Chapter 721: Dragoon Type I
Gawain reacted for two seconds before finally revealing an irrepressible smile of joy.
Amber was happily BB a second ago, but stopped stunned when she saw Gawain's expression.
She rarely saw Gawain so unabashedly his emotions, and rarely did she see the latter smile so happily.
He had never laughed like that when he was crowned.
Is it true that "flying machines" are such important things?
"Let's take a look," Gawain pulled Amber over and strode towards the door, "It's at the Eastern Suburbs Proving Ground, right?" β
"Oh, oh yes...... Hey, let go, I'll go by myself, don't drag it...... Don't carry it...... Don't put me under your arm again! I would ...... myself."
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At the suburban test site, the "Dragoons", who had successfully completed their first flight experiments, had already landed smoothly in the open field, and a large group of technicians were busy surrounding the flying machine, inspecting every part of it over and over again. Rebecca, as the general leader of the project, also went into battle herself, holding tools in her hands, circling around the mechanical cabin, her face rubbed several grease stains, and her clothes were smeared, but she smiled brighter than everyone in the room - happy as a child.
Maggie stood quietly beside her, looking at the busy and joyful scene in front of her, and her eyes fell on Rebecca from time to time - over the years, Maggie had seen all kinds of human nobles, but a "princess" like Rebecca was really the only one she had ever seen in her life.
"Perfect, perfect, nothing was wrong at all! No breakage, no falling off, no overheating, none of the previous faults......" A magic technician jumped down from the connecting shaft of the Dragon Wing Servo, his face full of excitement, "The new structure works!" β
"That's right!" Rebecca also drilled out from under the main cone of the aircraft, her eyes were shining, "It's not in vain that we have tested it thousands of times......"
Maggie knew that not all of the thousands of tests Rebecca had said were actual test flights, the vast majority of which had been done in the Origin Lab β but even though it was a simulated environment, everyone on the team had put in real work.
At this turn of mind, Rebecca had already come to Maggie, and she smiled like a flower: "Hey, hey, Maggie, how does it feel to fly?" β
Maggie was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head a little sluggishly, and said politely, "It feels very ...... Yes, Your Highness. β
She has always been uncomfortable with the way this princess behaves in a way that is not aristocratic at all, but no matter what, she represents the face of the Duke of the North after all, and she still has to try to be polite and thoughtful.
"Don't you always be so tense, we're not in the city, Aunt Hetty and the ancestors can't see it, it's okay to relax a little," Rebecca patted Maggie's shoulder with a big grin, and only after slapping it down did she realize "oops", she quickly withdrew her hand, glanced at the oil stain on her hand, wiped it vigorously on her robe, and then patted Maggie's shoulder on the other side, "There are no titles in the lab, this is what we said from the beginning." β
Maggie glanced up behind the other party, her expression a little weird: "...... But, Your Highness, I think the necessary etiquette still needs to be there......"
Rebecca couldn't help but puff out when she heard it: "Why do you tone like my aunt." Let me tell you, it's easy to get old when you're always tight, my aunt is usually too tight, the dark circles under her eyes are getting heavier day by day, and the ancestors are so serious all day long, I can see him wrinkled......"
Maggie looked up again, wisely choosing to keep her mouth shut and silently step aside.
Several technicians around him also looked up behind Rebecca, all of them showed strange expressions, and stepped back slightly in tacit understanding.
Rebecca looked around, felt the atmosphere, thought for a moment, and came to the conclusion -
Damn, I'm cold.
Her Royal Highness the Experienced Princess knew what to do without being reminded, she wiped both hands on her robe, then hugged her head and slowly squatted: "Can you not hit your head this time......?"
Rebecca was halfway through the squatting when a big strong hand came from behind and lifted her up by the collar: "Don't squat, Hetty isn't here." β
Rebecca heard that it was Gawain's voice, and quickly turned her head to look at it while being carried by the collar, only to see the helpless ancestor and Amber next to the ancestorβjust the two of them, Aunt Hetty was really not there.
Her expression that had just been restrained suddenly brightened again: "Ancestor, you are here!" β
The ancestor has always been very spoiled by himself, and although he usually looks serious, he is different from his aunt's seriousness - he does not knock himself on the head, and Rebecca is very clear about this.
Since she was a child, she has been very optimistic, and this optimism is mainly reflected in her ability to find the sunshine on her own and then shine brightly on her own.
Gawain actually wanted to knock on the girl's skull, after all, as far as he knew, Rebecca hadn't been beaten for three days, and judging from experience, the stupid roe deer's current state of mind should be wandering between the removal of tiles in the upper house and the setting of fire to the mountain, but before that, his attention had already fallen on the strange-looking machine next to him.
He stared for a long time at the device, which was completely different from the "airplane" he remembered in terms of shape and principle, and his thoughts fluctuated in his heart, and he whispered for a long time: "This is our flying machine......
It's really different, it's not at all.
It is an inverted cone-shaped device similar to a gyroscope, the main body is about two to three meters in diameter, and the lower part of the cone is floating with a metal ring engraved with runes - the ring should be the anti-gravity ring, which continues to float at the root of the cone through a long-lasting force field, controlling the lifting and gravity balance of the entire device, and the two sides and the top of the device have a half-moon-shaped main wing and a steering wing that imitates a dragon's wing, which makes it look like a huge, upright steel insect, a little weird, But it is full of the unique beauty of the magic industry.
Gawain could not see a shadow of an "airplane" on it.
After he completely let go of the Earth experience and only told the technical team about the application requirements and some of the performance characteristics, Rebecca led the magic technicians to build a flying machine based on the technical foundation and logic of the world.
A bold attempt, the result of which proves Gawain's long-standing thinking: the wizarding world's own technical route is the most suitable technical route here.
It's not that he didn't want to copy the planes on Earth to this world, after all, although many of the rules in this world are very different from those on Earth, at least this world also has wind and birds, which means that aerodynamic aircraft have the possibility of implementation, but he still didn't do it in the end.
Because he doesn't know everything, even if he has a strong memory ability and a huge amount of "miscellaneous knowledge", he has his own areas that he is not good at, and aircraft manufacturing is undoubtedly one of them.
In the early stages, some simple machinery might be able to be cobbled together from the miscellaneous knowledge in his head, but the flying machine was too specialized, and Gawain knew that the rough sketches he could recall would only mislead his technicians - not to mention the fact that the world had a blank technical foundation in the field of aerodynamics due to its unique elemental spells, but there was a ready-made anti-gravity technology route.
Rather than drawing a bunch of error-ridden sketches and then having the technicians light up a tech tree from scratch on top of that, it would be better for them to deduce and transform the technology that already exists in this world - after all, the world itself has flying units such as Griffon Knight and Eagle Knight, and there are powerful mages who can fly directly in the sky, and the realm of mortals is not a blank space, even if it took him several years to build a primitive aircraft based on aerodynamics, I'm afraid that it can't compete with the existing air units in this world, so it is better to give it a bold try and let Rebecca and her technical team go free and directly challenge the mature anti-gravity air combat platform.
The result of this bold attempt is the strange-looking "Dragoon" in front of you, but its performance is definitely beyond that of the early flying machines on Earth.
Relying on anti-gravity vertical take-off and landing, highly flexible and maneuverable, able to engage in aerial combat with well-trained griffin knights and achieve suppression, using dragon wing runes for "magic wave drive", the maximum speed exceeds that of the elven giant eagle, at the same time, the wind language runes all over the cpine shell and the rune group of the dragon wing itself also solve the wind resistance problem caused by its strange form, if you add advanced magic weapons and communication devices, it will undoubtedly become the most advanced and powerful air power in this era.
Of course, it must have a lot of shortcomings now, as a completely new product, and it is currently the most complex and advanced technical product, it still has a lot of tests to accept, and it will take a while before mass production, but anyway, this road has finally proven to be able to go through.
The architecture of this aircraft will become the cornerstone of Cecil's series of flying techniques in the future, and the experience it has accumulated may be blessed for a hundred years......
"yes, this is the flying machine we built......" Rebecca looked up with a proud smile on her face, "It took a lot of work!" β
Then she said, "Ancestor, do you want to give it an official name?" After all, 'Dragoon' is just a code name......"
"The official name is the Dragoon, I think the code name itself is graphic enough and good," Gawain laughed, "Referring to the Warhammer tank, this type of anti-gravity vehicle is named Dragoon I." β
Speaking of this, his heart suddenly moved, and he couldn't help but look at Maggie, who was standing quietly next to him.
"Speaking of which, as a dragon, do you have any thoughts on the name 'Dragoon'?"
Maggie thought for a moment in confusion and shook her head: "I don't have any ideas...... Why do you ask, Your Majesty? β
"I'm just worried that this name will be unpleasant to the dragons," Gawain laughed a little awkwardly, "I didn't think much about it when I decided on the code name before, and I didn't ask your opinion, but at this time, I suddenly felt a little inappropriate." Don't you dragons think this word is offensive? After all, it implies the meaning of using the dragon as a mount......"
Maggie was stunned for a moment, then smiled faintly.
"Your Majesty, I don't quite know what the dragons of Tarlund think, but as far as I know, the humans on the continent have been using dragons as an important character in various epic stories and myths for hundreds of years or even longer, and for the most part, this important role is not very bright - dragons rob castles, kidnap princesses, encroach on property, threaten the kingdom, brave adventurers and knights fight off evil dragons, occupy dragon caves, and even turn dragons into mounts, so many years have passed, Have you ever seen the minstrels, and their families who made up stories hunted down by people sent by the Talrond or the Principality of the Holy Dragon? β
ββ¦β¦ I don't think there's really ......."
"Dragons, I don't care about human stories, because no matter how long human stories are circulated, they will quickly disappear with the wind, and even those 'degraded dragonborns' in the Holy Dragon Principality's relatively short-lived life have plenty of room to watch even the most exciting legends of human beings return to dust," Maggie said with a hint of a smile, but then added, "Of course, your 'story protagonist' who has returned to the stage of history is probably an unexpected ...... for dragons."
Gawain: "......"
It's really quite unexpected, the Mithril Treasure Vault, who made a fortune by embezzling the consignment, jumped for a while because of a client like himself, who came back from the dead, and it is said that not only dug thousands of graves in a month, but also recruited hundreds of souls by the way......
Maggie also seemed to find the topic a little weird, and shifted back rather stiffly: "So overall, when it comes to these 'trivial offenses', the dragon's attitude will be far more free than you think. Of course, I'm just starting from my own perception, as for what the 'legitimate' dragons in Tarrond will think after seeing the 'dragoons'...... I'm afraid that only the 'senior agent' who knows you well can give the answer. β
Gawain couldn't help but think of My little pony in his mind.
I don't know what the blue dragon from the dragon kingdom would have thought after learning that humans had created a flying machine called "dragoons" by imitating the principle of dragon wings.
I don't know how she would respond if she asked Melita if dragons would ride them - would she be furious, or would she tell a bunch of reasoning?
Gao Wen thought carefully for a long time, and suddenly felt that the answer was not "seven yuan for the start, five hundred for the day, toll for crossing the bridge, and additional money for the night train"......