Chapter 364: Agricultural Aircraft (Plus 1)

The director of the first drop of blood was originally Ted Kotchev, an excellent director, who was already a famous director in Hollywood ten years ago, and the halo above his head was one after another.

For Nathan and Jenny, of course, they will not choose a famous director, such directors are generally very big and have a big temper, even if Nathan and Jenny, as the heroes and heroines of Top Gun, have become dazzling new stars in Hollywood, this is not good, in the eyes of other directors, you are a little star.

Stars are also popular with the director, and the director can make you popular, and he can ban you at any time.

Besides, as long as Nathan doesn't say it, who knows who the director of the first blood is.

So, Nathan and Jenny, of course, have to take care of their old buddies.

Although Jenny still wants to feel the feeling of sitting in the back of a motorcycle like last time, especially when the motorcycle is moving, the wind blows on her body, blows on her head, and her long hair flutters in the wind, that feeling is definitely fresh in people's minds.

Jenny would love to try it, but it could only be a dream.

She is already a councillor, and her every move will be watched by the public, so Jenny can only sit in her special car and go to her destination with Nathan.

Galloping on the wide intercontinental highway, you can see the coming and going, all of them are Optimus Prime with a big nose, and every time he sees this scene, Nathan feels extremely spectacular.

That's right, it's the use of grandeur to describe it, the tall nose, the whining sound, the shock brought by the full speed drive, makes Nathan feel that this is the giant on the road.

Every time he sees these things, Nathan can't help but compare them with the fighters he pilots, and these pilots are all experienced veterans.

Even, they have two gear levers, and when changing certain gears, they need two hands to work together, so that no one takes over the steering wheel for the time being, and that kind of action is simply cool.

"Hey, do you people have a desire to harness anything mechanical?" Sitting in the back, Jenny asked Nathan.

"Yes." "I really want to fly it, and if I get old and can't fly a plane, maybe I'll choose to be a truck driver," Nathan said. ”

As a boy, he was born interested in machinery, and in those Western exaggerations, it was a child of a few years old, who took his father's car apart in the garage, reassembled it, and could still start it.

For Nathan, of course, this is not the case, in his memory, in his previous life, he was interested in mechanics since he was a child, he could go to the library and hold those books on the principles of mechanics to read, and later, he became interested in flying.

Now, it's too far to think about that.

"But now, I want to fly a fighter plane even more." Nathan said.

In the United States, it is still much better than in China, pilots in the United States can drive cars and motorcycles, while in China, pilots are the key protection objects, as long as they are still flying, they can't do anything dangerous, and they must not drive cars!

As Nathan spoke, he looked into the distance, and at this time, in the endless fields around him, a small farm plane was flying over.

The United States has a very large area of arable land, but there are quite few people engaged in agricultural production, so farmers in the United States have long begun to use various machinery to improve agricultural production efficiency.

Historically, in 1921, near Troy, Ohio, USA, Army Air Corps pilots flew JN-4 planes and sprayed lead arsenate downwards with a makeshift metal funnel to kill the Tian'a caterpillars that were harming an orchard, becoming the first agricultural spraying flight using a powered aircraft.

With the end of World War II, a large number of pilots became professional, and a large number of aircraft remained, so that military biplane trainers, which were equipped with a large number of weapons during the war, fell into the hands of pesticide spraying operators, and those remaining aircraft were transferred to the crop spraying industry together with pilots with flight experience.

For example, the most typical of them is the Boeing company in the mid-30s of the 20th century to develop the "Stillman" 75 two-seat biplane, in the United States Army Air Corps and Navy military numbers PT-17 and N-2S respectively, after the war became the main force of aerial spraying operations. Most of the cloth used on the control surface of the aircraft was replaced with metal skin, and a more powerful star engine was installed, and a hopper was added to the front compartment to store the spray.

Since the performance has been outdated, it is quite cheap, and it has produced more than 8000 units in total. After the war, thousands of them were sold for only $250 each.

It's less than the price of a motorcycle!

Of course, the fighter planes produced during the Second World War era continued to exert residual heat in agriculture, and that was only a matter of ten to twenty years, and probably in the late fifties, it entered the period of replacement of agricultural aircraft.

At this time, specially designed agricultural aircraft appeared.

It has its own unique requirements: good stability and low-altitude maneuverability, easy to fly over woods, wires and other obstacles; The turning radius should be small, which is convenient for turning around at the end of the spray stroke and shortening the working hours; The ultra-low altitude performance is good to ensure the quality of drug spraying; Able to take off and land in simple fields; large payload; Easy loading and unloading; Good cockpit vision; Good safety, easy inspection and maintenance, etc.

Of course, there are also specialized agricultural aircraft companies, such as the famous "Air Tractor" company, whose founder Leland Snow has dedicated his life to the development of agricultural aviation. With the well-known brand of "air tractor".

And now, this is flying in the field, is an AT-302 aircraft of the air tractor company, from the outside, the yellow paint, the most conspicuous, and the cab protrusion, it looks ugly and ugly, but the sound of its engine is the unique roar of the turbine.

Propeller aircraft, generally piston type, this kind of engine after World War II, has been developed to the limit, large size, low combustion efficiency, used to drive the propeller, has reached the extreme.

Later propeller aircraft are no longer piston engines, they are driven by turbines like jets, and the engines are small in size and have high combustion efficiency, which is more suitable for the layout of the aircraft.

And this AT302 is the first agricultural aircraft to be equipped with a turbine, and its engine power is already as high as 500 kilowatts!

If compared with the power of a fighter jet, it is quite small, but compared with other agricultural aircraft of the same era, the power of the engine of an ordinary agricultural aircraft almost does not exceed 300 kilowatts, you can know how powerful it is.

When he saw this plane, Nathan couldn't help but think that if he retired in the future, it would be good to fly an agricultural plane!