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After striking a deal with the French, the next expansion of the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company was much smoother, requiring less additional investment than Stuart had anticipated. Please see Novel.com

As for the Cummins Power Company, which produces excellent products such as the Cummins R101 engine, there is no need for Situ Nan to worry, and the Cummins Power Company, which has a large number of product orders in its hands, has lightly borrowed sufficient funds from financial institutions such as Wells Fargo Bank and completely used other people's money to develop itself.

In short, with the excellent performance of Cummins Power Company and Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company, which are subsidiaries of Cummins United Group, more and more people are beginning to know the resounding brand of Cummins.

Busy beauty ** industry! Busy California military industry! Busy aircraft manufacturing! Busy Long Beach City!

Since Cummins Power Company has been stationed, in just a few years, a number of other related aircraft manufacturing enterprises have appeared around Cummins Power Company and Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company, in addition to the key parts and core technologies, Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company has gradually outsourced some products to other enterprises, and engaged in aircraft design and development.

Aircraft building is a very large industry that has a huge influence on the industrial development of the country. Although it is too early to draw this conclusion, Situ Nan greatly appreciates the approach of Leland Sr.

Eating meat by themselves, sharing some bones for the younger brothers around them, division of labor and cooperation, and slowly forming a complete aircraft production chain, undoubtedly accelerating the formation of scale effect of the aircraft industry centered on Los Angeles, especially in Long Beach City, where 80% of the population is engaged in aircraft-related work, it has become the prototype of the American aircraft city!

The development of aircraft also promoted the development of the petrochemical industry, and Occidental Petroleum invested heavily in the construction of a large chemical plant in Los Angeles to produce a series of petroleum products such as professional aviation gasoline, automobile gasoline, and lubricants.

In the second half of 1918, in the face of the fierce counterattack of the Germans, the U.S. Army Aviation Administration placed a $6 million aircraft order with the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company for the purchase of F2 fighters upgraded from the F1 fighter.

As a result of the expansion, Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company's production capacity increased dramatically, reaching a rate of 100 aircraft per month, with several planes leaving the assembly plant almost daily and being transported to the front lines. Fortunately, as soon as the order was completed, the war ended. //

Britain, another aviation power, is jealous and disdainful of American aircraft, and they always think that their camel aircraft are the best, and only the French, who are not competitive, will use American aircraft.

Also, the aircraft of the First World War were not the weapons that decided the outcome of the war, and as long as the mighty Royal Navy was still running rampant on the oceans of all parts of the world, the British would have the capital to be proud of.

Seeing the army planes showing off their might on the battlefield in France, the US Navy felt a little surprised, when had they ever been pressed down by the army's hillbillies? What the army has, they also have to have, and it is better than the army's equipment!

Since Theodore? Since Roosevelt took office, the United States has started a large navy, so the navy has always been a major military spender. Before the war, the cost of one battleship was enough to feed the army's twenty or thirty thousand dirt buns. Therefore, the navy, which considers itself the Great Wall of the United States, has always been dismissive of the army.

Since the second half of 1917, more and more new F1 fighters have appeared on the battlefield of the Western Front, strong horsepower, flexible operation, and powerful firepower have made German pilots suffer, and many ace pilots have been killed by F1 fighters because of carelessness and ignorance of the performance of F1 fighters.

This somewhat clumsy looking F1 fighter produced in the United States turned out to be more difficult to deal with than the British camel plane?

After losing a large number of pilots, German pilots finally did not dare to compete with F1 fighters for speed, and they had to be careful of the firepower of F1 fighters in hand-to-hand combat, until half a year later, when the Luftwaffe launched a new fighter with a 135 hp engine, they had the courage to fight F1 fighters again.

Prior to this, they had already lost 230 aircraft under the F1 fighters, so the F1 fighters were also called the "F1 disaster" by the Germans

It has been three months since he returned from Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company, and Situ Nan has rarely had a leisurely time, usually focusing on the construction of the school.

He really didn't want to see Laura work so hard, there were so many things to prepare for the school, and it was really rare to complete this business with a woman. In this respect, Laura is very much like Mrs. Stanford, the current chairman of Stanford University.

Situ Nan tried to find time to accompany Laura, and occasionally fried fried rice with Mary, and when he was interested, he went to the film company to have a look, and his life was very happy. There is one thing he has been hiding from Laura, and he did not dare to tell him about Paul's affairs in France, which he has a tacit understanding with Andrew.

People are not as good as heaven, originally Situ Nan's people had already arranged for Paul to return to China, who would have thought that the juncture would come out. This made Situ Nan very entangled, and it was difficult to sleep and eat, especially when facing Laura, he always felt empty-hearted.

Walking out of a busy construction site, Situ Nan looked back at the campus that was gradually taking shape, and was a little relieved. But when she thought of what Laura had asked about Paul two days ago, her brow tightened again.

At this time, Lin Yimin hurriedly walked over, came to Situ Nan and said something, Situ Nan waved his hand and scolded: "*** guy, it's really fateful, after returning to Los Angeles this time, let him taste the bitterness, doesn't he love adventure?" Don't you want to be active? Lao Tzu asked him to be a migrant worker! Go and work 10 hours a day like those construction workers, and see if he doesn't have the strength to be a hero! ”

Situ Nan nagged and scolded all the way, and finally let go of the big stone in his heart.

In order to save the unconscious guy, he paid the price of more than a dozen armed men, all of whom were elites from the security consulting company, and almost every one of them was piled up by Situ Nan with money.

Originally, Situ Nan sent a pair of detachments of 20 people to infiltrate Europe in batches to carry out another mission, but unfortunately, the mission died halfway, and more than half of the personnel were lost. The matter is simple to say, and the twists and turns are known only to the parties involved.

Back in Beverly Hills, Hollywood, sitting on a rosewood chair, Situ Nan proudly crossed Erlang's legs, humming an out-of-tune tune in his mouth.

But suddenly got Franklin? Roosevelt's. On the phone, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy spoke in a very polite tone, showing great concern for the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company and euphemistically expressing the hope that the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company would develop an aircraft suitable for naval use.

Well, mainly seaplanes for reconnaissance. There are not many of them, only 50, but they are better than nothing. This was originally the work of Curtiss Aircraft, who were experts in seaplanes.

However, Mr. Assistant Secretary was more optimistic about the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company, and after learning that all the planes produced by the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company had been purchased abroad, Franklin? Roosevelt thought of his old friend Situ Nan.

In fact, the seaplane is similar to the general piston aircraft, except that there are two more pontoons in the structure instead of the landing gear, and the fuselage is round and fat, which can provide enough buoyancy for the aircraft. Or it would be more vivid to describe it as a flying ship.

Power is the key, as long as the Cummins R101 engine developed by Cummins Power is installed, Situ Nan believes that whether it is load or cruise, the seaplane produced by himself will not be inferior to the Curtiss seaplane. Well, technically, there is no big problem, just a little more expensive.

To Situ Nan's surprise, Roosevelt mentioned on the phone that some people in the navy had mentioned that planes should take off from ships, and that in the future, when the technology matured, planes carrying fish could be deployed to take off from ships to bomb the enemy. The Navy wanted to get a powerful aircraft produced by the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company to carry out the related realization.

Isn't this an aircraft carrier?

Situ Nan thought to himself that the person who was going to think like this now was simply a genius. He didn't know that the aircraft carrier plan had actually been in place for a long time, and the British and American navies had carried out relevant exercises and accumulated a lot of experience. However, limited by the traditional idea of giant sword and cannonism, the nascent naval aircraft carrier faction is just a small sprout.

At the same time, aircraft are only a new thing, and with the current technical conditions, it is not yet possible to carry out long-range strikes against the enemy's fleet at sea.

The road is taken step by step, and if it doesn't work now, it doesn't mean it won't work in the future. It was very important to maintain a good relationship with the Navy, and in view of this, Situ Nan dismissed the original idea of perfunctory about the 50 seaplane order.

Old Lelan was reluctant at first, thinking that it was not worth distracting the company's energy for the order of 50 seaplanes, but he was pressed down by Situ Nan's political task.

There is good news! After brilliantly providing the Navy with 50 seaplanes, good fortune came, and in view of the good performance of the Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company, the Navy suddenly smashed a big pie -- 200 F1B fighters, 150 submarine hunters on the water.

This made old Leland faint with happiness! Hurriedly borrowed $2 million from Wells Fargo to open an additional production line and expand the scale.

In fact, whether it is the F1 fighter of the Army Air Corps, the F1B fighter of the Navy or the submarine hunter on the water, they are all similar, they are all equipped with Cummins R101 engines, but some parts are just some. At the level of aircraft manufacturing in World War I, it was not as complicated as it was.

In short, Cummins Power and Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company are cheaper. The former is known as the first-class power equipment provider in the United States, and the latter has surpassed Wright Company, Curtis and other aircraft companies to become the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States, with an annual output value of more than 10 million US dollars.

Compared with the hundreds of millions of arms giants such as DuPont Gunpowder and Bethlehem, the new Cummins Group is only a small character with a slight achievement, but I believe that no one will ignore this new force lightly, and some giants in the east have realized the increasingly huge industry of aircraft.

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