Tang Mo actually believes in metaphysics recently. He is now a little frightened by titles such as principal and island owner. After all, these things are really unlucky to be honest.
However, he could only endure it. His direct descendants all came from the Tang Military Academy, so it seemed wrong not to call him principal.
There is no other way. They are all taking the path of direct relatives and cultivating talents, so they can only accept the title of principal honestly, right?
But coupled with the dragon lair, the building, etc., Tang Mo felt that he had been full of DEBUFF recently, and he was the kind of person who was looking for death...
He tried hard to change something, but in the end he found that nothing could be changed. He couldn't let all his subordinates call him master. He was not narcissistic enough.
But why not call the master? If I had to choose another majestic word, I would have called him the head of state... Well, I just thought about it casually, and felt that it was not as comfortable as the principal.
Really, nowadays, the word "head of state" is not a big deal in other worlds, but in the world Tang Mo is familiar with, if it is not used in connection with the country, it will be creepy.
On Long Island, Tang Mo once again engaged in busy technology research and development activities. Under his personal leadership, the engineers who had gathered here in advance were busy designing various models of gliders.
Aviation is not like the technologies on the ground and on the sea. Although these technologies are avant-garde and advanced, there are still some talent reserves.
For example, although car drivers only appeared after the birth of the automobile, there were definitely many horsemen and coachmen before them.
They have the feeling of driving a car, what they lack is just some proficiency. In this case, you can quickly get car drivers by simply training them and changing their habits.
Almost the same, although ships have not been around for a long time, there are still many sailors. Those old sailors who have been traveling on the sea all year round can continue to work on new ships as long as they get used to it a little.
But airplanes are different. Airplanes are definitely a new thing. There is no superman who has flown in the sky in advance.
What Tang Mo knew was that although there were dwarves, elves, orcs and even ugly half-human, half-monster creatures like demi-human goblins in this world, they did not have any super powers such as magic.
These species can only study physics and mathematics honestly, master technology, and rely on their own labor to work.
The kind of magician who could fly in the wind and shoot fireballs with just a wave of his hand in Tang Mo's memory in movies and TV shows didn't exist at all.
The legendary dragon was also completely extinct tens of thousands of years ago due to the rise of mammals. That ancient creature relied on laying eggs to reproduce, but when they went out to forage, these eggs became the easiest food for small mammals.
In the end, there were fewer and fewer monsters that were accustomed to living alone. They were hunted down by early human elves and other species, and their complete extinction became history.
Tang Mo also tried to find a real dragon, but in the end he only got some souvenirs such as claws and scales... Of course, there were also fossils, and there was a complete dragon skeleton in the collection room of his dragon lair.
Unfortunately, this thing has nothing to do with the dragons that Tang Mo is familiar with...even the dragons from the West. It is more like a Fengshen pterosaur. It has a huge wingspan for flying, but its body is relatively small. It does not have the aura of that magical dragon at all.
As for talking about dragon knights, magicians, etc., it can be confirmed that they are all jokes compiled by bards, and there is no such thing in the real world...
Now that it is certain that magic does not exist in this world, Tang Mo can only accept the reality: there are no people in this world who know how to fly!
He could only train pilots by himself, which was a long process, one that made people extremely anxious but not fast at all.
Tang Mo could only use the most primitive method to establish an aviation school on Longdao, and teach the young people who came to learn the basics of aviation from the most basic place.
Becoming a pilot is much more difficult than becoming a car driver. The standards for entering flight school are too harsh for most people in this world.
There is no way around this. They must be able to spin hundreds of times on the rolling ring device to ensure that they do not spit out, and then walk out in a straight line after spinning dozens of times in place.
In short, these game-like assessments are really not easy, and these assessments are only the most basic things.
Because the plane must be kept absolutely secret for a long time, Tang Mo's secret weapon. Therefore, these pilots must also be loyal, so the identity investigation for selection and assessment is relatively strict.
Just having high loyalty and meeting physical standards is not enough, because as an early pilot, you must also have special abilities such as identifying the heading and handling aircraft mechanical failures.
In other words, they must be smart enough to learn modern cultural knowledge, be familiar with machinery and understand the principles of aircraft...
Among these people, Tang Mo still has to select the best, and finally find a group of top talents who have a special understanding of the aviation force, and train them into the first batch of air dispatchers and commanders who are like fire.
Training such a group of professionals is definitely expensive. As controllers of the most advanced weapons, their bodies are worth their weight in gold.
These people have to eat the best food and use the most advanced things every day to ensure a keen sense, maintain physical consumption, and ensure that they are in peak condition.
They need to be familiar with the high-altitude environment, often train in the clouds, and learn to skydive before getting on a real plane.
Tang Mo couldn't afford to waste these precious pilots, and he had parachute skills, so he couldn't waste these precious talents.
Therefore, before the airplane was actually manufactured, Tang Mo had already started producing parachutes to equip his aviation school.
In the most mysterious central area of Dragon Island, above the teaching area of Datang Aviation Academy, several expensive hard-shell airships hover there every day.
This kind of useless and expensive airship is specially designed to train pilots to prepare for parachuting.
Although there is no way to completely simulate airplane parachuting in terms of speed, it can still more or less allow these pilots to master an unreliable escape skill in advance.
It was too expensive to raise a pilot. These selected talents had not yet touched a real airplane, and each one cost Tang Mo hundreds of gold coins.
Do you know what this concept is? The concept is that the money spent on them, the money spent on each of them, is enough to save the original Datang Group.
A textile factory's monthly gross profit cannot afford to support a pilot! This is the current situation of the world, and this is the price Tang Mo must pay if he wants to create a pilot in advance!
When these pilots took off in hot air balloons and began a day of pre-aviation experience training, in the experimental field next door, static test aircraft were parked in the hangar.
It is more accurate to say that it is more like a lumber factory than an aircraft manufacturing factory - the factory is full of wood, and most of the early aircraft were made of wood.
Of course Tang Mo hoped to build an aircraft with a single wing and a metal skin from the beginning, but the reality was that his pilots should start training on early aircraft that were easier to use and safer. As a result, Tang Mo had to start production from old-fashioned aircraft, and no shortcuts could be taken.
All the designs of an airplane are complementary to each other and cannot be modified casually: because it is a wooden airplane, the engine horsepower cannot be too high, otherwise the fuselage structure will be easily damaged, so only small horsepower engines can be used.
And because the engine performance is average and the fuselage is made of wood, it is very heavy, so the speed of the aircraft basically slows down.
The aircraft produced by Tang Qiao was not German, but the famous British advanced aircraft "Camel".
In the late period of World War I, the United Kingdom continued to launch fighter jets with better performance. To be honest, the aviation technology of this era, including aero engines, was actually very top-notch.
This British-produced Camel fighter has good maneuverability and powerful firepower. In the last year or so of World War I, he shot down a total of 1,294 enemy aircraft, becoming the best fighter at the time.
The "Camel" aircraft was designed by the British company Sopwith. Its military name is Sopwith F.1 biplane. It has a maximum level flight speed of 195 kilometers per hour and a ceiling of 5,800 meters.
Two machine guns are installed side by side on the upper part of the aircraft engine, and a shooting coordinator is used. Because there is a raised bulge on each cover above the machine gun, which looks like two humps, it was named "Camel".
It just so happened that this water-cooled machine gun was basically a replica of the Maxim. Tang Mo could easily install this mature equipment on this kind of aircraft.
The design work of the aircraft began in 1916, when the aircraft came to prominence in World War I. Fierce air battles required highly maneuverable fighters. Against this background, the "Camel" fighter flew for the first time on February 22, 1916, and was quickly put into production, and participated in combat in July 1917.
The "Camel" is a single-seat fighter equipped with 2 machine guns and 45 kilograms of external bombs. The ace pilots Tololop and Ullaite at that time achieved a record of shooting down 6 enemy planes in one day by virtue of their renowned aircraft's agile hovering performance and powerful forward firepower.
At that time, the British Air Force and Naval Aviation were equipped with this kind of aircraft, with a total number of more than 3,000. A total of 5,490 "Camel" aircraft were produced. In addition to the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Greece, and the United States have all used this aircraft.
It has good controllability and very good overall performance. It is very suitable for Tang Mo to train his pilots.
