Chapter 213 Celebrating and Awarding Medals

"How are our pilots currently trained? If these aircraft are produced on a large scale, how many pilots will be able to fly these aircraft proficiently?" Arthur asked.

Arthur is not too worried about the production of these three aircraft. After all, in the field of military aircraft, Australasia is definitely the dominant player and has enough time to research, develop and produce these aircraft.

However, the number of qualified pilots also determines the number of aircraft that Australasia can currently equip. If there are not enough qualified pilots, it means that the number of aircraft that Australasia can currently equip will be limited.

"Your Majesty, after our cultivation and training during this period, we have now trained 93 qualified pilots. At the same time, there are more than 100 pilots being trained, and it is expected that they will be proficient in half a year. Fly the plane," Teodor replied.

It is not easy to train aircraft pilots. The aviation laboratory selected hundreds of soldiers from the Australasian army. Currently, there are only less than a hundred successfully trained aircraft pilots.

"The training speed of the aviation laboratory is still too slow. Let's select a group of experts with aircraft driving skills from the aviation laboratory, and then use these already skilled aircraft pilots to establish an aircraft pilot training school." Arthur After thinking for a while, he said: "Australasia will need a large number of aircraft pilots in the future, both for civilian and military aircraft."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Teodor nodded and replied respectfully.

After the aviation laboratory passed the relatively difficult initial stage of exploration, the current aircraft research and development work has been going very smoothly.

Each generation of aircraft will usher in considerable improvements in various aspects. Designing and manufacturing more powerful aircraft is also the pursuit of all scientific researchers in the aviation laboratory.

"You can first try to produce the Eagle reconnaissance aircraft and the Phantom bomber. Their numbers are set at twenty and fifteen respectively. Carry out small-scale production first, and make sure there are no problems, and then proceed based on the number of trained pilots. Expansion," Arthur said.

The performance of the current Eagle reconnaissance aircraft and Phantom bombers are already capable of being put into actual combat. It is time for Australasia to become the first country in the world to equip military aircraft.

"Yes, Your Majesty, we will put it into production as soon as possible." Teodor quickly replied.

"The establishment of the pilot training school should also be carried out as soon as possible. I hope that after the successful establishment of the pilot training school, it will be able to train at least two hundred pilots for Australasia every year." Arthur continued.

Now that Australasia has gained an advantage in aircraft, Arthur does not mind expanding this advantage.

By the end of World War I, the participating countries had built a total of 180,000 aircraft, of which more than 100,000 were used in the war.

At the beginning of the war, the total number of aircraft owned by the participating countries was only 1,500.

It is enough to show how powerful war is in promoting human technology and industry. Aircraft ushered in earth-shaking development during World War I, and eventually evolved into one of the protagonists in World War II.

Pilots were among the soldiers with the highest casualties in World War I. If Australasia does not want to face such a tragic situation, it must greatly improve the performance of various aircraft to keep them ahead of aircraft from other countries. Only one step can reduce pilot casualties.

At the same time, if Australasia does not want to fall behind in terms of military aircraft, the number of aircraft equipment and the number of pilots must also accelerate.

"Yes, I understand." Teodor nodded quickly and responded again.

"Aircrafts are not only used in the military field. The aviation research laboratory can also start the research and development of civilian aircraft and explore aircraft with more passenger capacity." Arthur nodded with satisfaction and looked at Teodoro who looked respectful. Well, speaking of.

"Planes, like airships, are another way to cross the ocean in addition to ships. And they can travel the shortest distance in the sky, which will greatly speed up our crossing of the ocean. The next task of the Aeronautical Research Laboratory is to develop at least Civilian aircraft that can carry more than ten people must have a speed of at least 90 kilometers per hour and a maximum range of at least 1,000 kilometers," Arthur ordered.

In addition to bringing huge changes to the military, aircraft have also brought huge changes to the civilian field.

Let’s not talk about the good news that civil aircraft allow people to travel across continents, oceans and even around the world. The huge profits brought by civil aircraft are enough to make people excited.

The world's earliest civilian airliner was born in 1919 and was transformed from aircraft in the military field.

This means that Australasia has at least ten years to develop civilian aircraft, and this achievement is also very likely to change the world.

Teodor nodded and accepted the task.

It is actually not difficult to develop civil aircraft. After all, civil aircraft do not need to undergo too many modifications. All that is required is the range and the number of passengers.

The difficulty of this matter lies in the number of passengers required by Arthur, which is more than ten people, and the effective range of at least one thousand kilometers.

This means that the current various aircraft designs in Australasia are not suitable for this kind of civil aircraft. The aviation laboratory needs to design another larger aircraft to accommodate more than ten passengers.

This is a challenge for the aviation laboratory, because currently the largest aircraft can only seat two people.

The number of passengers has to be changed to more than ten people at once. The design alone gives the experts of the aviation laboratory a headache.

Seeing that Teodor looked a little embarrassed, Arthur smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, Director Teodor. The research and development of civilian aircraft is not so urgent. You can also temporarily set the number of passengers to five. , just improve slowly. At present, the main purpose of the aviation laboratory is still to develop more powerful aircraft, while taking into account production and training pilots."

Arthur will not take the initiative to display various aircraft in Australasia until aircraft are not taken seriously by countries around the world.

This also means that even if the aviation research laboratory develops a civilian aircraft, it will not be put into commercial use in a short time.

Otherwise, judging from the terrifying industrial scale and research and development speed of the major powers, it would not be difficult for aircraft research and development to catch up with Australasia in a short time.

At least Australasia's aircraft must be several generations ahead of other countries before Arthur will slowly show the results.

In fact, the aircraft products that are currently lagging behind are prepared for other countries. Although these aircraft systems are lagging behind for Australasia, they are still very advanced for other countries.

If these relatively backward aircraft models can be used to bring more profits to Australasia, it will definitely be a good result.

Australasia has no plans to sell its most advanced aircraft to the outside world, but after aircraft gradually gain attention from governments around the world, these already obviously backward aircraft can still be sold.

This is also a common method used by major countries. After a certain technology has undergone more advanced changes, the backward technology will be sold and sold, so that these backward technologies can exert their final residual heat. This also reduces the consumption of new technology research and development. funds.

I believe that even two years later, the first generation of Australasia's various military aircraft will still make other countries excited.

Of course, it is uncertain which generation Australasia's military aircraft will be developed by then, but it should not be the current second generation.

Finally, there are the formal awards for these experts from the aviation laboratory. A total of 103 experts participated in the pioneer and three types of military aircraft research experiments. These people are not only the top experts in aeronautics around the world, but also the absolute contributors to the development of Australasian aircraft to this point.

Arthur was naturally not stingy with these heroes. After holding a small celebration banquet at the aviation laboratory, he personally awarded these experts the Medal of the Kingdom of Australasia.

Yes, after the establishment of the Kingdom of Australasia, the original National Medal of Australia was officially renamed the Medal of the Kingdom of Australasia. The various benefits and benefits after receiving the medal have not changed much.

Technically speaking, the promulgator of the regulations for this medal is the then Prime Minister. However, the aviation laboratory is still confidential within Australasia, so Arthur promulgated it himself.

Most experts are very happy to receive a medal, even if it is just the easiest of the three Australasian medals to obtain.

Just being able to receive ten times the local per capita annual income every year after receiving the medal is enough to make most of the experts here excited.

You know, the current per capita income in Australasia is nearly forty Australian dollars, ten times that is almost four hundred Australian dollars, two hundred pounds.

This is also one or two months' salary for these experts, and the amount of money they can receive will increase with the per capita annual income of Australasia, and can even be received by their third generation descendants.

Conservative estimates suggest that they and their descendants will be able to receive this fund for at least a hundred years, and they cannot even imagine the per capita income of Australasia a hundred years from now.

More importantly, they are the first people in Australasia to receive medals, and their names will remain in the history of the Kingdom of Australasia.

After the small celebration banquet, Arthur officially returned to Sydney Palace.

Arthur wisely left more time for the experts to celebrate. If Arthur continues to stay at the scene, I am afraid that most people will not be able to let go and will remain restrained.

However, celebration was a celebration, and Arthur still told the experts in the laboratory not to forget their respective tasks. The research and development of aircraft is also a top priority for Australasia.

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