Tang Mo actually believes in metaphysics recently. He is now a little frightened by titles such as principal and island owner. After all, these things are not very auspicious to be honest.
However, he could only endure it. His direct descendants all came from the Tang Military Academy, so it seemed wrong not to call him principal.
There is no way, they are all taking the path of direct relatives and cultivating talents, so they can only accept the title of principal honestly, right?
But with the addition of dragon lairs, buildings, etc., Tang Mo feels that he has been full of DEBUFFs recently, and he is the kind of person who is looking for death...
He tried hard to change something, but in the end he found that nothing could be changed. He couldn't let all his subordinates call him master. He was not narcissistic enough.
But what should I call the master instead of the master? If I had to choose a more majestic word, I would call him the head of state... Well, I just thought about it casually, and I think it is not as comfortable as the principal.
Really, nowadays, the word "head of state" is not a big deal in other worlds, but in the world that Tang Mo is familiar with, if it is not used in connection with the country, it will be creepy.
On Long Island, Tang Mo once again engaged in busy technology research and development activities. Under his personal leadership, the engineers who had gathered here in advance were busy designing various models of gliders.
Aviation is not like the technologies on the ground and at sea. Although these technologies are avant-garde and advanced, they still have some talent reserves.
For example, although car drivers only appeared after the birth of the automobile, there were definitely many horsemen and coachmen before them.
They have the feeling of driving a car, but what they lack is just some proficiency. In this case, as long as they simply train and change their habits, they can quickly become a car driver.
Almost the same, although ships have not been around for a long time, there are still many sailors. Those old sailors who have been traveling on the sea all year round can continue to work on new ships as long as they get used to it a little.
But airplanes are different. Airplanes are definitely a new thing. There is no superman who has flown in the sky in advance.
What Tang Mo knew was that although there were dwarves, elves, orcs and even ugly half-human, half-monster creatures like demi-human goblins in this world, they did not have any superpowers such as magic.
These species can only study physics and mathematics honestly, master technology, and rely on their own labor to work.
The kind of magician in Tang Mo's memory who could fly with the wind and shoot fireballs with just a wave of his hand in movies and TV shows didn't exist at all.
The legendary dragons were also completely extinct tens of thousands of years ago due to the rise of mammals. Those ancient creatures relied on laying eggs to reproduce, but when they went out to forage, these eggs became small mammals.
The food most easily available to animals.
In the end, there were fewer and fewer monsters that were accustomed to living alone. They were hunted down by early humans, elves and other species, and their complete extinction became history.
Tang Mo also tried to find a real dragon, but in the end he only got some souvenirs such as claws and scales... Of course, there were also fossils, and there was a complete dragon skeleton in the collection room of his dragon lair.
Unfortunately, this thing has nothing to do with the dragons Tang Mo is familiar with...even the dragons from the West. It is more like a wind god pterosaur. It has a huge wingspan for flying, but its body is relatively small. It doesn't have that kind of magical giant at all.
The momentum of the dragon.
As for talking about dragon knights, magicians, etc., it can be confirmed that they are all jokes compiled by bards, and there is no such thing in the real world...
Now that it is certain that magic does not exist in this world, Tang Mo can only accept the reality: there are no people in this world who know how to fly!
He could only train pilots by himself, which was a long process, a process that made people extremely anxious but not fast at all.
Tang Mo could only use the most primitive method to establish an aviation school on Longdao, and teach the young people who came to learn the basics of aviation from the most basic place.
Becoming a pilot is much more troublesome than becoming a car driver. The standards for entering flight schools are too stringent for most people in the world.
There is no way around this. They must be able to spin hundreds of times on the rolling ring device to ensure that they do not spit out, and then walk out in a straight line after spinning dozens of times in place.
In short, these game-like assessments are really not easy, and these assessments are only the most basic things.
Because the aircraft must be kept absolutely confidential for a long time, it is Tang Mo's secret weapon. Therefore, these pilots must also be loyal, so the identity investigation for the selection and assessment is also relatively strict.
Just having high loyalty and meeting physical standards is not enough, because as an early pilot, you must also have special abilities such as identifying the heading and handling aircraft mechanical failures.
In other words, they must be smart enough to learn modern cultural knowledge, be familiar with machinery and understand the principles of aircraft...
Among these people, Tang Mo still has to select the best, and finally find a group of top talents who have a special understanding of the aviation force, and train them to become the first batch of air dispatchers and commanders who are like fire.
Training such a group of professionals is definitely expensive. As operators of the most advanced weapons, their bodies are worth their weight in gold.
These people have to eat the best food and use the most advanced things every day to ensure a keen sense, maintain physical consumption, and ensure that they are in peak condition.
They need to be familiar with the high-altitude environment, often train in the clouds, and learn to skydive before getting on a real airplane.
Tang Mo couldn't afford to waste these precious pilots, and he had parachute skills, so he couldn't waste these precious talents.
Therefore, before the airplane was actually manufactured, Tang Mo had already started producing parachutes to equip his aviation school.
In the most mysterious central area of Long Island, above the teaching area of Datang Aviation Academy, several expensive hard-shell airships hover there every day.
This kind of useless and expensive airship is specially designed to train pilots to prepare for parachuting.
Although there is no way to completely simulate airplane parachuting in terms of speed, it can still allow these pilots to master an unreliable escape skill in advance.
It is too expensive to raise a pilot. These selected talents have not yet touched a real airplane, and each one of them cost Tang Mo hundreds of gold coins.
Do you know what this concept is? The concept is that the money spent on them, the money spent on each of them, is enough to save the original Datang Group.
A textile factory's monthly gross profit cannot afford to support a pilot! This is the current situation of the world, and this is the price Tang Mo must pay if he wants to produce pilots in advance!
When these pilots took off in a hot air balloon and began a day of pre-aviation experience training, in the experimental field next door, static test aircraft were parked in the hangar.
It is more accurate to say that this place is more like a lumber factory than an aircraft manufacturing factory - the factory is full of wood, and most of the early aircraft were made of wood.
Of course Tang Mo hoped to build an aircraft with a single wing and a metal skin from the beginning, but the reality was that his pilots should start training from early aircraft that were easier to use and safer. As a result, Tang Mo had to start from the old-fashioned aircraft.
When aircraft production begins, no shortcuts can be taken.
All designs of an airplane are complementary to each other and cannot be modified casually: because it is a wooden airplane, the engine horsepower cannot be too high, otherwise the fuselage structure will be easily damaged, so only small horsepower engines can be used.
And because the engine performance is average and the fuselage is made of wood, it is very heavy, so the speed of the aircraft basically slows down.
The aircraft produced by Tang Qiang was not German, but the famous British advanced aircraft "Camel".
In the late period of World War I, Britain continued to launch fighter jets with better performance. To be honest, the aviation technology of this era, including aero engines, was actually very top-notch.
This British-produced "Camel" fighter has good maneuverability and powerful firepower. In the last year or so of World War I, it shot down a total of 1,294 enemy aircraft, becoming the best fighter at the time.
The "Camel" aircraft was designed by the British company Sopwith. Its military name is Sopwith F.1 biplane. It has a maximum level flight speed of 195 kilometers per hour and a ceiling of 5,800 meters.
Two machine guns are installed side by side on the upper part of the aircraft engine, and a shooting coordinator is used. Because there is a raised bulge on each cover above the machine gun, which looks like two humps, it is named "Camel".
It just so happened that this water-cooled machine gun was basically a replica of the Maxim, and Tang Mo could easily install this mature equipment on this kind of aircraft.
The design work of this aircraft began in 1916, when the aircraft came to prominence in World War I. Fierce air battles required highly maneuverable fighters. Against this background, the "Camel" fighter flew for the first time on February 22, 1916, and quickly
It was put into production soon and entered the battle in July 1917.
The "Camel" is a single-seat fighter equipped with two machine guns and 45 kilograms of external bombs. The ace pilots Trollop and Ulright at the time relied on the aircraft's renowned agile hovering performance and powerful forward firepower.
, creating a record of shooting down 6 enemy planes in one day.
At that time, the British Air Force and Naval Aviation were equipped with this kind of aircraft, with a total of more than 3,000 aircraft. A total of 5,490 "Camel" aircraft were produced. In addition to the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Greece, and the United States all used this aircraft.
It has good controllability and very good overall performance, making it very suitable for Tang Mo to train his pilots.
