Chapter 970 Flying Club
If there were peacetime times, Yang Yuanzhao would definitely promote comprehensive development. Later generations have a variety of cultural industries, which have blossomed from all sides. They have never eaten pork, and have always seen pigs running. The rich spiritual civilization can also promote social stability. ←
Unfortunately, when is it now? For Yang Yuanzhao, he may fall into war in one or two years at most. Even if the northwest does not want it, the world situation will inevitably develop to a certain extent. The world looks big, but in fact it is very small. It is all confrontation and alliance between several powerful countries. Peace is not something that prayed for, but it is just false peace. For a great country like China, there is no second way to go except to climb to the top. In terms of layout, there is no consideration for the coexistence of multiple spiritual civilizations, and everything is for war.
Fortunately, the Chinese people came from the old China with severe disasters. Before 1908, when most of them even filled their stomachs, they did not have that great demand for spiritual civilization. However, when the coordination and cultivation of commodities reached a certain level, cultural and sports activities supported by the Northwest appeared, and trawling fishing boats did not count, which should be a kind of work. The three major projects on shooting, racing and flying behavior have become the focus of people's attention.
The largest of these is shooting. Compared with the other two projects, the designed venue is very small. Sometimes, it can be performed by isolating a shooting range, using only guns and bullets. As long as the organization is tight, you can enter different levels of leagues. The depth and breadth of participants are incomparable to the other two events.
But if the most popular and fascinating sports are considered to be flying, it is the sensation that people want to fly. In the past 100 years when hot air balloons and airships appear, it has caused a huge sensation, and many people will spend money to fly into the sky.
The emergence of the aircraft quickly replaced airships and hot air balloons. The airship's speed was not slow, with a maximum speed of 70 kilometers, which was much faster than ordinary cars. However, compared with the speed of more than 200 kilometers, it was not a little worse. It soared freely in the sky and enjoyed the feeling of speeding up. This is irreplaceable for any movement.
When we first established a flight club, we were more or less considering the issue of confidentiality. China was too big. Flying clubs were held throughout China, and leaks were sure.
But China is very huge. Most of the countryside is taken over by the Production and Construction Corps. Most people have entered the city. As long as the personnel of the Airship Club are considered, the possibility of leaking the information is not great. As long as the restricted area is drawn around the flight club to prevent people from peeping at close range, they will not help them much. The northwest has crossed the initial state of the plane. Even if it is a Northwest type, it has crossed the original plane. It is close to the mainstream aircraft in World War II, and the gap is 20 years. Without such an all-in-one aircraft, only looking at the appearance. It will not only not help them, but will instead lead them to take countless detours.
For example, in the ordinary automobile era, you suddenly build an electronically controlled car. Although the general structure still looks the same, it brings confusion when the electronic engineering has not reached a certain level.
The Northwest Flying Club is strictly managed within the Northwest, and is only carried out in specific areas. Some young people who have mastered their own technology and have money are more willing to spend their energy on flights than other projects. This feeling of overcoming the gravity of the earth and flying freely in the sky is really great.
The trainer aircraft with the light two-seat version of the Northwest type as the template has been mass-produced since 1911, and the total number has reached 5,200. These aircraft are distributed in more than 200 municipal-level administrative divisions in the northwest. There are more core areas and fewer remote areas to ensure that every place has sufficient demand.
Compared with the army, all the fees are provided by the Northwest. These flying clubs are profitable organizations. These clubs have membership fees. Membership fees only account for about 60% of consumption. The rest are national subsidies from the Northwest. For some talented people, the club will also specifically track some financial support for some outstanding people, so that they can gradually enter the intermediate level or even advanced level from the junior class. Of course, since it is helpful, there must be requirements. For their requirements, it is very simple. The most important point is that when the war breaks out, they must join the army unconditionally.
To a certain extent, students in the advanced class can already be considered quasi-pilots. In such a college, the flight hours are usually around 700-800 hours. They basically master the light Northwest trainer aircraft, and even the main fighter aircraft model in the Northwest that they have come into contact with. As long as they enter the army for about a month of assault training, they will be a qualified pilot.
There are more than 280 flight schools nationwide, with as many as 170,000 registered flight students, including 80,000 junior students, 60,000 intermediate students, and 30,000 senior students. This is also the foundation of the Chinese Air Force in the future. Compared with the fact that no ordinary people have ever been exposed to, junior students have a flight time of 100-150 hours and an intermediate student has a flight time of 150-500 flight hours. As for advanced students, they are already skilled and have flown through multiple aircraft types.
Because of the trainer, these pilots are good at flying light aircraft. It should be easier to directly control the main fighter jets of China in the future, but bombers are difficult. Even the Northwest bomber has a take-off weight of more than 5 tons, not to mention the heavy-duty strategic bomber designed in the future, the take-off weight will reach 45 tons or even 50 tons.
Such aircraft, even if you have flight experience, it will be difficult to get started. The emergence of Yang Yuanzhao has made computers popular, but they cannot be produced and do not understand the principles. This computer is at most a later stage office computer, and deeper applications, such as CNC, computer simulation, and computer design, are very weak. A small item in the 15th Plan is a simulation aircraft, but this is just a simple thing, allowing the operator to be familiar with some parameters and buttons of the aircraft, and reducing the familiarization process of students.
The training of bomber pilots can only be adopted in the original mode, but among all aircraft, the bomber consumption is the largest, the heavy body, huge ammunition capacity, and fuel consumption are at least five times that of ordinary fighters. Since it has different controls from fighters, it can be said that it consumes a lot in this era of exploration in the early 20th century.
Yang Yuanzhao knew very well that the Northwest would not deliberately join the European war situation, but once it joined, it would be the most dangerous state, at least Germany could no longer withstand it. The defeat was like a mountain. Once the defeat was defeated, it must be turned around quickly. Strategic bombers are the best method. Strategic bombers with a height of 20,000 meters and a speed of more than 700 kilometers per hour, with a huge fuselage with enough self-defense firepower, are the overlord of the entire sky and can carry up to 25 tons of bombs. The deterrent power brought by this is definitely not something that airships can compare with Midea. The speed of 700 kilometers per hour is too late, and it can easily reach hundreds or even thousands of aircraft. It is not only for land but also for the sea.
The standards for strategic bombers proposed by the Northwest have basically reached the level of later B17s. Although Yang Yuanzhao doesn’t know much about the main fighter jets in World War II, he still knows classic bombers like B29. He promotes the research on aircraft engines as much as possible, especially turboprops. It is estimated that it is almost done, so he regards b29 as the standard for new strategic bombers.
It seems that the goal must be set in order to exert the subjective initiative of the researchers. According to the news feedback from the base seed production, the development of strategic bombers has come to an end, basically meeting the standards, or even exceeding them. This exceeding is more caused by the use of turboprop engines to replace the original piston engine.
Take the b29 as an example. The maximum cruising distance is more than 5,000 kilometers and the combat radius is about 2,600 kilometers. The heavy strategic bomber in the northwest not only has a horsepower far greater than the b29, but its maximum take-off weight exceeds about 20% of the b29 bomber. The excellent fuel consumption of the turboprop makes its combat radius reach an astonishing 4,200 kilometers, which is only 1,000 kilometers away from the b29 range.
The combat radius exceeds 1,600 kilometers, perhaps nothing in later generations. With the situation of aerial refueling aircraft, many things can be ignored. However, in this era, it is simply a killer. As long as the northwest wants, the attack range is within the range of the island airport, with a missile load of 25 tons, with a radius of 4,200 kilometers, this is 55 million square kilometers of land. With less than 11 million square kilometers of land in China, Shanghai is also enough to cover it.
In later China, the reason why the South China Sea issue was undecided for a long time was that in the entire South China Sea, no island or reef could have an airport, and China did not have a fighter's range. At most, it would only take a few minutes to support escort in the South China Sea. It was a jet fighter, not a turboprop today. The emergence of strategic bombers will further stabilize the four major Chinese inland seas. Even after Borneo, the entire Southeast Asia was within the scope of its cover.
In this way, unless the war starts on the vast Pacific Ocean, the part of the Pacific Ocean near Asia, the entire Southeast Asia, and even far away Australia are all within the cover of Northwest strategic bombers. When a formation of more than 1,000 aircraft or more poses a great threat to any group target, this is the greatest guarantee for being invincible. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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