March 6, morning.
In the Brazilian sky, a biplane is hovering at 2500m.
Underground, Tangning put down the telescope and spoke to Fernandez in a complicated tone.
"Airplanes will change an era, but it will take some time."
The airplane is one of the most significant inventions in the early 20th century and is recognized as being invented by the Americans, the Wright brothers.
From 1900 to 1902, the Wright brothers conducted more than 1,000 gliding test flights, and finally built the first aircraft to fly manned under its own power, "Aviator 1", in 1903.
December 17, 1903, was the day when the Wright brothers officially flew the Flyer One. On this day, their flight was recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) as "the first controlled sustained powered flight by a heavier-than-air aircraft" and in the same year they founded the "Wright Aircraft Company".
Since the invention of the airplane, it has increasingly become an indispensable tool for modern civilization. It has profoundly changed the mode of war and affected people's lives, starting a revolution.
Fernandez echoed: "Your Majesty, the airplane is indeed a revolutionary thing. It allowed humans to fly into the sky for the first time."
"You don't understand, you don't understand what I mean?"
That's not what Tang Ning meant. Instead, he meant that airplanes have changed the mode of warfare and that their civilian use has changed people's travel.
Air supremacy is superior to all rights. Land power and sea power have all been subverted by aircraft.
If you lose air supremacy in a war, just wait for the defeat to end. If not, there are still missiles, and the oppressive power of aircraft is simply covering.
However, at present, the aircraft have not been upgraded, and there are very few aircraft used in the military before World War I.
The first military aircraft was born this year.
In 1909, the US military equipped its first military aircraft. In the same year, the two-seat Wright Model A aircraft was completed and used to train pilots. (The prototype of a trainer aircraft)
Although aircraft first took off in the United States, and the earliest reconnaissance aircraft was also born in the United States, military aircraft later developed rapidly in France, Germany, Britain and other countries, and far surpassed the United States.
The first time in history that military aircraft were used in combat in a war had to wait until Italy was defeated.
During the 1911-1912 Italian-Turkish War, Italy pioneered the use of aircraft to complete military missions, which greatly promoted the development of the aviation industry.
These historical records of Italy are good and bad!
During Italy's war with the Ottoman Turks in North Africa.
On October 23, 1911, the Italian Air Force used aircraft for reconnaissance for the first time in the history of human warfare. On October 25, 1911, the flight altitude was deliberately lowered without ascertaining the situation. There were no anti-aircraft weapons on the ground and only rifles could be used. The aircraft was damaged in many places. It also set a record for the first time an aircraft was killed by ground fire. On November 1, 1911, the Italian Air Force carried 4 grenades and threw them into the opponent's position, setting a record for the first air raid by aircraft. On January 10, 1912, the Italian Air Force dropped thousands of leaflets to persuade the enemy to surrender, setting a precedent for the first use of aircraft for public opinion propaganda and psychological collapse. On February 23, 1912, the Italian Air Force set a record for the first use of a camera to take photos, setting a precedent for aircraft photographic reconnaissance. In the early morning of June 11, 1912, with the help of a flashlight fixed on the flying cap, he dropped bombs on the enemy military camp. Setting the precedent for the first night bombing. On September 10, 1912, Italian Air Force pilot Ilianta had to make an emergency landing on the Turkish army position due to aircraft failure, thus creating a record for the first time in the history of war that a pilot was captured.
In 1909, the era in which Tangning lived, the development of aircraft was quite backward. Even a country in dire straits in East Asia developed an aircraft.
"God's Coming"
At this time, airplanes will still be out of reach of high technology for a long time for ordinary countries.
Aircraft at this time had great hidden dangers, and the invention of the dual-engine system had to wait until 1911.
In 1911, the Short Brothers in England applied for patents on multiple engine designs. Their dual-engine system allows every pilot to not have to worry about the aircraft descending due to engine shutdown.
The application of gyro technology had to wait until 1927.
From 1927 to mid-1932, the development of cockpit instruments and navigation equipment made progress, and gyro technology was applied to flight instruments. This rotating flywheel mounted on a gimbal can maintain orientation in space, and thus becomes the basis for various navigation instruments that guide pilots to fly in darkness, rain and snow.
The first flight simulator had to wait until 1930.
In 1930, American Edwin Link invented the first flight simulator and named it "Link Trainer" after himself.
For aircraft of this era, don’t expect to have artificial horizons, gyromagnetic compass indicators, geomagnetic induction compasses, etc.
However, the jet aircraft appeared not too late, only seven years later than the piston, and it was still one year away from invention.
On December 10, 1910, at the Paris Exhibition in France, a plane crashed during a performance. The designer is a Romanian named Henry Coanda. The engine he designed used a 50-horsepower engine to make the fan push the air backward, and at the same time added an afterburner to fully expand the gas in the tail nozzle to increase the reverse thrust. This was the earliest jet engine.
The aircraft of this era still had very backward pistons, and their technology was extremely backward.
Piston aircraft had to wait until the late 1930s to mature. At that time, the maximum speed of piston-driven propeller aircraft had reached 700 kilometers per hour in level flight, and it was close to the speed of sound when diving.
Before World War II, piston aircraft were the mainstream in the aircraft industry. Although jet aircraft appeared only a little later, they were mainly anti-passenger aircraft and had to wait until World War II for the final word.
However, Tang Ning knew the history of aircraft development, but he was not an aviation expert and knew nothing about aircraft manufacturing. He could only follow the footsteps of those developed countries.
Tang Ning was well aware of the importance of the aviation industry and directly intervened with military means. The reason for doing so was that private Brazil had no technical reserves at all.
It can be said that Brazil’s education did not have high-end education at all before 1920. It not only lagged behind Europe and the United States, but also lagged behind the major countries in East Asia.
In later generations, Brazil will be a major country in the aviation industry. Now that Brazil has started so early, in the future, the aviation industry will definitely surpass history.
"Can our Brazilian-made aircraft allow the pilots to use machine guns?"
Tangning asked Kevin, the aircraft designer beside her.
"Your Majesty, we can't do that at the moment. The performance of our Brazilian aircraft cannot support the use of machine guns.
At present, most of the aircraft in the world cannot use machine guns. The aircraft do not fly high, only one or two kilometers, and cannot use machine guns at all. "
"Is there a plane with two people? In this way, one person is flying the plane and the other is attacking with a weapon."
“Your Majesty, currently, single-person aircraft are mainly popular in countries around the world, and sometimes even two people are required to assist the flight.
However, according to the aviation news I know, France seems to have developed an aircraft that can be piloted by one person and then carry another person.
This kind of aircraft should be able to satisfy your Majesty's conjecture. "
Tang Ning knew that although the United States pioneered the aircraft, Europe was definitely ahead in technology.
"Which country has the most developed airplanes now?"
Tangning asked Kevin.
The obvious meaning of his question was to send people to buy patents and study.
"French aircraft are the most advanced, and British and Italian technology are also good."
Today’s airplanes are all competing for records, and every innovation can become big news. As a professional, Kevin still understands the development of airplanes.
"Kevin, arrange for people to study abroad in the UK, France, and Italy to learn aircraft technology."
Brazil's technology is too backward, and the local people cannot keep up with the times. We must send people to learn and keep up with the trend.
For a long time in the future, Tang Ning will send people to Europe every year to learn not only airplanes, but also various other basics.
Fortunately, in today's era, technology is not as exaggerated as in the 21st century, and Brazil still has time to make up for it.
If we get to the 21st century, if we want to make up lessons, we won’t be able to.
