Nelson persuaded his partner to help him complete a mock test of the new ship's vision.

Zhu Jingyuan, who was thousands of miles away, was supposed to be staring at the design of the battleship, but now he went to engage in airplanes.

After the end of the morning dynasty that day, Zhu Jingyuan followed Zou Bingtai Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry to the office compound of the Ministry of Industry.

Zhu Jingyuan was originally going to go directly to the Ship Division and gather the craftsmen of the Ship Division headed by Wang Lai to discuss the protection design of the new warship.

As a result, as soon as the person entered the door, he was stopped by Li Rui, the director of the Ordnance Division.

Standing with Li Rui, there are several other craftsmen, as well as a middle-aged woman who is dressed simply and maturely, and has a lot of temperament.

Li Rui hurriedly greeted Zhu Jingyuan and took the initiative to introduce to both parties:

"Your Highness, this is the royal treasurer of the Royal Flying Machines Company, as well as several of the company's design craftsmen......"

Zhu Jingyuan immediately reacted, this is the Wang Zhenyi mentioned by his mother.

At that time, he signed an aircraft patent authorization letter with himself, and also instructed his mother to recruit workers and craftsmen, and he would have to deal with him often in the future:

"Good morning, shopkeeper Wang and all the great workers, thank you shopkeeper Wang for helping Jiaci and planning the affairs of the airline in the past few days, I am grateful.

"Then, today you are coming to the Ministry of Works...... Did you come for me? ”

Wang Zhenyi met Zhu Jingyuan for the first time, but she had heard Liang Yunying talk about it many times, and she was obviously quite conceited about his son.

After seeing the official today, the first impression was also very good, and I responded with a smile:

"Your Highness is really polite, it's just a gesture, we are indeed here today to find Your Highness.

"Your Majesty has been urging the progress of the aircraft, and requires us to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry and His Royal Highness's company to promote the research and development of the aircraft simultaneously.

"It just so happens that the Ministry of Engineering has rebuilt a complete official test aircraft according to the drawings you provided, and is ready for test verification today.

"So we hope that His Highness will come with us to watch the actual machine test and give suggestions for improvement."

Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized that the old emperor's urging of the plane was completely understandable.

Or what he told him at the beginning, the key to the poor performance of the aircraft carrier, if he doesn't care, it will be abnormal.

But Zhu Jingyuan still has a small question:

"I see...... But what's the deal with drawings? When will I give you the plane drawings? ”

Li Rui of the Ordnance Division immediately came out to explain:

"That's right, when Your Highness explained to us the wing structure of an airplane at that time, didn't he draw a diagram of the shape of an airplane?

"It's a two-tiered wing, with the engine in the middle of the fuselage, right in front of the cockpit, and the propellers are driven by a gearbox.

"The rudder was all mounted in the tail section, and the middle part of the fuselage was completely wrapped with skin to form a box that could carry people and materials.

"This kind of design of the flying machine, we have made today."

Zhu Jingyuan thought back to the situation at that time and slowly reacted to what was going on.

What Li Rui said was the outline of the "Swordfish" attack plane that he had casually drawn at that time.

The Swordfish attack aircraft, a carrier-based aircraft of the British Royal Navy in history, was designed in 1933 and completed in 1936.

Viewed through the eyes of the World War II era, the Swordfish is definitely an outdated aircraft.

As an attack aircraft, it has only 750 horsepower and flies at a speed of less than 200 kilometers per hour.

However, it followed the aircraft carriers of the British Navy and fought from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean for many years, leaving quite a good result.

At that time, the latest sharp battleships of France, Germany, and Italy were all hit by the propellers and steering gears of torpedoes mounted on Swordfish attack aircraft.

So much so that the Swordfish attack aircraft was nicknamed the "Broken Leg Maniac" by military fans.

One of the most well-known results was that during the siege of the German battleship Bismarck, he once again hit and destroyed Bismarck's steering gear.

The Bismarck could not sail normally, and could only keep spinning on the sea, and was finally sunk by the British Navy.

However, in this day and age, the very mature winged design of the Swordfish can be regarded as a pretty good design.

Zhu Jingyuan received a drawing class in the storage education, and the things he drew at that time were relatively standard.

But after all, it was just a casual drawing, and at that time it was just to introduce the shape of the airplane, and I didn't want to copy the design of the swordfish at all.

I didn't expect Li Rui to remember it, and he also regarded that picture as the shape design of the plane, and compared it to the plane that should be similar in appearance.

After Zhu Jingyuan understood what was going on, he became interested:

"I ...... I think about it, you guys made it all so quickly? How much power did you use? What about performance? ”

Li Rui immediately told everything he knew:

"Because His Majesty is urgent, it is two shifts of craftsmen who take turns to work, and it took four days to basically complete the production, but it is still relatively simple.

"We used the maximum power of 60 horsepower that can be installed, and the specific flight performance has not been tested.

"Now we are here to invite His Highness to come over and witness the experiment together."

Zhu Jingyuan didn't think much about it, the plane was originally going to be built, and it was like going to see this new plane, so he nodded decisively:

"Okay, then let's go straight over."

Li Rui immediately beckoned everyone to go out, got into three four-wheeled carriages prepared in advance, and left the Ministry of Industry and went straight to the aircraft test site in the west of the city.

After approaching the test site in the west of the city, Zhu Jingyuan immediately found that the opera on the scene had changed.

In the original yard, there was no special flight runway, and the so-called runway at that time was to draw a few lines in the middle of the yard.

Because it is too close to other warehouses and factories, workers who are resting and eating out unconsciously walk into the runway.

A new asphalt road has been built on the western edge of the current test site, and a fence has been erected next to it.

This makes it less easy for irrelevant people to get in.

Now there is a very classic biplane parked at one end of the newly built asphalt road.

Several craftsmen gathered around the plane, presumably doing inspections and commissioning.

Li Rui walked over with everyone, and after a brief introduction and greeting each other, he directly asked the middle-aged craftsman in charge of maintenance:

"Lao Zhao, how are you preparing? Can I start testing? ”

The craftsman known as Lao Zhao said with a little excitement:

"Director Li, don't worry, I've checked it three times here, and I haven't found any uncontrollable problems so far, I think I can start at any time."

After listening to this, Li Rui subconsciously looked at Zhu Jingyuan, which meant that he asked for instructions on whether it was the beginning.

Zhu Jingyuan nodded directly, and then took the initiative to lead the others to get out of the way and hide outside the rear end of the flight runway.

Li Rui circled around the plane, and after checking the situation himself, he took the initiative to serve as the on-site commander just like the last test:

"Attention everyone, the test of the flying machine is about to begin, immediately leave the runway -

"Driver ready, auxiliary group ready ......"

There was no one on the runway this time, and this time "Lao Zhao", who served as a test pilot, put on a parachute bag and boarded a plane that looked much more mature.

However, this aircraft also looks mature, and the starting method is still manual, and it has to be shaken up with a crank handle.

When the two brothers of the auxiliary group heard Li Rui's command, they ran over with the crank and shook it.

Then, again, the familiar puff of smoke erupted, and the propeller of the plane whirred.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at this scene, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, this thing is no different from a tractor start.

No, the new tractors are all electric.

On the contrary, the other craftsmen, as well as Wang Zhenyi, the big shopkeeper, and the craftsmen from the Royal Flying Machinery Company, are all yearning and appreciating.

They obviously didn't think there was anything abnormal about this picture, but they were admiring the "high-end" of the Ministry of Industry's flight machine test.

It can only be said that as long as the psychological expectations are low enough, everything feels very advanced.

For Zhu Jingyuan, although the last test was rough, it was originally an early verification test, as long as it could fly.

At that time, Zhu Jingyuan's psychological expectations were very low, which was the level of the Wright brothers' flying bicycle.

But this time the test was theoretically a formal test aircraft, and Zhu Jingyuan instinctively thought of the test aircraft of later generations.

Therefore, the standard in Zhu Jingyuan's heart has instinctively been raised a lot, but after seeing the situation, his inner thoughts now are:

"That's ......"

However, considering the current actual situation, Zhu Jingyuan gradually adjusted his mentality:

"At this level of technology, it takes a total of four days to prepare, and that's all it takes......

"And as long as you load a machine gun, it should be enough to scare Xiyi."