After Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan's ancestors and grandsons boarded the aircraft carrier, the aircraft carrier double formation, which had already completed its rest and replenishment, left the port again.

Although these two large aircraft carriers have been officially delivered to the Navy, in order to record and solve new problems that may arise in actual use, the Ministry of Industry still arranged a small team of craftsmen to continue to follow the activities of the Navy fleet.

The leader of this team is named Zou Minghai, a northern man in his forties, and a senior craftsman of Zhengwupin.

At this time, he followed Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan and introduced the situation of the aircraft carrier and aircraft to the two:

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, now our aircraft carriers and planes are actually still being tested.

"So now there are more types of aircraft on board, and there are currently seven in total.

"First of all, it is the carrier-based model of the Type 5 fighter that has been finalized and tested on the original Dinghai.

"The Type 5 carrier-based fighter is the largest number of fighters and is the main fighter used to verify and grope the theory of aircraft carrier operations.

"And then there are the new carrier-based fighters in two tests, Type VII and Type VIII.

"The Type VII fighter is based on the Type V, with the replacement of the twin-cylinder engine in the verification.

Zou Minghai looked through the glass under the window, looked at the silent deck inside, and ended his guess:

"The energy conversion methods that you are using, how the efficiency of the energy conversion methods that are envisaged has increased.

But we did it before, and it didn't look like a mix of the two.

Putting forward the idea is only the first step, and there are still few problems in the process of exploration and realization.

The Type 7 carrier-based aircraft, which we have not yet finalized when we leave school, uses a single-row four-cylinder star engine with a standard power of 1,000 horsepower.

"At the same time, the water and alcohol can increase the pressure before atomization, again increasing the power of the cylinder workmanship, and at the same time reducing the knocking caused by turbocharging.

"And you think that the design, manufacturing and control difficulty of that combination should be higher than that of turbine energy recovery, and you can't give priority to the design of turbine energy recovery."

But the effect of doing it to the extreme is really powerful.

"While the size of the airplane has increased, the basic performance has not improved slightly.

The last fourteen-cylinder radial piston engine in history, the R-3350, with a total displacement of 54.862 liters, used the last model of turbo energy recovery, and the minimum power reached 8,400 horsepower.

These are not Type 1 fighters with new engines in twin rows of fourteen cylinders.

The Tiger Cat was paired with the 80,000-ton Midway, and the Sea Mosquito and Sea Wasp were also pushed back with the design and construction of the 71,000-ton Xiaoguts-class aircraft carrier.

If there must be, it's almost time for me to take the initiative to mention it.

"It has increased from nine cylinders in one row to eighteen in two rows, and the theoretical maximum power should be able to exceed 2,000 horsepower.

"That energy is actually wasted, and if it can be used, it should be able to increase work efficiency.

Xi Roushu remembered that it was very vague, and he felt that a small number of fighters in the early stage of the Seven Wars should have reached that level.

"It's just that the main energy of the small family is basically under the stacked cylinders.

"There is a problem, it is the small workers who have passed Zou Gong and the Ministry of Industry, and they have also learned to think and verify along that line of thought.

Small enough, it can also take on both torpedo attacks and dive bombing.

"It can't be used as an interceptor yet, it needs a fighter that doesn't have a lower speed and range to intercept enemy small bombers."

Zou Minghai nodded with a smile and said:

Zou Minghai's opinion is not that he can't do it, and he also drew us a small outline of the sea mosquito and the tiger cat for our reference.

Zhu Zhongliang didn't pay attention to it a little, and then recalled what he knew, and said with certainty:

It is only natural that this twin-engine carrier-based aircraft will try to get off the ship.

"You don't have a few ideas like that right now, first of all, the experience of the turbine lab and the empty cartridge starter.

"It is not possible to regress research and test under a single exhaust cylinder engine.

The characteristics of a twin-engine aircraft, for an attack aircraft, are almost all advantages.

"You can't design a few auxiliary turbines to receive the energy of the exhaust gases ejected from the engine and convert it into rotating kinetic energy.

"There is a way to solve that problem, at least to keep it within a reasonable range.

Zou Minghai, his grandfather, and the little craftsman Xi Roushu chatted under the deck of the aircraft carrier and continued to watch the plane.

First of all, it can increase the power density to the limit, and the fuel efficiency of the air thermal engine can basically match that of the hydrothermal engine.

Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan's ancestors and grandsons stood in the middle of the deck of the aircraft carrier and ran down.

"You've now discovered, and your lab has discovered, that the design of turbine power is really out-of-the-box.

Those things are directly beyond the scale of fighters and attack aircraft in service in World War 7.

"You don't remember, it's probably not that very few people have thought about it.

Zhu Jingyuan listened to Zhu Zhongliang's explanation, obviously with amazement and emotion, as well as undisguised surprise and said:

"The abnormal cruising speed is also more than 700 kilometers per hour.

"Behind your eyes...... Potential adversaries, the Tessie countries should go out of school to design small bombers. ”

Zhu Zhongliang noticed that Emperor Taixia Zhu Jingyuan was looking at Zou Minghai, and Zou Minghai was sloppily observing the planes next to him, so he immediately followed to explain its small situation:

"It's too slow, it's really too slow, an aircraft of that power doesn't have the ability to rule the sky yet!"

"It's just that there is no conversion process in the middle, and the internal combustion engine must have no crankshaft and connecting rods, and the internal energy will be converted into reciprocating motion first, and then into rotational motion.

Those technologies have been realized, and the piston engine has basically come to an end.

"Even let the gas spray directly, directly to the propeller, to see if you can get enough power to make the plane fly.

"It's about continuous combustion in a stable space, continuous gushing of gas before cold expansion, gas continuously pushing the turbine to rotate, and the turbine continuing to push the propeller to rotate.

The ideas that Zou Minghai came up with over the years, although it can be said that there are no victories at all, but most of them are very useless.

The entire silhouette of the body has also undergone some subtle changes, and it seems to have been redesigned.

Both the Navy and the Ministry of Industry were very satisfied with the twin-engine attack aircraft.

"Until the engine with two exhaust cylinders is basically stable, the results of those colleagues' research should not have a chance to be used."

However, I also think that such a scenario is indeed not feasible.

The improvement of the basic material process of steel can drive the basic upgrading of the entire industrial system.

"And complexity and crudeness are not the ultimate pursuit of industry.

"In that case, theoretically, it is completely increasing fuel consumption, which can directly increase the final power of the engine......"

But in twin-engine propeller aircraft, the engine can only be placed under the wings on both sides, just like a passenger plane.

"Originally, you estimated that it might take more than ten years, but now you feel like you should be able to shorten it by a few years......"

Zou Minghai thought for a while and said:

Zhu Zhongliang sloppily wrote down what Zou Minghai said, and said very seriously and solemnly:

In the original history, the decades before the Seven World Wars, until the seventy-first century, there was no epoch-making revolutionary change in the piston engine.

"Thank you for Your Highness's instructions, you will send those messages back to the Ordnance Division as soon as possible, so that your colleagues in the Jingshi can go out of school and test as soon as possible.

"It's okay to be out of doctrine.

Zou Minghai said with a smile:

Zhu Zhongliang was ashamed to be a real low-level engineer, and he reacted instantly when he heard that prompt:

"Actually, that's the technology that your lab is researching, and the Ministry of Engineering is also out of school to do some simultaneous preliminary research."

"That design can't be called a turbo energy recovery system."

"You really haven't, as he said, the main task at the moment is to solve the problem of stacking the twin exhaust cylinders.

Xi Roushu went on to explain the situation of the eight types of reconnaissance aircraft.

Without the design of less exhaust cylinder stacking, coupled with several key supporting technologies to increase engine power, such as turbocharging, water injection recovery, and turbo compounding, the ultimate form of the wind-hot engine is basically learned.

"The shortcomings of twin-engine fighters are also obvious.

Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized, and while his eyes lit up, he thought of something else.

"You mean, turbines? Craftsmen who went out of school saw the potential of turbines, and the Ministry of Industry did not study it.

In the past, Zou Minghai and the Ministry of Industry also cooperated so much.

"Instead, make a compressor and push the air back into the cylinder and increase the pressure inside the cylinder.

Not yet in front of us, these twin-engine attack planes.

That kind of thing is an absolute secret, except for two generations of emperors and the insider Zou Minghai, it is possible for anyone to know.

"Therefore, the research on the utilization of exhaust gas has not yet become a formal topic.

"That results in increased engine knocking......

"Before the completion of the research in the two directions, the speed of direct merger and upgrade is less efficient than the study of one by one."

Before arriving in the Caspian Sea, the aircraft carrier finished accelerating, finished debugging the aircraft, and prepared for flight testing and demonstration.

Even according to 4300 horsepower, the unit displacement power of 4360 is significantly greater than that of 3350.

The radial piston engine, which went from one row to two rows, was a very important technological node.

"You've got seven 70mm cannons up there.

The R-4360, a 74-cylinder radial piston engine of the same era, with a total displacement of 71.489, was available in the final version without turbo energy recovery, and the minimum power was also 8,400 horsepower.

As for reconnaissance missions, of course, they are also undertaken by school.

Unit fuel consumption is also much lower than 3350.

"The range has reached 1,200 kilometers, and the combat radius is approaching 700 kilometers.

"Since the engines were placed on the sides, the middle nose section was completely empty.

The twin-engine fighter behind him was even mentioned by Zou Minghai on his own initiative, but Xiao Ming's craftsmen made it themselves, but Xi Roushu's opinion was also consulted at that time.

Zou Minghai nodded heavily when he heard this, and the parameters of the plane were not completely out of school.

"The engine is not very stable at the moment, and the continuous output is only 1,600 horsepower for the time being."

Now Xiao Ming's design craftsmen, under their own guidance, have basically completed the stacking of fewer exhaust cylinders.

"That energy is then combined under the engine spindle by means of gears.

Xi Roushu and Xi Roushu nodded subconsciously when they heard this.

Xi Roushu and his entourage, led by the officers under the aircraft carrier, retreated outside the command room facing the deck under the bridge.

"When an internal combustion engine engine is working, the resulting waste jet can be ejected faster than the speed of sound.

Theoretically, the power cannot be doubled directly, but there is very little room for increase.

In modern jet fighters, twin engines against single engines are basically comprehensively crushed.

Zhu Zhongliang, who was next to him, heard Zou Minghai's description, and before he could think about it, he said tentatively:

"You've got two 70mm cannons on their bellies, and they're capable of carrying bombs 700 meters away."

Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan nodded subconsciously when they heard this:

Compared with fighters, attack aircraft are of course more in pursuit of stability and hanging capabilities.

"How long does that engine take to make?"

"So now it's just some of my colleagues who are exploring under the regression theory.

When he said that, Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously turned his face and looked at Zou Minghai beside him.

When he said that, Zhu Zhongliang thought of Zou Minghai's whimsical ideas in the past, and almost subconsciously asked:

"The minimum flight distance reached 1,400 kilometers, and the bomb load was more than a ton.

Look at the two rows of fighters parked vertically under the ships on both sides.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan was weak and endured his bad intentions, and decided to wait until the evening to rest and discuss it with Zou Minghai alone.

Xi Roushu smiled directly and said:

When Zou Minghai heard that, he also nodded quickly.

Single-engine fighters, twin-engine attack aircraft, and reconnaissance aircraft that also serve as attack aircraft.

Yes, we only use turbo energy recovery, but we also use turbocharging and water spray recovery technology.

However, the idea proposed by Xi Roushu needs to be studied repeatedly.

It must have been proposed by a special person, and Zhu Zhongliang and the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry may pay attention to it in general.

Twin-engine propeller carrier-based aircraft directly missed the times.

"So, if you think about it like that, the fuel is re-burned to push the piston to move, and it burns directly to form gas, and it directly drives the turbine to rotate.

"Before the result is out, Maxia will inform you, there must be some problems in the middle, and please continue to be stingy."

"Your Highness, don't you have any ideas in that regard?"

"The Type 4 fighter is a heavy fighter with two engines that we have newly designed.

Without two rows, you can continue to design eight, or even seven-row super star piston engines.

Before that path reaches its limit, it's time to move to turbine engines.

It is said that the navy at that time was weak, and after the Seventh World War and even during the Seven World Wars, it built twin-engine carrier-based aircraft.

"The turbines that aircraft can use are obviously similar to exhaust gas turbines and gas turbines.

Zhu Jingyuan's eyes lit up as he listened to it, and I obviously found something I knew, something I was looking forward to.

"The minimum flight speed has not yet been measured at 840 revolutions, and it is likely to continue to climb.

"At present, the Navy and the Ministry of Industry have the same opinion, and they both believe that twin-engine aircraft are more suitable for attack aircraft."

"It's as flexible as a single-engine fighter jet, and it takes up less deck space.

Instead, small aircraft should use small aircraft carriers, which is a direct cliff-like drop in combat capability.

Zou Minghai directly gave a definite response:

is because Zou Minghai's status is noble, but the probability of Xi Roushu's idea being realized is too low.

"In just seven years, the engine power has increased from 100 horsepower to 1,800 horsepower.

While Zou Minghai and the others were chatting below deck, the aircraft carrier gradually left the port.

Even under the innovative automobiles and construction machinery, they basically continue the classic design of the past.

"However, it is not another idea, but it is still derived from the turbine principle.

"It's that after researching, it's also in the late stage of exploration, and there is no clear direction, and there are no bad ideas in the palace?"

"The exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine are used to blow the turbofan, but the energy is directly incorporated under the main shaft.

The direction of the future is turbines, including jet engines, gas turbines.

"How much weight does the entire turbo energy recovery system take? Is it cost-effective to put it under a weight-sensitive aero engine?

"Before the engine of the first type of carrier-based fighter was replaced, the performance did not improve significantly.

Theoretically, he went out to hang two aviation torpedoes.

"As you might expect, that process might be easier, but it's worth looking into."

Although those two ideas are not a little brainy, and the combination of the two ideas gives people the feeling of Gerry's coincidence.

Zhu Jingyuan almost instinctively asked Zou Minghai:

"However, the research related to the utilization of exhaust gases and the improvement of efficiency cannot be completed at the same time.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, without the guidance of my precious grandson, without the power support of Emperor Xiao Ming and the royal consortium, Xiao Ming's aviation technology development was really slow to fly.

"Even if one engine fails, there's no chance you'll be able to rely on the other engine to land safely.

It's just a routine experiment.

"Like a windmill blown by the wind, the air flow can't push the turbine to spin, and the exhaust fumes from the engine are also out of school.

However, Zou Minghai's gaze shifted to the dozen or so twin-engine fighters next to him.

"That combination should be used together to improve the efficiency of the engine with the same displacement by a small margin.

Zhu Zhongliang was a little confused when he heard it, he was a low-level craftsman, not a modern low-level engineer, and his basic knowledge and experience were very solid.

"In order for the gas to burn continuously in a space, and to use the low-temperature gas to drive the turbine to rotate, there are no low requirements for the burning space, the weakness of the turbine blades, and the ability to withstand low temperatures.

"The temperature rises and falls before the air is compressed, which makes the cylinder temperature rise more slowly.

One of the rows Zou Minghai had seen under the ground, similar to the historical Sea Fury fighters.

At present, the flight range has been optimized to 1,000 km, and the combat radius has exceeded 700 km.

"Why? What's going on? What happened? ”

"The steam turbine first converts the internal energy of the fuel into the kinetic energy of water vapor, and then uses the water vapor to drive the steam turbine to rotate.

"Of course, it can increase the unit power of the engine, but the disadvantages can be imagined.

Zhu Zhongliang looked at Zou Minghai's gaze shifting, and immediately got off and continued to explain the situation of the plane over there:

"Exhaust gas turbines are also gas turbines after all.

Until that kind of technology matures, it is only a matter of time before the piston engine power is increased to 2,000 horsepower.

But that kind of fighter is also useless.

"Whether it is a gasoline engine, a diesel engine or a steam engine, the final output is the kinetic energy of rotation.

That will inevitably affect the aircraft's ability to hover and roll, and the anti-aircraft combat capability will also be significantly reduced.

Zou Minghai smiled and turned back and said:

Zou Minghai was sloppily staring at the back of a Type 1 fighter jet, thinking about engine-related things.

So, can the rate of refining enriched uranium be accelerated, and even the speed of building atomic weapons?

But by the time Midway and the Guts-class aircraft carriers were in service, the Jet Age had learned.

Zou Minghai has long known that the pits outside are small, and the reliability is difficult to control.

"The vast majority of engines, including aircraft engines, are kinetic energy that ultimately converts internal energy into circular motion.

Turbocharging and other supporting technologies are known to have not been spontaneously explored.

Walking forward from the middle of the deck, you will find the place where the attack and reconnaissance aircraft are parked.

The twin-engine propeller carrier-based aircraft in history, the British Sea Mosquito and Sea Wasp, and the American F7F Tiger Cat were actually completed and put into service before the war.

Zhu Zhongliang slowly straightened out the logic of what Zou Minghai said.

"Thinking about exhaust gas recycling at that time at the same time is likely to make those problems much easier.

"Your thinking is not like that, the Ministry of Engineering is thinking about doing research in that area."

So Zou Minghai followed that train of thought and said the two directions:

"So that route can still be abandoned, and we must continue to keep testing and upgrading R&D ......"

"The core task at the moment was to solve various problems in the design of the double-row cylinders.

"That logic is very muddy, and it can't be predicted that it will not work if it does."

Zhu Jingyuan was obviously not a little excited, and subconsciously asked:

"The fact that the two engines work at the same time also makes the fighter less dangerous.

Part of the other row is similar in shape to the Type 7, but the nose has been slightly lengthened.

The 4360 uses the final model of exhaust gas boost, with a minimum power of 7,800 horsepower.

Now in that world, there is still a shadow of the jet age, and aircraft carriers with smaller decks than Midway have not yet been built.

There must have been me pointing out the way directly, and Xiao Ming's craftsmen should have quickly figured out those techniques themselves.

"The logic is complicated, and the difficulty lies in the design of the turbine and the efficiency of the energy recovery.

"At the same time, the ratio of air before compression to oil and gas before mixing with the injected fuel can be out of balance.

So the bomb load of the Type 4 twin-engine attack aircraft has not yet reached two tons.

"Zou Gong, now the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry and the consortium have not considered that in the case of increasing the cylinder, continuing to improve the power of the engine is not to improve fuel efficiency, or work efficiency."

Because jet engines cannot be side-by-side in the middle, it basically affects the flexibility of the airframe.

Therefore, the judgment of the Ministry of Industry and the Navy is that only two types of aircraft are needed under the aircraft carrier.

"And now...... You don't have electroslag remelting steel, and you haven't determined that the performance of that kind of steel is far superior to that of traditional steel, and it can't be used to make all kinds of low-weakness, low-precision, low-temperature resistant alloy steel.

Very similar to the classification of fighters, it is also a mature Type 7 single-engine attack aircraft, but the first Type 1 attack aircraft with a low-power engine with two exhaust cylinders was not replaced, and the first is a Type 4 attack aircraft with two engines.

The structural simplicity of the seventy-four cylinders is also far more than that of the 3350.

"Those materials that cannot be used for low-power small motor rotors, low-weakness and precision bearings, and cutting tools, and gas turbine manufacturing that require low-weakness and low-temperature resistance should also be able to ......"

"The most important thing is the minimum level flight speed, which has not yet exceeded 800 kilometers per hour.

At that time, all countries in the world had aircraft carriers that were not so small,

It is unknown whether he can see a thousand-horsepower engine in his lifetime.

"But the energy density of the boiler and water vapor is too high and the weight is too small, and there is a way to fit under the plane.

Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan immediately fell into deep thought, and instinctively ended thinking about it, and the difficulty was not small.

But the time to achieve it is just a few days.

"It's like an empty cartridge starter, but it's just a hammer deal like an empty cartridge.

"The more complex the design, the easier it is to manufacture and repair, the higher the energy loss, the lower the efficiency, and the lower the energy density.

"Spraying water and a mixture of alcohol or methanol into the cylinders reduces the low temperature caused by turbocharging, and raises or recovers the lost power of the engine again.

(End of chapter)