The air flow in the air fluctuated violently under the urging of the engine, and the huge body of a huge aircraft that was far larger than that of an ordinary fighter plane gradually dropped in altitude. After circling a few laps at the Lanzhou military airfield, they descended again, and the tall tires rubbed against the ground. After taxiing for some distance, the all-gray plane gradually came to a halt.

"It's finally stopped, this trip is really long enough." Sun Lanfeng took the ladder provided by the ground staff to the ground and flew in the sky for a long time, this down-to-earth feeling is really good.

"But no, damn it, I would have brought more things up if I knew it, damn it, I'm starving to death on a plane." Peng Dequan snorted, it was already cold in the sky, and the three members of a crew drove the plane in the air for seven or eight hours without landing, and several people underestimated the amount of food they had on the plane, but in order to complete the task, they still insisted on landing the plane in Lanzhou when there was still a little fuel left.

"Shut up, Chief of Staff and Commander!" Xu Mo'an, the last pilot who went to the ground, was startled when he saw Jiang Li and Gao Zhihang, who had already driven to the airport, but he didn't expect that this newly tested plane not only attracted Gao Zhihang, but even Jiang Li came over.

"Commander, Chief of Staff!" Several people saluted Jiang Li and the others in unison.

"Well, that's good!" After Jiang Li raised his arm and returned to the military salute, his eyes swept around a few people, and then landed on the huge plane behind several people, with a look of approval in his eyes.

"Professor Zeng, tell the commander about this kind of aircraft, so far there is no long-range bomber in the northwest that can handle it, and our commander has always been unable to sleep." Gao Zhihang, who has always kept a straight face, also rarely made a joke about Jiang Li at this time.

"I can't sleep, can you sleep well?" Jiang Li shrugged.

"The experimental machine was built two years ago. But as the first four-engine bomber we developed. There are still quite a few problems with its stability and comprehensive layout. After two years of continuous improvement. Correct. Now it has gradually matured. ”

Speaking of the development of the four-engine bomber, Zeng Yijing was overwhelmed with sighs, he was inferior to Wang Xiaofeng, Zhu Jiaren and others in the talent of fighters, and even in the design of the bomber, he was far from outstanding. But since accepting Jiang Li's invitation, he has been conscientiously contributing all his efforts to the development of Northwest Airlines for six years. With the continuous improvement of the Northwest Airlines industry. Zhu Jiaren and Wang Xiaofeng, who went to the United States together, also came back in turn. And he was the last to come back. When the Northwest developed the four-engine bomber, there were Germans at the earliest, and later with the withdrawal of the Germans, the project once encountered considerable trouble, due to the extreme lack of the Northwest people, Zeng Yijing was transferred back, I have to say that the United States at this time is far from being outstanding in fighters, but the development of bombers has indeed been in the forefront of the world, and the airlines in the United States have accumulated considerable experience over the years. With the joint efforts of Zeng Yijing and the Bomber Project Department, the four-engine bomber, which was almost difficult to deliver, was able to be continued again.

Now. The four-engine bombers in the northwest finally rushed into the blue sky, and soared above the blue sky for several hours. At this time, Zeng Yijing, who was looking at the blue sky, had a lot of silver threads on his temples.

"This bomber was named the Kunpeng by us. The name of the Chinese sacred bird means that the sacred bird blesses the land of China. ”

At the same time, the experimental aircraft that completed the test has flown nearly 13,700 kilometers in total, and there have been no major safety hazards, with a fuselage length of 23.1 meters, a height of 6.02 meters, a wingspan of 32.05 meters, a cruising speed of 213 kilometers per hour, and a maximum speed of 406 kilometers per hour. The current test range is about 2370 km. The engines are four imitation of Rolls-Royce's Hurricane 2 with a power of 1,030 hp. The total weight is 25.3 tons, the current bomb load is 5.6 tons, the new Hurricane 3 engine power is about 1250 horsepower, the overall Kunpeng room for improvement is still quite large, even if the engine is not replaced, it is slightly adjusted, the bomb load can also reach six to seven tons, if the Hurricane 3 engine can be successfully restructured, then the Kunpeng range will exceed 3000 kilometers, and the maximum bomb load is expected to reach about 9 tons. ”

"The initial crew of the Kunpeng 1 is set to 10, of which 5 are machine gunners. The defensive weapon is 11 12.7 mm large-caliber machine guns, such ferocious firepower, if formed in formation, it has a certain defense against enemy fighters, but the maximum flight altitude of the Kunpeng 1 has reached 9760 meters, and it is not difficult to break through 10,000 meters after the performance is improved. For the time being, the Japanese army has not yet been able to fly to an altitude of 10,000 meters to fight, so the relative safety factor of this aircraft is still very high, but the trouble also comes, because it is too high from the ground, although the self-produced sights in the northwest have the help of those Jews, but there are still certain technical problems for the time being. The U.S. side heard that the relevant technical problems had been resolved, and if possible, the commander would see if he could bring about the production technology of bomb sights from the U.S. side. ”

Zeng Yijing said with a wry smile, this kind of large bomber can be described as a destruction machine, but because the performance is still very advanced compared to the northwest, so that many links have fallen off the chain, so although Jiang Li laid out the bomber relatively early, a series of technical failures still took the northwest a few years to overcome one by one. Relatively speaking, in terms of combat half aircraft, the development of biplanes is not too difficult, and most of the technology of the Flying Dragon 1 is directly born from the BF109, and Wang Zhu is directly involved in the design, and the northwest will naturally get started faster. Relatively speaking, the performance of the Kunpeng 1 is naturally very superior, but with such a large physique, as well as flight altitude, bomb delivery accuracy and fuel consumption are all big problems.

"What is the current production of Kunpeng?" Jiang Li asked about this most concerned question. Due to the lack of long-range heavy bombardment, the Northwest Air Force lacked sufficient means of attack, and the reason why it was able to barely block the Japanese attack in the Great Wall War of Resistance was not unrelated to the Northwest Air Force's successful raid on the airfields and supplies in the rear of the Japanese army. It is not the style of the northwest to only be beaten and not fight back, and Jiang Li will not be satisfied with just the west wind 1 is just a small group of troops and transport vehicles bombing the Japanese front line. The Kunpeng is the heavy bell that will attack in the future, with a bomb load of several tons and a range of thousands of kilometers, and already has the ability to run at a long distance. What is lacking at the moment is only the size of the heavy bombardment formation.

"At present, the monthly output is 2, and by the first half of next year, it can be increased to 3 to 4 aircraft per month. Although the Kunpeng is extremely destructive, its fuel consumption is far from comparable to that of ordinary fighters, and if it does not affect other fields, with the expansion of the heavy bomber formation, the northwest must further strengthen the oil refining work. Zeng Yijing reminded. (To be continued.) )