Chapter 234: Heavy strategic bomber

"This is also my proposal." Howard proudly said: "In the front, center and rear of the aircraft, design three fully enclosed pressurized cockpits. The air is blown by the compressor to achieve the same pressure as the ground, which is convenient for the aircraft to travel. Flying high. At the same time, different price points can also be distinguished."
This is a large passenger plane! With Howard’s introduction, Cyrek boarded the passenger plane. You can see that the front is the most luxurious, with carpets on the inside, and the sides are surrounded by full leather, which is the most luxurious decoration!
According to Howard, the front space is a luxury suite for the wealthy. The middle and rear sections are business class and economy class respectively. Among them, economy class is the most shabby, such as seats It's just ordinary wood, not even a cushion on it, and at the same time, it is quite dense.
With current technology, it is impractical to build a large pressurized cabin, so Howard divided the aircraft into three sections.
Cyric nodded: "Howard, I'm so happy today. I see our ideals are one step closer. From the Americas to Europe, it won't take more than half a month."
"Today is the last test flight, to test the flight efficiency of only two engines left, how about it, would you like to come up and experience it together?" Howard asked Cyric.
Four engines can give the aircraft sufficient power, and once one of the engines fails, the remaining ones must be able to support the next flight.
Howard pointed to the cockpit in front. After the aircraft was built, Howard has always been a test pilot. He likes flying.
Cyric shook his head: "Sorry, I'm afraid of heights."
Cyric didn't have this time. The test flight of this kind of aircraft lasts for several hours at a time.
"Then I'm about to take off." Howard was very happy. He watched a few people go down. The four-person crew in front was also ready. At the same time, two additional engine engineers came up.
The huge passenger plane, with four engines started at once, rolled towards the runway in the roar, almost to the end of the runway, then pulled up and flew towards the sky.
Cyric watched the plane leave. In his eyes, this plane was like a bomber that could fly across the ocean and bomb the United States at any time.
"General Cyric, I can report to you about the development of our bomber and transport aircraft." When he came to Ebas’ office, Ebas took out some drawings and showed Cyric.
With this passenger plane as a prototype, both the bomber and the transport plane are steadily developing. Among them, the transport plane has made the fastest progress, as long as the passenger cabin is changed to a cargo hold.
For bombers, much more needs to be prepared. For example, it needs to install various turrets to form a complete firepower network, such as advanced navigation and bombing equipment, and additional reinforcement for the bomb bay.
"Can our airplane complete the round trip to the United States?" Cyric asked.
Ebas shook his head: "Now, the range of this passenger plane is 6,000 kilometers, which is just enough for one way."
Traveling to and from the United States is not so easy. The one-way distance is about 5,000 kilometers, and as long as you look at the data of some bombers during World War II, the range is more than 6,000 kilometers, it is an absolute heavy strategic bomber.
If you want to go back and forth, that voyage needs more than 10,000!
In World War II, Germany has always attached great importance to dive bombers. One is an ideological issue and the other is a resource issue. Now, these two issues are being solved by Cyric.
Due to Hitler's absolute trust, Cyric can easily promote his ideas, and at the same time, with sufficient funds in terms of resources, Germany's war reserves are much better than in history.
The rest is a technical problem.
Jointly developed a passenger plane with Howard, as long as it flies one-way, excessive pursuit of round-trip, no effect, after all, fly over, land, you can refuel.
"After changing to a bomber, we can remove the extra weight of the pressurized cockpit. At the same time, we can also use advanced technologies such as our wing fuel tanks to increase the fuel capacity. We estimate that with ten tons of bombs, the maximum can be To reach a voyage of 7,000 kilometers, no further distance will be enough," Ebas said.
Cyric nodded, and deliberately demanding such a long range is unnecessary. At least, this bomber will have a weapon when attacking Britain in the future! The closer you are to the UK, you can carry more bombs!
As for the bombing of the United States, that's something for the future. It's not certain whether World War II can get there.
"If we want to increase the range, maybe there is a new technology that can be used." Ebas said: "It's air refueling. We take off two such large bombers, one with bombs and one with fuel. When flying to the mid-Atlantic, fuel-carrying aircraft will refuel the bomb-carrying aircraft in the air. In this way, the range can be greatly improved."
Come on in the air! This technology will be difficult in later generations because of the fast speed of jets. Now, this method has already appeared.
As early as 1917, Russian naval pilot Alexander Seversky put forward the idea of ​​aerial refueling.
In 1923, Captain LH-Smith of the U.S. Army Air Force used hose refueling technology to refuel a DH-4B aircraft, creating a record of 6 hours and 38 minutes of continuous flight in the air. This was the first time in aviation history that it was truly meaningful. Refueling in the air.
In 1929 ~EbookFREE.me~ through air refueling, the American C-2A aircraft created a feat of flying in the air for a week.
Therefore, although this early refueling technology is complicated and difficult to promote and develop, it is at least possible.
"This technology can be promoted." Cyric said: "Now, we can start experiments."
If you can really come up with a simple and effective plan, it is indeed a multiplier of combat power, those short-legged BF109 can easily fly over London.
Cyrek simply gave instructions. After all, he is only named in the equipment department now. He has a lot of affairs. This time he returned to Germany. In addition to looking at the big plane, there is one more thing. Concerned.
After repeated comparative tests on the selection of small-caliber intermediate-power rifle bullets, Heinel Company has come up with a final opinion. This opinion needs someone to approve it.
Cyric’s trip to Germany was quite stressful. At the same time, Cyric was relieved. After Himmler’s accident, Cyric finally let go of his heart disease. In a short time, no one will come to trouble him. , Don’t worry about the black hands behind you.