In order to cope with the great changes in the future, the first task now is to vigorously develop the aviation industry.
Although aviation cannot support the development of a modern industrial system, it can at least maintain a certain scale of material and personnel flow, which is better than staring at each other on floating islands.
Develop the aviation industry, including administrative coordination, allocation of property and manpower, and let Li Xiang be a teacher to stuff some private goods.
Previously, due to military needs, aircraft manufacturing plants had been established.
In order to avoid causing panic in the surrounding areas, the factory was named Blue Sky Heavy Industry and was placed in Nan Town. For this reason, a city wall was expanded in Nan Town to accommodate the new factory area.
The main source of workers for Blue Sky Heavy Industry is residents of Phoenix City. After all, it is only 20 kilometers away, so it is very convenient to go home during the holidays. There are also a small number of Xincheng and Redstone people.
It was not thrown into the pile in the new city, mainly because the population of the new city is really not enough. The new city has gradually absorbed some refugees, but the demand for population in all aspects has also been increasing. The four major enterprises of heavy industry, motorcycle factory, automobile factory, and manufacturing bureau It already accounts for half of the total population of the new city. If the number goes up further, there will be a shortage of people for administrative management and municipal work.
Phoenix City also has some industries, but most of them are light industries such as clothing, papermaking, and printing. Apart from the iron factory, the only heavy industries are the Shuangshi Machinery Factory and the like.
The talent reserve is relatively poor. Most of the people from Blue Sky Heavy Industry have to go to the four major factories in Xincheng for training, so production has not started yet.
The factory was not empty. After all, there were many non-technical positions. In addition, with the popularity of steam machinery, it was not like people in Phoenix had never operated machines.
Now the aircraft manufacturing factory needs to play a greater role. In less than a month, Blue Sky Heavy Industry has coordinated the recruitment of a thousand people, two hundred of whom are backbone technicians in each factory.
The backbone is not the backbone, and generally does not undertake the improvement of technical processes, but it also represents the production and processing capabilities of the factory. Of course, the coordinated manufacturers are reluctant, so they will provide subsidies or orders.
Next, the factory department conducted internal coordination and redeployed training personnel and production preparation forces.
At this stage, all the technical backbones were concentrated in the Xinchengxi area to facilitate the organization of classes.
Li Xiang doesn't have the ability to clone herself, so naturally she won't be asked to reteach the basic knowledge that has been devolved. These tasks are still done by personnel from the four major factories.
Not only the four major factories, but also government-owned enterprises, in addition to production and technology research and development tasks, they also need to compile a knowledge set of the industry, which is also to prepare for future technical colleges and higher education.
In fact, their current knowledge reserve in this industry is much stronger than that of Wang Qi and Li Xiang.
Li Xiang wants to solve a problem of thinking in this round of teaching.
Whether a small piece of land will become an island in the future or whether the world will split apart is an unknown event. Even if you continue to ask Solaris, whether she likes it or not will have to decide separately, so you must be prepared for self-rescue.
For air units, it is unrealistic to build a larger aircraft right from the start, not to mention whether the preparation period of unknown length is enough. Even if it is done in a hurry, what if the aerodynamic conditions change by then? Will the years of work of thousands of people be wasted?
So be realistic and make a single project smaller to meet the basic needs of people's access first, and then consider bigger and better ones if there is still time.
The primary support item is the radial engine, and the target does not need to be too high, with a single unit of 500 kilowatts.
...It still seems a bit outrageous. When the in-line six-cylinder of a heavy truck only has 180 kilowatts, light oil spark plugs are not done much. Talking about 500 kilowatts seems a bit bizarre, but as a flying unit, this is already very Low requirements.
Three to four 500-kilowatt radial engines can ensure that in addition to the pilot, the aircraft can also transport about thirty people.
However, this standard is based on a cruising range of more than 1,000 kilometers. The fuel load is reduced by shortening the voyage. The basis of 500 kilowatts x3 or x4 is enough to meet the transfer of platoon-level troops and accompanying equipment, including two cannons.
It’s not a problem that the numbers seem to be a little far behind the existing technical strength. The advantage of the radial engine lies in the weight-to-power ratio. It is also because of this that it became the engine of choice before the popularity of jets.
It can be regarded as an incremental version of the V-shaped cylinder. There are eight or twelve cylinders in a circle on the same cross-section. If the power is not enough, just add a few more circles in the direction of the central axis. You can keep adding until the power requirement is reached or heat dissipation is no longer possible.
The influence of magic is not considered in the radial engine development plan. It is a simple engine. Even if magic aircraft become more useful in the future, this technical reserve can be transferred to civilian use, especially agriculture and disaster prevention.
The second project is the upgrade of practical models, which is also the original mission of Blue Sky Heavy Industry.
This work is still a glider project based on magic to increase altitude, but it needs to be larger.
The lighter the glider, the larger the wing surface, and the higher the gliding height ratio. Making it bigger will lose a lot of height ratio. It is difficult for an aircraft of more than ten tons to achieve a gliding height ratio of more than 15, but as long as it can be maintained, it is convenient. Just the advantages of maintenance.
There's just one problem, Solaris mentioned that the nature of magic could also be changed.
In fact, the radial engine is the main development plan because of this situation. At least it ensures that when an unexpected situation occurs, a replacement model can be produced as soon as possible to restore basic personnel flow needs.
Similarly, in order to preserve the seeds of civilization in the most severe of all unknown situations, a further goal is needed - high-altitude aircraft.
In order to make better use of the airflow, the glider will not fly too high, and there is no need for air tightness. Adding a cover just prevents the pilot from being too uncomfortable by the blow.
High-altitude aircraft need to be completely airtight. With this project, some experience can be accumulated for building living cabins in ultra-thin air environments.
...Although I don’t know if there is any need to struggle when things have reached that point, but since everyone is still alive, we can’t just wait for the “Judgment Day” without doing anything.
It is not yet possible to carry out long-term indoor life experiments in a hypoxic environment, and it is difficult to meet the mental resource conditions.
But small-scale experiments can still be done.
Through the Social Investigation Agency, the prophecy of "the world's floating island" was directly spread among the people in the form of gossip, and the Magic Academy came forward to organize wild senior mages to conduct a certain scale of research.
I don’t know whether it can be used specifically. Anyway, this project serves as a technical reserve and can also be used for outer space exploration in the future.
It is difficult to establish the aviation system faster, but it can be cheated.
Li Xiang is still giving lessons to the trainers from the four major factories, and Blue Sky Heavy Industries has already produced a relatively reliable aircraft model.
The wind tunnel is the core facility of Blue Sky Heavy Industry and the first fixed facility to be constructed besides employee dormitories.
The principle of the wind tunnel is very simple. It uses the changes in various wind and air pressure conditions when the diameter of the pipe airflow is reduced or enlarged. Based on Xincheng Heavy Industry's experience in manufacturing steam turbines, there is no technical bottleneck in building subsonic wind tunnel fans. Observe Alumina glass can also be used for windows.
The aircraft models were also worked on before this round of personnel adjustments, mainly two models.
One is the improved Tornado II, which requires a model that is more suitable for combat and equipped with various weapon modules in the future. It is about the same size as the Tornado II.
The other is the demand for medium-sized aircraft derived from flying cannons. Although they are said to be medium-sized, their take-off weight is actually less than ten tons.
Based on this, when this personnel adjustment was made, the relevant wind tunnel experiments were almost completed.
Wang Qi sent a new requirement there through the Ministry of Industry, which is to slightly shrink the medium-sized aircraft and consider a version with an all-wood structure.
Then he will use the artifact seeds to mass-produce airplanes!
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