Although the DC-3 transport aircraft is better in terms of data, if Arthur were to choose which aircraft he was flying, Arthur would actually prefer to choose the Boeing 367 transport aircraft.

There is no doubt that the DC-3 transport aircraft is a more efficient and civilian transport aircraft than the Boeing 367.

Some of the designs that the Boeing 367 has, including toilets, are clearly designed to serve the middle and upper classes.

With the same engine power, the Boeing 367 is larger and heavier, and the fuel consumption adds more cost.

What's more, the Boeing 367, with its other facilities, carries a limited number of 31 people (three pilots and 28 passengers), which is three fewer than the smaller DC-3 transport aircraft.

This means that the higher cost of the Boeing 367 will be spread over fewer passengers, and the price per passenger will be higher.

With the development of airlines in various countries, the price of air tickets is still one of the criticized problems. Australasia, for example, is one of the world's largest airlines as the first country and region where the aviation industry originated, and also has access to low-cost aircraft from Boeing and Douglas Aircraft.

It stands to reason that Royal Airlines' ticket prices should be relatively low, after all, the cost is indeed less than that of other airlines.

But in reality, a flight ticket from Sydney to Wellington is officially priced at $60 for $15 shillings and 7 pence.

At present, the per capita income of Australasia is only about 200 Australian dollars, which means that it takes more than half a year's income to travel between Australasia and New Zealand.

However, the good news is that when the new generation of transport aircraft arrives on Royal Airlines, the price of air tickets will also be reduced due to the ability to carry more passengers.

Although the aviation industry is not yet the main choice of transportation for people in this era, its potential has been discovered by various countries.

If you want to use a boat, it will take at least 4 to 5 days to travel from Australia to New Zealand, and you have to be a fast speedboat.

In the case of ordinary small civilian vessels, the travel time between the two places may be extended to more than a week, or even close to 10 days.

But if you use airplanes, even the DC-2 transport aircraft and Boeing 267 aircraft, which are already outdated, can reach their destination in less than 15 hours as long as they carry enough fuel tanks.

With the latest DC-3 and Boeing 367 transport aircraft, the time can be further reduced, and it will only take 8 to 10 hours to travel from Australia to New Zealand.

This is very helpful for the whole of Australasia. Because the Australasian Empire was so scattered and had tens of thousands of islands and archipelagos, it was difficult to manage.

With the development of aviation, the time required to reach the islands is decreasing. In fact, this is equivalent to the increasing control of the imperial government over these regions.

What makes Arthur more excited is that the DC-3 transport aircraft and the Boeing 367 transport aircraft have completed the testing of prototypes, and have even entered the preparation stage for mass production.

This also means that the two aircraft companies can enter the assembly line production at any time if Arthur wishes, and there will be a steady stream of advanced transport aircraft into the civilian and military fields of Australasia.

However, the strategic role of the new generation of transport aircraft is too high, and Arthur does not plan to announce the two transport aircraft too soon.

This also means that until the two transport planes are made public, Australasian airlines will have to use products that are already outdated.

Even if Douglas and Boeing transport planes were offered to his allies in the future, Arthur would not sell a military version of the DC-3 transport aircraft, the Sop-34 transport plane.

Jet engines are completely new technology for all countries, and how long they can hide it, naturally, will have to hide it for as long as they can.

Otherwise, by the time potential enemies such as Germany, Italy, and the island nations develop jet engines and jet planes too soon, Australasia's superiority in aircraft will be much negated.

Arthur wouldn't do this kind of shooting himself in the foot, which is why Australasia's jet engine technology has been kept under wraps.

March 17, 1935, over Madrid, the capital of the Spanish Republic.

The weather was still sunny, and it was also a good day for the Air Force to go out.

Enrique was flying a brand-new Fiat CR.32 Arrow fighter with a relaxed face, cruising leisurely over Madrid.

Since the last engagement with the air forces of the Spanish Republic, the Italian air force has no rivals above Spain.

The Spanish aircraft combined were only more than 60 aircraft, and most of them had already lost more than half of them in that air battle, and the rest were basically incapable of combat.

This led to the terrible consequence that the Italian air force was flying unhindered in Spanish airspace, as if it were traveling over the territory of its own country.

Enrique's coziness didn't last long, though.

Soon there was a strange noise in the sky, and Enrique also noticed the dark dot in the blue sky.

"Damn, what's that?" Enrique was a little puzzled, and quickly picked up the telescope and carefully observed the small dot in the distance.

"Damn, it's an enemy plane, an enemy attack!" Before Enrique could see what the black dot in the distance was, the co-pilot behind him heard the exclamation of his comrade-in-arms Toranck.

"Damn, do the Spaniards' planes still dare to provoke us?" Enrique was a little surprised, he didn't think that the Spanish old planes could threaten the advanced Italian fighters.

"Enrique, that's not a Spanish plane!" Behind him, Toranque exclaimed again, bringing with him a piece of news that changed Enrique's face: "That plane has a fucking French flag on the tail fin!" ”

"The planes of the French? Are the French going to participate in the civil war in Spain? Enrique's mind was full of doubts, but he did not dare to be paralyzed in the slightest in this impending air battle.

The planes of the Spaniards were backward products, but the planes of the French were not.

As early as the time of the signing of the Entente between Italy and Germany, Germany and Italy conducted a detailed study of the aircraft of the French.

At present, the French are equipped with two most kinds of fighters, one is the modern monoplane fighter C1 proposed by the French Air Force, and the other is the D.500 lower monoplane fighter developed by De Watina for the French.

Either fighter type is a good thing for Enrique. Because both fighters were manufactured in the last two years, they are considered the most advanced fighter sequences of the French at the moment.

"Do you know what kind of plane it is?" Enrique was a little anxious, and asked Toranque behind him loudly.

"Damn, I can only see a blurry frame, and it's completely unsure which plane it is." Toranque tried his best to see the plane, but it was so far away that he could only see a vague frame.

"Contact the operations department, Enrique. If those damned French had made more than one sortie, we would not be their match at all. Toranque suggested.

"Hell, aren't these French people not going to get involved in this war?" Enrique was a little frustrated, as if he were talking to himself, as if he were asking Toranque: "They are coming towards us, are they really going to fight us?" ”

As Enrique had predicted, the French plane was already attacking Enrique just as he was about to enter range.

This also means that the air battle between the planes of the two countries has started in an instant, and no matter what they think, they only have one mission left at the moment, which is to win this damn air battle and then return.

This news of the appearance of French aircraft in Spanish airspace was quickly reported to the Italian combat department, and then to the Italian government.

Mussolini, of course, also received this message. Like the soldiers on the front line, Mussolini could not believe that the French would dare to intervene in the Spanish Civil War in an open manner.

It was clear that they had already backed down at the beginning, so what made the French choose to join the war again?

"Contacting the German government, we need to be on guard against every move of the French." At a meeting of the Italian government, Mussolini instructed his men: "Let the army be ready for war, the French are definitely not groundless, we must prepare in advance." ”

Knowing that French public opinion was anti-war, Mussolini intended to use French public opinion to put pressure on the French government.

The best thing to do is to release the news of the presence of French planes in Spanish airspace. This not only meant that France would directly confront Germany and Italy, but also that France was likely to start a war with Germany and Italy.

Naturally, this is absolutely unacceptable to those French people who oppose the war. This is also Mussolini's goal, which is to dismantle the actions of the French government through the popular opinion of the French people.

It turned out that this trick was really effective.

The First World War 20 years ago is still a painful memory for the French people that still affects their perception of the world situation to this day.

After hearing that the government's actions threatened a full-scale war with Germany and Italy, the French people expressed their dissatisfaction with the French government's actions and demanded a reasonable explanation from the French government.

Of course, the French government has already responded.

In the face of pressure from domestic public opinion and diplomatic pressure from Germany and Italy, the French government said that the French planes with the French flag had actually been sold to the Spanish government a few months earlier.

Because it was a fighter that had been eliminated by France, and because of the hasty handover, the French flag on the fighter had not been erased, but the person who operated the fighter had become a Spanish soldier.

The statement of the French government can be summed up in one short sentence, that is, the plane has been sold to the Spanish government, and all this has nothing to do with the French government.

Is this really the case? Not necessarily.

However, there is no sufficient evidence, and the French government has begun to appease the domestic public and calm the pressure of public opinion at home, so that Germany and Italy can only give up pressuring the French government through public opinion.

As for threatening France with war, that was only a last resort, and neither the German nor Italian governments would do so anytime soon.

In the plan of the German and Italian governments, they would not find a way to use the knife against the French until they won the Spanish civil war and obtained Spain, a fairly strong ally.

When the time comes, Germany, Italy and Spain will be dispatched from three sides, and the French will have to face military pressure from three sides, which will make the French army exhausted.

As long as France mainland can be conquered, France's vast colonies will become borderless.

In this way, a huge colonial empire will be broken, and Germany will become the most powerful country on the European continent, becoming a veritable European hegemon.

Although the pressure of public opinion did not make the French government compromise, the French government was also forced to disclose the number of fighters sold to the Spanish Republic, a full 120.

The French sold more fighters to Spain than even the size of Spain's original air force, which proved that the Spanish Republic had fallen into a complete disadvantage in this civil war and was desperate to find other allies to find a chance to break the game.

However, it also means that there is a high probability that Spain will not have enough available pilots.

It's not that you can fly an airplane, you have to have the ability and a good enough pilot to fly the plane.

This means that the planes sold by France to the Spanish Republic are all single-seaters, otherwise Spain would face a greater vacancy of pilots.

In order to cope with the pressure of these 120 fighters, Italy urgently mobilized hundreds of fighters to Spain.

At the same time, the air battle situation on the front line also revealed the model of fighter sold by France to Spain, that is, the first modern French single-wing fighter designed by De Vatina, that is, the D.500 designed and implemented in 1933.

Coincidentally, the mainstream fighter used by the Italian Air Force, the Fiat CR.32 Arrow fighter, is also a new generation of fighters developed since 1933.

The CR series fighter is a series of fighters developed by the famous Italian engineer Celestino Rosatelli, which was first born more than ten years ago.

To the present, the CR series fighters have CR.1 fighters, CR.5 fighters, CR.20 fighters, CR.20ldro water fighters, CR.20B two-seat trainers, CR.20bis fighters, CR.20 Asso fighters, CR.30 fighters and the latest CR.32 fighters.

The fact that so many generations of fighter jets have been developed in more than a decade is enough to prove how legendary the famous engineer Celestino Rosatelli's career in aircraft development is.

As the latest fighter that only began mass production last year and was officially equipped with the army this year, the Fiat CR.32 Arrow is not only the brainchild of Celestino Rosatelli in recent years, but also the most advanced model of Italian fighters.

The fact that hundreds of Fiat CR.32 Arrow fighters were able to use against the French and 120 D.500 fighters already shows that Italy attaches great importance to France in terms of aircraft.

And that's exactly what happened. In terms of aircraft research and development, France can be said to be relatively advanced among European countries.

Perhaps only Britain can surpass France, and others, such as Germany and Austria, which have relatively strong scientific research capabilities, are currently very backward in the development of military aircraft due to various restrictions.

Australasia, of course, is an exception. As the first country to implement aircraft circumnavigating the world, no country knows what level of military aircraft has developed.

However, when you think of Australasia's excellent transport aircraft, DC-2 and Boeing 267, I believe that their military aircraft design will definitely not lag behind.

This is also the view of most European countries, including Germany, Italy and Austria, on the design of Australasian aircraft.

Even if it is not comparable to the British, it should be on the same level as the French in terms of aircraft manufacturing, and most Europeans think so.

French and Italian planes engaged in war over Spain, leaving the eyes of the German Empire, another continental power.

If we look at the overall strength of the country alone, Germany has recovered most of it, and its comprehensive national strength will surpass that of Italy.

However, in terms of the development of heavy weapons, Germany is obviously inferior to Italy, and this is also Germany's biggest problem at present.

In order to solve this biggest problem, the German government soon promulgated the "Regulations on the Reform of the Military Industry", with the intention of vigorously developing heavy weapons.

The so-called reform regulations are in fact to use all means to encourage the development of the military industry, especially the heavy weapons industry.

Compared with the previous military expansion operation, the German government is no longer hiding it now, which is equivalent to publicly shouting to France that I will vigorously develop the heavy weapons industry.

What can the French do about it? The people of Paris had just broken out in anti-war demonstrations, and if certain restrictions were imposed on the Germans, wouldn't they be sending themselves to the guns of these anti-war factions?

Anyway, for the current French government, the reputation is its own, but the government is not. The most important thing is to keep yourself in your current position and gain the support of the people.

As for the sake of the country, to guard against Germany's henchmen, oh, that's not something the French government should think about.

In the spirit of leaving the problem to the next French government, the French government completely relaxed and did not even react to Germany's almost open provocations.

The German government was also happy with this, they could easily develop heavy weapons and equipment, and they did not have to worry about the reaction of the French.

As for the British, the British are the ones who are least likely to act.

France has not done anything, is it expected that the British themselves will stand up against Germany?

Throughout the UK's history, there has been nothing worse for a country that embraces a balanced regional policy than to end up in the UK.

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