Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 967 Chapter 960 Six Feng Ru and the Airplane

Aircraft is a very broad concept, which can be divided into spacecraft, aircraft, rockets and missiles.No matter which one, it is an invention far beyond this era, breaking through people's imagination.

Because of the formal contact with the West, the distance between the eastern and western hemispheres is too far, which inspired Chu Yun to develop aviation technology, especially the most practical aircraft, which can greatly shorten the distance between different regions.Otherwise, Chu Yun couldn't imagine how long it would take him to go to Europe, or he didn't dare to bet his life on the long sea voyage.

This factory for researching aircraft is located in the outskirts and has just been established. It can be said that there is insufficient funds, a shortage of manpower, and no specific production goals.But there are future technologies beyond imagination.

There were only a dozen or so people in the factory, and when they saw Chu Yun personally bring someone over, they got up one after another.

One of them was wearing a suit and tie, and his short black hair was combed back to a glossy finish.He was even more excited when he saw Chu Yun's arrival.

"Feng Ru, have you adapted to life here?" Chu Yun was also very excited when he saw this group of people.

This group of people were technical talents at the time of the intersection of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and were summoned by Chu Yun through the system.In Chu Yun's eyes, these people are treasures.

Feng Ru, the father of Chinese aviation, studied mechanical manufacturing in a factory in New York, and later set up an aircraft factory in Oakland, east of San Francisco, with funding from overseas Chinese.In the second year after he established the aircraft factory, his factory was summoned to this world by Chu Yun and became Chu Yun's first aircraft factory.

Chu Yun wants to start the research on aircraft technology first, and after more than ten or twenty years of gestation, a practical long-range aircraft may be able to appear.In another three to 20 years, the performance of the aircraft will become reliable, and finally the safety of the aircraft will be guaranteed.

"After all, this is my hometown. Although it is a bit old, I quickly adapted to it. With the support of the government, the future development prospects of our aircraft factory are limitless. I can't wait to manufacture a batch of reliable aircraft! "Feng Ru came to this world inexplicably, and after the system cleared his nostalgia for the original world, he felt that there was more space for him to play here.

"When I learned that the Wright Brothers had invented the airplane, I wanted to manufacture a more reliable aircraft on a whim. Several overseas Chinese gave me great support, and I was able to set up a small company. Later, the first test flight failed, the factory building caught fire, and the factory All the materials and equipment were burned down, and I was in a difficult situation... I had to find a house with only 80 square feet as a factory building. In such an embarrassing situation, you, the military lord, summoned us and gave us a new factory building. Vitality." Feng Ru said.

"I didn't expect you to be in such a difficult situation at that time..." Chu Yun listened patiently to Feng Ru's story about his encounter with the plane, deeply feeling that it was not easy for them to be the first batch of people who studied the plane.

"If the military lord thinks that we can produce a real biplane when we arrive, it is a big mistake. In fact, we don't know if we can really produce an aircraft similar to the Wright brothers' 'Aviator One'." Feng Ru is full of uncertainties about the future, which is a common worry in his era. In the context of Western technology being several levels ahead, whether it is possible to imitate their technology or even surpass their technology.

"Don't worry, you just lack the accumulation of time and money support. We currently don't have a great demand for biplanes... It's great that biplanes can carry out aerial reconnaissance, but our strength is too strong, and we don't even need to carry out aerial reconnaissance. Reconnaissance..." Chu Yun asked Feng Ru and others to study slowly.

What Feng Ru considered was whether it was possible to imitate the airplane invented by the Wright Brothers and surpass it, while what Chu Yun wanted to consider was the practicability of the airplane.Whether it can be made or not is one thing, and whether it is practical or not is another.

The first biplanes weren't practical.

The Wright Brothers' "Aviator One" has a flight time of 59 seconds and a flight distance of 260 meters. It can be regarded as a powered "glider".The "Aviator III" manufactured two years later had some practical value with a flight time of 38 minutes and a flight distance of 38.6 kilometers.

This kind of practical value cannot be reflected in the transportation of people or goods, but in the military field for investigation and competition for "air supremacy."

However, Chu Yun did not have this need.In this era, there is no concept of air supremacy.The corps formed by his guns and artillery units can destroy any country in the world if they launch a strong attack at all costs, and the appearance of reconnaissance planes is just icing on the cake.Moreover, there is no airport, insufficient fuel, lack of pilots, and limited flight distances, etc., all seriously restrict the use of aircraft.Unless it was the all-metal cantilevered single-wing cloth propeller aircraft and jet airliners that appeared in the early stage of World War II, they really had practical value!It's just that when Boeing's Boeing 247 transport plane appeared, it has been 30 years since the Wright brothers invented the plane.

Chu Yun is now starting to invest a little in the aerospace field, mainly for the sake of future generations.He may not be able to enjoy the benefits brought by the plane until a long time later, but after 30 years, there must be a group of people in this land who will be able to enjoy such benefits.

"We will develop an aircraft that can fly tens of kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers as soon as possible!" Feng Ru thought that Chu Yun did not have enough confidence in their factory, so she couldn't help being a little anxious.

He knew that with Chu Yun's backing, his factory had a good chance of making a useful biplane.

"You misunderstood me. Flying in the blue sky has been the dream of human beings since ancient times. Wanhu in the Ming Dynasty was such a pioneer. Of course I want to be able to produce practical aircraft soon. It's just that many advanced technologies require technical accumulation And precipitation, it can’t be created in a hurry.” Chu Yun explained, “For example, the engine used in your aircraft needs the support of internal combustion engine technology. The proportion and structure of the wings need the principle of aerodynamics. The material of the aircraft It also involves the field of material science. In the future, the aircraft will not be a wooden structure, but an all-metal structure, which needs to use alloys and superalloys. An increasingly large number of basic sciences are like building blocks to build a building to form A great industrial product."

Feng Ru's eyes were full of eagerness when he heard Chu Yun describe the future of the aircraft.He was one of the first group of people who studied airplanes, but Chu Yun's vision penetrated the century-old history of airplanes, and he was able to see clearly the development trend of airplanes, which made Feng Ru listen to forget about it.

　There will be an update tomorrow morning

　　
　
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