After the Ming Dynasty Naval Air Force's "surprise attack on Hampton Anchorage", the entire United States was discussing airplanes, and everyone believed that airplanes were the weapon that determined the victory of the war.
Although the mighty "Great White Fleet" was destroyed at Hampton Roads, there was always a glimmer of hope hidden in the bad news - they captured many downed aircraft.
Faced with this new type of weapon, American engineers directly chose the "use doctrine" - imitation!
In the process of repairing the aircraft, they discovered that compared to the complex structure of the airship, the structure of the aircraft is simply ridiculously simple - it is composed of a wooden frame, canvas skin, wire transmission and gasoline engine.
The "high technology" is the aluminum radial engine. As long as the engine problem is solved, American factories can immediately manufacture a large number of aircraft.
The one who accepted this task was the United Technologies Corporation. After half a year of hard work, United Technologies engineers finally produced the first aeroengine in the United States. Although it was a copy of Daming's product, with the engine, it was
With airplanes. Soon the first airplane in the United States came out of the factory of United Technologies Corporation.
Their success even caused a sensation all over the world. Not only did Washington immediately place an order, the British even sent procurement personnel waving pounds to purchase their aircraft. God can testify that in the past few months, they have not
Less suffering from not having planes - planes not only destroyed their airships, but also allowed French airships to easily bomb their defenses.
United Technologies Corporation, which manufactured the aircraft, not only gained huge profits, but also became a hero in the United States. Even the engineers who participated in the imitation of the aircraft became heroes, and Condal was one of them.
The rain kept falling, and the wipers struggled to remove the rainwater. There was mud on the road, and as soon as the car passed by, the mud splashed high. Mr. Condal did not drive his Model 20 BMW, not because he did not want to, but because
Because it was a Daming car, he was worried that he would be beaten by others when driving it - when the war first broke out last year, some people smashed Daming cars on the street. There was a Maxima car owner who was beaten when he tried to protect the car.
Drag him out and beat him to death.
So for the sake of safety, Condal parked the luxurious BMW in the garage from then on. Even if the radicals on the streets now join the army, he will not drive that car again. It's not that he doesn't want to.
, it was his wife who didn’t dare to let him drive.
Looking at the wind and snow outside the car window, Condal was in a daze. The car was running on the empty road, and he was thinking about the previous problem repeatedly in his mind. He drove the car in front of the United Technologies Corporation building.
He took another look at the factory building behind him.
In the factory, carpenters are using machines to cut wood and process the wooden beams of the aircraft body. Female workers use sewing machines to sew canvas together. Assemblers are surrounding the wooden beam frame of the aircraft, connecting and fixing the wire ropes that adjust the aircraft's wing rudder and tail rudder.
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To a certain extent, producing airplanes is even simpler than producing cars. After all, the main structure of a car is steel, and its production requires the use of a large number of machine tools to process spare parts. But an airplane? It’s just a pile of wood, canvas, and steel wire ropes.
Except of course the engine.
After the aircraft is assembled in the factory, it is towed out of the assembly factory by a tow truck. Outside the assembly shop is the test flight ground. After refueling, the engine begins to test. After the engine test is completed, the tow truck tows the aircraft onto the taxiway. Finally,
The company's test pilots came, and they first checked the new aircraft inside and out, and then flew the aircraft for a few laps in the air. Early the next morning, the military pilots - those who had just studied in aviation school
Guys who have been flying for a few months will fly to the airport in New York and continue training there.
Now that the U.S. has planes—many of them, in fact—and United Technologies can now produce hundreds of planes a month, the only question is?
It's just pilots. The United States doesn't have enough pilots.
Condal, who was sitting in the car, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, and then turned his eyes to the United Automobile Company on the other side. Even here, he could hear the roar of machines coming from the factory area.
Cars were produced as before, except they were delivered to the military.
The army needs cars, a lot of cars, but... Condal took a long drag on his cigarette, drove straight to the office of Chairman Willis Odes.
"Condal, my friend, what do you have..."
Before Willis Odes could finish speaking, Condal opened the box he was holding.
"Is this a tank?"
Otis screamed, and he felt a flash of light in front of his eyes - a whole box of various, exquisite and real tank-like models. They were not toys. They were Condal's photos of tanks,
The model created bit by bit is exactly the same as the real tank.
"Yes, sir, it's a tank!"
Every time Condal took out a model of a tank, it would cause a burst of surprise and admiration from Odes. He discovered that the tracks of these tanks could move, and even the turrets could rotate. Not only that, he could even open the rear engine cover of the tank.
, see the engine in it.
"This is the engine, the same 75-horsepower engine used in the trucks we supply to the military,..."
Condal said while holding the tank model and explaining its structure:
"Tanks, what our army needs most now is tanks, even more important than airplanes. Sir, if there are no tanks, we will definitely not win this war. We need tanks! If we make tanks, God bless, just
Just the orders from the military are a very astonishing number,”
Looking at these tank models, Odes rubbed his hands with some excitement. Now in his eyes, these models were clearly money that was coming to him regardless of which tank they were!
What business could be more profitable during the war than the arms business?
Never again!
Moreover, tanks are urgently needed by the US military and will definitely bring him huge returns.
So he got a little excited and said to his old colleague who had brought him huge wealth years ago:
"Mr. Condal, I really don't know how to thank you. You know, when others are still satisfied with the current aircraft, you have already considered the new future..."