Germany needed a strong air force, but at the beginning of the game...... Seems a bit difficult to be powerful?

Li Qi has been running an aviation club for more than a year, and most of them are clubs of ****** enthusiasts or something, in fact, it is just a name, what he is really training is aircraft operation, and he will pretend to be a model when he has defeated the supervision organization. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There are many aero clubs of various names in Germany, and there are precise figures in the Chancellery, and the number of some trainees is accurate to the point that the error will not exceed 100.

More than 150,000 people are currently receiving relevant aviation training. Of course, 150,000 people are not all pilots, the number of pilots is actually less than 6,000, and the rest are related ground support and logistics specialties.

Before 1936, Li Qi believed that the number of pilots of various types trained should not be less than 40,000, which should be about 10,000 more than the original German three?

The ideal number should be more, the more the better, but that involves a matter of resources. Although the cost of training pilots before World War II is not comparable to that of modern times, it also depends on the limitations of the times.

Of course, many of today's airplanes are not jet fuel engines, but some of the costs are really not much lighter, and Li Qi has carefully calculated that until 1936, 40,000 pilots is really the limit. It may be that after defeating the enemy in Western Europe except for Britain, Germany could have had enough resources to train again, but that should have been in the 1940s.

There are not many companies working on aircraft in Germany at the moment, and even fewer are competitive. Most of the companies are still stuck in the limitations of the First World War, and as a result, there are still a large number of companies working on biplanes.

Of course, not only German aircraft manufacturing companies are still working on biplanes, in fact, many countries are still following the same route, such as the British Avro Aviation and the German Aeronautics. Havilland is like that.

As the world hegemon, Britain is still like that, not to mention the rest of the country. In fact, there are really not many countries that have the ability to independently develop aviation aircraft, and there are only a few mainstream ones, without exception, they still focus on biplanes, and only a very small number of companies have forward-looking eyes on the development of monoplanes.

When Li Qi and others arrived in Baden, they were greeted not by local officials, but by the regional leader of the National Socialist Workers' Party. Leonard.

It was a middle-aged man in his forties, tall and slightly strong, who raised his hand and performed a fascist salute and said, "Welcome, leader." ”

Did Li Qi know that there were some guys in the National Socialist Workers' Party who thought that party members should have a special salute posture, and seemed to be eyeing the ancient Roman salute on the side of the Italian fascist party? He came in a car, got out of the car and turned his head to look around.

It was a densely forested place, and a large clearing had been cleared where some planes were parked, as well as several factories not far from the runway.

That's right, the area is a testing ground for several aircraft manufacturing companies, and not just one.

To put it more plainly, many test sites in Germany are provided by the Chancellery, including land and labor costs. At first, those companies had a lot of opinions about the test site being together, but what year is it now, and which company is not short of money? And then it is the Prime Minister's Office that places orders and provides funds, what else can they do?

Stop! Conducting experiments together, although it is said that secrets are easy to be snooped on, it seems to be ...... It's just that the nature of research has no meaning of mass production, and more exchanges with each other can really produce a lot of sparks, so that many "ideas" are inadvertently generated.

Of course, if there is a good idea, those companies will not be made public at all, and the real core thing must be hidden, after all, this is Europe, not anywhere else. The situation in Germany is very bad, but they don't think that it will continue like this, and those who should compete in the future must continue to compete, and whoever loses the sense of competition will definitely have something wrong with their brains.

Toil. Lundner apparently knew that Ritchie was visiting the proving ground for the first time, and he first introduced the heads of the various companies here, and then gave some of the situation himself.

There are not a few companies that are currently conducting experiments here, but Li Qi knows only a few of them. He walked around to the factory and walked in to see a few people in groups doing their own things.

The sound in the factory is noisy, talking and all kinds of mechanical sounds, some of them are discussing, and more are using machinery to mess with the aircraft.

At a glance, most of the planes are monoplane aircraft, only a few biplanes, if Li Qi is knowledgeable, you can see a few obvious countries are relatively old characteristic models, such as "toy guns", "buffalo" and so on.

Li Qi walked a few steps, saw something, and turned around and walked towards a place, where there was a relatively large plane, its wings looked like folded wings, but in fact it was a kind of shell that seemed to spread its wings.

"This is the first Stuka that Junkers and Messerschmidt worked on together." Toil. Lundner had obviously done his homework, and when he saw Richie staring at the plane, he introduced: "There have been several test flights, and they are in very good condition. ”

Of course, Litch recognized what the plane was, or did he spend a lot of time personally introducing it to the designers of the two companies, how could he not know that the plane was Stuka.

If you want to develop the main model of all the German aircraft during World War II, there is really no more suitable one than Stuka during 1927. The design concept of the Stuka itself is not complicated, it is nothing more than the requirement that the structure can withstand the pressure of obedience, because there is no need to carry too much weight for the time being, and there are no strict regulations on the flight speed for the time being, so the requirements for the engine are not too high.

Looking at it now, what Li Qi sees is a model with a length of 11.5 meters, a width of 15 meters, a height of 3.88 meters, and a wing area of 33.69 square meters. Outwardly, it is absolutely indistinguishable from the "Stuka", and the designation is a strike aircraft, not a dive bomber.

It really should be called a strong attack aircraft, because it was designed to be a strong attack from the beginning, and later it was called a dive bomber as a wind trend.

In fact, there are not many types of aircraft now, probably divided into reconnaissance planes, fighters, and bombers, and there has not been a more detailed distinction.

It turns out that even if it is something of the same shape, as long as the technology does not reach a certain level, then the performance is definitely a world of difference.

"Very good, at least not conceptually wrong, and you will be the first to master the technology of vertical bombing than any other research group in the world." Li Qi was encouraging, looked at several engineers involved in the development, and said: "We are always the first to dig up some secrets than any other country, which proves that you are indeed a very good group of people." ”

Being praised by the prime minister as the best person is really important to their generation, and it is definitely a national-level honor when calculated seriously, which made several slightly younger participants blush with excitement.

Older engineers are happy, but they have so much experience that they just want to know what kind of reward they will get for their efforts. Oh, don't get me wrong, they're not asking for a salary increase or a bonus, it's about follow-up research funding.

Hans. Polman, who was the main designer of the Stuka aircraft, immediately asked: "Leader, is it possible to increase the funding for scientific research, we need to optimize more materials and related equipment, and that needs a huge amount of money to back it up." ”

Richie certainly knew about Hans. Who is Polman, Hans. Polmann was originally the "father" of Stuka Ju-87. Polman was working for the Junkers aircraft manufacturing company, and later because of Hugo. Junkers was anti-war, which led to the Junkers aircraft manufacturing company being forcibly acquired by the state. Naturally, Polman became an employee of the state's assets.

Hans. Polman is not Stukka's "father" now, because the person who came up with the concept was Richie, but there really is no better than Hans. Polman is a more suitable project leader.

According to Hans. Polman explained in more detail that the current Stuka prototype is actually lagging behind the indicators in many aspects, and he focused on the problem of the engine.

"We already have a special team attacking and tackling key problems." Li Qi knows where all the hard wounds of the machine are, and it is really in that heart. He mentioned the situation in Berlin a little, gave the names of several groups, and finally said: "Germany has been silent for eight years, and many aspects cannot catch up at once, but we should not give up." ”

Hans. Polman only nodded silently when he heard this, everyone in their generation had the experience of joining the army and serving the country. It is precisely because of the experience of the effective countries that they know better what the last war was like, and the subsequent countries that have been sanctioned and suffer a much greater sense of shame than those of the new generation.

"Would the leader like to see a test flight?" Hans. Polman looked at Li Qi with a more expectant gaze.

Test flight? It was estimated that it would take a lot of time, but Li Qi could not dampen their enthusiasm and immediately agreed.

In Hans. While Polman was making the preparations, other groups came to Rich's side, eager to present their hard work to the country's prime minister.

What did Leach see? He saw a fighter that looked somewhat similar to the Stuka but did not have half-folded wings, as if it were a fighter from the "TA" series.

"Your Excellency, we call it the HE prototype." Walter. Gaunt, one of the main developers, said excitedly: "We had similar ideas in the past, but because of financial constraints, we ...... a lot of things that happened during the difficult economic times, and finally said: "With the financial support from the Prime Minister's Office, we built the first prototype." ”

How so? Li Qi must have been pleasantly surprised! After all, among a large number of planes that looked mediocre or even backward, how could he not be happy that there was an aircraft that was very close to his cognition?

"HE" is, of course, a code name, and if it is officially named, it will start with Heinkel, and as for what the number is, it is a matter for Heinkel Aircraft Production Company itself.

Li Qi recalled as he spoke, and found the code name "he-100" among many vague memories. He thought of the name of the plane, and the next moment he smiled wryly.

The Heinkel-100 cannot be said to be unremarkable, especially since it broke the top speed recorded by the International Aeronautical Federation, and it was only in Lidg's mind that it was impressed. The problem was that the Heinkel-100 was notoriously "difficult to serve", so it only took two orders, the first for fifteen and the second for thirty, and then began to taste the hardships of difficult maintenance and complex parts.

The German Air Force compared the performance of other aircraft with the Heinkel-100, and then compared the price-performance ratio, the Heinkel Aircraft Production Company soon became a tragedy, and the Heinkel-100 could not have too outstanding advantages after comparing with other aircraft, and as a result, no more orders were placed, and soon this aircraft was forced to be eliminated.

Litchie remembers that he seemed to have a proposal for the Heinkel Aircraft Production Company? As for the design of the "Ta-152," he guessed that it was probably so, and the Heinkel Aircraft Production Company had definitely studied it again and again, and found that it could not even build the least prototype of the Ta-152, and as a result, such a model as the He-100 was derived.

"So, has this plane been test-flown yet?"

"Your Excellency, it has been test-flown but ...... Performance didn't meet expectations. ”

Richie wondered what the performance was, and how could the performance be comparable if the current technology products were compared with those after 1940.

Another complex man, Siegfleet. "It's not what you think," Gaunt said. Probably thinking that the words were a little ugly, he smiled apologetically at Richie, and then continued to say some data.

Li Qi still has a bit of a foundation for airplanes, who made him a general complicator of the Air Force of the Second German Reich for a while? He listened to those data, in fact, it was really not excessive, but it surpassed the current world powers in some indicators, but because of the reasonable design of the fuselage, those indicators should have been exceeded.

"I see." Litch has seen Hans. Polman's side was almost ready, looked at the two Gaunts again, and said with a smile: "We need excellent fighters, but please understand as developers, we need to use the least resources to do more, with the most suitable things, to achieve the results that can be achieved." ”

The two Gaunts couldn't help but look at each other, and then they both smiled bitterly, they understood that weapons should be excellent, but the price should also be leisurely. (To be continued.) )