On May 22, 1912, the day after the banquet, Australasia announced the establishment of the Royal Aviation Machinery Manufacturing Company to officially start the business of selling airships.

In addition, Royal Australasian Airlines has also been established and will set up a round-the-world route before the start of the Olympic Games to facilitate the travel of athletes from around the world to Australasia.

This decision immediately made the concept of airlines expected by many Europeans and Americans, and also made the Sydney Olympics even more hot.

If you think about it, even if you don't get a good ranking in the sports meeting, you can still experience a trip around the world in an airship, which doesn't seem to be a big loss.

After all, Australasia has stated that during the Sydney Olympics, athletes travel to Australasia from all over the world, and airship tickets are all free.

For many countries, this is a big deal. After all, there are dozens or even hundreds of athletes in any country.

If calculated according to the current fare, a round-trip airship ticket will cost at least tens of thousands of pounds, which is not a small cost for the current sports departments and associations of various countries.

Being able to travel for free has also made many countries much more motivated to participate in the Olympic Games.

Anyway, it didn't take long to take an airship to Australasia, and after Australasia announced airship flights, several countries chose to sign up for the Olympics temporarily.

This is good news for Arthur. If nothing else, more than 30 countries and regions will participate in the Sydney Olympics, and the number of athletes participating in the Olympics will reach a terrifying 3,500.

This is not only a far larger scale than the London Olympics four years ago, but also a large margin beyond the original Stockholm Games.

As for the cost of transporting these athletes, it is actually nothing for Australasia.

After all, Australasian airlines can enjoy the cost price of airships, and using these athletes and the Olympics can in turn advertise airships and airlines, which is a win-win.

Anyway, in order to make the Sydney Olympics famous, Arthur has promised to bear the travel expenses of all participating athletes, and provide athletes with accommodation and food in Sydney for free.

It is nothing more than replacing the ship with an airship, which can not only greatly save the time of athletes coming to Australasia, but also in terms of travel costs, the change should not be too big.

After all, my family knows my own affairs, and the reason why the ticket price is expensive is because of the popularity of this trip around the world and the novelty of this new type of transportation.

An airship circumnavigating the world, including all the costs, should cost around £10,000.

Even if you don't count the cost of the various services and food and drinks on the airship, if you just calculate the fare, 58 seats, with an average of £172 per person, can pay for the airline.

In this way, even if all the athletes take the free airship, the cost of two round trips is only more than one million pounds, and it is completely profitable to sell dozens of more airships.

Moreover, when the business of airlines gradually diversifies, the profits of airlines alone will be enough to make up for these expenses.

You must know that the people who can afford to take off a boat ticket at present are basically the rich or noble classes in various countries.

For these classes, a thousand pounds a blimp ticket is nothing, and efficiency and comfort are their priorities.

And the airship is definitely much faster to ride than a ship, and the comfort is far greater than that of a ship.

This also means that as long as safety is ensured, airships will become the main competitors in the round-the-world business in the next few years or even more than a decade.

The huge capitalists and aristocrats in the world are enough to make a large number of airlines make a lot of money in the aviation business.

Of course, as a provider of airships, Australasia must have earned the most.

Until other countries and companies are unable to provide airships with comparable performance to the AU-3, Australasia is the arbiter in the aviation business, the absolute leader of the world's airlines.

In fact, it can be expected that the major countries in Europe and the United States will definitely quickly catch up with Australasia in terms of airships.

Ordinary powers aside, it is not difficult for top powers like Britain and Germany to catch up with Australasia in airship technology in a few years.

This also means that profits from the Australasian airship will last for a maximum of a year or two, and then there will be strong competition from Europe and the United States.

However, if things develop like this, it is expected and estimated by Arthur.

You know, it's not that easy and safe to travel around the world with an airship. If airships were really so convenient and safe, they would have replaced airplanes as the most mainstream aviation tool in history.

The famous Hindenburg incident in history dealt a devastating blow to the originally booming airship industry.

Airships of this era are developing even faster than in history, and it is not clear which circumnavigation of the Hindenburg will take place.

Stepping out of the airship aviation career early is also a good thing for Australasia.

After all, if an incident similar to the Hindenburg occurs, not only will you face large compensation, but also the government and airlines will face reputational losses.

Especially under the premise that Australasian airlines and airship companies have the participation of the royal family, the prestige of the royal family may be affected.

In short, the next day at the Institute of Aeronautics, Director Theodor and European and American capitalists signed orders for hundreds of airships, and the price of a single airship was as high as 75,200 pounds, and the total value of all orders exceeded 8 million pounds.

According to preliminary estimates, the net profit of these orders is as high as about 4 million pounds, which is enough for two super dreadnoughts.

In this way, Arthur's planning of the circumnavigation of the world and the cost of the athletes' travel are only a drop in the dime.

After all, hundreds of airships are completely unable to meet the world's aviation demand, according to the estimation of Director Theodor, at least a thousand airships, the world's aviation demand can be regarded as entering the saturation stage.

But there was also damage to the airship, which, combined with the cost of inspection, repair, and replacement of various parts, was enough for the Institute of Aeronautics to have no shortage of income for years to come.

If you add Australasia's own airlines, in terms of aviation, I am afraid that the annual income will exceed tens of millions of Australian dollars.

After this circumnavigation of the world, both governments and capitalists of various countries saw the role and value of airships.

In the civilian sector, airships will become the fastest means of transportation, and perhaps the most popular and trusted way to travel around the world.

Although the price of airship tickets is indeed not low, in these days, people who can freely travel to other countries are definitely not civilians.

These people are either rich or expensive, and their spending power far exceeds that of ordinary people in developed countries.

In the military field, the current airships show even greater potential.

It's an air vehicle that can reach anywhere in the world, and it's a potential threat to any country.

You must know that there are no satellites now, and people can only observe the way they can distinguish whether it is an enemy attack or not.

This has created good conditions for the sneak attack of the airship, and no country can guarantee that every inch of its territory will not be attacked by the airship.

Whether it is transporting strategic supplies or transporting soldiers, the speed and efficiency of an airship deserve attention.

Even as a mere weapon, airships can transport tens of tons of bombs, posing a serious threat to ground forces and installations.

Since the end of May, European and American countries have successively announced a new round of research and construction of airships.

The British government has made emergency grants to airship research institutions and companies in the country, and it is said that at least more than two million pounds have been invested in airship research.

As the largest and most advanced airship manufacturing company in Germany, Zeppelin has received the attention and support of the German government and obtained a sum of funds.

According to German sources, Nicholas II also approved the development of a domestic airship in Russia, and it is said that the investment will exceed 500,000 pounds

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The United States is even more wealthy, announcing that it will provide assistance to a number of domestic airship companies, with more than $30 million in aid funds.

Coupled with the large number of domestic capitalists in the United States, if nothing else, in the next few years, domestic airship manufacturing companies in the United States will spring up one after another.

Even the island nations, which had lost British aid, tightened their belts to survive at the call of their emperor, and accumulated 2 million yen to buy airships and invest in research.

Many European powers, including France, Austria-Hungary and Italy, also had their own airship purchase and research programs.

All of a sudden, whether in the civilian or military fields, the importance of airships is incomparable, and it is valued by all countries in the world.

Of all the countries that have made up their minds to devote themselves to airship research, the United States is probably the richest.

The U.S. military contacted a number of airship construction companies in the United States to come up with their own airship procurement plans.

The U.S. military requires airships to have a carrying capacity of at least 20 tons and be able to complete round-the-world travel.

The U.S. military has announced that as long as any airship company can meet this requirement, the U.S. military will order at least 50 airships and will reach a long-term cooperation with the airship company.

That's not a small amount of money. If you look at the price of airships in Australasia, fifty airships will be worth more than £4 million, and at least a quarter will be a net profit.

In other words, as long as the requirements of the US military can be met, a profit of 1 million pounds can be obtained for nothing, even if converted into US dollars, it will be 5 million US dollars, which is definitely not a small number.

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