation system is integrated into the lever, as we do now, but that would greatly limit the angle of fire of the aircraft machine gun. Daimler said that in addition to the shortcomings of the single person in spending, there is another point of view.

"We had the idea of shooting a twin-engine aircraft, with the pilot in front of us operating the aircraft and the observer in the back as the machine gun shooter and shooting, so that it would be easier to work together. However, the only problem is that such an aircraft will be very large and heavy, and the engine requirements are very high. ”

During the First World War, the era of aircraft was completely even the era of a hundred schools of thought, especially the fighter plane, the fighter of this era can be described as a hundred ghost night walk, the number of wings is divided into trendy monoplanes, the largest number of biplanes, and triplanes like giant hamburgers. There are single-engine fighters and twin-engine fighters, single-seat fighters and two-seat fighters, and there are many types of aircraft. It is a scenery unique to the sky of this era.

In this era, the monoplane and single-man aircraft, which are most in line with the development direction of advanced productive forces, did not have an advantage at the beginning, because the engines were generally not good at that time, and there was little difference in speed and climb. And biplanes have an advantage in this. (Eggs can be turned, right?) You let it go around with the biplane. And if an aircraft can have a machine gun that can have a large strike range, then it is even more advantageous.......

It is precisely for this reason that early two-seater aircraft had certain advantages, and some even operated one machine gun with the pilot in front and another with the pilot in the back. For example, the German AEGG2 twin-engine aircraft. Of course, with the advancement of technology, after the horsepower of aircraft engines reached more than 250 horsepower in the later stage of World War I, the improvement of engine performance led to the improvement of aircraft performance, and the bulky two-seat fighter gradually showed a decline. Only then did it gradually return to the situation where single-seat single-person aircraft were dominant, after all, two people meant an increase in the weight of the fighter.

"We can do this, we can fix the machine gun above the engine of the aircraft, or feel like we have the machine gun through the bottom shaft of the engine, so that we can hit as long as we can point the nose at the target, I know, you want to say that the bullet that comes out can hit the propeller, I don't think it's that complicated. The army is working on a device called the Coordinator, which automatically stops firing when the propeller blades block the muzzle. The prince made a suggestion.

"Since the military is responsible for solving the problem of the coordinator, then we will naturally cooperate fully." Lilinthal said that the prince was still very confident in this coordinator, because this thing was first made by the Germans, and the placement of machine guns or shaft guns on the upper part of the engine was also made by the Germans first, and it has been passed down to the 2nd combat aircraft.

Most models of the BF109 have shaft guns. And the FW190 also had 2 machine guns installed above the engine. In addition, the weapons of the American and British fighters are mounted on the wings. Is there a benefit to the deployment of the aircraft centerpiece? Naturally, there is, the bullets that come out are a line, and the distribution is better. Airplanes like the P51 and Spitfire generally adjust a focal point where bullets are the most dense and others are worse. Of course, the layout of the shaft gun also had a disadvantage, that is, it squeezed the position of the supercharger, but the aircraft of the First World War did not need such a tall thing, so let's not mention it for the time being.

The Prince's plan for the study of fighter aircraft to the designers can be reduced to the following: the use of metal parts to increase strength, the use of fixed machine guns and coordinators, and the use of a single-man fighter with a high power-to-weight ratio. And at the same time, the prince also had a bomber scheme. After all, the ultimate significance of the Air Force still falls on bombs, and the most fundamental means of using air to control the land is bombers.

"You should develop a larger, more robust twin-engine ground attack aircraft within your ability, I am not satisfied with using aircraft to simply carry out reconnaissance and ground strafing missions, the German army needs to use the front line that can carry hundreds of kilograms of bombs to fly over the front line to strike at key nodes such as ground communication lines, enemy artillery positions, ports, etc. Maybe one day, we will even fly planes over the English Channel to attack the British mainland. The prince said with a smile.

"The bomber you mentioned must be a double and carry hundreds of kilograms of bombs, which seems to be a bit demanding at the moment. The take-off weight of such an aircraft may even reach 2-3 tons. All of our current designs, including those on the drawings, cannot meet this requirement, and this weight will be very high for the structural strength and engine requirements of the aircraft. And the flight speed is definitely not fast. Lilinthal said. (To be continued.) )