It is impossible to be ahead of the curve all the time in any kind of technology, so it must be continuously improved, and the same is true for Atlantic airliners.

At the beginning, after the development of the Atlantic airliner, it became the only passenger aircraft that could fly across the ocean without stopping, and this kind of passenger aircraft had advanced performance and immediately opened up transoceanic routes.

The Theseus company also made enough money as a result.

However, other airlines, of course, are not far behind, and now there are many companies that plan to develop this kind of passenger aircraft, so if Xiuce wants to continue to maintain its advanced nature, it is natural to have a new aircraft plan.

The Hughes company has always cooperated with the Junkers company, and the Atlantik One passenger plane is their masterpiece, and now, Howard is about to inspect the Atlantic II cargo plane.

In addition to transporting passengers, transporting goods is also an important aspect, after all, some goods are wanted to be transferred as soon as possible, which is also the original intention of postal aircraft.

This aircraft is not simply modified on the basis of the Atlantic-1 passenger aircraft, and the important airframe is almost completely new.

Cargo planes, then it is necessary to find a way to increase the volume of the cargo hold, especially the width and height, so that it can be transported in large quantities.

When Howard came to the company, he saw a large cargo plane on the runway, preparing to take off.

This aircraft is completely developed according to the needs of freight, the fuselage is very wide, it seems that there is no problem with a few trucks stuffed inside, and the tail door is open downward, which can be used as an inclined plane for unloading, which is of cross-era significance.

Four engines, rumbling about to take off from the runway, stopped Howard's car when it tried to keep closer.

"Graff? Is Führer Shirek here? Howard asked rather excitedly, he didn't expect to meet the Führer's captain of the guard here.

"The Führer is in front." After seeing that it was Howard, Graff also expressed his friendliness, checked Howard, and let him go.

"Führer Ciric, it's a pleasure to meet you." Howard ran to Ciric, stood beside him, and said.

"Well, Howard, it's just in time. Let's take a look at our cargo plane, this time for an important experiment. Ciric said.

On the runway, this specially modified cargo plane was built in full accordance with the requirements put forward by the German military, for example, the carrying capacity is ten tons, which can just be stuffed into an amphibious tank, and now, in the cargo compartment of this cargo plane, a large oil tank is placed!

Sitting on the small horse next to Cirich, Howard watched the cargo plane slowly take off, with the improvement of technology, now the engines on both sides have been increased to 1800 horsepower, and even have the ability to further increase to 2100 horsepower, but the plane is still slow, almost until the end of the runway, it can be regarded as pulling up.

In addition to heavy load, because of the coarse shape, which leads to the increase of wind resistance, it has a lot to do with it.

Watching the plane take off slowly, Howard couldn't help but say: "It seems that four engines are no longer suitable, I think, we can insert a section into the inside of the wing of the aircraft, and add two more to become six engines, which is more appropriate." ”

Howard's words, the Air Force Commander Richthofen on the side was nervous, this Howard is simply a genius, his idea is actually a project that Junkers is secretly researching, codenamed Junkers-390!

After all, the power of the propeller engine is limited, and then increase the power, the heat dissipation problem is not easy to solve, so it is a good way to increase the number of engines, after calculation, add two, the load capacity of the aircraft, can be increased to the order of twenty tons!

At the same time, the range of the aircraft will be greatly increased, and the Junkers-390 will meet the heavy task of traveling between Europe and the United States.

With the deterioration of relations between the United States and Germany, this project, which was not told to the Hughes company, was a project developed by Junkers itself.

"Howard, you're thinking." Ciric said: "Now, there are a lot of large aircraft in the United States, right? ”

Howard nodded: "Yes, especially Boeing, they are working on a passenger plane, which is almost exactly the same as our Atlantic One." We were going to sue them for patents, but they were rejected. ”

Boeing? In Ciric's mind, the last incident suddenly appeared, the sneak attack of German bombers on New York, USA.

At that time, all eyewitnesses confirmed that it was the German Junkers-290 bomber, which of course Germany would not recognize.

This incident completely ignited the fuse of the American people, so that the Americans began to dislike Germany and support Britain, and then, Germany investigated all the Atlantic airliners and proved that they were not involved in the operation at that time.

Then since it is not the Atlantic airliner camouflaged, it must be another bomber! Now that I think about it, the facts are clear, but I was just kept in the dark at the time!

Boeing's aircraft will receive the title of B-29 in the future, and Ciric is very sure of this, that is, this kind of aircraft is doing ghosts!

Let Reinhardt investigate secretly, and Roosevelt must be discredited!

As he was talking, he heard a deafening sound in the distant sky, it was the plane returning!

Everyone's eyes looked at the sky, only to see that the cargo plane that had just taken off, from the middle rear of the fuselage, stretched out a tube, and at the tail of the tube, there was a cone-shaped thing, at this time, in the air flow, it was shaking back and forth.

Howard glanced at it twice, and then he saw the fame: "Refueling in the air? Yes, if we had this technology, we would be able to extend the range of the aircraft! When we get the chance, we can go on a non-stop flight around the world! ”

Yes, it's refueling in the air! Ciric is here, of course, to inspect the technology.

At this time, in the back, an Atlantic airliner was also flying over, two planes, cruising back and forth, and the planes behind were constantly approaching and approaching.

In later generations, aerial refueling is a very difficult technology, in the air flow, the cone sleeve is constantly shaking, and it is very difficult for the refueling pipe of the oil receiving machine to align.

Now it is also shaking, but now there is an advantage, that is, the flight speed of the propeller aircraft can be very low, for example, now, the two planes, almost all maintain a speed of 200 kilometers per hour.

At this speed, it was not difficult to adjust, and after several slight adjustments, the pilot decisively pushed the lever forward, only to see that the conical sleeve was firmly encased on the telescopic tube in front of the nose of the passenger plane.

Docking successful!