Chapter 472: The airship is built
"This behemoth...... Can you fly? Pearl stood under the half-finished airship and questioned what Luo Yin had just said.
"Of course, as long as it's finished and helium is filled in, it will definitely fly." Luo Yin said confidently.
This is a huge military factory, located in the deep mountains and old forests within the Kingdom of Qiongbi. Waters had just come back today, and he didn't even have time to drink his saliva, so he hurried here, just to see the magical helium.
"Oh my God! Really fly! How does this work? Not far away, Waters looked at the balloon that had just taken off from his hand, his face full of disbelief.
"To put it simply, helium weighs less than air, so it floats. As long as we fill the airship with helium, we can make the airship fly like a balloon! Luo Yin explained with a smile.
"Incredible, incredible!" Waters' eyes lit up as he looked at the helium-filled tin jar next to him.
Luo Yin said again: "Our task now is to complete the production of this airship, and then test whether it can fly, although it is theoretically possible, but we must try it ourselves." β
"No problem! In fact, the airship has been almost made, and the final airbag packaging and inflation are missing, and the manufacturing is guaranteed to be completed within half a month! Waters immediately assured.
He had been studying tanks in the Sacred Dome Desert, and under normal circumstances, nothing could move him except tanks.
Tanks are the most important thing! But after receiving Luo Yin's call, he immediately gave up the tank and came back. No way, although it is very cool to develop and manufacture tanks, this is a thing on land after all, no matter how cool it is, can it fly to the sky?
So Waters rushed back immediately, and he couldn't wait to get the airship out. Take to the skies and feel what it's like to fly.
"If you need to mention anything, I will try my best to cooperate with you!"
"Okay!" Luo Yin suddenly felt that Novia had left a little early. If she can go over in an airship, it is estimated that it will shock many people and bring her more abundant capital.
"I'd like to play with some helium, can I?" Pearl looked at the balloon floating to the roof, his eyes lit up.
"Absolutely." Luo Yin shrugged. At this stage, the cost of helium is still very high. Although there is a lot of uranium ore, it can also be reused.
However, steamed stone is more expensive, which increases the cost a lot. But who let this be Pearl speak, as long as it doesn't affect Luo Yin's airship building, it doesn't matter how much she wants to play, Luo Yin is not short of money.
"Thank you so much!" Pearl swooped over to the helium tank and picked up one. She still didn't take too much.
The helium was produced in Nansmon, and then stored in tin cans and shipped to the Kingdom of Jombich.
After all, there may be radiation at the time of production, and it would be a little inappropriate to bring it to the Qiongbi Kingdom. Luo Yin gave Pearl a lot of balloons by the way and asked her to play slowly.
Pearl immediately happily hugged the helium tank and balloon, and went to play with Misha. Luo Yin looked at Pearl's back, touched his chin and thought.
"If you go straight through the sky, won't you be able to ignore the Eternal Sea?" It's a well-known fact that the Eternal Sea is dangerous.
But as soon as you get out of the Eternal Sea, it's basically dangerous. The sky above the Eternal Sea is probably not within the scope of the Eternal Sea, and it is said that airships can fly up to 10,000 meters high.
At such a high distance, even if there were big waves in the Eternal Sea, it shouldn't be so high, right? The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, and Luo Yin was suddenly a little excited.
If the two continents can be connected directly from the air, it will definitely be a very advantageous thing for him.
However, for the sake of safety, Luo Yin still consulted Pearl to see what Pearl had in mind, after all, she was Naga.
And Pearl immediately shook his head after hearing Luo Yin's thoughts.
"No, you can't fly!"
"Huh? Not in the air? Luo Yin was a little surprised.
"I've never seen such a huge flying object, but I've seen some seabirds strayed into the Eternal Sea. As soon as they enter the range of the Eternal Sea, the weather above the Eternal Sea will change, such as storms, lightning, and the like. A flash of lightning fell, and no matter how high the seabird flies, it can't stop ......"
ββ¦β¦ And so it goes! Luo Yin was a little shocked, can the Eternal Sea still be managed to the sky?
"It's not just in the air, it's in the deep sea. Anything outside the safe zone, whether it's on the surface, in the air, or under the sea, there's going to be a disaster......," Pearl explains.
"So, even if I travel through the Eternal Sea in an airship, I will have to pass through your safe zone?" Luo Yin had some egg pain.
"yesβhuh? You're going to cross the Eternal Sea in an airship? Can you take me with you? Pearl nodded first, and then grasped the point of Luo Yin's words.
"Aren't you going home?" Luo Yin asked strangely.
"yes, I want to go home in your airship!" Pearl replied without thinking. Hearing Pearl's words, Luo Yin was a little speechless.
This Pearl has a really big heart, this airship hasn't flown yet, so I believe in the airship? And Luo Yin's previous plan was to let Pearl go home first, and then Luo Yin talked to the Naga clan through Pearl to make sure that the other party had no malicious intent, and then Luo Yin went over.
If the Naga clan has malicious intentions, then didn't Luo Yin look for death in the past, although this is unlikely, after all, there is no conflict between the two, but for safety, you still have to think about it.
"I'm not sure what the airship will end up with and when you'll be able to go back." Luo Yin did not answer directly.
Pearl didn't know what Luo Yin was thinking, she immediately nodded, and said with a smile: "Okay, I hope that before I go home, the airship can be made!" According to the current situation, Luo Yin felt that the airship must have been made first, because the Poseidon dagger still has no movement at all, and it is estimated that it will have to wait for a while.
The matter of making the airship was handed over to Waters, and Luo Yin transferred many people to cooperate with him. Luo Yin discussed one thing with Lucia and others - if the airship is made and the test is successful, then whether to disclose the airship.
There is certainly a benefit to being public, which can increase the popularity of the mandala military industry, and for businessmen, fame is about equal to the ability to make money.
But if it is made public, it will definitely not be able to avoid some troubles, and all kinds of commercial spies are estimated to come to the Kingdom of Qiongbi, and maybe there are even some people who have hot brains and plan to snatch the airship by force.
Although for Luo Yin, he is not afraid of these now, after all, the combined armed forces of the Rose Company, the Qiongbi Kingdom and the Green Pothos Company under his command cannot be underestimated.
He was not afraid of reprisals by force. Even if the military of the Heavenly Wolf Empire was greedy, Luo Yin was not afraid of them.
Luo Yin's frontal attack may not be as good as the Sky Wolf Empire, but the defense is no problem. Not to mention, Luo Yin's influence in the Sky Wolf Empire is also very strong, and it is more cost-effective for the Sky Wolf Empire military to choose to cooperate with him.
Of course, there are many benefits to choosing not to make it public. The best thing is that you don't have to worry about it so much.
In the end, after several discussions, Luo Yin decided not to make it public for the time being. It's not that he's afraid of trouble β as long as he can make money, he's not afraid of trouble.
It's because Luo Yin only has this airship for the time being, and even if it is made public, there is no way to sell it in a short period of time to make money.
Perhaps for other companies, the disclosure of such an epoch-making invention will help the company's stock price rise, which is more important than simply making money from orders.
But for Luo Yin, the stock price is useless to him. Because Mandala Military Industry has not been listed at all, Luo Yin cannot let it be listed.
Therefore, if the airship is made public, it will not bring a lot of benefits to Luo Yin, so it is better to hide it first.
Luo Yin's plan was that after the airship test was successful, he would first form two air forces, no, three air forces.
One is from the Rose Company, one is from the Qiongbi Kingdom, and the other is naturally the Pothos Company. When the formation of these three air forces is completed, it is estimated that the production will also be increased, and the airships can be sold.
Of course, it is said that it is the formation of three air forces, but it is also impossible to say that it is impossible to hold back hundreds of airships at once.
Now there is no concept of an air force, even if there is only one airship, it can be called an air force.
Luo Yin is mainly training, and he wants to train these soldiers to get used to fighting in the air, and as for the number of airships, it doesn't take too much.
After all, it is peacetime, and it is useless for the army to ask for so many airships. It's better to convert the airship into money first, use the money you earn to expand the production line, and then produce more airships.
If there is really a war, as long as you have enough production lines in hand, you can immediately produce in large quantities.
"Huh? Brother, can we engage in OEM? Or license it to other companies to produce airships......" Misha suddenly asked when it came to making more production lines.
"Huh? What do you mean......" Luo Yin raised his eyebrows.
"I think it's still relatively slow to make money by relying on us to produce airships. But if we let other factories OEM, or authorize other companies to produce, then the speed of airship manufacturing is faster, and we can make money faster! Hearing this, Janet subconsciously said: "Well, if we find a foundry or license it to other companies, won't our airship manufacturing technology be leaked?" Wouldn't that be bad......" Janet finished speaking, seeing that several people were looking at her strangely, she quickly waved her hand again.
"Ahem, I don't know anything about business, it's all nonsense......" Lucia said with a smile: "I think Misha has a point!" It may seem nice to eat alone, but there will be a lot of resistance, after all, you are the enemy of all your peers! But if you pull more people into your camp and form a community of interests with them, then it will be more convenient for you to do anything. And the bigger the plate, the more you earn! After saying that, Lucia looked at Janet again and explained.
"As for the technology breach...... Janet, you have to know that the core technology of our airship is not actually an airship, but a helium ......."
"I see!" Janet just doesn't know much about business, but she's not stupid, and Lucia reacted when she reminded her.
As long as Luo Yin controls the method of making helium, then even if the manufacturing technology of the airship is stolen, it doesn't matter even if it is made public.
Because without helium, they can't fly! And Luo Yin is equivalent to being invincible at this time.
Make money building airships? That's just the trail. The real avenue is to control the energy of the airship, and this is where you can make a lot of money!
The more airships, the more helium is needed, and the more Luo Yin earns! Luo Yin can't wait for all kinds of imitations to appear!
"Haha, Misha and Lucia are right! It's because I'm thinking about it conservatively, if it weren't for Misha's reminder, I would have forgotten about the helium killer! Luo Yin shook his head, he had been thinking about how to return to the Keith Empire recently, and his sense of smell in business was somewhat sluggish.
Thanks to Misha reminding him. How much money can you make by building an airship? Mastering energy is where you make a lot of money!
And it's easier to keep the manufacture of helium secret than to keep the technology of the airship secret.
Turning around, some news was released, and the helium was dug out of the ground, and I believe that no one will suspect it.
After all, this is a fact, as long as Luo Yin does not announce the method of extracting helium, it is not a big problem. Of course, if someone really digs up helium, the kind that can be used directly without even extracting it, then Luo Yin can only say that he is unlucky, and Luo Yin is convinced.
Waters' speed is very fast, or maybe Luo Yin's subordinates are all dwarves, which makes Waters easy to use.
He said that it took half a month to complete the semi-finished airship, but in fact it was completed in about ten days. On January 30th, in a deep mountain in the Kingdom of Qiongbi, there was a large open space and various types of houses, and the roar of steam engines faintly came from the house.
At one point, the roof of the largest house suddenly cracked to both sides. An oval object is revealed.
This is exactly the airship that Waters has made. Today is the day of completion, and at the same time the day of the test flight.
Luo Yin and Misha and his party also came, and the three little ones also came, after all, this is a moment to witness history.
Luo Yin originally planned to find a few volunteers to go to the test flight, but Waters said that he would go on his own. Luo Yin thought about it and agreed, after all, this was something he made himself, and he was more familiar with it.
And as long as the airship doesn't use hydrogen, the safety should be good. Because there is not one airbag in the airbag, but many airbags, even if one airbag leaks, the other airbags can hold on and let it fall slowly.
"Start inflating!" As soon as Waters gave the order, the workers immediately came over with helium canisters and inflated the airship airbags.
There are two kinds of airbags in the airship, those with helium are called main airbags, and those with air are called auxiliary airbags.
Through the inflation and deflation of these two types of air bags, the purpose of rising and descending is achieved. There were also sails and two small steam engines on the airship, which were used to control direction and propulsion.
As the helium became more and more, the airbags inflated more and more, and the airship also experienced some slight shaking.
Inside the pod, the faces of Waters and some of the dwarves were both excited and nervous. In the end, under the expectant gaze of countless people, the airship slowly lifted into the air!