Chapter 56: Aircraft Orders
Dongdongdongdongdong...
Boom boom boom boom boom...
On the training ground of the military camp, a group of officers were surrounding there, and several shells were shrunk out of the mortar. The gunner kept stuffing bullets into the barrel, and the shells were hit like raindrops.
"It's so amazing so fast." Yang Lie exclaimed.
"It's also strong lethality, and most people within 12 meters will be done." Wu Feng said as he looked at the explosion point with his telescope.
At this time, Xia Jun led the guards into the military camp.
"Chairman."
"Chairman."
People saluted Xia Jun one after another, and Xia Jun nodded and asked with a smile: "How effective is the mortar?"
"It's very good." Wu Feng nodded, "It's just a little heavier. If it can be lighter, it can keep up with the progress of the troops faster."
The Type 93 mortar is more than 14 kilograms, and Xia Jun has changed the drawings to 20 kilograms, and this is only made.
"There's no way. For the time being, our alloy can only be made so heavy." Xia Jun shook his head gently, "It's still a while to wait for a lighter mortar."
Yang Lie smiled and said, "But it's almost the same. Anyway, the distance is so long, and it's almost 3 o a minute. It's definitely a powerful tool during combat. Principal, which unit is this mortar equipped?"
"Equipment to the platoon-level unit, a company equipped Sanjun said, "I will select a group of students from the school to join the army, and then let them serve as gunners."
Xia Jun had already thought about this. One company was adding a mortar squad, and four people were responsible for a mortar, carrying a base shell (6o, one person carried more than 20 kilograms of shells during the marching).
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In the past month, East China Airlines Manufacturing Company once again manufactured nearly eight kinds of prototypes of drawings, two of these eight designs have been successful.
Among them, the "Harf 2 bomber" is one of them. The Hearf 2 uses two 22o horsepower motors, with a maximum time of 18o kilometers per hour, a maximum range of 53o kilometers, a ceiling of 35oo meters, a warhead of 135o kg, a loading capacity of 11oo kg, and is equipped with two heavy machine guns.
This is an extremely excellent bomber, but not an excellent fighter bomber. It is only equipped with two heavy machine guns. Its combat capability is insufficient, and it still has a double-wing design.
Although the combat capability is insufficient, the aerial combat power required in this era is not that high, because Japan does not have aircraft yet, and the design of the two heavy machine guns is a bit redundant.
Another aircraft is a reconnaissance aircraft, named "Eagle 1 Reconnaissance aircraft" with a 15o horsepower motor. This aircraft adopts a single-wing design, making the maximum flight degree reach 215 kilometers per hour, the maximum range reaches 4oo kilometers, and the maximum ceiling is 31oo meters. At the same time, a heavy machine gun is installed on both sides of the fuselage.
Among these two types of aircraft, only the Heavy Hammer 2 is equipped with the East China Air Force, while the Heavy Hammer 1 bomber and the Eagle 1 reconnaissance aircraft are used for export.
The East China shopping mall, which was just opened in Germany, began to sell such aircraft to Germany.
The Germans showed great interest in these two types of aircraft, especially the Heavy Hammer 1 bomber. In the video materials sent to the Germans by the East China Store, the Heavy Hammer 1 bomber showed great practicality. In addition, the flight of the Eagle 1 reconnaissance aircraft is also the fastest in the world today.
Xia Jun received a report from Germany's East China Merchants House in early May that Germany had ordered a 1oo heavy hammer 1 bomber and a 1oo Eagle 1 reconnaissance aircraft from the merchant hall.
This made Xia Jun very happy. This was a big business.
The Heavy Hammer 1 bomber is the most expensive, with one costing $20,000, while the Eagle 1 reconnaissance aircraft is half the price, only $10,000 per aircraft.
The manufacturing cost of aircraft these days is very low. After all, they are made of wood and cloth. Whether it is $20,000 or $10,000, it is very profitable.
The Germans were generous in their actions, and ordered 100 aircraft of both types.
This order is enough to make East China Airlines Manufacturing Company earn more than two million US dollars.
Anthony Folk learned the news and exclaimed: "Nothing is more profitable than building an aircraft, especially a plane with plywood..."
The manufacturing cost of aircraft using plywood is greatly reduced, compared with aircraft made of wood, the cost is reduced by half.
Although the plane is made of wood, it is actually quite expensive to find such a large piece of wood, and it also has to pay for the carpenter, etc.
After using plywood, everything became simple.
When Xia Jun inspected the production line at the East China Airlines Manufacturing Company's factory, he told Anthony Folk and other aircraft designers: "Next, we will develop a long-range strategic bomber, with a flight distance of more than one thousand kilometers."
"Boss of a thousand kilometers, this task is not too difficult, but the cost of aircraft manufacturing may increase." Anthony Folk said to Xia Jun. After all, if you want to fly further, you have to have more horsepower and the aircraft has to be built larger.
"I don't care whether you use the maximum horsepower motivation or multiple motivation design, or use a single wing or a double wing, the cost is not a problem," Xia Jun said to him.
The Heavy Hammer 2 bomber is just a short-range tactical bomber, and Xia Jun does not have a long-range strategic bomber yet.
Of course, a voyage of more than 1,000 kilometers still cannot hit the Japanese mainland, but it is also a good choice to use it for export during World War I.
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On May 3, under the auspices of Xia Jun, East China Airlines Training School was established in Hangzhou.
Many Chinese and foreign journalists who came to the scene that day, as well as many teachers, students, and people, were waiting to watch today's aviation performance.
The Chinese reporters were very excited. Xia Jun got out of the car and surrounded him. One of the reporters asked Xia Jun: "Chairman Xia, do we have an air force in China?"
"Yes, our Air Force was the first Air Force." Xia Jun replied, "and it is also the Air Force with the largest number of aircraft in the world."
The reporters wanted to ask something, but they were blocked by Xia Jun's guards. In the passageway, Xia Jun quickly walked into the aviation school.
This aviation school will be used to train pilots, and the Air Force officers will be trained in the Air Force Academy of East China Military University. At the same time, this aviation school will also recruit students from other countries, but the tuition fee is also higher because the hardware facilities of East China Airlines School are the most complete in the world.
At the same time, today's aviation performance is also to attract business for Eagle 1 reconnaissance aircraft. At present, air forces from countries around the world will be established one after another, and their air forces need a large number of aircraft.
This is a blank market, so I will sell them some inferior goods first.
Since the motors used by East China Airlines manufacturers are the most advanced, both in terms of horsepower and rotation, it is difficult for other countries to imitate these aircraft if sold. Moreover, these aircraft have intellectual property rights, and Western countries generally do not imitate them. At most, they absorb the designs and redesign an aircraft.
In terms of intellectual property rights, those Western countries still abide by the rules because the rules are formulated by themselves, and the vested interests are also them because they have a large amount of intellectual property rights in their hands.
Xia Jun is also very rules at present because he also has a lot of intellectual property rights, not because he is barefoot and is not afraid of wearing shoes.
Under the gaze of everyone, Xia Jun held a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Then Xia Jun stepped onto the high platform to present this speech.
"I am very happy to live in this era because this era is an era when human beings gradually realize their dreams. There are many dreams for us human beings, and flying is one of the dreams that we human beings have always pursued. Over the past thousands of years, many pioneers of flight have emerged in China and the world. With the development of material civilization and the advancement of science and technology, we have finally realized our dream of flight in this century.
The victory of Xinhai** has freed our Chinese nation from racial oppression and ushered in an opportunity for rejuvenation for our Han nation. We established the Air Force in order to revitalize the nation.
Some people say that if China's 6th army loses, China's navy also loses. However, the corrupt Qing Dynasty has perished, and these will become the past. However, after all, it is a loss, but our air force cannot lose. Our air force must be at the forefront of the world and become the backbone of our Han national rejuvenation. Together with the 6th army and navy, restore the glory of our ancestors and take one step closer.
This is also the reason why our East China Autonomous Government established the East China Aviation Academy. If we want the Chinese Air Force to become the world's strongest, we must have a professional pilot training base. East China Aviation Academy is our pilot training base. Pilots who come out of here will soar on the top of the world in the future..."
Xia Jun delivered an intense speech on the high platform, which was interrupted by the warm applause from below several times, and the speech ended with warm applause.
The flight performance began immediately.
The newly produced Eagle 1 reconnaissance aircraft slowly drove on the runway in the eyes of the crowd. After driving for a distance, the nose of the aircraft was lifted up, and the entire aircraft left the sixth place and flew into the sky...
During the performance, ten planes performed various flight movements. These pilots were air force officers. They received a long period of flight training and were very proficient in aircraft flying.
Jing Chao's flight technology and the flight levels of other aircraft in this era have amazement from the foreigners present.
When flying to the unmanned land, the heavy machine guns 6 on both sides of these reconnaissance planes continued to fire and swept the targets on the ground, which shocked everyone present.
These two machine guns are actually not powerful. After all, they are installed on both sides of the fuselage. As long as the enemy planes fly to the front or back, they can avoid them.
The reason why these two machine guns were installed was mainly due to a gimmick problem to attract orders from other countries.
This flight performance was a great success. Newspapers in various media published this news and listed various data on the Eagle 1 reconnaissance aircraft provided by East China Autonomous Government.
Chapter completed!