Chapter 453: The plane in the eyes of Xiao Maoqi

"I have to admit that the respected Prince Ruprecht is definitely the person with the most scientific spirit and logical thinking ability among all the nobles in Germany. He can always show a novel thing almost perfectly to people. There is reason. According to the data, it is convincing.” He once wrote in Xiao Maoqi's diary. Regarding the plane, the prince’s description of the plane quickly caught the eye of Maoqi.

Don’t pretend to say that the future of the plane is so great and the future range and ammunition capacity of the plane can be compared with that of an airship. These are not very useful. why? Because this looks so fake! People are accustomed to seeing is believing, and others can't see. You say these are of limited use. Therefore, the first step of the prince's first step is to focus on the advantages of airplanes over airships.

So what is the biggest advantage? That is naturally-cheap! Xiao Maoqi looked at the information behind, and he suddenly found a problem. As long as personnel with design and construction experience can easily assemble such an aircraft, almost all the raw materials can be bought from the civilian market! For example, the wooden materials used to make these airplanes are not even as fine as those wooden furniture! The only technical difficulty is the engine, but as long as Xiao Moqi is willing, a telegram will pass, and a Daimler engine can be delivered in 4 days. How much is this one thing worth?

And cheap means mass production! Quantity can be used to make up for the lack of quality. How can the cost of an airship be more than 2 dozen to build such an aircraft? Although these planes seem very crude, but the airships of this era are equally unsuccessful.

Earl Zeppelin’s lz-1 airship took only 18 minutes to perform for the first time, and the prince’s letter clearly stated that his things had been flying for more than half an hour! And the flight speed is faster than the airship. As for maneuverability? Let alone take a look at the pictures of the plane's leisurely circling, flying figure eights and shallow dives in the air, and then look at the huge cigars.

The only advantage of the airship lies in the ceiling. The maximum flying height of the latter is more than 2,000 meters, and the aircraft flying height in these photos is only 500 meters. On this key data, Xiao Maoqi has conducted a careful comparison. With reference to the size ratio of the aircraft's photos and the surrounding landscape, Xiao Maoqi can determine that this altitude has not been faked. After all, he is also a person who has boarded an airship. For high altitude Image recognition is still a bit basic.

And this altitude is really not fake. This is the result of a test pilot No. 3 weighing only 55kg flying the lightweight Pilot No. 1 aircraft while carrying only half of the fuel. "Before this plane successfully landed, I even suspected that it would probably fall apart by itself in the air!" The pilot said with lingering fear afterwards. After this incident, Li Lintal and others finally began to consider using lighter and tougher materials for the aircraft, so aluminum alloys and laminates gradually appeared in their field of vision! Of course, this is something later, so I won't mention it for the time being.

The first round of offensive composed of photos and commentary of the prince received very good results. Other than that, at least it attracted the attention of Xiao Maoqi and also made him realize the superiority of the aircraft. That’s good. Now it’s time to proceed. One step is to look to the future! At this time, it was too early to say how big the airplane is in the future, and the prince took out something else that seemed close to being realized. Thanks to the Bavarian Technical and Military Department, the samples they got are simply too attractive!

Xiao Maoqi took another photo and looked at it. This photo shows a machine gun, and below is a circular gun frame. The two sections of the machine gun are equipped with a special saddle-shaped drum, which can hold 150 rounds of ammunition. "Aircraft can carry machine guns from 150 meters to 200 meters low in the air and quickly skim, strike at ground units, disrupt the offensive queue of infantry units, or attack mobile units such as carriages, cars, and trains. Use special incendiary bombs. Under the circumstances, simple civil bunkers, cars and carriages can be easily destroyed."

This description is very objective. Imagine a giant bird with a wingspan of more than 10 meters whizzing down from the air and then broadcasting a series of deadly bullets. Let's not talk about the killing effect on infantry, but at least the deterrent effect is quite good! Sometimes, soft kills are more deadly than hard kills. If it can keep the enemy's infantry in a state of tension and panic through continuous dive attacks, it will also have a considerable effect.

Although the accuracy of the plane's hit is very low, if you hit big targets such as trains, cars, and carriages, you still have a chance to hit. The effect of the attack is not much. If an attack can cause a batch of carriages and the materials on it to be damaged, then It's worth it. (The premise is that the plane was not shot down--!) After all, this plane is not worth money. How much is fuel consumption worth?

The photos in the next few chapters show an experimental scope. According to the explanation in the picture, this scope can correct the speed and angle of the aircraft to ensure the accuracy of bombing. On the back of the photo, there is a new type of pylon and a variety of bombs that it carries. There is a practical situation behind it, and the ground bench test can also be used ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But unfortunately, no aircraft can be used. equipment....... too heavy!

There are many styles of bombs, but in the eyes of the experienced little Moqi, these original bombs are almost replicas of mortar shells! However, the fuze was improved, and then the shell wall was made thinner, and wooden stabilizer wings were added. The internal charge is exactly the same set of army shells, such as high-explosive shells, grenade shells, incendiary bombs, smoke bombs, flares, and so on.

In the attack mode, the prince focused on the advantages of aircraft attack-that is, better maneuverability, and can reduce the altitude to improve accuracy. But the airship doesn't have it, and the airship can only bomb at high altitude. It depends on what you can hit with a bomb. And in terms of the operability of the airship, you can’t play low-altitude bombing if you want to lower the altitude. Wind speed and ballast are huge restrictions! The prince very cleverly emphasized the accuracy of the aircraft attack, and proposed the theory of using accuracy to compensate for the ammunition carried.

Of course, just these things are not enough to convince Xiao Maoqi to do his best to advance this matter. The most important thing is the last few pictures. These are photos of several new "aero engines" with power ranging from 70 horsepower to Range of 130 horsepower. If someone understands engines, then one can tell at a glance that the parent models of these engines are car gasoline engines. Of course, Xiao Maoqi doesn't understand... The new motivation finally made Xiao Maoqi relieved, he decided to join forces with the prince again!

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