Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 619

In fact, Roque did not focus on cars during this time. Since the Wright Brothers performed an air show in Paris last year, there has been an aviation craze in Europe. Governments have finally begun to face up to the new thing of airplanes, and the Wright Brothers have also benefited from it. Quite abundant.

Nyasaland's plane was more stable, had a longer range, flew higher and faster than the Wright brothers' plane, so it was time to compete with the Wright brothers.

Just a month ago, the "Daily Mail" started campaigning for someone to fly a plane across the English Channel, offering a £1000 prize to the first person to do the feat.

This is a lot of money. The current middle class in the UK earns just over [-] pounds a year, so many people are attracted by this reward and bring their own aircraft to the English Channel, ready to challenge this record.

However, the chances of other people winning this award are not great. The reason why the "Daily Mail" set up this award is actually to prepare for Nyasaland's plane to go abroad.

In mid-May, the flight team sent by the Nyasaran Aeronautical Research Institute arrived in Canai, France, and was preparing to fly over the English Channel from Canai.

The flight team used the "Strong Wind" aircraft tested by Nyasaland last year. At that time, the shooting coordinator had not been successfully developed, and a machine gun had to be installed on the aircraft and a shooter had to be added. Now this problem has been solved, but the Aviation Research Institute still uses it. Last year's models were challenged.

No way, the "Strong Wind" aircraft challenged to fly over the English Channel in order to win orders from European countries. The Aeronautical Research Institute will definitely not use all the ballast technology. Brother's "Aviator III" is better on the line.

The leader of the team is Stuart Coffey, who is originally of French origin, and this time he returned to France, which is considered a return to his hometown.

But France is not friendly to Stuart Coffey.

At this time, Canai already had several flight teams from all over the world preparing to fly across the English Channel, including Catherine Wright, sister of the Wright Brothers.

In fact, compared with the Wright Brothers, Catherine Wright's reputation is not inferior at all, and her female identity has brought more gimmicks to Catherine Wright. This time, Catherine Wright came to Europe to sell the "Aviator III" developed by the Wright Brothers. ", in order to create greater influence, Catherine Wright even hired a photography team, and many media from Europe and the United States also surrounded Catherine Wright all day long, even the British "Daily Mail" .

This made Stuart Coffey very dissatisfied.

"Don't force me to find Lord, when you are reporting, you should pay more or less attention to our own team!" Stuart Coffey found Eddie Johnston, a reporter from the "Daily Mail", and directly asked Eddie Dee Johnston expresses his displeasure.

"Mr. Stelter, you should know that readers don't want to know how mysterious the plane from far southern Africa is, and they prefer to see a lady flying the plane soaring into the blue sky, so we can't blame us for not paying attention to your team, but Readers like to see news related to Catherine Wright—or, you can also find a female driver, and I promise, there will be countless media interviews tomorrow.” Eddie Johnston can’t help it either, Many readers don't even care that southern Africa is in that corner of the world, and women like Catherine Wright are the darlings of the media.

"Whether it's possible to fly across the English Channel or not, we still need to rely on technology to speak, instead of posing in front of the camera—" Stuart Coffey was very angry, so he was a little unscrupulous.

Not far away, Catherine Wright was surrounded by a large group of reporters.

It can be seen that Catherine Wright has a lot of experience in dealing with the media, and she had a good chat with the reporters, and bursts of laughter came from time to time, which was in stark contrast to the desertedness of the Nyasaland flight team.

In fact, Nyasaland's flight team had just arrived at Canai, and the plane was still wrapped in skins, so it was only natural that they were ignored by the media.

"Wow, it seems that this gentleman is very confident about flying over the English Channel—" A frivolous voice with ridicule came from beside him, it was the pilot Hubbes Latham who was also preparing to fly over the English Channel.

"Of course I have great confidence in my team. Do you have any comments?" Stuart Coffey looked indifferent. Stuart Coffey has never been impatient with those who don't want to do it.

"Hahahaha, it's funny. I don't know where your confidence comes from. I even wonder how you are planning to fly across the English Channel. I heard that there are many Chinese in southern Africa. Don't you want to fly across the English Channel with a kite? Well—" Hubbes Latham laughed, as if he'd just heard the funniest joke ever.

"How much you laugh now, your face will hurt when you fall!" Stuart Coffey didn't talk nonsense, and raised his hand to call over two security guards from the umbrella company.

The flight team of the aviation laboratory came to France, and of course the umbrella company was responsible for the security work.

In Europe, the employees used by the umbrella company are all whites, many of whom are Cossacks from the Russian Empire. These Cossacks are strong and fearless of life and death. Although they are slightly less disciplined, they are quite reliable when they don’t drink. of.

In contrast to the Cossacks, the Germans are the most self-disciplined. Regardless of Africa, there are frequent conflicts between Southern Africa and Tanganyika, but in Europe, the umbrella company still employs many Germans.

The Germans don't mind working for the umbrella company either. Before the unification of the German Confederation, the Germans were the best mercenaries. Many wars broke out in Europe, and there were Germanic mercenaries.

The security team that the Umbrella Company provides for the flight team is divided between Germans and Cossacks. When on duty, Germans and Cossacks cooperate with each other, so as to cultivate the tacit understanding among the mercenaries to the greatest extent.

"Sir, can I help you?" The tall Cossack mercenary said in a low voice, his bald head full of tattoos was daunting.

"Please get this gentleman out of here, he is not welcome here!" Stewart Coffey was impatient. To give some face, so I don't care about passers-by like Hubers Latham at all.

"Bastard, you are so rude!" Hubers Latham blushed. As a sought-after pilot, Hubers Latham had never been treated like this before.

"Sir, please get out of here immediately." The Germanic mercenary in neat uniform was polite and did not give Hubers Latham a chance to get angry. His broad body blocked Hubers Latham and Stuart Coffey. In the meantime, his hand was pressed on the handle of the gun at his waist.

"This is a public place, and I have the right to be here—" Hubers Latham argued.

The Germanic mercenaries didn't talk nonsense, they exchanged glances with the cossack mercenaries who were staring at him beside them, and then they put Hubers Latham on each arm and left.

"Bastard——" Hubers Latham struggled hard, and then his head was clamped by the arms of the Cossack mercenaries.

God knows what Hubers Latham felt, anyway, Hubers Latham was silent at once.

Eddie Johnston was still not used to the overbearing Nyasaland people, so he was stunned by what he saw, and subconsciously raised his hand to call the photographer over.

"Stop it, I didn't ask you to report such a bad thing!" Stuart Coffey was furious, Eddie Johnston's behavior was so unprofessional.

There is no friendly feeling from a brother unit at all.

"Oh oh oh, sorry, Hubers Latham is a famous aviator—" Eddie Johnston kindly reminded, even if the "Daily Mail" did not report the death of Hubers Latham The rough treatment received will definitely be hyped by other media.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter, it won't happen tomorrow—" Stuart Coffey sneered. At Hubers Latham's level, he was at best a test pilot in Nyasaland, not even a pilot.

This time the flight team came to Canai with a total of three test pilots, all of whom have rich experience, and each of them has accumulated nearly [-] hours of flying experience.

Considering the performance of the aircraft during this period, all of these three test pilots are more qualified to be called "pilots" than Hubers Latham.

Of course, to fly over the English Channel, one pilot is enough. The reason why three people are brought here is to ensure that there is nothing wrong with it. Other teams preparing to fly over the English Channel have at most a dozen people, one pilot and one plane, Niassa The team of the Lan Aviation Research Institute has nearly a hundred people, and all of them have two planes and spare engines.

So there was a lot of movement on the Nyasaland Aeronautical Research Institute. When the staff was about to remove the skin on "Strong Wind", even Catherine Wright couldn't help being attracted.

The "Strong Wind" aircraft is still a biplane. Even Eddie Johnston sighed subconsciously when he saw the true appearance of the "Strong Wind" aircraft.

This time, the planes that tried to fly across the English Channel were all monoplanes, and they were indeed more beautiful than "Strong Wind" purely from the outside.

"Strong Wind is our most advanced aircraft in Nyasaland, with a range of more than [-] kilometers and a maximum flight speed of [-] kilometers per hour. Needless to say, it is enough to fly from Canai to Canterbury, and from Paris to London—" Stuart Coffey triumphantly introduced the specific performance of "Strong Wind", not caring whether Eddie Johnston was interested or not.

Standard straight male thinking.

(End of this chapter)