The snow fell, and the road was covered with mud. When the car passed by, the mud sputtered high. For this newly developed industrial area, there seemed to be no asphalt road with good conditions. At least it looked like this on the surface, but if you look carefully, you will still find a good asphalt road under the snow and mud.

Three connections and one leveling is the first preliminary project completed in the development of the affiliated areas of Longhai Railway. It uses roads to pull out the urban framework. This is the most successful case in the development of Lianyungang. In the subsequent railway land development process, this model was followed, and the second-class stations in the hinterland of the inland are also like

Driving his 1913 Ford, Lin Junxiang looked out of the car from time to time, looking at the wind and snow outside the car window and the factory building constructed in the snow, he would occasionally get out of his mind. He clearly remembered that when he came here, it was just a blank place. Originally, he felt a little disappointed with the small town he came to, because it was far away from Lianyungang, and it was not even the main line of the Longhai Railway. This railway is the "coal-iron special line" of the Longhai Railway. The iron mines of Huoqiu, the coal mines in Huaibei and Huainan were transported to Lianyungang through this railway.

Anhui's coal and iron are smelted into steel in Lianyungang, made into mechanical equipment, and then counter-sold to the railway line to meet the mechanical needs of the industrial belt along the line. Just like the "Hongtu Company" that started construction in May last year, literally, the company on the railway land in Fuyang County Station seems nothing special, but in fact, this is China's second aircraft manufacturing company. In fact, the construction of this aircraft manufacturing plant is to some extent related to the "Jiaoao Incident". It is precisely because of the "Jiaoao Incident" that the company formulated an industrial transfer plan. According to that plan, a large comprehensive factory designed by American technicians was broken down into dozens of sub-factories and scattered all over the line.

Although he was just an engineer, Lin Junxiang could clearly realize that although that large comprehensive factory has certain advantages in production, dozens of large comprehensive consortiums for the Longhai Railway, which are thousands of kilometers, obviously cannot drive the development of the entire line. However, this distributed supporting factories along the line have largely driven the development of the entire Longhai line, and also played a demonstration role.

The car was running on the open Highway No. 5. After more than ten minutes, Lin Junxiang drove the car into Hongtu Company, which is located on the edge of the industrial zone. For the outside world, Hongtu Company is not the largest enterprise in this subsidiary land. However, in fact, this aircraft manufacturing company with more than 1,600 mechanical equipment and more than 4,000 workers is the largest enterprise in Fuyang, and the company's scale is further expanded.

Outside the company area, barbed wire mesh stretching for several kilometers separates the factory area. Armed guards holding police dogs patrolling back and forth between the two barbed wire mesh grids. Since the Army Air Force launched an air strike on the Japanese fleet and achieved success, spies from various countries have been salivating about China's aircraft technology. For this reason, like the Chinese Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Lianyungang, the Ministry of Security is responsible for its internal security, and the security force is an elite force selected by the Road Police Corps.

"Please show your ID!"

At the entrance of the company gate, the gun guard stopped Lin Junxiang's car. When Lin Junxiang showed his ID, he could clearly see that the two guards behind him holding submachine guns were holding the trigger with their fingers. They would shoot at the guards to check at any time. When checking his ID, the other two armed guards extended the wheel push frame to the bottom of the car with the wheel push frame, which had a mirror to prevent anyone from hiding under the vehicle.

The inspection process seemed a bit complicated, but Lin Junxiang could understand that the most important reason why he chose the plane after returning from China after studying machinery in the United States and even started from scratch was that in his opinion, the plane means the future. Whoever can control the sky will undoubtedly master the future. The "Jiaoao Incident" even verified his speculation, so it is not difficult to understand naturally strengthening confidentiality.

After repeated inspections, after driving into the company's parking lot, he walked to the factory area. As soon as he walked into the flat-top assembly factory with a huge span, he smelled the warm smell of engine oil, rosin, and banana water, and heard the buzzing sound of the lathe, the buzzing sound of the milling machine and the unique "pump, pop" sound of the rivet gun.

This familiar voice made Lin Junxiang excited, as if every pore was permeated with vitality. In the factory half a football field, thirty single-type combat attack bodies were placed one after another. This was the assembly workshop. The aircraft being assembled here were part of the first batch of aircraft manufactured by Hongtu Company, the Army Aviation Force ordered the sixty single-type combat attack aircraft.

However, today, Lin Junxiang, the company's chief engineer, was not here to supervise the assembly of these aircraft. He walked along the assembly workshop to the end. He could see the carriage rotating in mid-air with a huge aircraft frame. On the ground, a group of workers were setting up frames on the beams with bolts and rivets. The body of an aircraft has been initially completed. Inside the aircraft, the workers arranged wires, control cables, mechanical transmission systems and power systems in the middle.

At the same time, radio stations and countless instruments are installed in the cockpit.

Most of the installed ** are dragged to another larger assembly plant, connected to the horizontal tail and the motor, and then installed the engine and three landing gears. The metallurgator riveted the shiny aluminum skin on the trusses, and the installation fitter assembled the parts one by one, and the inspector kept checking the installation quality. They worked silently, sometimes occasionally discussing it by chance, or called the foreman and technician, and then carried out the next work after the drawings were checked.

“Coramic skin!”

Looking at the extremely special rippled skin on the body, Lin Junxiang showed a smile on his face.

China is not only at the world's leading level in aviation technology, but also constantly trying new materials and new principles. While countries are still using linen as aircraft skin, aircraft skin made in China has used thin aluminum plates to replace traditional fabrics. Corrugated skin is a new type of slop developed for large aircraft, a thin aluminum plate with corrugated cross-section to replace ordinary aluminum alloy flat plates, aiming to further increase its strength.

Wind tunnel tests have shown that when countless fine grooves on the corrugated skin are laid in the direction of flight, the relative flight resistance is minimal while greatly increasing the strength of the fuselage surface. When the groove direction is perpendicular to the flight direction, although the wing skin can effectively suppress the deformation of the wing along the wingspan caused by lift, the resulting flight resistance may be unacceptable. Therefore, whether used on the fuselage or on the wing, almost always adopts the method of laying along the airflow. Corrugated skin is actually a bit like the corrugated plates we use to lay the roof. It has strong resistance to deformation in some directions and has a good specific strength.

The aircraft that appeared in front of Lin Junxiang at this time was not only a plane with corrugated skin, but also the world's first "transporter". This transport aircraft was different from the transporter developed on the basis of a one-type land attack. This is a real transport aircraft.

The aircraft uses three 525-horsepower star air-cooled engines, which can carry 15 passengers per flight. In the future, this transport aircraft will open up a new era of "air transport" time. It only takes a few decimal points from Fuyang to Lianyungang, and only takes a few hours from Lianyungang to Beijing.

But now, the aircraft has not been assembled yet. After the aircraft is assembled, a tow truck dragged it out of the assembly plant, refueling truck, test truck and various other vehicles around it. After the engine test drive is completed, the tow truck drags the aircraft onto the taxiway, and the test flight field is outside the assembly workshop.

Finally, the company's test pilot will first check the new aircraft inside and out, and then drill into the fuselage. The new aircraft drives back and forth several times on the taxiway, try the instruments and control systems, then slide onto the main runway, and the test pilot recharges the throttle, pulls up the flap, and the huge "air fortress" takes off. After the plane lands, the test pilot has to fill in various forms one foot thick. By the evening, the company's technicians nervously conduct various debugging, disassembly, install, and replace parts on the new aircraft.

After that, the aircraft will be delivered to the Army Air Force for use, and there may be Pan Asia Airlines. It is said that there will be a company, at least there are rumors that this kind of passenger aircraft is developed for airlines, not airlines. Whether it is true or not, Lin Junxiang is not sure whether it is true or not. He only knows that the manufacturing process of this type of aircraft must be strictly followed in the drawings. For him, the manufacturing process of this type of aircraft is more like a learning. In fact, even his chief engineer, what he has to do now is mainly learning.

"Have you heard of it?"

At this time, a man walked behind him was Zhao Yichen. He would leave the company tomorrow and enter the Institute of Air Fluid Dynamics of Dehua University in Lianyungang, which would become an academic center for guiding China's aviation technology development. In addition to the two companies sending people to study, Dehua University has even drawn hundreds of students. Now aviation has initially developed into a complete systematic project in China.

"Hmm? What did you hear?"

"The one-type transport aircraft we produce has been selected by the strategic authorities!"

Zhao Yichen's tone seemed a bit mysterious.

“What was selected?”

Lin Junxiang couldn't help but be stunned. Unlike Zhao Yichen, he rarely reads newspapers and rarely pays attention to "good news".

"Isn't the by-election of the MPs now? The strategy makes it very likely to take the plane we made to go to the country to give a speech and to win votes for the MPs of the National Socialist Party!"

What, take a plane to win votes?

"That's right, it's just taking our plane to get votes. I guessed that the action of the Strategic Power this time is quite meaningful. On the one hand, what is more shocking than taking the plane? On the other hand, all of China will see the convenience of air transportation. Think about it, the Strategic Power was still in Bengbu in the morning, and arrived in Nanjing at noon, and then in Hangzhou in the evening. It is estimated that after the election, our one-type transport aircraft can sell at least a few hundred or even more, not even the army!"

Although he is a technician, Zhao Yichen never regards himself as a simple technician. He values ​​the market more. In his opinion, it is difficult for the army to support the real aviation industry. If the aviation industry wants to seek real development, it ultimately needs to rely on the private market. From the strategic opportunity to choose to use aircraft as a means of transportation to build momentum for the campaign, he keenly sees that maybe this will bring a huge market, as long as people can realize the convenience of air transportation.

"The plane is not safe!"

In the office of the Lianyungang Strategic Inspector, Zhang Yilin, Zhang Binglin and others continued to persuade Li Zicheng to give up the idea of ​​taking a plane to assist in the election. In fact, they have never supported this decision since Li Zicheng made. In their opinion, once the plane goes to the sky, it is equivalent to handing over his life to God. If something goes wrong, everything will be done.

"The Strategic Commander: Although the plane is fast, we still have to be more stable. If there is any accident, then..."

Zhang Binglin was not worried when he spoke.

"If the plane is unsafe, how can the pilots fly into the sky?"

Li Zicheng asked with a smile that the safety of aircraft in this era cannot be compared with later generations, but similarly, it is easy to make a landing in this era. Just find a slightly flat place to make a landing. In comparison, the safety factor is even higher than that of large aircraft in later generations.

"It is convenient to take the train, but only those few provinces are available for trains, which means that only a few provinces can be used to assist in the election!"

"But there are only a few airports across the country!"

"I have consulted the air force. The aircraft has little requirements for take-off and landing. As long as there is a standard 400-meter playground, it can land. And the air force said that at that time, two more aircraft can be sent and a leading aircraft can land first. After they land, they will guide the landing!"

Faced with the opposition of everyone, Li Zicheng still insisted on his decision. He had his own opinion on the reason for making such a decision.

"Now our National Socialist Party is just established. Although more than 5,000 party members have been issued, most of the party members are concentrated in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan. In terms of their influence and popularity, we are not as good as the Progressive Party and the European Affairs Research Association. In some provinces, we are also not as good as the local small party. It can be said that if we want to win, besides the appropriate campaign policies, we can only win by surprise!"

After a brief speech, Li Zicheng slowly explained the reason why he insisted on traveling on the plane.

"A surprise victory is to play campaign movies in public places across the country!"

The campaign movie is a "sponsored advertisement" created by Li Zicheng based on campaign advertisements stored on the computer. However, it is only a three-minute black and white movie advertisement, which is enough to shock everyone, but this is not enough, and it is far from meeting Li Zicheng's needs.

After several thoughts, Li Zicheng chose the plane and took the plane to various provinces for election. Airplanes are extremely fresh for most Chinese people in this era. When the plane appears in people's sight, they will remember the National Socialist Party while remembering the plane.

"The second is the plane. The people of the country know through newspapers that we used planes to sink the Japanese warships, but they have never seen planes. As long as our planes fly to a place, the planes will cause a sensation in a city. At the same time, when our planes appear in their sight, they will remember our contributions to this war, and thus remember us, choose us, and there is no more shocking way to show up than an airplane!"

With her elbows on the table, she smiled when she looked at others, but Li Zicheng muttered in her heart that they said the plane was not safe, but they knew that the one-type transport aircraft made by Hongtu Aircraft Manufacturing Company was actually the ju52x, a three-transport transport aircraft, was the most successful military transport aircraft in Germany in World War II. It also used a high-strength corrugated skin structure on the surface of the aircraft.

It makes it the most produced and longest-time-use aircraft. Because its shell is very hard, it also has the titles of "Aunt Junker" and "Anne of Steel". Moreover, it is suitable for rough landings at field airports. The three-release schedule has a large horsepower and good safety. Before World War II, thanks to its strong body and excellent performance, it was often chosen as the opening aircraft for new routes. On many difficult routes, the ju52a was the only model that could meet passenger needs at that time.

There is no plane that is more suitable for completing the election flight than jv52x. The same election success will become the best advertisement for ju52a. After the election, you will set up an airline to invest in domestic passenger transport and mail transportation, and use the name of "fast" established during the election to enter the Chinese market. Perhaps the aviation market in China is not big now, but everything must have a beginning. Once there is a good start, you can develop healthily.

In the future, with the development of the domestic aviation market, China's aviation manufacturing industry will naturally enter a healthy development. In the fierce market competition, aircraft manufacturing companies will continue to enter this market, and companies will also continue to be eliminated by the market. Now, all I have to do is to make such a good start and use this help to choose a good start.

"Taiyan, you must know that compared with other parties, our advantage is not great. Therefore, if we want to win the election, we have only one way, and we can only write on the word "qi". The word "qi" means to give full play to our advantages. Not only will I fly to the country to assist our candidates, but I will also send airplanes to form a flight performance team to hold flight performances nationwide to assist our party candidates. In addition to radio, newspapers and movie advertisements, we must win at least 40% of the seats left by the Kuomintang. I mean, in this way, we can sit firmly in Diaoyutai in the capital!"


Chapter completed!