Bright Sword starts with the grenade flat.

Chapter 122 The idea of ​​changing the bomber

The reason why it is said that the aircraft must be controlled within a certain speed range is because the aircraft has a stall speed, that is, when the lift provided by the aircraft's wings is not enough to offset the aircraft's own gravity, then this speed is the stall speed.

So if Liu Xiu reduces the speed of the plane to less than the stall speed before landing, then it goes without saying that the plane will inevitably fall directly to the ground.

And if you land too fast, the runway will be too short and the plane will not be able to brake. Then it will overshoot the runway and cause the plane to crash and kill people.

But after all, this was Liu Xiu's first time landing a plane, not to mention that the runway, which was regarded as a road, was long enough, so Liu Xiu did not slow down too much and landed.

The lowering of the flaps immediately caused the aircraft's speed to drop a lot, but the landing process was a little imperfect, so the road at this time was just a slightly flatter dirt road.

It's incomparable to the asphalt and concrete roads that were conquered decades later. This small hole caused the wooden landing gear supporting the wheel of Liu Qin's wooden airplane to break.

This also reflects the weak strength of the wooden fuselage from another aspect. If the landing gear of the aircraft was made of iron, such a thing might not happen.

But no matter what, the road at the entrance of the arsenal still needs to be repaired and repaired if it is to be used as a runway for airplanes!

However, what Liu Xiu received after climbing out of the plane was not scolding, but applause.

Liu Xiu looked at the people from the arsenal who gathered around him, as well as his father and the director of the arsenal, and said with some embarrassment:

"Sorry, I didn't control the speed and the plane was damaged!"

After Liu Xiu's father heard Liu Xiu's words, he waved his hands and said:

"It's already your first time flying a wooden airplane like this that I made and it has been able to fly for so long. It's already amazing. Besides, if the wooden fuselage is broken, it's broken! It's easy to repair too!"

At this time, the director of the arsenal on the side said with some regret:

"It's a pity. This plane has gone up to the sky. Even with this speed and this fuselage, it is probably impossible to compete with the kid's plane in the sky. The gap is too big!"

Liu Qin on the side also sighed after hearing the factory director's words:

"There is nothing we can do about it. The industrial foundation of our Eighth Route Army is really too weak. Not only are we short of machine tools and other processing machinery, we are also short of raw materials! Let's use this wooden aircraft as a training aircraft first!"

But regarding Liu Qin and the factory director's words, Liu Xiu said somewhat differently:

"Although limited by industrial capacity, our wooden planes are no match for the Japs' metal planes, but wooden planes also have the same uses as wooden planes! We don't have to engage in air combat with the Japs' planes. I think in the future This aircraft is powered by a few explosives, and if it is equipped with a light machine gun, it can still pose a certain threat to the little devils on the ground!"

Liu Xiu's words immediately made Liu Qin and the director of the arsenal shine.

yes! You can't hit the Japs on the plane, but you can still hit the Japs on the ground!

At this time, Liu Xiu could imagine the expressions of the little Japs when they saw the Eighth Route Army calling for planes to come over to support the bombing while fighting with the Eighth Route Army.

So when Liu Xiu helped Liu Qin carry the plane with the damaged landing gear back to the aircraft manufacturing plant of the arsenal to repair the landing gear, the director of the arsenal here sent a telegram to report that Liu Qin had taken out the plane. Go up.

At first, they still couldn't believe that the arsenal here produced an airplane. After all, they couldn't imagine how the arsenal here could produce an airplane!

After all, let alone airplanes, the arsenal can't even manufacture engines. The factory director could only explain this in detail, especially after he told the story about using a motorcycle engine as an aircraft engine, the other side believed it a little bit.

There is no way that it would be solved if we just put it on a video call, but of course we don't have this condition now. However, there is another important factor that restricts the production of aircraft on the Eighth Route.

Yes, this output is naturally the engine of the aircraft. After all, no matter how many three-wheeled motorcycles of the little devils were seized on the Eighth Route, they would only be in the hundreds.

If all the more than 10,000 three-wheelers produced by the little devils were really seized, then the little devils would probably have surrendered.

After Liu Xiu brought the wooden plane with the missing landing gear into the factory, Liu Xiu looked at the plane carefully, while thinking about where to equip the machine guns and explosives.

As for Liu Qin, he was using carpenter tools to re-make the landing gear of the aircraft!

And it seemed that Liu Qin planned to use thicker wood to make the landing gear to prevent the landing gear from being broken by the bumps when the plane landed.

Liu Xiu didn't bother Liu Qin's work, but he admired him. This cheap dad was not only excellent in theory but also in practical skills. He could actually rub a wooden airplane by hand, although the engine of this airplane was not made by hand.

But even this is very remarkable for Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu looked at the enlarged version of the Cricket aircraft, especially the nose of the aircraft without propellers, and immediately thought that he could drill a hole in the nose of the aircraft and insert a Japs imitation Czech-style light machine gun.

That is, the Little Devil's Type 42 light machine gun, commonly known as the crutch. Of course, it would be better if a high-rate machine gun like the MG could be used as an airborne machine gun.

It's a pity that this gun is not imported from Germany!

Therefore, we can only make do with the little Japanese's Type 96 light machine gun.

Of course, the important reason why Liu Xiu hopes to use the MG42 as an airborne machine gun is that this light machine gun uses a bullet chain instead of a magazine. Liu Xiu has a headache when he thinks that the aircraft can only fire thirty rounds of ammunition when it dives and strafes, and he has to change the magazine. .

However, with the current conditions of the Eighth Route Army, it would be great to be able to build an aircraft similar to that of World War I. If you want other aircraft, it is really a bit of a luxury. After all, it is better than nothing!

As for the placement of the bombs on the plane, it was already in the back row of the plane. Yes, when Liu Qin was designing it, the plane was actually a two-seat plane with a front and rear layout.

It seems that when Liu Qin was building this aircraft, he had already thought that this aircraft should be used as a training aircraft, so he built a two-seater front and rear.

Therefore, it is easy to install the bomb. Just remove the rear seat and then make a hole at the bottom. You can refer to the grenade, stuff the grenade into the explosive bag, and then tie the fuse of the grenade. On an airplane, just open the bottom door of the airplane and pull the fuse of the grenade when it blows up and falls.

Of course, this is just a simple version. You can also consider carrying mortar shells. After all, mortar shells explode when they hit the ground.

Or it would be okay to specially manufacture high-power aerial bombs, but I just don’t know how much aerial bombs this aircraft can carry. After all, the more powerful the aerial bombs, the heavier they will naturally be. But based on the weight of a person, it can carry five or six. It shouldn't be a problem for a ten kilogram bomb to take off.

(End of this chapter)