After a day of hard work, the two complete sets of overall plans were finally completed, Messerschmitt looked at the two thick plans on the table with satisfaction, and said loudly to the designers around him: "Everyone did a good job, and when we won the list of the Royal Romanian Air Force, we will celebrate and celebrate, it is not early now, let's go back and rest early." To-morrow Mr. Philip and I are leaving early in the morning, and Dlocky and Tim will come with me. I remember it was 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. ”

This time, Messerschmidt took off from here on his own M20 transport plane, and after a six-hour flight, they finally arrived in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, where Carmen, a staff officer of Colonel Carmen of the Royal Romanian Air Force who was in charge of the reception, had been waiting there for a long time. Seeing that the M20 transport plane from BFW had arrived at the airport, Carmen greeted him with two entourage.

As soon as he walked in front of a few people, Carmen enthusiastically stretched out his right hand to Messerschmidt, and said with a smile: "Welcome Mr. Messerschmitt to our Romania, I am Carmen, a staff officer of the Royal Romanian Air Force, and I am in charge of your reception." ”

One of Carmen's interpreters hurriedly translated Carmen's words into German, and Messerschmidt and Philip, as well as Dlocker and Tim, understood.

Messerschmitt shook Carmen's hand and smiled, "Thank you Royal Air Force, we are a little flattered to have Colonel Carmen come to meet us in person." Let me introduce you to our team members. ”

Messerschmidt let go of his hand, and then introduced his personnel to Carmen: "This is Mr. Philip, the chairman of the Dragon Soul Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and he is also the chairman of our Dragon Soul Ordnance Complex. These are Mr. Dlocke and Mr. Tim, the aircraft designers of our BFW company. ”

As soon as Carmen heard the name Philip, Carmen's eyes suddenly brightened, and then he walked up to Philip with a deeper smile, grabbed Philip's big hand, and said enthusiastically: "Welcome Mr. Philip to our Romania, your name is already thunderous in our entire Romanian military, and the Koo's defense weekly edited by you has now become a must-read publication for our military, especially staff officers, The articles in it have played a huge role in the construction of our army! ”

Philip shook his hand and replied, "Where! Where! You're so kind! But in my heart, I was thinking that now "Gu's Defense Weekly" has almost never been in charge of itself, it is Carl who is operating it, and he is just signing the name of the honorary editor-in-chief. I didn't expect it to become a very influential publication, which is good news!

For the Royal Romanian Air Force at this time, Philip also knew something in his previous life. During World War II, Romania was a minion following Germany, and the weak Royal Romanian Air Force successfully maneuvered with the IAR.80 fighter designed and manufactured by its own Romanian Aviation Industry Corporation, and also achieved a series of surprising victories. All this was enough to leave a place in the history of aviation for the Romanian Air Force, as well as for the IAR.80 fighters.

At the end of World War I, Romania was given a large piece of land as a "reward" for participating in the Entente. The defeated Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Hungary had to accept the punishment of ceding their land, thus sowing the seeds of hatred between them and Romania. In order to prevent any amendment to the Treaty of Versailles in order to preserve the loss of the ceded land, Romania signed a series of treaty of alliance with Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the twenties and thirties. In this way, the antagonism between Romania and other neighboring countries has become even more serious. Surrounded by hostile countries, Romania had to give priority to national defence as a fundamental national policy. Countries with weak aviation industries mostly started by directly importing foreign aircraft or copying them at home, but in view of the unfriendly environment in the surrounding area, attempts to import advanced aviation equipment have suffered serious setbacks. In desperation, Romania had to invest great efforts in the development of its aviation industry. In order to ensure the supply of aircraft for the Royal Romanian Air Force in wartime, the Romanian government financed the creation of three major aircraft factories in the twenties and thirties, one of which was the Romanian Aviation Industry Corporation, which was founded in Brasov in 1925.

In 1930, the Romanian Air Force presented a new fighter project program. Although the government did not expect much from the country's aviation industry, IAR built several prototypes of fighter jets to bid for it. Since no other domestic companies were bidding, the government decided to nationalize the IAR in order to prevent the corruption that was prevalent in industry at the time. However, in the end, the P.11 of the Polish State Airlines won the manufacturing contract. The company's P.11 was considered the best fighter in the world at that time. The P.11b purchased by the Royal Romanian Air Force installed a domestic 595-horsepower IARK9 engine, as well as aviation equipment. All 50 P.11bs were delivered in 1934.

In 1936, the IAR.80 designed and manufactured by the Romanian Aviation Industry Corporation was awarded a contract for a new fighter, and the 59th and 60th Flight Squadrons of the 8th Fighter Wing of the Royal Romanian Air Force received the first batch of IAR.80 to roll off the assembly line, and it was put into actual combat on April 15, 1941. The addition of the 81st Squadron, equipped with the second batch of IAR.80, to the 8th Fighter Group brought the group to all three squadrons. By the time the war against the Soviet Union began on June 22, 1941, the above-mentioned units were well prepared, which made the IAR.80 one of the first aircraft to enter combat.

Later, the Royal Romanian Air Force was also equipped with a large number of fighters such as the BF109 of the Messerschmitt company, and the two still have some origins. Between the dispatch of the 6th and 8th Wings in October 1942 and the withdrawal of the 43rd Squadron in June 1943, the Royal Romanian Air Force declared that only 39 enemy aircraft had been shot down, while it itself lost 26 aircraft in the battle and another 49 were destroyed for other reasons. As all efforts to replace the IAR.80 series with high-powered engines had failed, the Romanian Air Force began to look for a new model to replace it, and finally chose the Bf109G. Since a part of the Bf109 was already in service with the various units from 1941 onwards, the replacement of the Bf109 seemed to be the most acceptable option for the troops. But that was in another time and space, and it is not yet known whether everything will follow the trajectory of history.

The Royal Romanian Air Force showed great respect for the BFW delegation from afar, after all, the German aviation industry is much stronger than Romania, and they did not dare to slack off on the BFW delegation and the Junkers delegation from Germany.

At Carmen's arrangement, the BFW delegation moved into the Royal Air Force guest house, while Philip found out that their rival, the Junkers delegation from Germany, had already arrived and stayed next to them.