Chapter 183: Airship

As soon as the film ended, Zhou Yuanqiang had no need to continue to stay in Los Angeles. Although the film will go through more than a month of publicity before it will finally be released worldwide, it will take a few months to get the money. But this did not bother Zhou Yuanqiang, after all, Warner Bros. had already paid himself the first advance payment of $200 million, which was enough for him to do a lot of things.

Zhou Yuanqiang doesn't have any luggage, he has storage space, and he always travels empty-handed.

Standing on the high-rise of the skyscraper hotel, once again with a bird's-eye view of a large area of Los Angeles, Zhou Yuanqiang had to sigh that this city deserves to be a world-class city, and I am afraid that in addition to Shanghai and Beijing, other cities are not comparable at all, even Shenzhen.

The feeling of having a bird's-eye view of the city is very good, at least Zhou Yuanqiang likes this feeling very much.

Thinking that in the last days, a city like this will also fall into the hands of zombies, and more than five or six million zombies will wander in this city and destroy the civilization here, Zhou Yuanqiang can only sigh in addition to smiling bitterly. It doesn't matter if the city is its own country or not, at least in the last days, it's all the same. The denser the population, the stronger the zombie power.

For example, Tokyo, an international metropolis with a population of 10 million, may have to wipe out the entire city with a nuclear bomb to wipe out the huge zombie population inside, right? The people of a certain island country have some perverted tendencies, and if some perverted special infected people come out, things will be a big deal.

Amitabha, the poor survivor of a certain island, it is estimated that there is not much left until now.

Now that the settlement has been established as a form of chamber of commerce, a company to operate, and the settlement into a city where industry and commerce coexist, what kind of way will the products manufactured at that time be sold to the whole country and even the world?

Even if the agency method is used to establish a sales network, the goods must always be transported out in order to form circulation and output benefits.

But the problem is that there are zombies everywhere in the last days, and transportation is originally a big problem in the last days. Even if the zombies attack the city, they can only deal with it independently, isolated, and finally fall under the claws of the zombies.

Since there are planes in the settlement, the reconnaissance intelligence has never been broken, all directions are within the reconnaissance range, it can be said that there are zombie activities everywhere, using the way of convoys, it is very unsafe, and it is easy to be besieged by zombie groups.

The question is, what kind of transportation is used if it is not transported by car? Airplanes?

This can be a bit of a hassle, because planes need to go to the runway to take off, and settlements are built in uninhabited places, some of which are dangerous, some of which are completely wooded or desert. In these places, even if there are planes, transportation is a huge problem. It is impossible for them to build an improvised airfield for their chamber of commerce.

In large settlements, Zhou Yuanqiang may fund the construction of an airstrip, but what about small settlements? You can't build an airfield too, can you? That's not realistic.

Now that I think about it, apart from the helicopter as a mode of transportation, I really can't find anything suitable. However, the helicopter consumes a lot of money, and the engine technology currently obtained, there is no way to make a heavy transport helicopter, and the load becomes a problem. What's more, the helicopters in the settlements are only trying to be manufactured now, and the military use is not enough, how can it be used in transportation?

Zhou Yuanqiang can be said to have a lot of thoughts about these questions.

When he retracted his gaze, a huge figure appeared in front of him, a huge advertisement imprinted on a white cigar-shaped body. The giant advertising airship with a length of more than 50 meters slowly passed in front of you, shuttling on the towering high-rise buildings, and slowly disappeared in a moment. Like a gliding elf, it didn't make a sound.

Zhou Yuanqiang is the first time to see the airship, although it is only an advertising airship, there are only two controllers on it, but the shock to Zhou Yuanqiang can be imagined, this kind of giant in the air, although the glory has passed, but the modern application of it, is still very extensive, and the use of new technologies makes it safer and more competitive.

As if he had caught something, Zhou Yuanqiang looked at the airship in the distance, suddenly laughed, and muttered, "Why didn't I remember the air giants?" ”

The use of airships, if militarily, may not be of much use, since aircraft completely take their place. But when it comes to other applications, there is no such thing as a turn. For example, its air power, sailing ability, load capacity, and energy saving, etc., are far from being comparable to aircraft.

With the use of helium, its non-flammability, gave the airship a new lease of life. Modern airships are recovering again, and there are many companies and factories engaged in airship manufacturing.

It's just that today's airship is no longer the glorious era before World War II, compared with the real giant of Berlin airship of more than 270 meters to 300 meters, the modern airship of more than 70 meters has dared to claim the world's largest. It can be seen that the predecessors conceived of things, how much fanaticism and persistence, or lofty and daring, modern people simply can't compare.

The sky in the last days is still very clean, and it is composed of a large number of airbags, even if the bullet penetrates. If the bullet hole is small, don't pay attention to it at all, even if the bullet hole is large, the airship will have enough time to return to the sea without worrying about falling directly. It can be said that there is no need to worry about safety at all.

"If the caravan consists of three forms: convoys, airships, and airplanes, it can adapt to settlements with different requirements, and goods can be transported to great distances." The more Zhou Yuanqiang thought about it, the more excited he became, the gravity of the airship was definitely perverted. With the airship as a means of transport, you can get past the zombies on the ground and get to where you want to go.

As soon as the idea was formed, when he left Los Angeles and returned to S City, Zhou Yuanqiang's plan became clearer and clearer.

The airship is very expensive to build, but Zhou Yuanqiang does not plan to place an order with a modern airship manufacturing company, otherwise he would need at least 5 million pounds to build an airship more than 100 meters long. This is more than 50 million yuan, and it feels terrifying to think about.

However, it is made in a post-apocalyptic settlement, and there is no need to worry about materials and so on, first of all, in addition to the huge human power, it is a large expense. With the increasingly well-established industrial base of the wasteland settlement, it is not difficult to build an airship. All you need to do is order equipment that can extract helium from natural gas, or order helium directly from Hyundai.

When Zhou Yuanqiang found him, he was directing the workers to weld a pinyin abbreviation named HY-Y is the abbreviation of the wasteland, and it is also the first monoplane designed and manufactured in the wasteland settlement, which is designed based on the J-6, but in addition to the air intake in the nose, the air intake was designed in the belly of the aircraft, and two turbojet engines were used as the power.

In terms of weapons, there have been some changes with the J-6, with 3 cannons, designed wings can be hung with air-to-air missiles, rockets, bombs and auxiliary fuel tanks can be added, and two small arms compartments are added to the belly, which can carry a small number of various bombs, and at critical moments, it can be used as a temporary bomber mission.

It can be said that while increasing the amount of weapons carried, the speed and agility of the aircraft have also been reduced. It is a set of aircraft specially designed to deal with zombies, and it is the same as the J-6, with small size, light weight, large thrust-to-weight ratio, and good maneuverability. The aircraft is characterized by simple structure, easy to use and maintain, and the materials will not cause excessive burden on the settlement.

When hearing Zhou Yuanqiang's airship idea, Wan Chongshan pondered for a moment and said: "The transportation capacity of the airship is indeed not comparable to that of an airplane, and it is better than an airplane in reconnaissance, and its long-term hovering ability can capture any subtle changes." And it can also be used as a communication platform to cover a larger area. ”

Of course, the advantages of airships are known to everyone, even if they are shortcomings, but in the last days, they are not considered shortcomings.

Zhou Yuanqiang said: "Lao Wan, our current manufacturing capacity, it shouldn't be too difficult to create an airship, right?" ”

Wan Chongshan nodded and said, "At present, if more electronic instruments are not installed, as long as there is enough helium, it will not be difficult to manufacture." But there are people who know how to design airships, maybe we don't have them in our settlements, after all, airships are still an unpopular industry, and the last days are the withering of talents. ”

The problem of design is easy to handle, so many modern airship companies, they can completely use the form of commission, say the requirements, and they are responsible for the design. It was then manufactured by an aircraft factory in the Wasteland Settlement.

In fact, what modern times play is more of a behind-the-scenes scene, and the last days are an experimental field and harvest ground. The combination of the two, in Zhou Yuanqiang's view, is more complementary.

Since Wan Chongshan said that it can be manufactured, what's the matter, the workers of the aircraft factory still have space, and I am afraid that it will have to be reorganized. Even if it is an aviation training base, airship pilots will be opened to recruit more cadets.

Today's aircraft factory is already the largest employer except for the name of the arsenal. The aircraft factory, which has more than 5,000 people, now uses the assembly line to manufacture the HY-1 Wasteland 1 aircraft as light as the J-6, and the factory speed of an aircraft can be manufactured in one day.

If an airship factory is set up to be attached to the aircraft factory, the scale of the entire aircraft factory will reach about 8,000 people, which will be close to the more than 9,000 people in the arsenal.

The wasteland settlement, which has a population of more than 300,000 people, now has to worry about human resources under the construction of a large number of factories, and try to plan the use of manpower to achieve the maximum operating rate.