The Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex is constantly developing new projects, of which helicopters are one of the key projects. Due to the quick success of the Wind and Thunder turboshaft engine, the helicopter project was included in the development plan of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex. A helicopter is a more complex aircraft than the early jet fighters, so it is not a small difficulty.

Helicopters were a novelty at this time, and although Germany and the United States were working on them, they were not too successful. In 1927, Anton Anton in Germany. Flette began working on helicopters. He built a helicopter that used large rotors to provide lift, flew on propeller propulsion, and was equipped with a 20-horsepower engine. During the test, the helicopter successfully lifted off, but the stability was not good, and the sudden crosswind caused the aircraft to lose its balance, crash to the ground, and the test was terminated. In 1928, Zaschka made a test flight at Tempelhof Airport outside Berlin. built a twin-rotor helicopter, but the aircraft ultimately failed to make it to the sky.

In Spain, after a long period of experiments, Shilawa finally solved the problem of taking the rotorcraft into the sky. On March 31, 1923, he made a . The so-called "rotorcraft" was successfully piloted by Captain Luo Jia of the Spanish Air Force and flew 17 kilometers from Hotafe to Vietos. Immediately after becoming famous, Shilawa went to England, the industrial center of the world at that time, to begin his further research, where he developed the "Shilawa C" series of helicopters, the more famous of which was the C-19 helicopter. The C-19 helicopter aroused German interest, and after negotiations, Germany purchased a license for the production of the C-19MKIV helicopter, which was developed by Fokker . Wolf company in the domestic assembly, the company's chief engineer Heinrich. Dr. Falk personally supervised the battle. This helicopter uses German-made Sh14b engines with an output of 150 horsepower. After thoroughly understanding the technology of the C-19, in 1933 Fokker led the technical team to begin the development of a derivative of the C-19, the C-30. Nicknamed "Locust". In order to compete with the Fi-156 "Stork" short take-off and landing aircraft, based on the C-30, Fokker . Wolf also makes. The Fw-186 helicopter was built, but the strange shape of the aircraft discouraged the German military.

In addition, some engineers with a keen interest in helicopters are also developing special-purpose helicopters, such as one engineer named R. Schmidt, who uses electric motors as a power source. A helicopter with a complex coaxial rotor and capable of carrying several soldiers was developed, but the German military showed no interest in it.

In 1935, the German Navy proposed to develop a helicopter that could be used on ships, and Flett, seeing hope, immediately invested in the construction of a factory near Berlin specializing in the production of ship-based helicopters. It didn't take long for him to develop the Fi-184 helicopter, which used a 150-horsepower Sh14a engine with three blades with a diameter of 12 meters, which was found to be poor during test flights. Then the Fi-185 was developed. In 1936, the Fi-185 was developed, which was similar in appearance to the Fi-184, but the performance was still not ideal. Undeterred, Flett continued to work towards hope. By this time, Fokker had already developed the Fw-61 with better performance.

Fogg. In order to develop a helicopter that can really be put into service, Wolf invited all the aviation scientists in Germany, including Dr. Jackel and Dr. Gast. It began in 1931 and lasted 6 years. The world's first helicopter, Fw-61, which actually entered service with the troops, was born. The aircraft uses a specially modified Sh14b engine from Siemens, and the output is increased to 165 horsepower; The fuselage of the Fw-44 trainer aircraft was adopted. Large metal tripods are welded on both sides of the fuselage, and two rotors are mounted on the top of the frame, each with a three-piece blade with a diameter of 15 meters.

However, compared to the helicopter of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, the German helicopter Fw-61 is simply weak. Helicopter of the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex. It was developed by Xiao Weiguo with reference to the Chinese Z-19 light armed helicopter that he knew in his previous life.

The Z-19 helicopter gunship is a special helicopter gunship developed at the beginning of the 21st century, using two 820-horsepower turboshaft engines, with an empty weight of 2529 kg, an internal fuel load of 750 kg in the fuselage, and a normal take-off weight of 3950 kg when performing combat missions. The maximum take-off weight is 4100 kg, the maximum take-off weight of the multi-purpose modification can be increased to 4500 kg, the payload is 1600 kg, the cruising flight speed is 250 km / h, and the maximum flight speed is 305 km / h.

However, now the helicopter developed by the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex is an enlarged version of the Z-19, which refers to the design of the Z-19 in terms of shape and structure, but due to the use of a wind and thunder turboshaft engine with a power of 2500 horsepower, that is, 1800 kilowatts, its take-off weight has also reached 6 tons, so that its load capacity and range have been improved, whether it is the development of armed models or transport models, it is very good. In terms of appearance, it is different from the straight 19 in that it does not use a ducted tail rotor, but still uses an ordinary four-bladed tail rotor, and the main wing also uses four wings.

Of course, since the material is not comparable to the level of a few decades later, the body weight of this helicopter is somewhat larger. Such power is ten times greater than that of the German helicopter Fw-61, so there is a world of difference in performance.

When the prototype of the first helicopter was manufactured and presented in front of Xiao Weiguo's eyes, he was extremely excited, what a mighty helicopter this is. It gives people a strong sense of oppression, long blades, the aircraft uses a tandem cockpit, the most powerful is the 20 mm Vulcan cannon suspended under its nose, it pokes out a hideous barrel in the nose position, and the short wings on both sides of the fuselage can be mounted with a variety of caliber rockets developed by the Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex, two hardpoints on each side, a total of 1000 kg of weapons can be mounted, such a bomb load is higher than many propeller fighters.

Xiao Weiguo nodded in satisfaction, walked to the side of the helicopter, touched its metal fuselage, and then walked around the helicopter. The rest of the people also followed Xiao Weiguo, even Anna and Bai Wanrou were very moved, even if such a helicopter was not used for war, it would be extremely comfortable to drive it out for a ride. It can hover, it can fly upside down, it can take off and land in improvised places, and there is no need for an airport.

Xiao Weiguo stared at the helicopter in front of him and said excitedly: "Great, this helicopter will be called Flying Tiger!" Let's hope it can be thriving! (To be continued.) )