Chapter 291: "Daystar 3" test flight
Today is the day of the test flight of the new generation aircraft "Daystar 3" jointly developed by the Crossing and the British, and the pilot of this test flight has been replaced by the British. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info has opened a small pilot school in the Orange District to teach students sent from the UK as well as some of the amateur pilots selected from the Travelers themselves.
The crossing people have the intention of cultivating some Chinese natives to be pilots, after all, the safety of these self-saved planes is worrying, and it is too unrealistic to always let others take risks. However, the cultural quality of the natives who are reliable under the command of the people is really embarrassing. Someone said that the Wright brothers were also semi-literate, and they also made planes and flew into the sky. In this era, even if the Chinese indigenous is not illiterate, it is difficult for him to be qualified for the position of pilot. Cause? Have you ever seen a private school teach algebra geometry?
But fortunately, there are many white skins who are willing to dedicate themselves to the aerospace industry, and these planes designed by Hao Dajian are too late to parachute in case of accidents, and some are Britons who are willing to try. And it's not like a white skin can try his skills, and the Germans who want to wear it keep applying to the crossers to join this flight school, but in the end they can't get what they want.
The "three acids and three alkalis" projects aided by the Germans have started, but the traversal only gave them the drawings of the "Daystar No. 1", but the Germans did not dare to have any dissatisfaction.
The engine of the "Daystar 3" is still inline, although it has saved up V-shaped and star-shaped engines by itself, but it is still an in-line engine used in cooperative projects. However, compared to the stupid black and thick cast iron engine of the "Qixing No. 1", the steel engine on the "Qiming 3" is now much lighter.
The material of the fuselage is also made of light and strong wood, and the sun never sets on the empire will still be in its heyday, and it really wants anything. As long as Hao Dajian hands over the list, they can get it.
For this "Daystar 3" test flight operation with the British as the test pilot, the airport in the green paint area was cleaned up overnight. Thirty Mile Fort is so big that as long as the British fly to a certain height, the airport in the green paint area will be in full view, and the crossers have to hide all the sensitive equipment in advance.
The test pilot, David, a British Royal Navy captain, was told to move according to the prescribed route after liftoff and not to approach the green paint zone. If there are signs of an accident in the vicinity of his plane near the green paint area, he must fly as far away as possible, otherwise he will be attacked by ground fire.
The British lieutenant quickly signed his name on the "life and death certificate", believing that the so-called ground fire attack was nothing more than machine-gun fire. However, several soldiers armed with Stinger anti-aircraft missiles were scattered around the green paint area, and in the event of an accident, the British lieutenant encountered more ground fire than he imagined machine gun fire.
In the end, the "Daystar 3" had no accidents, took off smoothly and landed smoothly, and flew for about an hour, fully meeting the design requirements. The British were so pleased with this result that the Royal Navy immediately invested another amount of money in Hao Dajian's seaplane program, which made Hao Dajian's aircraft design team the richest project team in the green paint area.
People who have never seen a seaplane think that it will be difficult to make a plane take off from the water, but for the people who have crossed from the 21st century, it is nothing more than solving the problem of the plane's pontoons.
With the successful test flight of the "Daystar 3", Hao Dajian is very confident in the flight squadron he envisioned, at least the fuselage design of the "Daystar 3" is no longer a big problem. Although the aircraft was still a twin-engine design, it was closer in shape to the American single-engine Keystone light bomber. Of course, the current in-line engine jointly developed by the Crossing and the British will not be able to carry this aircraft in the case of a single engine. But the star engine and the V-engine that Traversal have saved themselves are different, and judging from the power of these two engines that are still being tested, they can afford to bring the original
The weight of the Keystone light bomber.
Hao Dajian thought that as long as aluminum alloy was used in some key components of the aircraft, the aircraft he designed could have five crew members and carry 2,500 pounds of bombs like the original light bomber of Eagle Sauce.
Now the Crossing Crowd and the Vampire Family's Aluminum Aluminum Electrolysis Project has produced a lot of metallic aluminum, and the Rothschilds have even sold some aluminum for a good price. As a shareholder, the company has also received a lot of aluminum, as long as the metallurgical group studies the composition and process of aluminum alloy, Hao Dajian's aircraft lightweight plan can be realized soon.
With the start of the "three acids and three alkalis" project built with the assistance of the Germans, the goal of realizing the localization of explosives production is not far away. As long as they have explosives, they can make aerial shells.
Everything looks so good, but the hidden dangers are also so obvious. All the resources needed for these projects were imported, such as steel, coal, bauxite, oil, cotton, etc., except for a few small coal mines excavated by Japanese prisoners of war on the Liaodong Peninsula to barely maintain the coal consumption of the power plant.
Now they are in a honeymoon period with the powers, and everything is going well. In case the day comes when they tear each other's faces, these projects will have to be stopped. I have to go back to the days of watching the faces of the "director team" and live a life.
It is no wonder that the traversers are holding back their strength to expand their army and yearn for development in the north. To the north there was coal, there was timber, there was iron ore, there was oil, there was everything they needed. However, the north is not only the land of Longxing of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the fertile soil there has long been watched by Tsarist Russia for more than a century. The crossing knew that in the near future a railway through Siberia would be completed, and then the pressure on them would be even greater. Competing for time with Maozi, and having to entangle with the Manchu Qing, their lives are not as easy as those rough embryos who are very happy because they can "shop online" once a month think.
In the greenhouse of the maintenance team's work area, the two engines that the traverser intended to use for their own use have been working continuously for four hours, and the current general situation of the instruments is not bad. Cheng Zhiyuan and Zhao Lang both had smiles on their faces, the star engine was for airplanes, and the V-engine was for tractors, well, tanks to be precise. Although they were all saved by hand, both of them saw hope for mass production.