While Arthur was sighing as he watched the rising housing prices in the United States, the Royal Aircraft Factory at this time also reported good news, that is, there was a huge improvement in aircraft technology.

While Australasia's aircraft are currently some distance ahead of other countries, there has been little improvement in aircraft since World War I, and the gap between other countries has been narrowed somewhat.

Arthur's investment in aircraft research and development has never been reduced, and the research and development of aircraft technology has always been one of the important links in the research and development of military technology in Australasia, second only to the rockets and missiles that Arthur has high hopes for, as well as nuclear weapons.

In fact, this technology was not studied by the airport alone, but with the joint efforts of Diesel and the airport, the engine of the aircraft was further improved, and the famous jet engine was designed.

Yes, jet engines.

This advanced technology was actually explored hundreds of years ago, but it has not been very effective until now.

It is worth mentioning that in 1915 Albert Fano, a technical expert of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, designed a device to increase the range of artillery shells by means of gas and compressed air, which provided thrust by compressing and igniting the air flow of artillery shells flying at high speed through the air intakes of variable cross-section.

The Austro-Hungarian army did not adopt Albert's design, which gave Arthur a chance.

After the end of the First World War, Arthur formally invited Albert Fano to join the Royal Australasian Academy of Sciences, where his main research direction was power.

After that, Albert worked as Diesel's assistant, concentrating on the engines used for aircraft, and this research lasted for several years.

Finally, after several years of hard work, the engines of the new generation of aircraft have finally come to fruition.

Of course, there is something special about the newly studied engine. Albert and Diesel had their own ideas, and the two worked together to develop two jet engines with different principles.

Although this may seem incredible, if you understand the achievements of the two in history, it is actually a matter of course.

Albert is working on supersonic ramjet engines, which are also jet engines, and have the advantages of simple construction, light weight, small size, large thrust-to-weight ratio, and low cost.

However, this ramjet engine does not have a compressor, and when it is tested, it basically cannot be started when the ground is stationary, so it is not suitable as a power plant for ordinary aircraft.

To address this shortcoming, Albert and Diesel worked together to develop a second jet engine.

The second type of jet engine is similar to the axial jet engine, and compared with the first jet engine, it is more suitable for the power system of ordinary aircraft, that is, military aircraft.

Of course, this does not mean that Albert's ramjet engine, which was designed on his own, is useless.

Although the ramjet engine is not suitable as a power plant for ordinary aircraft, it is very suitable for one-time aircraft such as missiles, and is of vital help to the research of missiles and rockets.

It also meant that both of the new jet engines were crucial to military research in Australasia, something Arthur hadn't anticipated, but definitely a good thing.

Without much thought, Arthur immediately arranged his schedule and went to the place where the two engines were tested, that is, the Royal Aircraft Factory.

The advent of the jet engine also meant that jet aircraft were not far off, which is why Arthur was really important to the technology.

Compared with the biplane propeller aircraft being used in other countries, Australasian monoplane propeller aircraft are very advanced, but there is an upper limit on the speed of the propeller, which also limits the speed of the current Australasian aircraft to a considerable extent.

If the research of aircraft could be placed on jet aircraft, the flight speed of the aircraft would increase by a rather exaggerated amount, which is huge for the lead of other countries' aircraft.

Because ramjet engines have proven unsuitable for use in military aircraft, the technology has been handed over to rocket research projects to help better research rockets and missiles.

Another jet engine technology is currently working with the Royal Aircraft Factory to explore Australasia's first jet aircraft.

In fact, the theory of jet aircraft was born as early as ten years ago, and the first to propose the jet theory were Captain Makeni of France and Henri Conda of Romania.

Henry Conda also researched the earliest jet aircraft ten years ago, but the jet engine technology at that time was not perfect, and the Romanian government's investment in this area was not high, so the jet aircraft test at that time failed, and the relevant research data was directly discarded as waste paper.

Although Henry Conda's experiment failed, as a pioneer of jet aircraft, he naturally received an invitation from the Australasian Academy of Sciences, and has now joined the scientific research team of Australasian jets and is working for Australasia.

This is also one of the current characteristics of Australasia, which is very keen to attract more well-known scientists abroad.

Basically, as long as scientists with a certain reputation in Europe and the United States have been invited by the Royal Academy of Sciences, this also makes many scientific research teams in Europe and the United States very dissatisfied with Australasia, after all, Australasia's digging behavior has caused them considerable losses.

Although Henry Conda's jet experiments ultimately failed, there was some merit in his design philosophy for jets.

At least with Henry Conda's failures, Australasia was able to take fewer detours in the development of jets and have some experience that other countries can't.

In fact, jet aircraft are still too advanced in this era.

Historically, even if jet engines have been conceived and even patented, many aircraft manufacturers have not been interested.

Their stubborn belief that the realization of a jet engine is as unbelievable as putting a man on the moon is completely unrealistic.

Australasia has been leading the world in jet engine and jet research for at least a decade, which is a valuable opportunity for Australasia to be able to outperform other countries in the jet stage.

Rushing to the aircraft factory, the experts had already moved the prototypes of the two jet engines out for Arthur to actually see.

Because of the different principles, there are still big differences in the structure of the two jet engines.

Looking at these two engines, which were already quite modern, Arthur nodded with great satisfaction, looked at Albert and Diesel, who were developing these two jet engines, and asked with a smile: "How much thrust can these two engines produce at present?" ”

"Your Majesty, the jet engine we have developed can use a variety of fuels as a source of energy. In the case of different fuels, the thrust that can be generated is also quite different. Diesel explained.

"Both jet engines are capable of delivering 4 to 5 kN of thrust if we use our special diesel, and the current first generation of engines can reach the fastest speeds of existing fighter jets."

In terms of speed, the increase in jet engine over propeller engine is huge.

The first successful test flight of the jet engine He178 in history has successfully achieved a top speed of 700 kilometers per hour, which has a huge advantage over ordinary propeller aircraft.

Arthur nodded again, satisfied with the current power of the jet engine.

However, although the jet engine is already available, it will take a long time to fully equip it with fighter jets.

The development of jet aircraft, while not starting from scratch, is also completely devoid of examples that can be emulated.

Coupled with the fact that it is also kept secret from other countries, basically all the originals need to be produced in-house, which also makes it more difficult to build jets.

Then there is the power guarantee of the new jet engine. Compared with ordinary propeller aircraft, the taxiing ability of jet aircraft is greatly reduced.

This also means that if the engine loses power or is damaged, it is a huge disaster for the jet.

How to ensure the performance and stability of the jet engine is the next problem that Diesel and Albert need to study.

But in any case, the jet engine can be developed at this point in time, and Arthur is already quite satisfied.

This is equivalent to the beginning of an article, the hardest part has been completed, and the rest is not a big deal.

No matter how difficult the design of a jet aircraft is, it will eventually be difficult to study the jet engine.

On the premise of already having a jet engine, I believe that the aircraft factory will not disappoint Arthur, and Australasia has its own jet aircraft is not far off.

After encouraging many experts, Arthur also asked the airfield to design a jet plane as soon as possible and enter the experiment.

After receiving a general response from many experts, Arthur left the airport satisfied, ending his trip to inspect the jet engine.

Of course, Arthur did not do nothing before leaving the airfield.

The study of jet engines is a big deal for Australasia, and as such, there is also a need to reward experts who study jet engines.

A check for $500 for each of the experts, $1,000 for each of the main Albert and Diesel, plus the statistics of the merits of the experts, this is the reward and reward of Arthur and other scientific experts.

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