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Chapter 1805 The possibility of carrier-based aircraft

"I heard that such a strange machine can fly into the air!"

"Really or false? Is this medieval witchcraft or something?"

A large number of nobles and civilians gathered in the western suburbs of London. They came to visit the air show, a new means of transportation parked on the simple apron.

This time, the publicity shocked many people, and hundreds of people stopped the work at hand and came, with people surging.

There were also many horse-drawn carriages on site, even imported T-type cars. There were only aristocrats, squires or big merchants in England.

They saw a biplane painted with red dragon logo. They had never seen such a weird machine before and could not help but comment on it.

Queen Sophia did not come to watch it in person because she had seen biplane in the capital of the East.

Even so, Princess Victoria came here to watch the flight show under the protection of the Royal Guards, which caused a lot of sensation.

"Is that our Victorian Princess?"

"It's rare to see her go out alone, and it seems that the princess is about to grow up."

Many civilians heard that the only princess in the royal family came, which caused a lot of discussion. Some English nobles came to pay homage to His Royal Highness.

Queen Sophia is now more prestige than her brother Charles I, her father James, because England has become a first-class European power in her hands.

As a princess, Victoria was also sought after by the nobles because of her mother.

"Please back and don't occupy the runway! The runway is that road!"

One of the few pilots dispel the onlookers crowded on the simple runway.

Several people carrying tripod wooden racks came out of the crowded crowd and found the pilot: "We are from the Kyushu newspaper and want to conduct exclusive interviews and photos of you before the flight show."

The tripod camera stood in front of the biplane to take pictures of the London Aviation Team, leaving valuable black and white photos.

After a brief interview and taking photos, three pilots climbed onto the dragon-style biplane.

There were "ground crew members" on the ground clearing the field to avoid any accidents in the dragon biplane during the flight performance.

In front of thousands of spectators, the propeller of the biplane began to rotate, the engine made a buzzing sound, and the wooden body glided.

“It moved!”

For onlookers who have never seen a biplane take off, every move will attract a surprise.

The pilot with goggles began to lift the biplane. After gliding for a while, the biplane began to rise in the wind and climbed at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Everyone exclaimed as the dragon-type biplane left the ground, and they saw something they had never seen in their lifetime - people could actually fly into the air with the help of machines!

"Father, tell me, this is not true!"

"How did they do it! How could a person fly into the sky!"

The onlookers were almost completely excited. People blushed and had thick necks, and they discussed things about the biplane like quarrels. The scene was as lively as a vegetable market.

For people of this era, the emergence of ironclad ships and cars was not enough to surprise people, but the sky that no one had ever been involved began to be conquered, which collapsed the worldview of everyone present, and the power of industry completely broke through their imagination!

All along, only birds can fly, the legendary gods and ghosts, but humans have done it!

"What an amazing terrible tool. If explosives fall from it, the originally dense formation will probably be disrupted soon and it will not be possible to form an effective formation!"

The Englishmen who attended also included cabinet members, MPs, and several nobles and officers, who were more concerned about their value than civilians.

Among them, George Monk, Black and others of the Royal Navy are all here, and they are very amazing about the magic of the plane.

After seeing the plane, Black said to other Royal Navy officers: "I think this kind of biplane does not need to glide on the ground to fly. So can it be placed on the ship, fly on the deck and throw gunpowder at the enemy ship? Imagine that if the deck of the enemy ship is hit by gunpowder, not only will the sailors on the deck suffer heavy losses, but the entire ship will even be burned."

"You mean to let this thing take off on the deck of the warship? How could it be that our deck is not long enough, and there are masts, cannons, ropes on the deck, and its wings are 8 meters long!"

Many Royal Navy officers regarded Black's ideas as fantasy and found them incredible.

Wear planes on warships to attack enemy warships?

"Our wooden sailing ship is only 40 to 60 meters long, so it is definitely impossible for the flying machine to take off. But have you ever thought that the Chinese ironclad ships can be as long as 100 meters long, and their ironclad ships may be able to carry aircraft?" Black still believes that his idea is feasible.

When the rest of the Royal Navy officers heard Black talk about the ironclad ship, they thought carefully that the length that the wooden ship could not reach was easily reached, and perhaps they could really carry planes.

"The ironclad ship is extremely terrifying. If it can still be equipped with biplane, it would be unimaginable..."

"Damn it, naval battles should be made of cannons. What kind of naval battle is it to use biplanes?!"

"Just win the war. If you can really carry a biplane, you probably have no means to defeat the ironclad ship."

The officers of the Royal Navy started to argue over a vision of Black.

It seems that ironclad ships that can be equipped with biplanes can change the pattern of previous naval battles.

However, for the Royal Navy, which is still using sail battleships, the steam ironclad ships are far away, so why not consider the issue of matching biplanes on the ironclad ships.

Black looked at the dragon-style biplane hovering in the air, and couldn't help but envy the other party's skills.

He inadvertently foresaw the future of carrier-based aircraft, a new ironclad ship will appear in the future, and that ironclad ship is called an aircraft carrier...

Three dragon-type biplane hovered in the air for a while and performed more complex actions such as diving, which caused onlookers to exclaim.

However, in order to avoid controversy, there was no performance of throwing explosives.

Just being able to fly over their heads, such a performance changed the faces of many nobles and civilians.

If they hadn't been notified in advance that the biplane was a machine that could fly to the sky, some civilians might have thought that a miracle had appeared.

Some people even draw crosses on their chests and chant words.

"It's exactly the same as I think. In the future, I want to fly high into the sky and see the scenery below from above." Princess Victoria sat in the car, looking at the dragon-style biplane still hovering in the air, and her eyes were shining.
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