On Long Island, at the top of a deliberately chosen cliff, a man wearing a leather jacket and goggles was carefully arranging his gloves.
His clothes are all specially made, using a zipper design that has not become popular at all today. This thing is quite sophisticated, not easy to produce, and naturally more expensive.
However, in order to ensure the safety of pilots, this expensive latest design is naturally placed on the pilot's standard leather jacket.
There is no way, this is pilot, a kind of extremely precious living gold, the most expensive combat arms in history!
The pilot was very young. He wore goggles on his head, which he could take off at any time to protect his eyes. His plane actually had a cockpit, and it was a fairly closed cockpit.
It's a pity that this is not a complete aircraft with independent power, it is a glider used to train pilots!
This glider is almost entirely made of wood and canvas, and is covered with steel wires used to control the flaps and strengthen the structure. These lines make the entire aircraft look a bit complicated, and also make the glider look more steamy.
punk.
To be honest, the aircraft of the World War I era are not very beautiful. The design of aircraft in this era is all about making them fly as much as possible. Whether they look good or not is not important at all.
As for why many people like this backward steampunk style, it is caused by some film and television works and popular culture returning to ancient times, and has nothing to do with the thing itself.
Please believe that if you let an Air Force pilot in 1914 see the J-8 fighter jet, he would definitely not think that the wooden aircraft in his hand looked better.
By the same token, if you had used a syringe to spray black ink on white paper in 1914 and said it was art, you would most likely have had your front lobe removed.
"I'm very nervous now!" The pilot said as he looked at the substitute student standing outside the plane before the staff helped fasten the transparent windshield.
"Me too! Each of us should be nervous!" The classmate stood there disapprovingly, slightly frustrated that he had lost the experimental opportunity for the first human flight.
On the other side, the engineer who built the glider kept telling the pilot sitting in the cockpit nervously: "Pay attention to your position! Understand every technical movement! Control the flaps and don't move around.
!do you understand!"
"I understand! But it's 60 meters high here! I don't think this thing can really fly." The pilot inside seemed even more nervous.
He even went to the toilet several times just now, because he needed to ensure that he would not do anything embarrassing on the glider because he was in urgent need of urination.
Of course, requiring him to go to the toilet also has reasons to reduce weight, which may affect the accuracy and success rate of the flight experiment.
"I heard that the experiment was completed." The substitute pilot, who was standing there with his hands behind his back, smiled a little and seemed to comfort him.
"Don't be kidding, I'm not the first?" Hearing the words "After the experiment," the pilots on the test flight were shocked and immediately became uneasy.
He worked hard and finally achieved a first-place result. Wasn't it just to become the first person in human history to truly fly?
Those aircraft such as hot air balloons or airships are not considered flying at all in front of airplanes! They just rise! They are not worthy of being called flying!
"You are indeed the first." The substitute pilot admitted with a sour tone.
"Then you said it has been tested?" The pilot sitting in the cockpit stared at him and let the technician on the other side help him fix the seat belt on the seat.
This thing is very tight, and once it is fixed, it restricts most of his movements in the seat. However, I heard that this thing can effectively ensure the safety of the pilot... When the plane crashes and everyone is killed, it will most likely leave a hole for the pilot.
Whole corpse.
"Last time, there was no one in this plane, so it was pushed down from here empty." The substitute pilot standing next to the plane said the news he had just heard from the staff.
"Flying?" Sure enough, the pilot on the test flight became interested.
"No, it fell straight down." The substitute pilot grinned.
"..." The first test pilot's expression was very wonderful, and he didn't even hold back a curse word for a long time.
The officer on the side glanced at the substitute pilot with an unkind expression. The substitute also knew that he should avoid making such jokes at this time.
So, he quickly added: "You're just kidding, the experimental glider flew up, and it flew very far, just like the paper airplane you made in the experimental course, it flew very well."
"Then I'll be relieved." When the first test pilot heard what the other party said, he immediately felt relieved.
The substitute test pilot couldn't help but laugh evilly again: "I haven't finished yet. Before that glider took off, many gliders fell down. I can't remember how many. Maybe ten, maybe
Eight, who knows."
"Have I ever said you're a fool?" The test pilot finally broke through.
"No." The substitute test pilot couldn't help laughing: "Hahahaha."
"Okay, let me tell you now, you are a fucking idiot! A big idiot!" Before the staff helped cover the cockpit, the first test pilot cursed angrily and loudly with all his strength.
The clerk in charge of recording next to him looked at the on-site commander standing there, and the commander also looked at the paperwork.
After seeing the officer's sharp eyes full of warning, the clerk lowered his head in understanding, picked up a pen and wrote messily in the wind: "The substitute test pilot enthusiastically encouraged the first test pilot and said to him: 'You must
Be successful! Classmates! This is the great cause of our Datang Group!'"
"Then, the first test pilot moved and replied: 'For the Datang Group and for the dream of mankind flying into the sky, I will do my best to complete this experiment!'" After he finished writing, he felt that something was missing, but
I couldn't remember it for a moment.
"Long live the Datang Group!" The officer standing aside had actually been reading what the clerk had written. At this time, he suddenly added on the side: "He shouted long live the Datang Group and flew into the sky!
"
The clerk who recorded the entire experimental process suddenly realized after hearing this, and added this sentence as a matter of course without conscience.
Just when he was tampering with history with great wit, the experimental team over there had already pushed the glider to the cliff along the slide rail.
"Backward means pull up, backward means pull up..." In the slightly bumpy cockpit of the aircraft, the test pilot muttered something. In front of him, the blue sky seemed to be getting closer and closer to him.
Suddenly, he felt the joystick in his hand become slightly heavier, and then he saw the horizon in the distance through the windshield.
Immediately afterwards... he saw the earth and Lin Hai... Yes, after seeing the magical scene, he was momentarily dazed and finally realized that his plane seemed to be crashing into the earth.
"Back is pulling up, backward is pulling up..." He repeated this sentence desperately, and then pulled the joystick in his hand with all his strength.
The next second, the glider responded to his operation - soon, the horizon appeared in his field of vision again, and then he saw his nose pointing towards the blue sky and white clouds.
His body felt overload pressure, but he was used to it and didn't feel too uncomfortable.
For a person who has somehow become accustomed to vomiting, turning and rolling in circles, the slight floating feeling at this moment is really a wonderful and beautiful experience.
He finally understood that the hardships he had suffered before and the sins he had suffered before were all the price he had to pay for this moment.
This feeling was so good that he couldn't help but cheer loudly - even though no one would hear him shouting here, he just wanted to open his mouth and shout loudly to vent his excitement at the moment.
Emotions.
Almost instinctively, he pointed the nose of his plane towards the sky, then climbed into the wind to allow his plane to regain altitude.
He looked at the instrument in front of him with his peripheral vision and found that his height was now over 200 meters.
Not sure if he was crazy or for some other reason, he staggered his feet in the next second and jerked the joystick to the right.
The glider, which was still riding the wind, immediately responded to his movements and began to roll to one side.
As the height dropped, due to the air tightness, there was a strange whistling sound coming from the wind in the cockpit.
After the aircraft rolled for a circle, the flight height of the entire aircraft dropped by more than fifty meters, but it completed a roll perfectly!
On the ground, the staff were stunned by the flight actions of the test pilot who suddenly went crazy. They had not arranged such a complicated flight experiment.
Logically speaking, the pilot only needs to complete a level flight, then turn, and finally land at the designated location in the plan.
However, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the pilot actually rolled so hard that the glider almost fell apart.
"If he doesn't fall to death, give him a good beating!" Staring at the glider that continued to fly away after leveling, the on-site commander of the security forces ordered the adjutant beside him: "This little bastard is so lawless!"
"Yes!" the adjutant grinned.
"Say hello to your butt! Don't beat him up." Thinking of the cost of pilot training, the officer warned him painfully.
"Yes!" The adjutant smiled even brighter.
"It's worth a beating..." The substitute test pilot, who was full of envy, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and muttered resentfully: "I also want to go up and fly like this... It's worth two beatings! No! Three
