In a heavy snowfall, Chentian ushered in his 1903.

After returning to East Prussia for more than half a year, Chen Tian has gradually become familiar with everything here, including what the prince has to do and the figures from all walks of life in the military, politics and business here. Since Germany's industry and economy are developing rapidly and steadily, he has not made any big economic moves. However, Zack's return made him feel very good, and the hundreds of millions of yen of funds were like a dream, so every time he saw Zack, he couldn't help but go up and kiss them twice, and Zach had to smile and wipe the remaining saliva off his face again and again.

Militarily, the Königsberg shipyard established by Chentian is currently mainly in the submarine research and development stage, and has not manufactured submarines on a large scale, but in order to expand the scale of the shipyard, it has begun to manufacture ordinary cargo ships and small warships. In addition, he invested in several R&D projects with Krupp Arms, including artillery reentry units and curved guns (mortars), purchased gasoline engine production technology from Daimler AG, and established his own engine laboratory.

Looking at the snowflakes fluttering in the sky, Chen Tian missed his hometown a little. If only I could fly back......

Fly? Plane? Plane! Chen Tian suddenly remembered this very important thing, the airplane has not yet been invented! If you catch the Wright brothers yourself, you will be able to own this leading technology on your own.

But when he came to Zach to discuss, he found that he had no idea what to do. Because he doesn't know where the Wright brothers live, and besides, they are not famous yet, and the United States is so big, how can they find it in the vast sea of people? And Zach wondered why Chentian was so interested in two little-known Americans.

"So be it! We wrote a letter to Thomas and asked him to keep an eye out for these two men! Chen Tian thought about it, when they invented the airplane, they would naturally become famous, and now they had to do it first.

"Zach, do you want to fly like a bird?"

"Flying? I seem to have heard that people can fly down from the top of a mountain in ******, but a few years ago a man named Lilinthal died in an accident playing ******, and few people have played with that thing since. Zach shook his head.

"Can you believe it? If you put an engine on your ******, you can fly freely! Tatsuten winked at Zack.

"How is that possible?" Zach still shook his head, "How heavy the engine is, how can you fly when you put it on ******!" ”

"You don't believe it? You go and find me two people who can make ******, and I'll go to our engine lab. How about we challenge the sky where only birds fly? ”

"Okay!" Zach finally nodded his bald head, "Hope your dream can come true and fly like a bird!" ”

Dream? Even if you don't have yourself, the dream of human flight will soon come true! Chen Tian smiled.

A month later, Zach hired two Germans, Jens and Simon, who were "playing" ******, as well as their homemade winged ******, and Chentian's engine laboratory also built a 20-horsepower, 100-kilogram engine according to his requirements. They modified the ******, installed three wheels in the wings and tail, and mounted the engine with propellers to the ******.

On February 3, 1903, their test aircraft made its first test flight at Chentian's private estate. Unfortunately, the first test flight did not go well, the engine screamed frantically, but the test plane just jumped along the ground and flew forward, but refused to fly.

"Is this guy's wings too short?" When the testing machine stopped, Chen Tian asked.

"Your Royal Highness! Do you really think that with an engine on this ****** it will be able to fly? Driver Jens climbed down from the testing machine and said.

"Of course! You can fly by sliding down from a high place because you have enough speed and buoyancy from the air movement! Chentian explained, but Jens and Simon shook their heads in confusion.

"Let the workers add half a meter to each wing!" Chen Tian is very helpless, the plane is flying by using the pressure difference caused by the air flow above and below the wings! More specifically, he doesn't know very well.

Over the next 10 days, they conducted 4 more test flights, and although they were still unsuccessful, the results were getting better and better each time, and the test machine seemed to be about to fly, but unfortunately it felt a little worse.

February 14, 1903, Valentine's Day. Chentian and they are conducting their sixth test flight. This time they replaced the propellers with new ones, and the wings were lengthened again.

"Alas......" Everyone was disappointed to see the test machine piloted by Jens jumping but not always able to fly.

"Your Royal Highness, is this all for today! It's Valentine's Day, and we're all ......" Simon is a young man in his early 20s, and it seems that he has something to do in the evening.

"Alright! It seems that this is the only way! Chen Tian sighed helplessly.

As Jens panted and ran from where the test machine had stopped, Simon smiled and said:

"Hey! Jens, it's time to lose weight! Look you can't even run! ”

Chen Tian's eyes suddenly lit up, "Wait a minute, Jens, how much do you weigh?" ”

"192 pounds, what's wrong?"

"What about you, Simon? 203 lbs! ”

"I'm 55 years old!" Zach shook his head, he knew exactly what Chentian wanted to do.

"Good! Here I'm the lightest, 165 pounds! Let me try it out on a test machine! Chen Tian gritted his teeth, it was a big deal to break his hands and feet, "Also, cut the gasoline in the engine by half!" Come on! Let's get started, let's try it one last time today! ”

Everyone hurriedly did according to Chentian's words, and then returned the testing machine to the starting position.

Chen Tian leaned down on the position of the testing machine, and Zach asked uneasily on the side:

"Your Highness, are you really sure you want to try? I don't think this thing is very safe! ”

Chen Tian nodded resolutely.

Engine start.

Tatsuten felt the testing machine begin to glide forward, and then began to jump......

Suddenly, he felt the testing machine jump, but this time it didn't jump back to the ground, a very light feeling.

"I'm flying!" Chen Tian shouted excitedly, and there was a cheer on the ground in the distance.

The testing machine slid at a height of more than 2 meters for more than 40 meters and then landed on the ground, Chen Tian turned off the engine, and the testing machine slid forward for a distance and then stopped on the ground. Chen Tian sat up and smiled as he watched everyone running from afar......

"Your Highness, you really scared me to death!" Zach said as he gasped.

"How? Everybody saw it! We can fly freely like birds! I declare that the name of this test aircraft is called, Gigi Aircraft! ”

"Oh......"

In the months that followed, Chen Tian immersed himself in the improvement of the aircraft, of course, everything was carried out in secret.

Ten months and three days later, the Wright brothers and their plane made their first successful flight in the United States. Thomas then informed the Wright brothers of the information, and he invited them to Germany before the U.S. government could find them. When the Wright brothers, who thought they were the first to invent airplanes in the world, came to Chentian's plane, their eyes were about to fall out - at this time, Chentian's plane could already carry two people for hours of flight. However, in view of the Wright brothers' talent, Chen Tian hired them to participate in the development of their own aircraft and brought their families to Germany.

Because the development and test flight of Chentian's aircraft were carried out in a relatively secret state, it was not until three years later, on October 12, 1906, that the Brazilian Santos Dumont and his "14 bis" staggered into the sky, and the world knew that humans could fly. After that, Chen Tiancai officially put his plane on the table and flew swaggering through the skies of East Prussia.

After investing a lot of money to build its own aircraft factory, Chentian began to introduce the aircraft into the East Prussian Corps as an artillery calibration tool, which greatly increased the power of artillery. At the end of 1906, Chentian showed and recommended his aircraft to Wilhelm II, who praised it and immediately decided to order planes in bulk from Chentian's aircraft factory to equip the German army. Because of the mastery of the key technology of the aircraft, the aircraft factory of Chentian monopolized the aircraft market in Germany and even most of Europe. Of course, the planes exported by Chentian to European countries are relatively primitive and backward models, until the eve of the outbreak of World War I, German aircraft maintained an advantage over European countries for at least 3 years, which made the German army control the battlefield sky for most of the war.