Chapter 349 Royal Aviation Group
All countries in the world are busy engaging in air force competitions, investing a lot of manpower and material resources in the airship industry, and want to build more "big airships", and the Chinese Empire, as the world's air force hegemon, cannot stand idly by and watch without saying a word. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
On March 1, the sixth year of Xinghua, the front page of the latest issue of "China Daily" put out an advertisement in a grand manner, and this is not the first time that an enterprise has advertised in "China Daily", but the only enterprises that can advertise in "China Daily" are enterprises affiliated with the Royal Commercial Bank, and other private enterprises want to advertise in "China Daily", which is simply impossible, they can advertise in small regional newspapers, and advertisements will not appear on the front page of small newspapers.
This time, the company advertised in the China Daily was a newly established enterprise of the Royal Commercial Bank, called the Royal Aviation Group.
Hearing the name of the Royal Aviation Group, you can know that this enterprise is related to airships, the establishment of the Royal Aviation Group, on behalf of the Chinese Empire's airships officially began to be civilian, and the citizens of the empire can also take the airships to the sky and enjoy the convenience of airships.
After several years of preparation, the Royal Aviation Group was formally established, and currently has a total of 17 passenger and cargo airships, of which 12 are Kunpeng-7 medium-sized airships, 5 are Kunpeng-8 heavy airships, and in six years in Xinghua, 8 airships will be added to the operation sequence.
The Royal Airlines Group will operate both passenger and cargo transportation services, and at the same distance, the passenger and freight costs of airships will be about ten times higher than those of trains.
For the time being, Royal Airlines Group will mainly open routes to 43 important cities in China, as well as an international route from Shencheng to Honolulu.
Seeing the content of the newspaper, the rich people in the country were excited, but the ordinary people did not react much.
For ordinary people, the price of taking an airship is too high, some people feel pain even if they take a train, not to mention an airship that costs ten times as much as a train, and ordinary people will not choose to take an airship even if they choose to take a train.
But the rich are different, how far the cost of riding an airship is insignificant to them, and some rich people see the content of the newspaper and immediately drive to the airship field in their city, wanting to experience the feeling of riding an airship.
That's right, in order to experience the novel feeling of flying in the sky, there are many rich people who spend money to buy airship tickets and fly in the sky in an airship.
Some wealthy people ride airships to experience the feeling of flying in the sky, and even for a while, airship tickets are hard to come by, and the airships are already full of rich people who experience flying in the sky.
There are also wealthy people, or businessmen, who perceive the opportunity.
The flight speed of the airship is 90 kilometers to 100 kilometers per hour, which is much faster than the train, and the airship is a straight line, from one city to another, the airship takes more than one-third of the time of the train, so that some goods that need to be urgently transported to another area can be transported directly by airship, although the freight is a little higher, but time is money, time is a few hours in the morning or even more than a day, it represents a huge benefit.
However, there is also a big problem, there are too few airships under the Royal Airlines Group, so that each route needs to fly once every few days, and the international route from Shencheng to Honolulu basically needs to fly once in ten years.
In the early days of the Royal Air Group, this was inevitable because of the lack of airships, but the Royal Air Group will add a large number of airships every year, and it will not take a few years for the Royal Air Group to have enough airships.
There have been a lot of repercussions at home, and there have been many repercussions from foreign countries.
The airships of the Chinese Empire have developed in the direction of civilian use, and the big airships of other countries have just been built, which is indeed a huge gap, no way, the airship industry of the Chinese Empire is too much ahead of the airship industry of other countries, and it will take a long time for other countries to catch up with the Chinese Empire, just as the Chinese Empire wants to become a naval power, it also needs a long way to go.
For the Chinese Empire's behavior of developing airships in the direction of civilian use, the governments of various countries are only deeply speechless, helpless, and deeply emotional, the gap between them and the Chinese Empire is too great.
Indeed, the emergence of the Royal Aviation Group has made countries around the world find the gap between their countries and the Chinese Empire in the field of airships, the number of "big airships" in the Chinese Empire is about to reach 200, while other countries only Britain has built a RD-1 that can barely be regarded as a "big airship".
If Britain were to go all out to build the "big airship", it was expected that it would take at least five years for Britain to catch up with the Chinese Empire in the number of military airships.
There is such an inference, the British government is a little tired, but it can't stop building airships, because other British opponents are building airships, airship deterrence but battleship deterrence is still strong, and airships are still a great threat to warships equipped with anti-aircraft guns.
If Britain wants to maintain its position as the world leader, it can only desperately build airships, even if the number of airships is not as good as the Chinese Empire, it will be more than his opponents, after all, the British mainland is in Europe, the Chinese Empire is in East Asia, the distance between the two is still very far, Britain in the confrontation with the Chinese Empire, only have a sufficient number of airships to defend their colonies and the mainland, as for the counterattack on the Chinese Empire, then you need to be anxious about all your allies, and even unite your opponents, But will the opponent join forces with Britain to attack the Chinese Empire?
This is a very serious question, and the answer is unknown.
The purpose of the Chinese Empire has been achieved, although the Chinese Empire has not revealed to the outside world how many airships it has, just the establishment of the Royal Aviation Group and the use of a large number of airships for civilian use have made countries feel the heavy pressure behind them.
The air power of the Chinese Empire is unshakable, just as the power of Britain in the sea cannot be shaken, both are the masters of both realms, and they will not change for a long time.
There is pressure to be motivated, other countries want to invest more money in the construction of airships, the air force competition is becoming more and more fierce, and the goal of the Chinese empire has been achieved.