The aviation industry of the Kemarang secret base is a complete industrial chain built from scratch, following the principle of "higher, faster, stronger", from project establishment, research and development, experiments to production, and even finally spreading the wings of the blue sky, can be completed in the secret base.

Ninety percent of the scientific and technological personnel here are of Chinese descent, and only the Aero Engine Design Institute has more than 20 German engineers, who are the backbone of the Aviation Development Institute, designing and producing the world's leading propeller high-horsepower piston engine.

As the saying goes; Whether the train runs fast or not depends on the headband.

The same is true in the aviation field, where excellent aerodynamic design and powerful engines can create a world-class excellent aircraft.

In a tall and spacious hangar

In front of Li Fushou was a streamlined monoplane and a much larger biplane, which represented the base's latest scientific achievements.

Fan Wenhao, the base's technical director, is a 28-year-old engineer who wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face and looks polite. Most of the technicians here are also young people who are obsessed with aviation, and they are full of ideas, drive, and energy.

"Your Majesty, this monoplane is designed to be a spindle-shaped streamlined body for greater speed and agility, so we call it a spindle.

You can see it here......

In the front of the spindle of the aircraft, the leading edge of the wing, we are covered with thin aluminum alloy plates, this design is to obtain the best hydrodynamic performance, coupled with the rationality of the overall aerodynamic structure, so the "spindle" monoplane fighter can obtain a high speed of 248 kilometers per hour, which can be said to be the fastest aircraft in the world today.

The aircraft adopts the "Thor" star-shaped piston engine, which can provide 185 horsepower, the practical ceiling reaches 5700 meters, the length is 7.35 meters, the wingspan is 9.65 meters, the height is 2.55 meters, and the endurance is 1.5 hours.

With an empty weight of 442 kg and a maximum take-off weight of 690 kg, the aircraft is a single-seat, single-engine, monoplane fighter.

The "Spindle" monoplane fighter can carry a Type 02 aviation machine gun, which is placed in front of the pilot, and the pilot can operate the machine gun to strike the enemy.

Considering that the fighter needs to maneuver and hover flexibly, we did not aim for high speed at the beginning of the design, but balanced maneuverability and high speed.

In order to increase the agility and maneuverability of the aircraft, we have increased the tail rudder area. In order to enhance the strength of the body, the wooden skeleton was abandoned and the steel pipe welded skeleton was used instead.

In order to obtain better aerohydrodynamic properties, the spindle body and the leading edge of the wing were covered with aluminum alloy sheets, which proved to be a very successful attempt.

The speed of mainstream aircraft in the world today is generally between 140 kilometers and 180 kilometers, and the fastest speed has just broken through 200 kilometers, which is a big difference between us.

Objectively speaking

The performance of the "Spindle" monoplane fighter is extremely superior, and in the next ten years, Europe and the United States will not be able to manufacture advanced aircraft of the same type.

The only flaw is that it is expensive, and the cost of such a monoplane fighter is as high as tens of thousands of dollars, even if it is produced in large quantities, the cost cannot be reduced much, which is what we are troubled by. ”

Li Fushou nodded when he listened, and said nothing.

In his eyes, the plane was rudimentary, a fuselage made of steel and wood, and except for a few covered with aluminum alloy sheets, the rest of the body was covered with glued cloth, like a shoddy product of a handicraft workshop.

But this is the reality of today's aviation industry, everything has just begun, aviation theory, airframe materials are in the process of exploration, as for aviation equipment is completely zero, nothing.

The flaps and rudder are operated by wire, the engine is started by hand, the landing system is by sight, and the wheels are tripods welded with steel pipes, and a solid rubber wheel is covered, which is probably the wheel bearing is still a bit high-tech.

The most valuable thing on this aircraft is the "Thor" star-shaped piston engine, which is produced by the Qimarang Aero Engine Factory, and the value of a single unit is 7,600 gold oceans, which is still a loss-making price.

Because of so many high-value equipment and more than 140 highly educated employees of the "Thor" aero engine factory, the annual output is only dozens of engines, and the piston engine models are different.

The cost of this monoplane fighter is 8 percent of the engine, and the remaining steel pipe welded body, wood frame and skin plus iron wire are not worth much, and it is estimated that the cost of materials accounts for 30 percent, labor accounts for 70 percent, and the more expensive is the aluminum alloy sheet.

This...... It is already the top aviation level in the world today.

Most of today's airplanes are wooden shelves, and then covered with adhesive tape, and it is already a cost to be able to use steel pipes to make the skeleton of the fuselage, not to mention the aluminum alloy sheet, which is a cutting-edge fuselage material.

Civilian planes generally use cheap engines, mostly between 30~50 horsepower, and the expensive ones are 200~300 Jinyang, and the cheap ones are about 100 Jinyang, so an airplane is very cheap, much cheaper than cheap Volkswagen brand cars.

It is precisely because of the cheap nature of private airplanes that it has become a new private sport that has spread in large areas of ranches in Australia and overseas states, and has been loved by many people.

In this day and age

There is no "Air Traffic Control Law", and there is no need to get an aircraft driver's license, let alone an airstrip, as long as you can take off and land on dirt roads.

This kind of environment is extremely friendly to flight enthusiasts who like to soar in the blue sky, there is almost no threshold, as long as you spend money to buy an airplane or build a plane yourself to fly in the sky, you deserve to die, and continue to wave if you don't fall to death.

The empire deliberately allowed the rise of flying clubs in various places, which made all kinds of local flying clubs bloom like a spring breeze overnight, all over Australia's major cities and remote towns, and this trend has even blown to overseas states, becoming a new fashion sport in Shangri-La and Borneo.

The cost of Guy was so low that many carpentry workshops were converted into aircraft factories, a rudimentary version of which was only responsible for building the frame of the aircraft, then buying an engine and installing it in the nose, and the job was done.

In this kind of mixed environment, there have also been many aviation accidents, some planes fall apart when they go into the sky, and some fall headlong without flying far, resulting in tragic accidents in which the plane is destroyed and people die.

The relevant departments of the empire are introducing relevant laws to deal with the current chaos of aircraft factories, clarify responsibilities, and raise the entry threshold, the most important one is that all aircraft factories must pay 5,000 gold for aviation accident insurance.

The aviation accident deposit is used to safeguard the rights and interests of customers, to prevent unqualified aircraft from going to the sky, if the aviation accident caused by the unqualified quality, the aviation accident insurance paid by the manufacturer can be paid first, and then the relevant manufacturers will be held responsible.

This alone can keep more than 90 percent of aircraft factories out.

After a few circles around the latest "Spindle" monoplane fighter, Li Fushou asked a few relevant questions out of politeness, and there was nothing to say about the rest.

Fan Wenhao really did not brag, this spindle "monoplane fighter has the strength to beat all European and American fighters in the next 10 years, just by virtue of its high speed of 248 kilometers per hour, as well as the high maneuverability it has shown, it has made it difficult for European and American countries to beat the horse.

If not mistaken

The biplane camel F1 fighter developed by Britain at the end of World War I has a maximum speed of about 185 kilometers, and the German "Fokker" monoplane fighter that made a big splash in World War I has a maximum speed of 140 kilometers per hour, which is a cut short of the boss!

Why is monoplane slower than biplane?

The main culprit is that the engine power used in the "Fokker" monoplane fighter is too small, only about 110 horsepower, and the flight speed is naturally not fast.

Li Fushou climbed up the ladder and sat in the cockpit of the "Spindle" monoplane fighter, looking at the simple cockpit welded with steel pipes around him, as well as the frame reinforced by wooden strips, and a few wires under his feet controlling the pulleys, which are the devices for controlling the flight rudder.

"There should be a clock in this cockpit, at least when do you know when?"

"It's not comfortable to have this seat, it's too hard, you know that pilots go to the sky to fight, and to create a comfortable environment for them as much as possible. A layer of latex on the seat doesn't add much weight, but it's pilot-friendly. ”

"This kind of aviation chair can be made into a barrel shape, wrap the two sides of the body, and then take a strap to attach the body to the seat, so that the aircraft will not sway from side to side or out of the cockpit when maneuvering."

Li Fushou looked at the machine gun set up high above his head, and rested it on an iron frame more than one meter above his head, just to prevent the machine gun bullets from shattering the propeller, how awkward it looked.

So he pointed to the machine gun mount on his head and said; "This machine gun is set so high, how can the pilot aim?"

"Your Majesty, we have also been troubled by this, and if the weapon is set too low, the propeller will be broken, causing the accident of aircraft destruction and death. The setting is too high and the aim is not accurate, so this is an unsolvable problem. Fan Wenhao stood on the edge of the ladder and explained with a look of embarrassment.

Li Fushou couldn't help but smash his mouth, this is a problem of misunderstanding.

He pointed to the gap in the propeller ahead and said; "The propeller gap is so large, you can set up a mechanical linkage mechanism, when the propeller runs to the position of the machine gun muzzle gap, fire the bullet, then there will be no mutual interference, is this difficult to solve?"

What Li Fushou is talking about is the principle of "firing coordinator" that Fokker fighters first applied in 1915, and the Germans shot down more than 1,400 British planes with this skill, so that the British pilots on the Western Front could not survive for more than six weeks.

Britain offered $10 million for this and invited the Dutchman Fokker to play in England, but unfortunately the letter was suppressed by the Germans, and Fakker did not know until the end of World War I, when it was too late.

In many cases, the technical problem is just a piece of window paper, and it is easy to solve it when it is opened.

Li Fushou's words made Fan Wenhao stunned for a moment, and after thinking carefully for a while, he suddenly became enlightened, and said excitedly; "Your Majesty, we are too stupid to think of such a simple problem, and the method you have said is indeed very useful, and it is very good that it is simple and reliable to solve. Your Majesty is really a pedantic celestial, and he wakes up a dreamer with a word! ”

"Huh...... You are thinking from the designer's point of view, and I am thinking from the pilot's point of view, so the perspective of the station is different, and the perspective of the problem is also different. Li Fushou did not hesitate to give more guidance, so that the aircraft designers would take fewer detours.

Although he is not an expert in flying, after all, he has a vision ahead of the times, and the engineers who guide these halfway changes are still qualified.

Li Fushou pointed to the open cockpit and said; "You aircraft designers need to learn to fly airplanes, and as pilots, experience it for yourself, is the designed aircraft good enough?

Is there anything worth improving?

Is the cockpit positioned higher for a better view?

At a maximum speed of 248 kilometers per hour, the open cockpit may not be able to open its mouth to speak, so is it possible to design a closed cockpit?

Then in a closed cockpit it is possible to carry a portable kettle, pistol, flashlight. In the future, after the miniaturization of radio, will it be possible to carry radio communications?

These are all questions that can be considered, for example, does this machine gun have to be set on the right hand side of the pilot? Can it be set under the foot?

This does not delay the pilot's field of vision, and can also be located on the shooting center line, which has no impact on the accuracy of shooting, but allows the pilot to concentrate on driving the aircraft in battle without being affected by the thrown bullet casing.

Wouldn't it be more advantageous to have two mirrors in the cockpit so that the pilot could see the side and rear without having to turn around?

And by extension

If a window is placed on the bottom of the cockpit or on the side, is it more comprehensive for the pilot to observe?

Questions like these should be taken into account as an aircraft designer.

It's important to remember that my request is not to consider cost, but to design an aircraft with high performance, high reliability, and a highly friendly flying environment.

After the initial successes, it is necessary to start designing aircraft that are faster, have a greater load capacity, and have greater combat effectiveness, and we must not rest on our laurels and be complacent about our past achievements......

Li Fushou said a lot, and the entourage standing under the plane took a small notebook and quickly recorded, and His Majesty's words today opened a new door to all the scientific and technological personnel present, allowing them to see a clear direction of development and a better future.

They really didn't expect that the plane could be designed like this, but if you experience it carefully, it's really a good word.

Every word His Majesty said was thought-provoking and thought-provoking.

With so many shortcomings in his proud outstanding scientific and technological achievements, Fan Wenhao suddenly felt very ashamed, after all, he was superficial.

With the size of the world, the vastness of the world, and the countless talents of capable people like carps crossing the river, what do you have to be proud of?