Around Christmas, the major enterprises in southern Africa also began to take stock in the middle of the year, in the past few years, the major enterprises in southern Africa have made rapid progress, making southern Africa the most competitive country in the world, and individual enterprises have achieved leapfrog development, such as the Nyasaland Air Group, which was relatively small before the outbreak of the world war, expanded its scale sixfold during the world war, and its profits increased by 2,300 percent, becoming the biggest winner of the world war.

After attending a banquet in Ade, Roque flew directly from Pretoria to Nyasaland on the latest passenger flight launched by the Nyasaland Air Group.

The passenger aircraft was converted from a long-range bomber, and according to Roque's requirements, the passenger plane could carry 15 passengers, and the flight from Pretoria to Los Angeles would require a stop in Salisbury, a journey that would take about eight hours.

The distance from Pretoria to Los Angeles is about 1,400 kilometers in a straight line, and it normally takes about three days and three nights by train, but now the time required by plane is greatly reduced.

Roque is going back to Nyasaland, and Xiao Si is going back to Rhodesia, just on the way.

To Roque's surprise, Xiao Si was far less adventurous than Roque, and after learning that the passenger plane had not yet been verified on a large scale, Xiao Si actually refused to take it, citing concerns about the safety of the passenger plane.

Roque couldn't help but laugh, although the passenger aircraft had just appeared, but the reliability of the bomber was proven during the world war.

During the World War, the Allies dispatched tens of thousands of bomber sorties to bomb German lines and military targets in Germany, with a failure rate of about a little more than 5 per 1,000.

Five thousandths sounds high, but considering that the bomber has four engines, one engine fails, and the other three can continue to work, safety is guaranteed.

What's more, passenger aircraft use new engines with more advanced technology and more stable performance, so there is no need to worry about safety at all.

Xiao Si still trusts Roque, even so, when he walked into the plane, Xiao Si was still apprehensive.

However, Xiao Si was quickly attracted by the layout in the cabin.

The aircraft used by Roque is certainly not the same as the average aircraft available.

In general passenger aircraft, the layout of the seats is relatively compact, and one more can be installed, so there is not much comfort.

The plane used by Roque is only placed in the center of the cabin with two spacious large sofas, there is a coffee table in the middle of the sofa, in addition to Roque and Xiao Si, only Roque and Xiao Si's closest entourage can get on the plane, the crew is a total of four people, two pilots and two service personnel, Xiao Si sat on the sofa and felt it, the comfort was still good.

"How does it feel?" The launch of new things always needs to be verified by the market, but the aircraft does not need to be worried, as long as the technology is mature, it will be rolled out soon.

Following the development of passenger aircraft, Roque launched Nyasaland Airlines for civil aviation in southern Africa, which currently has only two planes and only flies the Pretoria to Los Angeles route.

However, the airline has already placed an order with the airline group for 50 aircraft, not just passenger planes, but also 20 cargo planes, and it will not be long before Nyasaland Airlines will explode in size.

"The sofa is not bad, the waitress is also very beautiful, I just don't know how safe it is, if it falls down halfway, it will be a lot of fun-" Xiao Si couldn't spit out ivory, and before Roque could sneer at him, Ida suddenly walked in.

"Great, I can finally catch up, don't mind a ride-" Ida didn't shy away from sitting down next to Roque.

"Very well, Minister of Defense and Minister of Finance, God will not take us for the sake of both of you." Xiao Si is used to seeing it, as long as the plane can be loaded, the more people, the better.

"What is this fat man talking about?" Ida and Xiao Si are not outside, they have been friends for so many years, and they speak unscrupulously.

"He said you're beautiful, welcome aboard the Nyasaland, we're about to fly to Salisbury for an amazing trip, what would you like to drink?" Roque was talking casually, the attendant was closing the cabin door, and the captain came over to greet Roque, and returned to the cockpit after asking for instructions.

"God forbid—" As the plane began to taxi on the runway, Xiao Si said something, grasping the coffee table with one hand and gesturing the cross with the other.

"Is it really that dangerous?" Ida was a little nervous about Xiao Si.

"Don't worry, this plane has four engines, and even if one of them fails, it can get us to Salisbury." Roque is really not worried, both pilots are veterans, and they have traveled back and forth between Pretoria and Los Angeles hundreds of times before, and the possibility of accidents is really low.

"Well, how long will it take us?" Ida has unconditional trust in Roque, and she is more concerned about the convenience brought by the opening of civil aviation, as well as the profits that may be generated in the future.

"It takes about eight hours to get to L.A. and about four and a half hours to Salisbury." Roque is not worried about profits, the basic conditions in southern Africa are actually similar to those in the United States, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the economy is strong, civil aviation has incomparable natural advantages, and rich people like Xiao Si and Ida will be standard in the future.

"Great, Nyasaland Airlines only flies Los Angeles to Pretoria—" Ida was quick to calculate her finances, and before she could finish her prayers, Ida had already spotted the business opportunity.

"It looks like that now." Roque doesn't eat alone, and Nyasaland Airlines already has a stake in Ida.

Of course, Phyllis has it too.

"Then continue to expand, Pretoria to Cape Town, Johannesburg to Walvis Bay, so that Port Edward can also fly directly to Johannesburg in the future?" Ida is very smart, the biggest advantage of the plane is that it is not limited by the terrain, as long as there is an airport, you can fly directly to Europe.

This is not difficult at all, after taking Victoria, the UK has actually completed the two "C" plans, linking Cape Town and Cairo, so that as long as there are enough airports, it can fly directly from Cape Town to London.

Think about it, if you take a ship from Cape Town to London in the past, it would take about half a month, and if you change to an airplane, then you should be able to fly in two days at most.

What a huge step forward!

"Of course, the current aircraft are not advanced enough, and one day, we may be able to fly directly from Cape Town to London." Roque is confident that although the current technology cannot do it, this day will not be too far away.

"Locke, does Nyasaland Airlines still need investment?" Xiao Si finally came to his senses, and then found that Roque and Ada seemed to be going to open a mom-and-pop shop.

"Hehe, Cecil, if you want to invest in the airline industry, I would suggest you set up a separate one - in this way, you set up a Rhodesia Airlines, and then we exchange shares." After the emergence of passenger aircraft, followed by a big blowout in the field of civil aviation, a company will definitely not be able to eat all the markets in southern Africa, and a few more will go together, monopolize civil aviation while formulating harsh industry norms, and then there are latecomers who want to get involved in civil aviation, they will face the joint suppression of the entire industry.

During the world war, there were also people in southern Africa who wanted to get involved in the military industry, but they were rejected by the high cost, and now it is no longer the era when you can buy a production line and get an order.

"No problem, squeeze out a part of the order for me, is there a hundred?" Xiao Si is strong, it is a hundred, according to the current production of civil aircraft, it will take almost half a year to complete.

Production of civilian aircraft is still a bit low, but it will not be long before it will ramp up rapidly, and by the end of the World War, the Nyasaland Air Group was able to produce about 300 long-range bombers a month.

After the end of the World War, orders for bombers fell sharply, and the aviation group is now adjusting its production line to convert the factory originally used to produce bombers to the production of commercial aircraft, so that it can retain the bomber factories and those skilled workers, and have the ability to continue to improve the bombers and civil aircraft.

Before the outbreak of the world war, European and American airlines could barely compete with the southern African aviation industry by virtue of simple and crude copycats, and after the world war, with the great progress of the aviation industry in southern Africa, European and American aviation companies have gradually fallen behind, Roque learned that the world war was not over when the American Wright brothers established the airline has closed its doors.

In addition to aviation, the same is true for other industries, tanks that saw a surge in orders during the world war, and orders fell sharply after the end of the world war.

Instead of closing the tank factory, Roque ordered engineers to renovate the factory and convert the original factory for the production of tanks to the production of tractors, which is not only conducive to alleviating the practical problem of labor shortage in southern Africa, but also conducive to ensuring the accumulation of tank technology.

You must know that although the tank has been discontinued, but the technology research and development has not stopped, at the end of the world war, southern Africa has actually successfully developed medium tanks, but medium tanks have not had time to participate in the world war, the world war has ended.

In the next world war, medium tanks will definitely smoothly enter the stage of history.

And now in southern Africa, research on heavy tanks has begun.