Section 489 Attack on Pearl Harbor (4)
The reason why Wang Zhu wants to resign is because of the current development of the situation, everyone sees that China and the United States are rapidly falling into the war, although out of caution between the two giant beasts, there is no choice, only some military conflicts, such as China's capture of the Philippines, but the Americans are very restrained and do not declare war, only to the Atlantic Fleet into the Pacific Ocean as an answer, the Chinese once again show aggression, preaching to strike at the military power of the United States in the Pacific region. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wang Zhu's patriotism is not doubtful, but deep down he also loves the United States, although the Chinese in the United States are discriminated against, he returned to China to a large extent because of this discrimination against the Chinese, aroused his strong patriotic feelings, when he left Yantai, Yantai was still just an ordinary port city, when he returned from studying in Britain and the United States more than ten years later, Yantai has become a world-class industrial city.
At the same time, China has also changed from a poor and weak country before his departure to a world power, a country that has established hegemony in Asia, and even the British Empire has been forced out of this region, but the British and American forces still exist in the periphery of this region, Britain is difficult to shake in the South Seas, and the United States is too easy to expel in the Philippines.
However, Wang Zhu is very contradictory, he does feel his discrimination against Chinese in the United States, but his American colleagues respect him very much, and a lot of his knowledge was learned in the United States, and now he wants to use this knowledge to deal with the United States, which makes him unbearable, and he always feels a kind of moral torment.
After listening to Wang Zhu's reason, Yang Chao sighed in his heart, he didn't expect that this was not only a patriot, but also a moral model.
"Haha, Wang Gong, you are too worried, and the affairs between countries are not something we can interfere in. Do you think that if there are technicians in Boeing, Curtiss and other companies who have studied in Germany, they will choose to resign after the United States declares war with Germany to appease their personal hearts and ignore the interests of the country? Do you think they will abandon the country when it needs them most. You don't want the weapons you designed to be used to slaughter the Americans, but have you ever thought about it, the Americans have never considered that under the trains they run, the bones of Chinese workers are buried under every track. ”
Wang Zhu looked pained, obviously this question has troubled him for a long time, Americans discriminate against Chinese, but American schools are very friendly to Chinese, how many intellectual elites in China are learning advanced science in the United States, Americans teach without any reservations, so that many people are grateful.
"You are loyal to your country, and your American counterparts are also loyal to their country, if you give up at this time and let the Chinese plane be shot down into the sky by the American plane, do you think this is right? I am sure that your classmates and teachers in the United States will be proud of you, not blame, if they learn that you are using what you have learned from them to help your country with all your duty. ”
Wang Zhu's expression was a little less confused, and he was a little confused for a long time: "I understand, Mr. Yang." ”
Yang Chao said with a smile: "If you understand, go back to work, design a few more aircraft, don't think nonsense." ”
Wang Zhu nodded: "We recently designed a heavy aircraft, but it did not pass the acceptance of the navy, and we are trying to persuade the army to purchase it." ”
Heavy aircraft that the Navy does not procure?
Yang Chao felt a little strange, the navy was well-funded, there was no reason not to be interested in a good aircraft, and Wang Zhu could not fool the army with an inferior aircraft.
"Why?"
Yang Chao couldn't help asking.
Wang Zhu said: "The navy said that this plane can't be on the aircraft carrier, and they can't take off the aircraft from the aircraft carrier, so they can't purchase it." ”
Yang Chao understood, sure enough, it was a heavy aircraft, and the current aircraft carrier could not take off.
Yang Chao said: "Can you show me the technical information?" ”
Wang Zhu said: "Of course. ”
Not to mention that Yang Chao is the owner of the aircraft company, but Yang Chao can always provide some reasonable advice from a professional point of view, Wang Zhu and others are happy to communicate with Yang Chao, just like Diesel and Zeppelin in the past, they also think that Yang Chao is a mathematical genius and can re-improve their designs from a mathematical point of view.
Wang Zhu's drawings were quickly sent to someone, and Yang Chao found that this was indeed a bomber that could not board the aircraft carrier through the simulation of the spacecraft computer, and in terms of simple design, it was close to the B17 Flying Fortress and other super aircraft in the United States before World War II.
But there is still a big gap compared with B17, this aircraft codenamed FZ aluminum alloy wingspan of 28 meters, B17 is 31 meters, FZ cruising speed is 260 kilometers per hour, the maximum speed is 380 kilometers per hour, B17 is 273 kilometers and 480 kilometers, FZ is installed with 4 500 horsepower water-cooled gasoline engines, B17 is 4 750 horsepower engines, FZ bomb load is 3 tons, B17 is as many as 8 tons.
However, design is one thing, manufacturing is another, Wang Zhu They were able to design such an aircraft, because Shandong industry has accumulated to the extent of producing this kind of aircraft, of course, not only Lockheed accumulation, which also involves the accumulation of Zeppelin for decades, such as the engine and transmission device, must be manufactured by Zeppelin. The aluminum alloy fuselage and wings are also manufactured by Zeppelin, and Wang Zhu's team is only responsible for design, while Lockheed only produces some less important components, and the main work is assembly.
Obviously, FZ is a super-large aircraft, which requires the use of an entire industrial system.
"Good guy, there are as many as 180,000 parts, which is epoch-making."
After seeing the thick technical data, Yang Chao couldn't help but have a big head, but it was not a problem for the spaceship computer, and he quickly scanned the drawings, simulated the finished aircraft, and began to simulate the deduction, the performance of the aircraft was no problem at all, and it completely reached the peak of this era.
Of course, there are flaws, but there are no technical flaws, so Yang Chao does not plan to help Wang Zhu improve, Wang Zhu's team can design the current aircraft, which has proven their world-class design capabilities, there is no need to pull out the seedlings to help them, let them continue to work hard.
But this aircraft is obviously not able to take off and land on the aircraft carrier, don't even think about it without a runway of more than 300 meters, and the current aircraft carrier deck is not even 200 meters, and many aircraft carriers in the test have only 80 meters of runway.
Unable to pedal on the aircraft of the aircraft carrier, it is really difficult for the Navy to be interested.
But there is no problem for the army to use it as a long-range bomber, although it does not have the 4,000-kilometer range of the B17, 2,000 kilometers is enough to take off from China to Japan for a circle.
If this kind of heavy aircraft wants to be on the aircraft carrier, at least after the catapult is invented, but the catapult is the technology 20 years later, and now there is not even a concept, and what is the structure of the complex catapult device, Yang Chao does not understand at all, he only knows one term.
Only a catapult can accelerate such a heavy aircraft over a short distance to a speed that can take off.
"Who said that the plane had to take off on its own, couldn't there be an auxiliary device? Isn't a catapult an auxiliary device? ”
Yang Chao suddenly thought in reverse, and he thought of a technology that was alongside catapults in later generations, but easier to implement.
"Beveled deck? We've been using it all the time! ”
Yang Chao invited the technicians of the Hokkien Huay Kuan shipyard to discuss the problem, and they said that they had been using the beveled deck.
Yang Chao was stunned for a moment, and after listening to it in detail, he realized that there was already a tilted deck in this era, but it was not the upward tilt that Lao Maozi made in later generations, the deck in this era was inclined downward, allowing the plane to carry out downhill movements, making it easier to speed up.
At this time, the design idea was that the plane could only take off when it reached its speed, so the deck was generally inclined downward.
"Can you try tilting it up a little bit and experimenting with it? My request was for Wang Zhu's newly designed FZ aircraft, which could take off at a distance of the length of the aircraft carrier's deck. ”
Later, Yang Chao also did some work himself, such as using computer simulations to find that although the aircraft carrier adopted the most suitable angle, the heavy bomber still could not get enough lift, and the aircraft design had to be modified to widen the aircraft wings, but in this way, the speed of the aircraft was sacrificed. It was finally after the advent of more powerful engines that the problem of aircraft carriers on the FZ heavy aircraft was solved, but that was already before World War II.
This is a later story, and Yang Chao soon got the news that the Chinese Navy had successfully attacked Pearl Harbor.
One after another planes took off from the deck, Chen Hui personally saw them off on the deck, he personally watched the planes fly into the sky, but did not fly directly to Hawaii, in the First World War, various flight formations were formed, and air combat was also about formation. So these planes circled over the sea, waiting for other planes to rise into formation.
Before these planes took off, Chen Hui had already sent a telegram back to China, and in addition to reporting to Cheng Biguang, he also sent a secret telegram to Yang Chao.
In his telegram to Yang Chao, Chen Hui expressed his attitude of fighting to the death, and his fleet, which is dominated by aircraft carriers, will fight to the death with the US Pacific Fleet, which has large battleships.
After receiving such a telegram, Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, whether he had put too much pressure on Chen Hui, but in retrospect, he found that his telegrams to Chen Hui were very tactful, using only words such as "hope" and "suggestion".
But I didn't expect Chen Hui to still think too much and put too much pressure on himself.
This pressure has now turned into thick clouds above Chen Hui's head, a thick cloud of steel and aluminum alloy composed of airplanes, and then drifting towards Hawaii, 300 kilometers away, which will bring a violent storm to somewhere. (To be continued.) )