The Entente countries thought that building the Internet was a very simple matter, throwing money, but they didn't expect a huge roadblock to immediately lie in front of their engineers The submarine fiber optic cable is so long, how does Windsor solve the problem of signal attenuation?

Even the best fiber optics in the real room decay by several percent per kilometer, but how does IBM's Internet ensure that submarine fiber optic cables actually cross the entire Pacific and Atlantic Oceans? According to the current understanding of scientists in the Entente countries, IBM does not use power relay measures, and the submarine fiber optic cable is really a line.

Now that the Internet is everywhere, it is easy for scientists in the Entente countries to secretly pick up a piece of research, and they finally found out that the method used by the other party is to use a special material as an optical amplifier, and whenever the signal is attenuated to a certain extent, it will absorb light energy through the guò fluorescent material and emit light again.

This roadblock will prevent the Entente from entering the ** Internet era for a long time, because the mystery lies in the penetration of trace amounts of rare earth element erbium into the optical fiber, which is extremely difficult for the other party to find, and even if it is found, it will be found that all the current rare earth minerals have been monopolized by Windsor.

"Nature" has announced the basic principles of semiconductors, but has not released the details of chemical etching, and it is not known whether it will be the Year of the Monkey or the month of the Horse. Think about how the application of the IBM environment will develop after all these years?

So when you think about it this way, the Entente's ** Internet plan must have failed commercially, at most the government forcibly procured a batch.

Now the Entente countries are completely defeated in the power grid, who wants to install a power grid without the Internet? The parliaments of various countries shook their heads after listening to the feasibility reports of scientists, Windsor's technology empire is gone, you think, Windsor's power grid has developed to the combination of superconductivity and maglev When the transmission and high-tech transportation arteries, can you still catch up?

In fact, there have been scientists working on PCs and the Internet, and their current state-of-the-art solutions can barely support a small government-backed telecommunications infrastructure. It is slow, expensive, and high energy consumption, and can only be used to transmit text and voice, which is poop compared with the IBM Internet, but it has also been highly praised by the members of the Entente countries, believing that "the Entente Internet has made a good start." ”

Their so-called Internet transmission efficiency is not even as good as Windsor's satellites, let alone Bluetooth wireless networks. By the time the Entente Internet was in its infancy, Windsor's communications satellites had reached the level of 300, ensuring that telegrams and voice telegraphs could be sent to every corner of the planet at a slightly higher price, which was great news for car users.

Windsor has also taken control of the transportation empire through satellite communications, because the satellite communication function is the only important difference between Windsor and its competitors.

Of course, if you go to see the car, the Windsor staff will tell you what a "Windsor service" is. Windsor sells products that sell services, and all cars that are stolen will be given to the owner immediately after a replacement with the same factory and mileage, or even to your current location.

With the increase in the number of cars, parking in the city has become more and more troublesome, and Windsor has built three-dimensional parking lots in a large number of commercial centers, giving priority to Windsor cars. Theft, parking, and mobile communications are all pain points in transportation, and only Windsor's intercontinental super-integration can provide such an experience, so that even the most untechnical bicycle, the Windsor series maintains half of the market share.

In addition to the flow of people, transportation is the flow of goods, and the integration effect of Windsor is more obvious in this regard, the world's 1,000 major cities have used his maglev pipeline system, and 95% of the world's postal parcels are delivered through Guò Wind Bird Express. Its competitiveness has reached the point where the intercontinental package is only the price of a meal. The express delivery in the same city and district is one-20th of a meal, and the delivery time is within ten minutes.

Maglev Express is so easy to use, greatly changed people's shopping habits, a lot of customers in the store after buying things will go to the logistics channel directly sent home, continue to shop or do something else, you are difficult to see the scene of people on the commercial street with large bags and small packages, many stores have provided free delivery to the door of the parcel box service.

The Entente countries also wanted to build their own maglev pipelines for the sake of logistics security, and they were shocked to find that the wind bird had evolved to use the Bluetooth network to transmit node information, and the Bluetooth wireless communication frequency band had long been unknown to everyone2. When the 4G band can be done, it was bought out by the Windsor Empire worldwide.

The Wind Bird Network also "coexists" with the street lamps on the street, occupying the best quality lines. Logistics is combined with ORE, that is to say, the new maglev pipeline is not only more expensive and slower, but also not necessarily used, the e-commerce platform is also monopolized by Windsor, human beings have long been accustomed to using the very low-cost wind bird platform, and even do not realize that they are using the wind bird service, how can this compete?

In addition to the maglev pipeline in the city, the wind bird network also has a drone apron network, which has entered millions of non-urban users, and is a complementary extension of maglev logistics. They agreed that it was impossible to beat Windsor's logistics system commercially.

Since there is a comprehensive competition, the Entente still found a possible breakthrough, I don't know why, Windsor does not like fixed-wing aircraft, obviously it is much faster than helicopters, therefore, in this regard, Windsor finally lagged behind, leading him is the Japanese Pelican fighter, if it is transformed into a large civilian airliner, it can soar in the blue sky, the only place that the Entente can be proud of, because Japan promised to transfer this technology to the Entente members in the Entente, So they put the focus on overtaking Windsor by making a big effort to develop fixed-wing airliners.

The passengers also had high hopes for the Entente airliners, because the Pelican wing effect aircraft was relatively bumpy on the sea, and for comfort, they still preferred a slower airship with a cruising speed of 100 kilometers per hour, much lower than the 500 kilometers of the Pelican fighters.

Engineers from the G13 countries worked together to develop the first prototype actually named the Concorde, and successfully flew between Tokyo and London, reaching a level of 500 kilometers per hour.

Scientists, politicians and people from the G13 countries are eager to build the capital airport to connect the main intercontinental air routes of the Entente countries. The Japanese also triumphantly asked Downing if he wanted to build a large airfield at the United Nations, because the current airship airfield cannot accommodate large fixed-wing aircraft.

Tangning really wants to build an airport, but it is not an ordinary airport, but a superconducting maglev highway, all around it is clean, and it can stop all the maglev containers within a minute in an emergency, and can take off and land large aircraft.

The Entente thought that Windsor was cowardly, and although it used a very strange scheme, it could be regarded as an admission that our Concorde was a useful transportation supplement, right? The newspapers of all the Entente countries praised the great construction achievements of the G13 together.

Their achievements are more than that, the invention genius Edison, who disappeared from the public eye for a long time, has become powerful again, he invented the film film, although it is black and white, compared to Windsor's digital film, but it can't stand the great invention of the Entente, still won the applause of various countries, and used it to shoot a 12-minute small movie, at this time the film technology seems to be only able to shoot so long, otherwise the playback equipment will be too heavy.

The small films that the Allies used to promote their great Concorde aircraft were shown in the open-air cinemas of various countries to make everyone excited, and another technology had the momentum to catch up with Windsor.

Bollywood's blockbuster documentaries seem to have laid an unspoken rule for the film industry, animation is for entertainment, and movies are for documentaries, and Americans can't help but abide by this rule.

What a big thing it is to surpass Windsor, and the flyover artists in Beijing are singing the greatness of the Entente with Allegro: "There are so many bamboo boards, hey, let's not boast about anything else." I boast, this Entente Concorde. This Concorde, where is it in its mouth? It's a big-winged, long-tailed (yi) baer, fast and steady, racing past the Monkey King's somersault clouds......"

In fact, Windsor already has its own fixed-wing airliner, using a long-developed turbofan jet engine, he can fly to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, in the thin air using the turbofan to compress the air to provide the fuel chamber with huge oxygen consumption, and the aviation fuel is injected into the fuel chamber and ignited after deflagration, after the jet increases the thrust of the engine.

Previously, in order to test its reliability, Windsor never advertised, but has been testing in Seattle, Washington, and has been put into actual freight medium and high-intensity testing. Combined with the strength of the vortex fan, it is capable of increasing the cruising speed to 800 km.

However, due to the high thrust and loud noise, it is really unfriendly to city residents, this thing is really not related to the happiness index, the energy of the sound has been impacting the residents under the route, which may damage the building, and the residents on the side of the airport are not affected now, because of the mild noise of the airship.

In the days of fixed-wing aircraft, airports were a very unpleasant thing to build, so you will find news that some countries with good protection of private property are unable to complete demolition because of a few few residents, and the airports are built in strange shapes.

After being provoked by the technology of the Allied powers, Downing was finally inspired to try a different airport solution, which is called "air airport". Inspired by air tankers, the air airport is exactly a fixed-wing aircraft and an airship "combined".

The runway of a large airport can be repaired to three kilometers long, with the air airport system, the long and wide runway can be saved, the aircraft approaches from the bottom of the airship, the speed is nearly 200 kilometers per hour, the ideal state is that the airship should also accelerate to 200 kilometers, and the ideal state after synchronization is that the two sides are in the same position but at different heights.

Then the airship lowers the sling and firmly grasps the body of the aircraft, when it is determined that the fit is completed, the aircraft can slow down, and observe whether the aerodynamics of the process are in line with it, and determine that the airship has been able to bear the weight of the aircraft, then the air shutdown is completed.

The airplane can turn off the engine, the lift of the airship becomes the only lift, and then the landing becomes the same operation process as the airship, that is to say, the air airport is actually the way for the aircraft to become the airship mode, so that the fixed-wing aircraft can also approach the airport with almost zero noise.

The aircraft is combined at an altitude of several kilometers, so the noise is not transmitted below. The low-noise jet of the same class as the airship was successfully proposed and named the JET.

In the same way, a jet does not need a large runway when taking off, and it is pulled into the sky by the airship and directly accelerated until the airship's sensors find that the lift of the aircraft exceeds the lift provided by the airship, indicating that the takeoff is successful and split.

In this way, there is no need for large runways at all, and the airport highway as a take-off and landing runway is a temporary measure for emergencies, and it is completely a safe plan, and only when the air airport fails due to some accidents, small airports do not need to be built at all.

The airship airport of today can be seamlessly connected to the jet airport of the future, allowing Windsor's Airbus empire to continue its glorious monopoly business.

Since there is no need for a large airport, airports can be ubiquitous, and even a small town can apply for its own routes, and there can be no fixed take-off and landing times, which can be used for charter flights during peak traffic. In the future Spring Festival, the bus company can gather passenger planes from all over the world to China, and use charter flights to allow China's small towns and even rural areas to take off and land planes.

There's no need for a runway, just an open area, or even a dirt square. Short- and medium-haul flights were now completely monopolized by Airbus, so the Entente flight from Japan to London was an ultra-long-distance intercontinental flight of 10,000 kilometers, and the 30-ton aircraft had most of its load capacity to fill fuel, resulting in only 30 passengers.

The jet can use Airbus's airports around the world for refueling, refueling every 5,000 kilometers, and can transport 150 passengers under the same 30-ton load, which is better than its rivals in terms of economic cost.

How happy the people of the Entente were that Downing could not bear to surpass them, and announced a new intercontinental passenger route from Beijing to San Francisco, 12,500 kilometers, via Hawaii (which has been re-controlled by Windsor), with an estimated flight time of 16 hours. A discerning person looks at it, huh? No, in this way, isn't the other party's speed close to 800 kilometers per hour?

Before their suspicions could be spread, passengers who tried the old route to Beijing had already taken pictures of the JET's cool appearance and posted it on the Internet, the shape of the fixed wing was not unexpected, and the two huge turbofan jet engines under the wing were the highlights.

The atmosphere of joy and pride of the people of the Entente came to an abrupt end, and then a feeling of inferiority was in the air