When Li Qi organized the first squadron of transport planes and began to transport supplies to Wolf Castle, the king of the Silver Pine Kingdom, it was already the sixth day after the "Battle of the Flying Dragons".

Li Qi personally led two squadrons of salmon fighters and escorted a monkfish transport squadron along the northwest of the Divine Fall Plateau into the southwest of Küster, swept the edge of the unrelated mountains to the north, took a tortuous and winding route, took nearly a day, and the flight distance exceeded 5,000 kilometers, and arrived safely at the "airfield" near Wolfsburg.

The distance from Beta to Wolfsburg was less than 3,000 kilometers in a straight line, and it was necessary to avoid the detection of the Kerster, and on the way, due to the lack of salmon oil, there was a temporary landing for refueling, and six of the sixteen transport planes were transporting magic oil.

This route was explored by the floating ship, although some route information has been accumulated, but the complex weather and the flying monsters in the mountains still pose a great threat to the group, and there are constant dangers along the way.

A salmon and a monkfish are lost in a sudden thundercloud, and a salmon is smashed by a giant falcon swarm. Fortunately, the crew members were rescued, and when they were about to enter the territory of the Silver Pine Kingdom, they encountered a magic field storm, a salmon trek, and there was no news of people and planes.

This voyage gave Li Qi two more impressive realizations, the first is that the signs of the change of epochs are becoming more and more obvious, and the leading Kist people say that the weather and the magic field have changed much more drastically than before. The second is that the existing magic guided aircraft are still very primitive, and the road to dominating the skies has only just begun.

Romross personally greeted Li Qi at the airport, originally Li Qi thought that his interest in salmon and monkfish would be far greater than the nine-rate magic cannon he brought, but Fei Gong couldn't keep up with the production and couldn't provide it to him, so he prepared a rhetoric for this. Unexpectedly, Romrose only showed due curiosity and did not ask for the aircraft to be included in the transaction list.

"The only thing that can defeat the float is the float ship," said Romrose, "and the dragon." ”

Only then did Richie know that Romrose had solved the problem of air supremacy.

He didn't buy a floating ship, but an intermediary contacted him, but the other party not only wanted the price too high, but also had some additional terms, including blocking the barter trade with Fei Gong, so he refused.

Romrose's confidence still comes from the dragon clan, the black dragon and the white dragon have increased their investment, they will not only send more members, but also organize their own wurm clan to take over the sky battlefield of Romrose.

Knowing that Richie had been a difficult journey, Romulus was both moved and sympathetic. He generously offered to send some of the Wurm tribes to the Godfall Plateau to defend the skies if the Fei Gong needed it.

Li Qi naturally politely declined, not to mention that the use and "management and maintenance" of flying units such as thousands of bipedal wyverns or obsidian bat dragons were very troublesome, and they were incompatible with the development route of the Fei Gong, and more importantly, they had to adhere to the principle of self-reliance.

Of course, the most important thing is that even if Romulos doesn't take the magic guide plane in his eyes, this makes Li Qi even more determined to make him drop his jaw, and when the production keeps up, the magic guide plane will still be the fist product of the Fei Communist military industry.

The convoy also brought more than 100 members of the advisory group, not only military advisers, but also engineering consultants, to guide Romulus in setting up a basic military magic workshop.

Richie used his spare time to load and unload the cargo to meet with Meese and Konstantin and others who were left behind, and obtained the specific information of Romrose from them. Knowing that Romrose had used all his power and power in a short period of time, and cleanly brought the Silver Pine Kingdom under the rule of the empire, Li Qi had to sigh that once Romrose opened his mind, he would also open it.

Romrose had arrested the new king of Silverpine in the previous decisive battle of the royal capital, and then unleashed smoke bombs on the old king, who had cowered in the south, pretending to return the throne to the old king, otherwise he would not be able to order the entire kingdom to join him in the war.

Lao Wang felt that this was in line with general logic, and happily returned to the royal capital, only to find that it was the new king, that is, the eldest son, who sat on the throne.

What happened next also conformed to the general logic, the new king killed the old king, and the second prince took the personal guard legion, with the assistance of the Romulus legion, to "quell the rebellion" and kill the new king. Later, the second prince was crowned king by Romros, officially proclaiming the Kingdom of Silver Pine as a vassal of the Holy Will Empire.

The scheming throughout the whole process is not clever, and who is behind the scenes to manipulate this turmoil, even the beggars of the royal capital know who it is. Li Qi felt that the idea must not have been conceived by Romrose, but by his subordinates. But Romrose executed so resolutely that before the forces in the kingdom could move, the matter was settled.

The old king and the new king are finished, and the second prince who took over has no basic plate in the nobles, so he can only hug the emperor's thigh. The nobles pondered that it would be better to flatter the emperor than to flatter the king. As the war continues, the tendency of the so-called vassal states to gradually become direct territories is clearly visible.

Although Li Qi is happy to see this, he still has some strange feelings in his heart.

The handover of materials was hurriedly completed, and Li Qi's transport team returned with magic crystals, divine crystals, magic steel, magic catalysts, floating crystals and other materials.

With the experience of coming, the return journey was much smoother. However, the occasional griffin sentry snooping in the extreme distance also shows that the route is no longer a secret.

After returning, Li Qi felt that not only did the monkfish transport plane need to be improved more, but the Salmon fighter also found it difficult to cope with the next air battles, and even improvements alone were not enough, and a new design had to be made.

Knowing that Youzan had come up with the "magic to teleportation control", Linde also began to use the puppet to control the magic circle to train the flying dragon core crystal obtained in air combat, and the large amount of flying dragon skin obtained was also a good material for the aircraft skin after being processed by the cobbler, Li Qi's heart itched.

I have all sorts of good designs in my head, and I can't wait to build a new plane!

As a master of the "possible" aircraft design of the earth world, Li Qi followed the principle of seeking truth from facts and adapting measures to local conditions, implemented the doctrine of take-it-or-leave-it, absorbed the flight experience of the "Battle of the Flying Dragon" and transportation escort, and came up with a new design overnight with forward-looking vision and innovative thinking.

Because I didn't have time to tell Finitina stories, as well as ...... In short, the witches, including Aurora, complained about his evil spirit.

In Richie's view, the Salmon should be positioned as an all-rounder in the air, and its new generation model should have both the ability to defeat an ordinary adult dragon in air combat, as well as the ability to attack on the ground. When the aerial bomb matures, it can play the role of a bomb truck, in addition to being a common platform for small reconnaissance aircraft and various special combat aircraft.

For example, the previous Wurm race of the Steel Dragon Iron Dragon, they exposed the Achilles' heel in Vicky's hands. As long as you develop a magnetization magic cannon based on the magnetic spell, that is, magnetization, and carry it to the sky by the successor model of the salmon, you can easily disintegrate the rust wyvern and the white steel wyvern.

The biggest problem with salmon is poor mobility, and Li Qi is deeply aware of the pros and cons of the principle of not having wings. The loss of wings does reduce a lot of the airflow effect, but at the same time, it does not enjoy the maneuvering benefits of airflow. Before jets or even more advanced thrusters could be used for maneuvers, the propellers really had to be paired with the wings.

So how can you enjoy the benefits of wings and eliminate the disadvantages of wings at the same time?

The answer is simple, the angle can be changed, and even the wings can be retracted!

Of course, it is not exactly the same wings as the planes of the earth world, after all, the planes of the earth world also need wings to provide lift, but the dorsal fin and pelvic fins that are completely used for maneuvering.

There is a flying dragon core crystal as the flight control, which solves the control problem of variable and retractable wings.

There is a magic transfer to electric transmission, which solves the problem of power consumption of wing control.

Of course, in this way, the fly-by-wire control is still mechanical, after all, the Wyvern nuclear crystal cannot directly control electricity, but can only be mechanical. At the same time, the Wyvern Core Crystal must also operate the magic circle through the puppet core, which is "trained" by the driver, which is an analog system that cannot be programmed.

Therefore, the final flight propulsion control system is a kind of "magic electric intelligence" based on the principle of mechanical simulation......

Early in the morning, looking at the results of his stay up late, Li Qi let out a sigh of satisfaction.

See what this is?

Y fighter!

Well, in fact, he just enlarged the Y-shaped tail rudder and made it into a layout similar to that of the monkfish transport plane, but upside down, and the three fins can be quickly retracted and rotated to achieve the functions of deceleration, steering, and rising and descending.

"Beans, poof!"

Early in the morning, Elle returned to the witch's courtyard from the hospital, and when she saw his blueprint, she shook her head and took out a heart-to-heart map for him.

Elle raised her chin and said angrily: "Mouth oil, fight, Ann, nest early!"

Air superiority fighter according to your build?

Yo, you're also an aircraft designer?

Taking the picture and looking at it, Li Qi couldn't help coughing. An angular steel humanoid, holding a turntable machine gun in one hand and a magic cannon in the other, with half of a fish body on his back and a propeller on his tail.

Is this a Transformer or a Gundam?

Elle pointed to the picture with her index finger and said, "Fragrant, fat!"

Li Qi understood that Elle herself could fly, and her concept of "air superiority fighter" was not bound by the box of "building an airplane" at all. She wanted something that would allow her to fly higher and faster, and that would allow her to fight freely.

So she naturally thought of the Transformers or Gundam that she saw in the Silk Network......

Li Qi sighed secretly, and honestly he wanted to. If the giant humanoid combat weapon can become a reality in the world of Fein, and it proves to be superior, he will simply shout long live Xiaohong, and lead him to such a world where his dreams can be realized, and then maybe the goal of creating a Gundam will make him more eager than realizing Datongism.

"Ellie, have you calculated?"

Although he couldn't bear it, Li Qi still poured cold water on Ellie: "Compared with the overall streamline, how much more power does it take to get the same speed?"

"There are so many joints, and each joint means a point of control, a point of wear. How many times more difficult to control, how much more likely to fail, and how many times more energy will be consumed under the same computing power, materials, and energy consumption than a body with only a few fins and rudders?"

"In the end, you can only take these weapons, ordinary fighters can also be equipped with such weapons, where is the advantage? Is it more flexible, the price you need to pay to get this flexibility advantage, is the things I just mentioned, do you know that it is cost-effective?"

Seeing that Ellie's eyes dimmed a little and her smiling face wrinkled a little, Li Qi swung the final blow: "You have to talk about science, you have to seek truth from facts, don't just rely on imagination and preferences." ”

Ellie tugged at the heart, snorted angrily, and turned to run.

It seems to be a bit of a blow, Li Qi sighed, but since it is his own field of expertise, he thinks that he should establish a correct and clear concept for Ellie, this is not a game.

Teleport from Epsilon to Beta City and summon your own car, which exclaims, "Wait a few minutes for breakfast here!"

Of course, the public canteen in the integrated area is the territory of many food organizations, and organizations led by the Tip of the Tongue Club compete here all day long to compete in cooking skills and invent dishes, and countless citizens squander their contribution points here. How could a blue dragon from a poor mountain and bad water resist such a temptation.

The blue dragon, who had eaten until he was full of burps, carried Li Qi to the Aircraft Research Institute in the Eastern District at half the usual speed.

Litchie gave his plan to Help and told him to hurry up and start testing the wind tunnel.

Then he glared in surprise: "Do I have to line up too?"

Help said timidly: "The Magic Working Committee has just issued a document, asking the public research department to vigorously support the scientific research and engineering activities of social organizations, and implement the principle of fairness and justice, and there is your signature on the back of the document......

Li Qi slapped his forehead, forgetting that the research institute was changed to an engineering bureau, and the direction of work changed.

Help continued: "Of course, the Chief Cardinal, you still hold the position of Chief Designer of the Engineering Bureau, and you can cut the queue if you need to. ”

When the Magic Guided Aircraft Research Institute was established before, Li Qi was the director for half a day, and his responsibility was to arrest people. After putting together the team, he handed over the position of director to Help and became the chief designer himself, and he did not have time to take care of the administrative affairs of the institute.

If you use this name to specialize now, it will not be specialization.

After thinking about it, Li Qi felt that he was not in a hurry to that point: "How many are there in front? If there are not many, I'll line up, just take a look." ”

"No, not all of them can go to the point of entering the wind tunnel, and opening a wind tunnel is several tons of magic oil," Help said, "We have to make several links of arguments first, and most of them are eliminated at the very beginning." The solutions that can enter the wind tunnel are very distinctive and may meet the needs. ”

The service center has released a number of research projects related to aircraft, and in addition to a large number of components and instruments, it has also added the large project of air superiority fighters. Some of the flight fans set up organizations, some went it alone, and in short, they handed in a lot of design proposals. This project is not very urgent, and the Aircraft Engineering Bureau is using this project to promote the development of social forces.

Richie was taken by Help to the Magic Wind Tunnel, and the core component of the Wind Tunnel was a large sixth-level hurricane magic circle. Compared to the lower-level version of the Tornado, the Hurricane can simulate a flight environment close to the speed of sound, which is sufficient to meet the needs of aircraft design and testing in the propeller era.

Standing behind the specially reinforced crystal wall, you can see an enclosed corridor. The road is as wide as a canyon, large enough for monkfish transporters to turn around freely. At one end is the airflow control device made up of a large fan, and at the other end is the curved air outlet channel.

Recording and measuring devices such as video cameras and large eagle-eye cameras are installed on the walls of the corridor, and on the support platform in the center of the corridor is a model aircraft four or five meters long, perhaps one-third in size.

Looking at this model, Li Qi secretly screamed, except for the lack of air intake, behind the tail are two propellers, at first glance this is an electric fan tomcat!

Could it be that another traverser has appeared!?

"It's a proposal from intrepid aviators, an organization of druids, wizards, and rangers, most of whom are amateurs. The one-tenth model has been tested twice, and now it is the third scheme, and the original scheme is very different from the current one. This variable-wing structure allows the aircraft to weigh beyond the aerostat limit and is also highly maneuverable. ”

"We felt that this solution was not very suitable for the air superiority fighter and could replace the salmon, so we supported them to move to a full-scale model. ”

Help handed the data to Rich: "I just finished the static stability test of one-third of the size, which is much better than that of salmon." ”

Of course, it's different with a wind tunnel......

Li Qi looked at the information and secretly called out again.

If this electric fan Tomcat scheme can really pass, under the same conditions of power and floating furnace, the total weight can be increased to 15 tons, the speed can reach 700 kilometers per hour, and the maneuverability is ...... Needless to say, this one is much stronger than salmon just by looking at it so big and with retracted wings.

Sure enough, as long as the concept is thrown out and the corresponding platform is provided, the power and wisdom of the masses can burst out.

Their plan is not copied from anyone, let alone a traveler, but based on needs and reality, scientific and inevitable choices.

After that, two tenths of the model were tested, and they were all the products of brain-blowing. One imitates a flying bird with foldable wings like shutters, and the other looks like a squid whose tentacles have been replaced by propellers.

At this time, the researcher, whose profession is Crimson Tyrant, also made a tenth of the model according to Li Qi's drawings and put it on the support table for stability testing.

The air flow in the corridor surged, the walls trembled so much that the walls were shaking, and watching the model keep spinning, the smile on Li Qi's face froze instantly.

"This ...... Chief Cardinal, such a design does not seem ......"

Help made a fair judgment: "It's not scientific." ”