Chapter 55: The Two Great Designers Arrive

Just as Philip was making every effort to develop turbochargers and multi-blade torque converter propellers, there was already a serious crisis in the economies of European countries, especially Germany, which already had more than 5 million unemployed people, equivalent to a quarter of the country's adult population. Their lives are almost completely unsettled, and there are very few units that employ people.

In order to stimulate economic development, various countries have introduced a series of measures, the two most powerful of which are to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction and expand armaments to stimulate the development of the arms industry, especially Germany.

In Germany, the Nazi Party took advantage of the opportunity to develop and grow, and basically did not argue with others about its theories, and at this time it was almost built into a large company, and its members all devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the activities of the German people to produce and help themselves: some engaged in market intelligence, some engaged in sales, some engaged in organization, some engaged in transportation, some engaged in training, some engaged in accounting, responded to the needs of the poor, cared for and cared for them in all aspects of life, almost like a religious organization or the Red Cross. No matter who you are, as soon as you join them, you can ensure that you have enough to eat every day and never be unemployed again.

The light transport aircraft developed by the Messerschmitt company has already gotten rid of the shadow of the crash caused by the engine stopping in the air, and soon completed the development and was successfully put into production. Messerschmidt decided to develop a larger transport aircraft, but this large transport aircraft was not allowed by the Treaty of Versailles, so it had to be produced by the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Sweden.

At this very moment, a group of unemployed aircraft factory engineers and workers from various European countries flocked to Sweden. Because they all know that Sweden has set up another aircraft manufacturing company, and these people are trying to find a bowl of food in that company, and the Kingdom of Sweden has been the least affected by this economic crisis, and Swedish industrial production is still relatively prosperous. Among these people, there were several famous aircraft designers later, such as Antonov from the Soviet Union and the Englishman Sidnikam.

Antonov is the most outstanding aircraft designer in the former Soviet Union, the main achievement is the transport aircraft, his Antonov Design Bureau designed and manufactured a series of famous transport aircraft, created countless world records, such as the world's largest aircraft An-225, is the masterpiece of the Antonov Design Bureau, its maximum take-off weight of 600 tons, load of 250 tons, wingspan and fuselage length of more than 80 meters, height equivalent to a 5-story building, wing area of more than 900 square meters, can place 90 cars, The cargo compartment is 6.4 meters wide, larger than the later Airbus A380, and its maximum range is 15,000 kilometers.

Antonov was born on January 25, 1906, in a small village near Moscow, where his father was a construction engineer. Later he entered the Kalinin Polytechnic Institute in Leningrad and fell in love with building gliders, from which Antonov's aviation career began. Originally, after graduating in 1930, he was supposed to become a designer at a glider factory, but the appearance of Philip changed the course of history, so the later famous aircraft designer also joined the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

The Englishman Sidnikam was already a designer of the British Hawker Aircraft Company at this time, but because he had always been unconventional in his design, he was not reused in the company, so when he heard about the establishment of the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company, he decided to join the arms of this new company. Philip, the owner of the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company, has been known for a long time, and at the Stockholm International Defense Exhibition, Philip has poured out many weapon designers, including Cam. He was so intrigued by Philip's "New Ideas for Aircraft Propeller Design" published in the Gooch Defense Weekly that he decided to leave the UK and apply to join the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

It is important to know that Britain has always had a very strong aircraft development and production capacity, and there are more than a dozen aircraft manufacturers. In the decade from 1920 to 1930, more than 100 aircraft models were developed and flown by British aircraft factories, so the British aviation industry laid a solid foundation. However, because British aircraft factories did not receive government support, were relatively conservative in design, and the military did not encourage innovation in procurement and tendering, British aircraft technology has not made much progress in this decade, and excellent aircraft designers like Sidnikam have almost been buried.

In 1930, according to the international situation and the progress of aviation technology, the British Ministry of Aviation began to tender for a new generation of fighters, requiring the development of a three-high fighter with high flight speed, high cruising speed and high climb rate. The most dramatic monoplane and biplane controversy, and Sidnikam was a determined designer of all-metal monoplanes, and monoplanes clearly outperformed biplanes in performance, but the crash of the Bristol monoplane made the entire British aviation industry begin to doubt the safety and maneuverability of monoplanes. Under such circumstances, Cam's monoplane dream was shattered.

When Cam learned that the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company was developing torque converter propellers and turbochargers, he set out on a flight to Sweden. Perhaps, his dream of aviation is in that place, he thought to himself.

The arrival of these two later famous designers made Philip overjoyed! He was worried that there would be no one to preside over the joint design and manufacture of large transport aircraft by Messerschmidt and the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company, but he didn't expect that someone would automatically send it to the door. Moreover, in addition to these two, there are more than 100 engineers and skilled workers who have arrived one after another, and these are all highly sought-after talents! You must know that in the future generations, talents, especially high-tech talents, are the treasures of the aviation industry and the most valuable wealth of every enterprise!

Although the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company is still under construction, everything is very simple, but it still can't stop the enthusiasm of these people to join the company, Philip took them all one by one, and he is still worried that he can't find skilled workers in Sweden, and there are excellent engineers. You must know that Sweden has only 2 aircraft manufacturing companies in total so far, and the scale is not large, one of which is only authorized to produce piston engines, where are there any aircraft manufacturing talents to dig!

Among these people, especially that Antonov is the most potential, only Philip knows that although he is only a hairy guy who has just stepped out of school, he will definitely become a new star in the aviation industry in the future. Cam is a very mature aircraft designer, just let him be the company's chief designer, as long as some of the advanced design concepts of later generations are handed over to him, there is no need to worry about it at all, because these excellent aircraft designers have a very high level of comprehension, a little understanding.

The other people, although they are relatively ordinary engineers and workers, are the most needed talents for the newly established Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company. If an aircraft is designed, if there are no manufacturing talents, then no matter how advanced it is, it can only be put on paper, and it takes the full cooperation of many people to turn the flight paper into a real aircraft.