The moment the falcon test plane landed steadily on the runway of the airport, everyone was so excited that they burst into tears! This first flight was a success! The Thunder turboprop project has entered a new stage of development, and perhaps it will not be long before it can be put into mass production! It will bring power to the M40 large transport aircraft, a powerful and fuel-efficient engine! This is a new technology created by Dragon Soul Ordnance! Its appearance will change the situation in the world aviation industry!

When the crew members got off the plane, Xiao Weiguo, Messerschmidt and others all greeted them, and everyone hugged each other happily! Share the joy of success! According to the flight test plan, the Thunder turboprop engine will complete the flight platform test flight within three months, and then it will become the power of the M40 transport aircraft, and it will be an even more exciting day to fly into the sky with the M40 transport aircraft! There is no doubt about the advanced nature of the M40 large transport aircraft, and with a turboprop engine, it will become the best large transport aircraft in the world! It will also lay the foundation for the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium to achieve its supremacy in the aviation industry!

Everyone who took part in the first flight of the Thunder turboprop received a prize of $1,000, which is equivalent to 4,000 crowns! This money can almost buy back a car! Such a huge bonus has given hope to the employees of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Industry Complex, and everyone wants to get a number of bonuses from the company through their own efforts! The incentive system of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex is still very effective!

On the day of the successful first flight of the wind and thunder turboprop engine, another thing happened that made Xiao Weiguo happy, which was simply double happiness! Because on this day, a pair of German brothers who later shined in the aviation industry came to him, and the two brothers ran all the way to Sweden and came to Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd. And found Xiao Weiguo!

These two brothers are one of Xiao Weiguo's most admired aircraft designers in his previous life, the German Horton brothers! These two brothers, one named Rema? Houghton, another named Walter? Horton. One of the doomsday weapons developed by Germany during World War II, the Go-229A jet fighter-bomber, was the masterpiece of the Horton brothers. The Horton brothers made epoch-making achievements in the study of flying-wing aircraft. Many of their technical ideas influenced the aviation industry of mankind as a whole. The Holden brothers have made immortal contributions to the cause of human aviation.

Until later. The pride of the U.S. Air Force, the B-2 stealth strategic bomber, still shines everywhere with the brilliance of the Horton brothers' masterpiece Go-229. Many aviation experts have severely criticized Northrop of the United States, believing that it was a serious mistake that he did not hire the Houghton brothers to work with him on flying wings after the war!! In fact, Northrop himself has always regretted this. If after the war, Northrop could join forces with the Horton brothers in the development of the aircraft. That will have an immeasurable impact on the world aviation community!

But now, the Horton brothers actually came to the door and asked to join the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium, which made Xiao Weiguo's heart ecstatic! He knew that the Holden brothers were definitely the top talents in the aviation industry, and although they were not as famous as Dr. Messerschmidt, it was undeniable. They are definitely aircraft design geeks, and if the two of them join, the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium will be more successful in the field of aircraft design and manufacturing! After all, Xiao Weiguo only has a relatively superficial theoretical knowledge of the design and manufacture of many aircraft, he was mainly responsible for ground weapons, even if he knows some basic information of various advanced aircraft, such as the M40 transport aircraft is imitated by the Y-7 aircraft, so there are many specific things that still need to be completed by aviation engineers in this era, and he can only solve the problem in general.

Hence the arrival of the Houghton brothers. Definitely a good thing no less than the success of the first flight of a turboprop engine! Xiao Weiguo knew that on March 1, 1944. The first unpowered prototype of the "Holden IX" program achieved a successful unpowered glide test flight. The test proved that the flight quality of the aircraft fully met the technical design requirements. Encouraged by the success of the trial, the Horton brothers began to conduct a kinetic trial. Powered by a Junkers Jumo004 turbojet engine. The test name of the power engine was "Holden IX.V2".

On December 18, the jet-powered winger, codenamed "Holden IX.V2", made its first test flight in Oranienburg, Germany. That moment went down in the annals of human aviation! It is an epoch-making moment in the history of human aviation! It was the first time in human history that a jet-winged aircraft took off to the skies! Marks the birth of a powered pure flyer. The feasibility of flying wing technology was demonstrated.

As the first practical jet-powered flyplane in history, the Holden IX. has a safe use overload of 7G, and its cockpit is positioned quite forward, with a Junkers Jumo004 turbojet engine mounted on each side. The tail nozzle protrudes on the rear surface of the wing. The middle of the wing body is made of traditional welded steel tube structure, and the whole machine is basically covered with multi-layer plywood, of course, metal is used near the engine nozzle to withstand high temperatures. The outer part of the wing is an all-wood structure, and its important edges are made of a special reinforcement material made of thin wood chips pressed with resin, except for the wingtips that are all-metal. Initially, there were doubts about whether the wooden fuselage could withstand the powerful jet power. However, the test results show that such a design can fully meet the strength requirements while reducing weight, and due to the lack of important metal resources in wartime, it is also a last resort to use wood, and the requirements for manpower in woodworking are relatively low.

The Go-229 designed by the Holden brothers is 7.47 meters long, 2.8 meters high, with a wingspan of 16.75 meters, an empty weight of 4.6 tons, a total weight of 9 tons, and a power plant using two Junkers JUMO004B turbojet engines, with a thrust of 900 kilograms, a maximum range of 3,170 kilometers, and a combat radius of 1,900 kilometers! maximum speed 997 km / h; The ceiling reaches an astonishing 16,000 meters! All of this was unique in the world at the time. This surpassed not only all the piston propeller fighters of the Allied forces at that time, but also another German jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me262. This is especially important due to the fact that the entire exterior of the body is made up of a large amount of plywood. Moreover, the collective surface layer was sprayed with a special coating, coupled with a special aerodynamic layout, so that the Go-229A had radar stealth that was unique at that time! Once in a test flight was successful to make the German ground surveillance radar lose its detection signal! This made the Go-229A the first quasi-stealth jet fighter-bomber in the history of human aviation!

Xiao Weiguo's office in the office building of Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd. met with Dr. Messerschmidt and the Horton brothers! Although the Horton brothers were still unknown at this time, Xiao Weiguo knew that they would definitely become outstanding aircraft designers of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Consortium in the future, and they were also very interested in the winger Xiao Weiguo! (To be continued.) )