Chapter 628 Helicopter
"I have no choice!" Qin Chuan shook his head helplessly.
Qin Chuan said nonsense, but until modern times, no country used rocket-powered fighter jets, which represents another meaning: After actual combat and demonstration, people found that it was not suitable for use on aircraft, especially after jet engines developed greatly, the thrust of the aircraft has increased to make the flight speed exceed the speed of sound, and rocket-powered aircraft has no room for development.
In other words, the efforts made by Germany on ME163 can only be said to be a brave attempt, but attempts always risk failure... To be precise, if you continue to try, the price may be paid more.
"We need another plane!" Qin Chuan continued.
"What plane?" Conrad's eyes, who was originally disappointed, couldn't help but lit up.
"I said it before!" Qin Chuan replied: "Just like FA330..."
"Major!" Hannah interrupted Qin Chuan's words with a ridiculous cry: "I remember my promise, but now is not the time to talk about this!"
"Hannah is right!" Conrad spread his hands and agreed: "It's a submarine-powered glider, but there is no submarine here at all, and of course there won't be FA330..."
"I'm not referring to FA330!" Qin Chuan looked at Hannah and said, "Sorry, Hannah, I'm talking about the serious business. Of course, I'm glad you will remember your promise!"
"So, what are you talking about?" Hannah asked somewhat surprised.
Qin Chuan raised his head towards the Caucasus Mountains, which were towering in the distance, and said, "Did you see this mountain? The highest peak of this mountain is 5,642 meters. The snow on the mountain is very cold all year round. If you want to keep it... the biggest problem is that it is difficult to transport supplies."
After pausing, Qin Chuan continued: "So, we need an aircraft like the FA330, which can take off and land vertically and land in a very small space, so that we can easily bring ammunition supplies to the soldiers stationed on it. Do you know what this means? This means that no enemy can break through this natural barrier!"
"We have such a plane!" Conrad replied.
"Is there any?" Qin Chuan was a little surprised, he didn't know this.
"Yes!" Conrad nodded: "It is called Fi282, and it can take off and land in a 4-meter-by-4-meter area. Because it can hover in the air, the soldiers gave it a nickname 'Hummingbird'! We use it for naval reconnaissance, and the army also has a small amount of equipment for comparison of artillery!"
When Qin Chuan heard this, he realized that Germany used helicopters as hot air balloons... In the past, naval reconnaissance and army artillery comparisons were to put a manned hot air balloon into the sky, and the Japanese even used reconnaissance balloons during World War II.
This is a waste of resources. Helicopters do the job of reconnaissance balloons?!
"But you may be disappointed, Major!" Hannah said: "Fi282 lacks lift, it can only barely carry two people up into the air!"
Hannah is a test pilot, so of course she has also studied "hummingbird".
"Yes!" Major Conrad said: "And it is not suitable for participating in combat. The enemy's anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, etc. can easily shoot them down, let alone the enemy's fighter jets!"
Qin Chuan was not surprised by Conrad's words. People of this era did not recognize the importance of helicopters until the Americans used it for the first time on the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea.
"None of these are the problems!" Qin Chuan replied: "Look at this, there are no enemies on the Caucasus Mountains, so there will be no threat from enemy anti-aircraft guns and machine guns!"
"How to solve the lift problem?" Hannah asked.
"The lift of an engine can lift the weight of the aircraft and two people. What if we install two engines for it?" Qin Chuan said: "Then it can even lift a cannon up!"
"Two engines? This is impossible!" Conrad smiled and said, "Where do we put it?"
"Put it on both arms!" Qin Chuan stretched out his hands and used the fingers of both hands to make a spiral rotating... Modern American Osprey helicopters are like this double helix structure.
Conrad couldn't help but be stunned, then nodded and said, "Good idea, Major. Very good idea, so that... we can easily bring ammunition, supplies, and even cannons, jeeps to any mountain with complex terrain. The only requirement is to open a landing ground of more than ten square meters for it! This will bring great help to our mountain combat!"
"Yes!" Qin Chuan nodded.
"There are still gains, aren't it?" Conrad said excitedly: "Although it is not enough to make up for the failure of ME163, it is still a surprise... It's great. Sorry, Major, I'm going to say goodbye!"
As he said that, Conrad ran towards the jeep like a child who found candy, leaving Hannah and Qin Chuan behind.
The two sat down by the beach, and the afterglow of the setting sun came and snuggled up to each other on the beach.
"You're not seriously injured!" Qin Chuan asked.
"In fact, I've been in the hospital bed for four months!" Hannah replied.
Qin Chuan looked at Hannah in shock.
"Don't look at me with that look!" Hannah laughed: "I'm fine now!"
Later, Qin Chuan realized that things were far less relaxed than Hannah said...
During this test flight, Hannah's landing gear was stuck and she was forced to land on her belly.
During the landing, Hannah suffered a facial injury and fell into a coma on the spot.
Hannah received four months of treatment in the hospital and eventually recovered from her injury miraculously. In the hospital, she also did something that surprised the doctor: when she was still suffering from a headache, in order to be able to fly again as soon as possible, Hannah actually climbed onto a big tree at the door to train to restore her sense of balance.
"Why no one told me this?" Qin Chuan said.
Hannah's four months in the hospital was a big sigh of relief. Qin Chuan was on vacation and returned home.
"I told them not to do this!" Hannah said.
"But you are already in a coma!"
"Before unconscious!" Hannah said: "I found the pen and paper. You know, the most important thing about the test flight is this. I forgot about the situation at that time. Someone told me that I described the cause of the failure in a sketch and wrote the words 'Don't tell Frick' on it!"
Qin Chuan couldn't help but be stunned.
He knew that Hannah had never thought that she was just in a coma and could even recover. She was worried that she would die in the line of duty and could not tell others the result of the test flight, which means she was ready for sacrifice.
And at this last moment, Hannah was still thinking about Qin Chuan.
"Why do you know?" Hannah said in Qin Chuan's ear: "You are not less dangerous than me at all!"
Chapter completed!