Stuart Coffey is indeed a straight man, although Stuart Coffey's words are kind, but the kind of condescending that is not there is anything to be replaced by others is estimated to be angry.

Catherine Wright accepted it calmly, this is not an illusory battle of words, everything depends on the results to speak, if the performance of "Strong Wind" is not as good as "Aviator III", then Katherine Wright does not need to fight back, it is estimated that Stuart Coffey will be ashamed.

The conversation at the dinner was relatively peaceful, but by the early morning of the next morning, the gap between the team and the individual was even more obvious.

At this time, the aircraft did not need a special runway, and they could take off and land smoothly on a relatively gentle grass, so the preparation was carried out on a grass field on the outskirts of Jia Lai.

I have to say that Europeans are really good at enjoying life.

If this was in a Chinese gathering area, the Chinese would never have kept such a grassland on the outskirts of the city for people to rest, and it would have become all kinds of fertile land long ago.

In Europe, however, there are countless such meadows and forests, and the Europeans seem to have moved their crops to the colonies, and the local land in Europe, even if it is developed, is to grow all kinds of cash crops such as vineyards and flower beds.

This is the case on the outskirts of Jia Lai, where there are no large wheat fields or herds of cattle and sheep, but there are many residents and media reporters waiting to be interviewed around the camp early in the morning, and the southern African flight team is undoubtedly the largest of all the flight teams preparing for the test.

This huge is certainly not bloated, but each performs its own duties and is methodical.

In fact, the preparations have been started since last night.

This time, a total of six flying teams are ready to fly across the English Channel to challenge the Daily Mail's £1,000 prize.

Of the six teams, two are from mainland France, one from the United Kingdom, one from Italy, and finally the Wright Brothers team from the United States, and the flying team from Southern Africa.

In addition to the flight team from southern Africa, several other flight teams, the largest number of people is Huber Latham's flight team, the team members have reached as many as 100 people, and the proportion of guns is a bit large, many members are fat and strong, and it seems that it has little to do with the work of flying.

There are also many people in the flight team in southern Africa who carry guns, not only the professional mercenaries of the umbrella company, but also many ground staff will also wear weapons, and the white holsters are still very conspicuous outside the dark blue uniforms, but the models of the guns are not uniform, some are Ruger, some are Browning, and some are wearing revolvers, but it is not the kind of Webley that has been eliminated, but the denim produced by the Nyasaland Arsenal.

Cowboy pistols, strictly speaking, have surpassed the category of self-defense weapons, with a 266 mm long barrel and a weight of 2.3 kg, and it is impossible to use a quick-draw holster at all, so the role of decoration is greater.

This can't be helped, the silver-white barrel is indeed very beautiful.

However, this pistol is very popular in southern Africa, and many young people choose "cowboy" as a rite of passage for themselves.

In order to cultivate the martial spirit of the Chinese, the Nyasaland Arsenal priced the "cowboys" very low, only a little higher than the cost price, and the price in Nyasaland and Rhodesia and the Transvaal was only 15 rand.

Outside of these three places, however, the price of "denim" rises to R20, and outside of Southern Africa, it sells for as much as R35, making it a standard luxury.

The exchange rate between the rand and the pound sterling is one to one, so 35 rand is 35 pounds, which is almost one-third of the annual income of a middle-class family in the UK.

From the beginning of their arrival at Jia Lai, the mercenaries of the umbrella company built a temporary camp on this grass on the outskirts of Jia Lai, the temporary camp consisted of more than a dozen tents and two quickly built hangars, in order to fly over the English Channel, the flight team brought two "Strong Winds" this time, and enough parts to assemble into a third "Strong Wind", so the scale of the camp is a bit large.

Early in the morning, the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company set up a cordon around the camp, the yellow and white separation belt was clearly printed with the logo of the Umbrella Company, and behind the cordon, there were mercenaries with police dogs patrolling, these police dogs were all tall and sturdy South African mastiffs, and the mercenaries were armed with pistols and shotguns, which could warn some ill-intentioned guys to the greatest extent.

Captain Marshall arrived at camp early in the morning, and shortly after arriving at camp, Katherine Wright came to see Captain Marshall.

"Captain, you have to be careful, Huber Latham hired a lot of gunmen last night, claiming to make you look good—" Catherine Wright had come to give the news.

"Thanks, don't worry, we have the ability to protect ourselves." Captain Marshall wore a Southern African officer's uniform without a military rank, and his khaki baseball cap was embroidered with the coat of arms of the Federal Government of Southern Africa.

In this time and space, there is no goddess of war and a lion on the national emblem of the federal government of southern Africa, let alone a spear and a round-headed club, but the heron eagle appears on the national emblem of the federal government, and it is also a sword in one hand and a scale in the other, which is very symbolic.

Although the flight team hired professional mercenaries from the Umbrella Company, Captain Marshall was a career soldier of the Federal Government of Southern Africa, so if Huber Latham thought that he could challenge the majesty of the Federal Government of Southern Africa by gathering a rabble, then Huber Latham was wrong.

If Huber Latham really dared to find trouble, then Captain Marshall wouldn't mind letting Huber Latham understand what the iron fist of nationalism was.

Captain Marshall also has the identity of a military attache at the Southern African Embassy in France, so Captain Marshall has diplomatic immunity in France, and if Huber Latham really dares to provoke, then even if Captain Marshall kills Humber Latham on the spot, Captain Marshall will not be tried.

The Federal Government of Southern Africa will never allow this to happen.

Of course, Captain Marshall's confidence is not groundless, although the flight team only hired forty mercenaries, but most of these forty mercenaries have participated in the war, and the members are all Germans known for their discipline, and Cossacks who are known for their combat effectiveness, whether it is hand-to-hand combat or fire, Captain Marshall is very confident.

"Alright then, good luck to you!" Catherine Wright was clever enough to take her leave after being reminded, and when she passed by the Hubbes Latham camp, she greeted Hubbes Latham from a distance, not caring at all about the frivolous whistles and lewd harassment.

Huber Latham looked at Captain Marshall, of course, with a split eye.

Yesterday Huber Latham was thrown directly into a small river next to the camp by two mercenaries, a humiliation that Huber Latham will never forget.

Captain Marshall, who did not seem to be aware of Huber Latham's gaze, rounded the camp as if nothing had happened, and when he returned to his tent, ordered the armored car to be driven out.

The two armoured vehicles, one armed with a 17.78 mm large-caliber heavy machine gun and the other with a 40 mm grenade launcher, were also driven by professional soldiers from southern Africa.

Different from the general purpose machine gun, the barrel of the 17.78mm large-caliber heavy machine gun is 1.2 meters long, and the total length of the gun reaches one meter seven, compared with the shotgun and Lee Enfield, the longer barrel means a longer range, and a larger caliber means more power, being hit by a Lee Enfield military rifle may still be saved, but being hit by a large-caliber heavy machine gun, even if you are lucky enough not to die, will cause lifelong disability, so the deterrent effect of the large-caliber heavy machine gun is self-evident.

As soon as the flight team drove the armored car out, the originally lively meadow suddenly fell silent.

What are you doing, it's just an air show, the prize money is only 1,000 pounds, you have driven all these armored cars, and you can get two at once, is it enough for gas?

Not to mention the amateur gunmen hired by Huber Latham, even the onlookers felt that the atmosphere was a little abnormal.

It was not an air show, but a concentrated display of the advanced weapons of the Federal Government of Southern Africa, and almost all the reporters gathered around the camp of the Southern African Flying Team, and the magnesium powder flashing lights were even more bang-bang.

As a result, many mercenaries took out sunglasses and put them on, which increased the deterrent effect of the mercenaries and attracted a series of bangs.

For the European people, the style of sunglasses is also very rare, the sunglasses of this period are mainly made of glass, because the yield is not high, so the price is extremely expensive, and the goggles for driving have become a symbol of wealth and fashion, but people don't seem to realize that the original goggles can be worn when not driving.

Therefore, it is really too easy for a traveler to make a fortune, and in the 21st century, just a little common sense of life, you can get rich by going back to the past.

However, the attention of reporters and the public soon shifted to the "strong wind" that was making preparations.

The technicians and ground crews of the Southern Africa Flight Team were very professional at this time, and although the temporary runway had been cleared several times, the ground crews were still holding hands to make a final inspection to ensure that there were no obvious potholes on the ground, and to make final preparations for the upcoming tests.

Technicians are checking that the various parts of the "strong wind" are normal to ensure that there are no problems during the flight.

The engine used in the "Strong Wind" is a type 4 air-cooled piston engine produced by the Nyasaland Engine Plant, and it can be seen from this model that Nyasaland has gone far in the field of aero engines, far ahead of this era.

The two crew members turned the propeller at the head of the engine together, and the engine crackled and exploded with a worrying pop, and then spun rapidly.

Only then did the test pilot come out of the tent next to him.

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