Section 110 Circumnavigating the World

Yang Chao is not alone, and there will be some special guests on his airship. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

For example, when Yang Chao casually invited him to sail around the world in an airship, her mouth and heart beat faster, and even regardless of the newspaper's opposition, she moved the salute to Yang Chao's airship the next day.

In addition, there are 50 international students who are going to study in the West, and they will also sit on the boat together, of course, there are more Chinese students than that, but there are only a few who have the courage to take the airship.

Yang Chao's airship is not the airship of the past, it has been renovated, and the airship of the past is just a cockpit and a large cargo warehouse.

Now it is renovated into a locomotive-like box, and only a large room is reserved in the middle, which is the restaurant.

At the same time, the appearance of the airship has also changed, it used to be pure black, but now it has turned into silver gray, because Yang Chao has covered it with a layer of aluminum skin inside and out, so that people can know that the airship is made of aluminum at a glance. The air sac is no longer the vacuum structure of the past, but filled with helium, which is almost twice as heavy as hydrogen.

Except for the difference in filling gas, the whole airship is completely an enlarged version of the Zeppelin, and Yang Chao doesn't want to play anything special.

It's just that in this way, the weight of the airship has increased significantly, and the carrying capacity has plummeted from 100 tons to 20 tons.

How many things can be pulled with a load capacity of twenty tons, calculated with a fifty kilogram as the standard weight of an adult, it can pull four hundred people, and it is still very cost-effective to pull people, comparable to the giant planes of later generations, but if you pull goods, it is too pitiful.

Now only one hundred and two people have been pulled, which is simply too easy for Yang Chao.

"Hello, beautiful Miss Elena, this is my captain's room, welcome to visit!"

Yang Chao hooked Elena's hand with the silk gloves and led her into his cockpit.

The cockpit is clean, located at the rear of the entire cockpit, about ten square meters in size, with some levers to operate the thrusters suspended outside the cockpit.

The thruster is actually a large fan, a fan driven by a gasoline engine, such a propeller Yang Chao has installed a total of five, one on each side of the cockpit, and three are placed side by side at the bottom, all of which are piston engines, 4 cylinders with 100 horsepower, a total of 500 horsepower.

Although the engine structure is the same as Zeppelin's engine, Zeppelin's airship engine is only 16 horsepower, Yang Chao's equally proportionally enlarged engine has 100 horsepower, Zeppelin's airship can only run more than 20 kilometers per hour, but Yang Chao's can run more than 100 kilometers.

"The new airship, with a streamlined structure and biomimetic principles, greatly reduces air resistance. It can reach speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour! ”

Yang Chao introduced to Yelena, but Elena was confused, she was really bad at math and very insensitive to numbers.

Yang Chao had to continue to explain: "This means that we only need 100 hours for the journey of more than 15,000 kilometers from China to the United States, that is, four days and four hours!" ”

Elena opened her mouth this time, and he couldn't imagine that it would take him four days to travel from China to the United States.

"And to France?"

Yelena hurriedly asked.

Yang Chao smiled: "If you go in a straight line, it won't be slower than going to the United States, maybe faster." ”

"This is a cabin, but it's only third class!"

Yang Chao took Yelena out of the cockpit and opened a door closest to the cockpit, a small, train box-sized house, with three layers of sleepers on each side, and a table also fixed to the wall, facing an aisle that only allowed one person to pass.

Obviously, Yang Chao imitated the sleeping compartment of the later generations, which could fit six beds in a two-meter-wide space, and there were ten such rooms on the left and right sides of the airship cockpit, which could accommodate one hundred and twenty guests.

Follow the aisle formed by the third-class cabins on both sides and keep going: "This is the second-class cabin. ”

The space of the second-class cabin is much larger, about ten square meters, not only can a bed be placed, but there is also a small table by the window on the other side, the second-class cabin is a single room, but there are only five on both sides of the second-class cabin.

Go all the way to the front: "This is first class!" ”

Elena opened her mouth again, and she saw that the first-class cabin was not only larger, but also located at the very front of the whole airship, with several windows that could be opened, a large double bed, covered with white sheets, a transparent gauze hanging from the hook at the top, famous calligraphy and paintings hanging on each of the four walls, and some rare treasures were placed very carefully, and the most rare thing was that there was even a small bathroom.

"This is your room!"

Yang Chao said with a smile, if it was a French beauty in the next generation, she should pounce on her and start kissing passionately, but Yelena just touched her chest and couldn't speak with excitement.

"Okay, you can rest here today, and we'll leave tomorrow."

After Yang Chao finished speaking, he walked out of the room lightly and brought the door of the room, and after Yang Chao left, Elena jumped on her bed at once, began to look at the roof full of warm colors, and began to imagine the feeling of flying in the sky.

The next day, fifty foreign students stepped onto the airship in a restrained manner, and Yang Chao was dressed as a captain of a ship, with a pipe in his mouth, and started the engine.

Outside the airship is a large square about 100 meters away from the big stone house, the ground is paved with bluestone half a foot thick, and there are several boulders buried deep in the ground, and iron hooks are installed on the boulders, and the bottom of the airship cockpit hangs down from a dozen small round doors of one foot on both sides, one end of the rope is connected to the airship, and the other end is hooked on these slings.

The position of the airship is a stone platform three meters above the ground, a platform 50 meters long and 8 meters wide, plus 28 boulder bases with cast iron hooks around the platform, which is the apron of the airship.

At this time, gathered outside the tarmac was a large group of people watching the excitement, and a group of people with cameras to take pictures.

When a group of strong men unloaded the crude and heavy hooks on the pedestal, the airship dragged more than twenty arm-thick hemp ropes and began to slowly rise into the air.

In the frantic flickering of the magnesium lights, the airship began to accelerate and flew towards the sea.

In addition to the fifty international students, there were also fifty strong men in brand-new sailor suits, who pulled up the ropes with heavy hooks at the end of the small doors and fixed them on the wall beside them.

The number of these strong men is also fifty, they used to be railway workers, soldiers of the road guard, and now they are sailors on airships, they are a total of 1802 people with the students, plus Yang Chao and Yelena.

"Elena, this is the captain's room, and it stands to reason that no one is allowed to enter. Make an exception for you to come in, and you can't just use the lever. ”

After accidentally pulling a lever, the airship actually began to spin, Yang Chao criticized with a pleasant face.

"I'm sorry, did I do something wrong?"

Elena looked slightly frightened.

"Not really, you pulled the rudder, we're turning. But remember, we are now at an altitude of three hundred meters, and the airship is rising, if you accidentally do something wrong, there is no chance to correct it, and the entire ship may be in danger. ”

Yang Chao said in familiar French, which was expressed as if sympathizing with people.

Elena was embarrassed: "Then I'd better go out." ”

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay." ”

As if she felt like she had made a mistake when she went out, Elena explained, "I just went to my room to write a travelogue. ”

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay." ”

Yelena felt a little frustrated, and Yang Chao's tone of voice made her feel like a little girl who had done something wrong.

The freshness and excitement just now seemed to have drained the positive energy, and a little frustration began to rise in my heart.

"Remember, don't open the window of your room after two hours, or you'll freeze!"

As soon as Elena stepped out of the cockpit, she heard Yang Chao's voice and asked, "Why?" ”

She really wanted to see the scenery outside the window.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "Because in two hours, we may rise to an altitude of nine thousand meters, and the temperature will drop below minus 20 degrees." ”

"Nine thousand meters!"

Yelena exclaimed.

Yang Chao nodded: "I want to try to challenge the limit of high altitude, maybe we may still be able to rise 10,000 meters!" ”

The biggest challenge of rising to 10,000 meters is not actually the climate, but the sealing of the airship, if the seal is not good, the temperature in the airship is the same as the outside, and a polar bear inside is estimated to freeze to death.

Another is the problem of the engine, when the ordinary gasoline engine reaches this height, it will definitely stop due to lack of oxygen, but Yang Chao has made a special design, that is, put an oxygen cylinder next to the engine, and the engine will not stop when it absorbs oxygen.

Aroused by her curiosity, Elena hurried back to her room, then opened the window and set up her camera, and although the newspaper finally agreed to leave China temporarily, she was asked to write a globetrotting journal in the hope of making up for the loss of this time.

Yelena is a reporter for the French Gazette, which is the oldest newspaper in France, founded as early as three hundred years ago in the cardinal era, but this is not the purpose of Yang Chao inviting her to travel around the world together, this newspaper is mainly concerned with world diplomacy and political events, which is the reason why Yang Chao invited her to the airship.

Because the Russo-Japanese War was the focus of the world at this time, so after the war began, Yelena would come to China, and their newspaper also had two male reporters, but one was a front-line reporter, and the other was reporting in Japan, and she was the only one in China, so the newspaper didn't want her to leave, and if she left, France would not receive first-hand communication reports.

But Elena did not hesitate to threaten to resign, and finally made the newspaper compromise, agreeing to let her travel the world with Yang Chao on an airship, but asked her to write a travelogue and try to send it back to China as much as possible as compensation for her leaving her job.

In addition to writing a travelogue, of course, photos are also necessary, originally for the newspaper material, but just now Yelena changed her attention, the purpose of her photography became to hold a photo exhibition in Paris, the name is from 0 meters to 10,000 meters, she wants to take the spacecraft from 0 meters into the sky, to 10,000 meters in the sky, all the images are recorded through photos, and then shown to the people of Paris to watch.