August 18, 1933 was destined to be a great day, on this day the M29 competitive jet aircraft of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Industrial Complex was about to make its first flight. After a large number of test flights on the M30 transport aircraft platform, the Thunder Jet Engine proved to be an excellent jet engine, which was reviewed and approved by the review team organized by Xiao Weiguo and Messerschmidt, and entered the final test flight.

The final test flight was naturally carried out by the M29 competitive jet. It has been waiting for a long time for this day. Although the M29 is a small competitive aircraft, it also functions as a jet engine testing machine. It has only one pilot, a thunder jet engine, a maximum take-off weight of only 4,700 kilograms, and because it is only a competitive aircraft, it does not have a capacity fuel tank and complex equipment in its fuselage. But in order to transform into the world's first jet fighter, it is designed to take into account the future upgrade space, the entire fuselage space is particularly sufficient, as long as the fuel tank and onboard equipment are added, it can become a jet fighter with a maximum take-off weight of more than 7,000 kg.

However, even with its maximum take-off weight of 4400 kg, it can definitely be regarded as a heavy competitive aircraft at this time. The real M29 Athletic aircraft in history was the prototype of the German Bf-108 Typhoon fighter, which Messerschmidt built for the Luftwaffe. However, the Bf-108 Typhoon fighter has a maximum take-off weight of less than 1,500 kg, so the current M29 Athletic aircraft is three times heavier than the historical M29 Athletic aircraft, and not only that, but it will be more than two times faster than the latter with a jet engine.

Originally designed to compete in the 4th International Touring Aircraft Championship held in 1934, the Bf108 was designed by the Messerschmitt Bf108 utility aircraft to perform well in the competition by adopting a series of advanced technologies such as recyclable landing gear and all-gold structure. Although it failed to win the championship in the end, the Bf 108's outstanding performance won more than 30 orders for Mehan Schmidt the following year. Most of them are from Germany. Even if you look at the world, most of the fighters in service do not have a maximum take-off weight of more than 4,000 kilograms, so the M29 jet is definitely a heavy aircraft, because it has a jet engine with a thrust of more than 2,000 kilograms, which is equivalent to having a 2,500 horsepower engine, which is even more powerful than the 2,500 horsepower piston engine used by the same OnePlus fighter.

M29 Competitive Jet. The swept mid-wing layout has a wing sweep angle of 40 degrees and is a double-beam structure. There are angle-controlled receding flaps on the inside of the wing, and the aileron deflection angle ranges from plus or minus 20 degrees. The trailing edge of the tall vertical tail is the rudder with a rotation angle of 30 degrees, and the horizontal tail sweep angle is also 40 degrees, which is the same as the main wing, which is mounted on top of the lower section of the vertical tail and the elevator on the trailing edge. It can be rotated 30 degrees upwards and 15 degrees downwards. The fuselage is an all-metal semi-monocoque structure, and the shape is a streamlined body with circular cross-section. The conical nose, which leaves room for the future installation of an on-board radar, and a slight downward sag, provides the pilot with a good view, which is completely different from the spiral aircraft. It also has a pair of inclined air intakes located on the sides of the fuselage. The rear part of the fuselage is equipped with a steerable airbrake.

All of this makes the M29 Racing Jet a huge difference in appearance from the propeller fighters of this era! Because of this era. There are even a lot of national air forces that use biplane fighters!

The landing gear compartment of the M29 competitive jet is at the root of the wing, and the main landing gear is stowed away in the two compartments of the wing. Three-point landing gear in front of the landing gear. All are single-wheel. The nose landing gear is stored in the wheel wells in the lower part of the front fuselage, and the main landing gear is stored in the wings. The main landing gear is equipped with buffers, and the nose landing gear is equipped with shock absorbers and swing reducers. The cockpit is a sealed single cockpit, and the hatch canopy can be thrown off in case of emergency. The seat is not ejectable, but it allows the pilot to quickly and safely jump out of the cockpit and then open the parachute in an emergency. The control system is hard to operate. The ailerons and elevators are electrically operated. The hydraulic system is used to retract the landing gear, flaps, airbrakes, adjustable spouts, and maneuvering ailerons. The air-conditioning system is used for braking, sealing the cockpit, emergency retracting the landing gear and emergency brakes.

So although this is just a competitive aircraft. But its streamlined fuselage still has a lot of equipment inside, which makes it weigh 3,500 kilograms empty, plus 200 kilograms for the pilot, and 1,000 kilograms of fuel, for a maximum take-off weight of 4,700 kilograms. If you want to convert it into a fighter. It only needs to add more than 1000 kg of weapons and equipment, as well as 1000 kg of fuel, to easily reach a maximum take-off weight of 7000 kg. The range will also increase from the current 800 km to more than 1,500 km.

At the airfield of Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 01 M29 competitive jets are preparing for their first flight. This time, the first flight mission was carried out by Xiao Weiguo himself, and he also wanted to personally fly the jet plane he designed to complete the maiden flight of a jet aircraft in the world! You must know that although Xiao Weiguo was an expert in ground weapons and did not design jet aircraft, he also had an aircraft pilot's license, and he also flew some old J-6 fighters and foreign F86 Sabre fighters. So for the more old-fashioned jets, he still has flying experience, and for this first flight, it can only succeed and not fail! Xiao Weiguo is also worried that the test pilot of the dragon soul has not flown a jet plane, in case there is a problem during the test flight, resulting in a serious accident such as a plane crash, it will be troublesome, which will seriously affect the M29 competitive aircraft to participate in the 4th International Air Competition as scheduled, and will also affect the finalization of the wind and thunder jet engine.

So Xiao Weiguo decided to come by himself! Of course, Messerschmitt and Karl, as well as Lucas, Cam and others all advised him not to risk himself, but Xiao Weiguo said to them: "Although it is a dangerous job to test fly the first jet plane in human history, but this is an aircraft I designed, and I am more sure of it than anyone else. This plane has a perfect life-saving system, even in case of danger, you can parachute to escape, so you don't have to worry about me! Cheer me on! (To be continued.) )