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Chapter 438 Our goal is the stars and the sea (second update, please subscribe)
The Star Airship Company is the largest... no, the only airship company in the world.

As the only company in the world that can manufacture large airships, this company has attracted the attention of many people since last year.

The reason why military officers from all over the world have noticed this company is, in the final analysis, because of the enormous power exhibited by the spacecraft, the seemingly unlimited potential, which no one can ignore.

"Our goal is the sea of ​​stars!"

On the huge billboard at the entrance of the company, several large airships are depicted. Of course, it is not a destroyed city, but a train and a ship.This is the future of the stars.

"Please show your documents!"

Although Sun Jinpeng is the chief engineer of the company, according to the usual practice, he still has to get out of the car for inspection. Even the carriage he was riding in can only be parked outside the factory. After passing the security check, he walks into the "buffer zone" with his briefcase .

After walking more than ten meters, he took the tram to the office area.Until now, Sun Jinpeng still remembers the astonishment of the French and British people when they took the tram.

They were all scared to pee!
While they were still basking in the great achievements of the steam engine, Nan Hua had entered a new era—a new era consisting of internal combustion engines and electrical equipment.

"I didn't expect it..."

Sun Jinpeng couldn't help sighing when he thought of the surprise when he saw the steam engine for the first time in Nanhua ten years ago.

Life is always so wonderful. Who would have thought that he, who was shocked by the greatness of the steam engine ten years ago, would one day become a spaceship engineer?

Although it is amazing, Sun Jinpeng is indeed an excellent engineer, from introducing a prismatic cross-sectional configuration to enhance the overall strength of the airship, to routing cables inside the airbag to disperse the weight of the airship.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the continuous efforts of Sun Jinpeng and his colleagues that Nanhua's spaceship took the lead. Of course, there is a reason for this lead - as early as 1863, under the leadership of Zhu Xianhai, the predecessor of the spaceship company, the spaceship In the laboratory, an artillery calibrating spaceship was designed to perform reconnaissance and calibrating missions.It uses extremely advanced fabric-reinforced rubber, which is actually similar to the raincoat cloth of later generations.

It was also from then on that after years of hard work, Nanhua finally produced the most advanced aircraft in the world and applied it in military affairs.As Buenos Aires burned from bombs dropped by airships, the world was captivated by him.

As the chief engineer, Sun Jinpeng also became famous because of this. At the beginning of the year, he was even awarded a medal by the French Emperor Napoleon III in recognition of his outstanding contribution to human science and technology.A month later, Queen Victoria of England also awarded him a medal.

Overnight, Sun Jinpeng became the most famous engineer in the world.

However, Sun Jinpeng is very clear that many of his ideas came from the commander's reminder, such as the introduction of a triangular hull.

"A chopstick is easy to break, so what about a chopstick?"

The seemingly simple suggestion allowed Sun Jinpeng to design a triangular hull, making it possible to manufacture large spaceships.

It was also from then on that the Nanhua airship shocked the whole world overnight.

"The future belongs to the sky and belongs to the airship!"

As the most famous spaceship engineer in the world, Sun Jinpeng did not stop in his footsteps. While trying to perfect the design of the large airship required by the military, he was still making new attempts.

Soon, after changing his clothes in the office, Sun Jinpeng came to the No. 3 airship garage. Inside the airship garage, there was a brand-new Type 3 spaceship.

The difference between this spaceship and the military spaceship is that there are chairs arranged in its cabin, and the chairs are made of bamboo as a support canvas chair body. This is exactly the project that Sun Jinpeng has been busy with recently—passenger airship.

Entering the cabin of the airship, Sun Jinpeng still said.

"Oh, it's still a little too heavy, and there are only 24 seats, so it's a little too small."

The No. 3 airship, which was originally a military airship, has a load capacity of only 2.8 tons. No matter how it is calculated, in the end, it can only accommodate 24 seats.

"Smallness is not a problem. After No. 4 airship enters service, at least 60-80 seats can be installed."

Jiang Hui pointed to the engine behind the cabin and said.

"The key speed is still not up. The tests we conducted in the wind tunnel laboratory proved that the strength of our airship can guarantee a flight speed of 120 kilometers, but what is our speed? It is only 30 kilometers, which is slower than a train. .”

The wind tunnel laboratory Jiang Hui mentioned was a wind tunnel specially built when designing the Type 3 spacecraft two years ago, but the size of the wind tunnel was very small, with a cross section of 50 cm x 50 cm, a length of 5 meters, and an air velocity of 100 km/h.

Last year, the company built a larger wind tunnel with a cross-section increased to 1 meter and an airflow speed of up to 160 kilometers. These two wind tunnels have carried out many related experiments and tests for the company to develop airships. There are even now several engineers working on special Engaged in research on aerodynamic experiments.

Although the experiment has achieved a lot of results, it is useless and useless.

"Oh, it's still faster than the train."

Sun Jinpeng said with a smile.

"Besides, flying in the air, whether it is going in a straight line, it must be faster."

"But it's still too slow. If it can exceed 100 kilometers, it will only take five days at most from Nanhua to London, and four days to China-Africa Company. That is, to Tangshan, immigration..."

Speaking of "immigration", when Jiang Hui stopped talking, immigrants would not be able to get on the ship anyway.

"We want to use spaceships to compete with steamships. What do we rely on? We definitely can't rely on transportation volume. Even if we build a spaceship that is several times larger than Type 4 airships, it will not be as good as a [-]-ton round. If you want to compete with them on a train, you must increase your speed! As long as the speed increases, the passenger spaceship can win the market!"

As an engineer, Jiang Hui is very clear about the weakness of spaceships compared with ships and trains.
"Chief engineer, when we go to England, we need to sail at sea for about 20 days. If the spaceship can be shortened to four or five days, those rich people will definitely not mind making spaceships."

"A seat like this..."

Sun Jinpeng patted the cloth chair and said.

"Sitting for four days is not very comfortable!"

Sitting on such a chair for four days is not only not a pleasure, but also an absolute torture.

"Right now, let's not think so far ahead and solve the immediate problem first. After all, the price of the airship is not cheap. We built it. The question is whether anyone will buy it..."

Just as he finished speaking, someone shouted loudly outside the cabin.

"Mr. Sun, Mr. Sun, the military, a representative of the military is here, and he wants to see you!"

Where is the representative of the military, it is clearly the commander of the floating force.

I saw Li Du coming over accompanied by the manager.Sun Jinpeng hastily greeted him.

"Mr. Li, why do you have time to come here today?"

Officer Li is the bread and butter of the airship company.There must be something wrong here at this time.

"Because we are preparing for war..."

Li Du looked at the passenger airship and said directly.

"All airships, including this airship, must be requisitioned! Those purchased by the British and French must also be requisitioned together."

"What war?"

Sun Jinpeng said with some surprise.

"Prepare for war, prepare for what war?"

(End of this chapter)