Crown Prince of Fatal, Sibihaka visited the cabin of the wooden airplane that had just arrived in the imperial city, and the distance between his eyebrows shrunk to a very small distance.
"Is this it? You spent five million?"
The person working below lowered his head and reported: "Because we didn't queue up, the plane was transferred from other lords, so it cost more."
This aircraft uses an executive layout, and the interior surfaces are made of fine leather, lacquered wood, and carpets. The purchase price is 260,000 in Phoenix coins, which is about 300 Fartel banknotes based on the exchange rate of Obsidian Bank. 600,000. In fact, the Fatel people had their own means, so the takeover price was only 3.5 million.
The extra part is administrative loss, and there is no need for the crown prince to understand it in too detail.
Sibihaka looked around and knew in his heart the way to do things below, but there were some things that he couldn't say openly. He sat on the sofa in the conference area with a wrinkled face and asked, "Can you imitate it?"
"This... I don't dare to say it. The craftsmen and mages are on their way."
The Fourth Royal Legion of Fatel was almost completely wiped out in the Phoenix Kingdom, and suffered heavy losses from air raids at that time. Although they were orcs, their basic thinking ability was not defective, and they would naturally want to regain their position in the air.
However, after the issuance of the new currency, it encountered various disasters caused by the floating island. Fatal's financial situation did not improve much after the issuance of the banknotes, and the money that could be squeezed out to invest in the imitation aircraft was really unsightly.
To compare with the one we are sitting on, the cost of this aircraft is 5 million Fartels. The total amount allocated to replica aircraft in previous years can only be equivalent to less than 10 million.
This small amount of money covers the personnel expenses. It is not easy to get some materials in the process. There is no equipment and it is purely by hand. The results can be imagined.
After taking off from the floating island, the Sixth Emperor and the Crown Prince realized that they couldn't do it without a plane, so they began to seek procurement from the Phoenix Kingdom through diplomatic channels, but the Phoenix King was not willing to take soft and hard things.
In the environment of floating islands, Fatel has no conventional military means that can actually threaten the Phoenix Kingdom.
Unconventionally, using sixth- and seventh-ring characters to do some damage or even try to assassinate the Phoenix King may achieve some results, but after doing so, you will inevitably face a full-scale air raid retaliation from the Phoenix Kingdom. In the absence of air defense means, doing so Obviously the gain outweighs the loss.
The procurement matter has been delayed, and Crown Prince Sibihaka can only find ways to squeeze more money into the replica aircraft project.
The problem is that with the production system established by the Phoenix Kingdom, many things cannot be solved by money alone.
For example, the project team paid a high price to recruit two senior technicians from there, but because they did not have lathes, the role of these two technicians was not even as good as that of carpenters hired from the street.
Fortunately, because of Fatel's previous strategy of developing basic industries, even if the Phoenix Kingdom did not sell it, it could still find a steam lathe.
However, similar problems emerge one after another, and the imitation work is difficult and cannot be pushed forward.
So I later came up with the idea of smuggling aircraft parts, and ended up opening up the sale of aircraft across the road, so I got the one the Crown Prince sat on.
Just looking at it with the naked eye, this plane seems to be quite simple. It is just a big kite made of wood. I don’t know why it is so difficult.
After waiting for a while, the crown prince lost his patience and went back to favor his concubine.
The imitation team arrived later and communicated with the crown prince’s confidants who stayed at the scene.
"What? You want to tear it down? Do you know how much it will cost?" After just two sentences, the confidant couldn't hold it in anymore.
The leading mage confidently said: "If we don't take it apart, how will we know what its power is? You saw the ones we smashed earlier, but we didn't grasp the key."
The result of the imitation team over the past few years was to smash three crude prototypes. Even the postures of these three machines when they hit the ground were different. One of them was placed on the ground with its belly in the air.
The Crown Prince's confidant looked back at the luxurious decorations in the cabin and pinched Yahuazi: "You guys look at it first, I will go and ask His Highness."
The confidant went back to ask for a disassembly permit, and the imitation team started to do surveying and mapping.
It is impossible to say that you have no knowledge at all after tinkering for several years.
Although they have no specific concept, they have realized that the positional relationship between the center of gravity and the center of lift has a decisive impact on the flight posture. As for aerodynamics...it's still too far away for this team.
Under the current conditions, they can build a flying aircraft by themselves. They can barely make it with a little extra money, but it will definitely not meet the economic and practical requirements. Copying it one by one is the only feasible way.
Although Crown Prince Sibihaka is the leader of corrupt officials, the Fatal Empire is his own property after all. In his heart, he still wants the country to continue to develop. He delayed it for months and took a wooden man to "take care of" it in the middle. The two disobedient lords finally decided to agree to the dismantling.
The imitation team also knew that the opportunity was rare, and prepared a disassembly plan in advance, and used static suspension to measure the center of gravity before disassembly.
The center of gravity can be measured statically, but the aerodynamic lift center can only rely on calculation. There are no relevant mathematical tools, and there are no prototype drawings. There is no way to rely on someone who has become a monk on the spot. But it doesn't matter, as long as the shape of the wood can be completely reproduced, the lift will be There will be no problem.
And just measuring the center of gravity puts considerable pressure on the imitation team.
The interior structure of the wooden cabin of the executive layout is not asymmetrical. The main cabin furniture is concentrated on the right side of the fuselage. The measured center of gravity falls exactly on the center line. There may be a 0.2 cm offset, but we are not sure whether it is hanging. Deviations caused by the plan.
"Is this really an aircraft designed by humans?"
"I heard it grew from a sacred tree. They probably just added embellishments."
In the absence of mathematical tools related to structure, it is difficult to imagine how the finished product can reach its current state. It can only be understood as a mysterious phenomenon.
No matter how mysterious the wooden man is, it is not made of magic. It is a real object. You can just copy it.
After doing a lot of preparatory work, I started to dismantle the inside without damaging the outer structure as much as possible.
Reverse engineering isn't as easy as it sounds, and the team's original plan was to remove just the cabin's cargo bulkhead, which meant figuring out what was under the driver's seat.
After it was dismantled, I discovered that, not to mention the various mechanical structures and instruments below, there was also a beam running through the fuselage, and there was also a wiring area for steel strands in the structural beam, which was connected to the main wing rudder control surface. device.
To fully understand the status of the wing-body interface, a large hole had to be dug in the main deck.
After digging it out, I saw that the wing and the fuselage were two structures. Beams were added to the wing first and then fixed to the main body.
To achieve a perfect reversal, you must first unfasten several riveted fasteners from the side body part of the wing body fusion line. After the wing body is separated from a certain distance, you can then find and untie the blocked fastening bolts above the wing, and then you can remove the wing. Completely dismantled.
And the cargo compartment partition they first broke open was actually the center support structural wall of the fuselage!
In other words, this aircraft cannot be restored at this stage. Unless the cargo compartment partition has no support, it must be strengthened, which will inevitably bring structural and weight defects.
What a shame, if only there was the magic of perspective in storybooks.
In fact, there is "perspective magic" in the penal colony, but this perspective is not that perspective. It is a method similar to sound wave positioning detection. It can only measure the shape of the cavity to obtain the positional relationship of people, and cannot be used to detect metal in wood. Connector shape.
A major process error occurred during the disassembly process, so that the prototype could not be restored, causing significant frustration to the team.
But the work must go on.
When the outer structure of the core magic array was dismantled, a group of people's jaws dropped.
Inside the wooden man's energy storage structure is a gem array!
Over the years, strange-looking transparent sapphires have been leaking out of the Phoenix Kingdom, causing the price of transparent sapphires to drop severely. You can also guess that they will produce gems artificially.
But the specific price is unknown to the outside world.
Only when I saw the wooden man's energy storage device did I realize that this thing is probably sold by the kilogram...
Can it really be copied?
