Under the clear sky, the people on the grass rushed around a huge airship, which took up almost a quarter of the length of the lawn, and when it slowly rose, the people on the ground seemed to have become accustomed to this scene, and only some passers-by nearby would be amazed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In fact, not to mention passers-by, almost every day, for the people nearby, the airship field of the airship company has always been a place to attract people's attention, whenever someone on the airship field is tested, people from ten miles and eight miles nearby will rush over, look at the huge balloon with curious eyes, imagine that they take the balloon into the Jade Emperor's Lingxiao Treasure Hall, and sit and discuss the scene with Taishang Laojun.

Of course, that exists in the mouths of the villagers at most, and people are more just curious about new things, about things that can rise to the air.

Today, however, they were surprised to find an even larger material - a huge shuttle-shaped balloon was firmly tied to the air more than ten meters above the ground by a tethering rope, the bow of the shuttle-shaped boat was connected to the spire of an iron tower, and people were everywhere around the huge airship.

"What is this ......?"

Carrying a schoolbag sewn from pieces and through the barbed wire, Zhao Guowei looked at the behemoth in the air with strange eyes, and he wore a black imitation army-style military uniform with five buttons and a brimmed school hat on his head, showing people his identity - a student of the National Middle School.

The reason why he can see this identity is because there is no yellow stripe symbolizing college students under the brim of the school hat, although so, it is enough for the people around him to give him enough respect, in the eyes of the villagers, the teenager who can wear the "five copper buttons" school uniform, that is put aside is the identity of Xiucai.

"Guoweigo. I've heard people say that it's an airship, an airship that can take people to the sky! ”

When the young man on the side answered his question, he looked at Zhao Guowei with envious eyes, for the young man, the big boy in front of him was undoubtedly his role model - he was directly admitted to Dalian National High School without studying in elementary school. This means that one foot has already entered the door of the university, and in a few years, he will have a yellow stripe on the brim of his hat, and he will be a college student at that time. In the future, it is possible to go abroad to study abroad......

Change always happens inadvertently, just like the current Northeast people, they know about primary school, middle school, and also know about university and foreign students, for the children of the poor. They also understand that this is their chance to leap into the dragon gate, and compared to the imperial examinations in the past, the current chances are even higher.

"Oh? Airship? ”

Zhao Guowei thought of the description he had read in the book, which was different from the balloons he had seen in the past, and the airship could fly in the air, so he was immediately interested.

When Zhao Guowei and the people around him watched the airship through the barbed wire, looking forward to the airship flying into the sky and flying in the air. On the airship field. People still seem busy, as if they are making final preparations for the flight. A similar scene. As the only "professional airship manufacturer" in East Asia and even in the world, China Airship not only undertakes the design and production of landing naval observation balloons and airships, but also looks to the sky like many adventurers of this era. Try to conquer this unknown sky with an airship.

The airship being released at this time is a test airship, which is tens of meters long and has a larger carrying capacity than the "tiny" observation airship, which is of course not the main reason for the creation of this airship. The reason why this airship was built was more important for the purpose of experimenting, testing various equipment.

This large soft airship is, to a certain extent, just a test platform.

When the airship lifted off, looking at the huge hull, although its length was only 34 meters, although Tang Haoran had seen a larger plane than it in later generations, and he had long been accustomed to flying in the air, but when this simple airship was only made of aluminum frame and cloth skin, and looked at a star-shaped engine with only more than 30 horsepower without even adding a shell, Tang Haoran was still stunned by the "huge object" in front of him.

It's not that he was surprised by the huge size of the airship, in fact, Tang Haoran was more surprised that this change would come so quickly, so that he himself was a little unable to adapt to the speed of this change, at this time, like others, Tang Haoran also watched the airship in front of him slowly rise into the air, when the airship rose to dozens of meters in the air, the engine behind the cockpit started, and when the propeller rotated, the horizontal wing of the tail of the airship flying in front of it leaned down under the traction of the control rope, The airship, which had been moving slowly, began to rise into the air at a speed and angle that was difficult to detect.

A few minutes later, the airship has risen to more than 300 meters of "high altitude", in this soft airship began to sail slowly at high altitude, the ground suddenly resounded with a piece of applause, and as the designer Xie Jintai is extremely excited, although this soft airship is different from his original design, but its application of the technology required to manufacture a large airship, and the reason for the manufacture of a soft airship is limited by the lack of funds and the need for testing, many designs need to be verified, He didn't have enough money to build a large airship to test those techniques, and a "good and cheap" soft airship was undoubtedly the best choice.

"Look, Dashuai, it flies so high, it must be able to fly higher, it can carry hundreds of kilograms of things, the plane can not only transport things, but even bombs, if we put bombs on airships......"

Pointing to the airship in the air, Xie Jintai looked a little excited, loading the bomb on the airship, it can be said that this is his real purpose, as for transporting goods, transporting passengers and delivering goods in the air like a passenger ship, it is all secondary, and it can even be said that he has not thought about it at all, for him, there is nothing more important than throwing bombs.

Even because the soft airship did not use a "heavy" frame, its carrying capacity reached an "staggering" 480 kg, and even after deducting the crew of three, it could still carry almost 300 kg of bombs.

"Even if it's thousands of miles away, you can bomb it with a bomb, big handsome,"

Looking at the handsome with his eyes, Xie Jintai knew that the attitude of the handsome man decided everything. If the marshal agrees, then he will not only be able to obtain the funds needed to build the airship, but will also receive the support of the army, and even the airship that is still on the drawing board will also be procured by the army.

It is precisely because of this that he emphasized the role of airships in military affairs. Is there a more direct use for throwing bombs? Moreover, compared to the warships of the Navy and the artillery of the Army, airships can drop bombs thousands of miles away, and then destroy the enemy thousands of miles away.

"Wherever anyone goes, airships can drop bombs and attack!"

Isn't that the concept of strategic bombing?

Xie Zhangtai's words made Tang Haoran stunned, thousands of miles away, where people go, this is not strategic bombing. For a moment, Tang Haoran even wanted to grab his hand and ask him where he crossed over, of course it was just a joke.

Staring at the airship in the air, Tang Haoran first thought of the Zepberin airship in another time and space and the famous "Hindenburg" tragedy, not to mention whether there was a conspiracy in the explosion of the "Hindenburg", just before that, the airship had been in the air for many years, especially the potential it had shown. attracted Tang Haoran.

Perhaps, at the time of the First World War. The British used small bombs to turn huge Zipbling ships into huge aerial fireballs, but what about before the invention of airplanes?

Who can threaten an airship now, before the invention of the airplane?

Perhaps for Xie Jintai, the airship in his eyes is either a passenger and cargo ship in the air or a cannon in the air, but as a traverser. A hundred years of experience has made Tang Haoran deeply aware of the importance of air power. If Tohoku is able to master the only air power of this era, it will play a role beyond people's imagination in wartime.

In peacetime, airships with a load of tens of tons can transport goods to any corner of the country, as well as to the hinterland of the southwest and northwest, like a business card. It shows the world the power of Tohoku. In wartime, airships can transport soldiers to wherever they are needed, and at the same time, they can also bomb the enemy's logistics warehouses, cantonment sites and assembly points, and drop hundreds or even thousands of tons of bombs on the enemy's head, so as to completely break the enemy's fighting spirit.

At this time, who can resist this kind of integrated attack of land, sea and air, and even, Tang Haoran believes that just the bomb that fell on the head is enough to make the people of this era collapse!

Looking at the airship in the air, Tang Haoran couldn't help but think of a scene of air-ground integration in his mind, and a picture that originally only existed in World War II emerged - a huge group of aircraft, no, a group of airships passing through the air and dropping countless bombs on the ground, just like the Kirov airship in "Red Alert".

Thinking of the Kirov airship, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips raised slightly, when he played "Red Alert" in the past, his favorite thing to do was to use dozens of Kirov airships to carry out devastating bombing of the enemy's base, with the underground tank sea, that kind of "brute force pushing" is a way of playing that no one can stop.

If the same "brute force pushing" appears in this era, whether it is those opponents in the customs or foreign powers, what is it?

Staring at the airship spinning in circles, he may not be perfect, but it has already shown its potential, and even compared to the giant airship, Tang Haoran prefers this kind of smaller airship - because it is small enough. Stopping in the air at a distance of seven or eight hundred to more than a thousand meters, it is difficult for the weapons on the ground to pose a threat to it, and hitting it with this rifle machine gun depends more often on luck.

"What is its carrying capacity?"

"Dashuai, what do you mean ......?"

Xie Jintai was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly replied.

"480 kilograms, including three crew members, its load should be around 250 kilograms."

250 kilograms, looking at it is inconspicuous, and it is even equivalent to a bomb in later generations, but Tang Haoran understands that this is just the beginning, and in this era, this is already a great achievement. Even the Kirov airship in the game has a bomb load of only 800 kilograms, which only needs to reach this level to basically meet military needs.

"Well, it's not bad, I think there's still potential for improvement!"

Tang Haoran said casually, and at the same time picked up the telescope to observe the test platform in the air that was being tested, the big propeller looked extremely primitive, perhaps because of this, his speed was extremely slow, as if he was floating in the air. Of course, this also has a lot to do with its limited power and soft hull.

"Because it is a test airship, its cabin is made of an aluminum frame, and its frame structure is the ...... originally used for the airship hull."

Xie Zhangtai's words made Tang Haoran stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly asked.

"Aluminum frame? Hull, you're talking about a hard-type airship? Are there any drawings? ”

No wonder Tang Haoran is so excited, the reason why this excitement is very simple, the aluminum hull frame in Xie Zhangtai's mouth is not Qi Berlin?

The famous Zepberin airship did not fly until 7 years later, who would have thought that Xie Jintai would actually think of a hard airship, compared with a soft airship, the Zepberline hard airship has too many advantages that cannot be ignored.

“…… The original design consisted of a number of rib rings consisting of curved connecting beams, usually about 15 metres apart, but later, with the help of several designers at the shipyard, the current rib structure, known as the "deep ring", was redesigned to consist of a stronger triangular truss, each 22.5 metres apart. This rib structure and the "deep ring" structure of the three-keel reinforced structure, although the structural weight of the entire frame is very large. However, I think the structural strength of the hull is far more important than anything else, because no one knows what kind of situation or bad weather will be encountered in the air......"

Dozens of minutes later, in the office of the airship company, which was only separated from the workshop, when Tang Haoran was staring at those drawings, through Xie Zhangtai's explanation, he immediately found that there was still a big gap between the airship he designed and Zibberlin's plane, a simplest example, its cabin still bears the "relics" of the balloon era - hanging blue, to be precise, it is a half-hanging blue cabin, which is not much different from the "hard half-hanging basket" of the soft airship that has just been put down.

However, this "semi-gondola" type airship cabin does not meet the needs of development, nor does it conform to the principle of aerodynamics. However, Tang Haoran did not put forward his own opinion, but agreed with Xie Zhangtai's idea of emphasizing structural strengthening.

"Well, that's true, after all, storms can happen in the air, especially when sailing at sea!"

As soon as the words fell, Tang Haoran continued to ask.

"What kind of aluminum are we using now? How is it connected? (To be continued.) )