Chapter 37 Army Aviation Base
"Climb to 12,000 meters!"
"Henry, we made it!"
"Okay, Howard, I see, let's start the flight challenge."
"It's too dangerous!"
"It's okay, I'll drop supplies after 7,500 kilometers, just enough to get back to New York."
"Henry, I believe what you say about the driving experience."
Flying over New York, Henry looked at the fuel gauge and saw that he could fly hundreds of kilometers, but there was no need to test the limit.
"呲~"
The plane came to a halt in the hangar, and Henry didn't bother to wait for the ground personnel to move the elevator, so he came down through the rear hatch.
"Henry, your driving skills are amazing."
"Obviously, congratulations, the order for both passenger and transport planes is coming soon."
"I don't even know how to thank you, Henry," Howard smiled and patted Henry on the shoulder.
"It's simple, give me a private jet of this type in a few years and bear the annual maintenance costs."
Henry is not welcome, the aircraft in this era is almost meaningless, and after a few years of continuous upgrades, you can still ask for one for daily travel.
"No problem, I will leave an official document in the company, and you can place an order for free at any time."
Henry and Howard return to the Stark Industries office to open champagne to celebrate.
The military, who received the news from the outside world, was in an uproar, and the army aviation trained for so long and modified the B-29 bomber, which is not satisfactory enough.
Henry, fortunately, when he supervised the production of the atomic bomb, he and Howard took the time to assemble a half-built airplane, and the performance was better than all the current aircraft models.
Once the data was available, orders were placed for the test aircraft to be used for the mission, sent to the forward base, and put Henry in charge of the pilots he had trained.
July 9, 1945, in a desert area in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
This is the testing site chosen for the first atomic bomb explosion, a few days earlier than in history.
"Put on your goggles and get ready to detonate!"
Henry and Admiral Marshall stood together, wearing goggles, chatting.
"Listen to Bradley, are you ready to retire?"
"Yes, I don't feel free in the army, and I still have a company to be responsible for, and he's the director of the veterans administration who pays attention to me alone?"
"After all, you participated in this program, so I asked him. In the army it is true that your talent is wasted, and your company's newly produced automatic pistol, which is loved by various officers. ”
"Remember when General Patton was there, he said that the Bradley rifle was the best rifle. The United States is a money society, and the War Department will not stop you. ”
"But you have to wait a few years, wait for you to complete this task, wait for the limelight to pass, and then retire, the War Department will not give you a task in the next few years, just have time to participate in the event and show up."
"Okay, Admiral Marshall".
"Three, two, one, ignition!"
"Boom~" A huge mushroom cloud rose in the desert in the distance, soaring into the sky and connecting the sky, and the violent wind and sand swept in, and soon buried the glass of the observation port.
"Ladies and gentlemen, celebrate our success," Admiral Marshall greeted everyone as he took champagne.
The military is rich, and the desert also brought champagne, Henry took a sip of champagne, and was full of expectations for the next action.
The experiment was successful several days in advance, and it was launched to Japan a few days earlier, what will be the fate of the Japanese Ogura Arsenal and the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops waiting to be redressed?
There is also the Hiroshima Second Army Home Command and the military port, and Henry is really waiting to see what happens.
Unfortunately, for strategic considerations, the military needed a puppet Japan as the forward line of defense for the next contest with the Soviet Union, and the Minister of War was resolutely opposed to it because it was his newlywed travel destination, and finally vetoed the launch in Kyoto, Japan.
On August 1, the U.S. Army Air Base on Tinian Island was clear and cloudless.
"Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Henry"
"Major Paul"
This is the pilot and commander who originally dropped the nuclear bomb, Major Paul Tibbez.
"Are you all ready?"
"Yes, it's all ready, two together, Lieutenant Colonel Henry?"
"Yes, the military agreed, Germany is about to surrender for three months, and the Japanese are still desperately resisting, so let their soldiers go to hell to suffer!"
"Clear the runway, the plane starts and everything is fine, ready to take off!"
"Fasten your seatbelts, soldiers~ we're leaving" Henry gestured outside, indicating that everything was ok.