In fact, Roque's focus during this time was not on the car, since the Wright brothers flew in Paris last year, there has been a wave of aviation fever in Europe, and governments have finally begun to face up to the new thing of airplanes, and the Wright brothers have also profited a lot.

Compared to the Wright brothers' planes, Nyasaland's planes are more stable, have a longer range, fly higher and faster, so it's time to start competing with the Wright brothers.

Just a month ago, the Daily Mail began building momentum in the hope that someone would be able to fly across the English Channel, and the Daily Mail was willing to offer a £1,000 prize to the first person to do the feat.

That's a lot of money, and the current middle class in Britain earns just over a hundred pounds a year, so many people are attracted by this reward and come to the English Channel with their own planes, ready to challenge this record.

However, the chances of others winning this reward are not great, and the reason why the Daily Mail set up this reward is actually to prepare for the flight of Nyasaland to go abroad.

In mid-May, a flight team from the Nyasaland Institute of Aeronautics arrived in Calais, France, to prepare for a flight across the English Channel.

The flight team used the "Gale" aircraft tested in Nyasaland last year, when the firing coordinator had not yet been developed, and the aircraft had to install a machine gun and add a shooter, and now this problem has been solved, but the aeronautical research institute still uses last year's model to challenge.

There is no way, the "Strong Wind" aircraft challenge to fly over the English Channel is to win orders from European countries, and the Aviation Research Institute will definitely not take out all the ballast technology, and the performance of the "Strong Wind" aircraft will only be better than the Wright Brothers' "Flyer III".

The leader of the team is called Stuart Coffey, who is originally French, and this time he returned to France, which can be regarded as an honorable return.

However, France did not treat Stuart Coffey kindly.

At this time, Jia Lai already had several flying teams from all over the world ready to challenge the English Channel, including the sister of the Wright brothers, Catherine Wright.

In fact, compared with the Wright brothers, Kathleen Wright's reputation is not inferior at all, and her female identity has brought more gimmicks to Katherine Wright, this time Katherine Wright came to Europe to sell the "Aviator III" developed by the Wright brothers, in order to create greater influence, Catherine Wright even hired a team of photographers, and a number of media from Europe and the United States also surrounded Katherine Wright all day long, even including the British "Daily Mail".

This made Stuart Coffey very unhappy.

"Don't force me to find the Lord, you should pay more or less attention to our own team when reporting!" Stuart Coffey approached Eddie Johnston, a reporter for the Daily Mail, and expressed his displeasure directly to Eddie Johnston.

"You know, Mr. Stelter, that readers don't want to know how mysterious planes from far south Africa are, and would rather see a lady flying a plane into the skies, so we can't blame us for not following your team, but readers like to see news related to Kathleen Wright — or, you can find a female pilot, and I promise, there will be countless media outlets covering you tomorrow." Eddie Johnston can't help it, many readers don't care that Southern Africa is in that corner of the world, and women like Kathleen Wright are the darlings of the media.

"Whether you can fly across the English Channel or not, it's still up to technology to speak, not to scratch your head in front of the camera—" Stuart Coffey was annoyed, so he was a little bit speechless.

Not far away, Catherine Wright was surrounded by a large group of reporters.

It can be seen that Katherine Wright has a knack for dealing with the media, and she has a lot of fun with reporters, and there are bursts of laughter from time to time, which is in stark contrast to the coldness of the Nyasaland flight team.

In fact, the flight team in Nyasaland had just arrived in Calai, and the planes were still wrapped in skin and could not be seen clearly, so it was natural that they would be ignored by the media.

"Wow, it seems that this gentleman is confident in flying over the English Channel—" A flirtatious voice came from the side, it was Huber Latham, a pilot who was also preparing to fly over the English Channel.

"Of course I have a lot of confidence in my team, do you have any comments?" Stuart Coffey has a cold expression, and Stuart Coffey has never been patient with people who don't want to do it.

"Hahahaha, it's funny, I don't even know where your confidence comes from, and even I doubt how you are going to fly over the English Channel, I heard that there are many Chinese in southern Africa, don't you want to fly across the English Channel on a kite-" Huber Latham laughed, as if he had heard the funniest joke.

"How loud the laughter is now, how much your face hurts when you pour it!" Stuart Coffey didn't talk nonsense, and raised his hand to call over two security guards from the umbrella company.

The flight team of the aviation laboratory came to France, and the umbrella company was in charge of security.

In Europe, the employees used by the umbrella company were all white, many of whom were Cossacks from the Russian Empire, who were strong, fearless of life and death, and although a little less disciplined, they were quite reliable when they did not drink.

In contrast to the Cossacks, there were the most self-disciplined Germans, not to mention the frequent conflicts between Africa, Southern Africa and Tanganyika, but in Europe, the umbrella company still employed many Germans.

The Germans also did not mind working for the umbrella company, before the unification of the German Confederation, the Germans were the best mercenaries, and many wars broke out in Europe, there were Germanic mercenaries.

The Umbrella Company is equipped with a security team for the flight team, half German and half Cossacks, and when on duty, most of the Germans and Cossacks cooperate with each other, so as to cultivate the tacit understanding between mercenaries to the greatest extent.

"Sir, is there anything you can help with?" The tall Cossack mercenaries were intimidating, and their bald heads full of tattoos were intimidating.

"Please get this gentleman out of here, he's not welcome here!" Stuart Coffey is impatient, he is a senior engineer at the Nyasaland Institute of Aeronautical Research, and in Nyasaland, even Rudolph Diesel has to give a little face, so he doesn't care about passers-by like Huber Latham.

"Bastard, you're so rude!" Huber Latham's face flushed, as a sought-after pilot, Huber Latham had never been treated like this before.

"Sir, please get out of here at once." The well-uniformed Germanic mercenaries were polite and did not give Huber Latham a chance to attack, and his wide body stood between Huber Latham and Stuart Coffey, and his hand rested on the handle of the gun at his waist.

"This is a public place, and I have the right to stay here—" Hubers Latham argued.

The Germanic mercenaries didn't talk nonsense, exchanged glances with the Cossack mercenaries who were staring at him, and then walked away with Huber Latham on their arms one by one.

"Bastard—" Huber Latham struggled hard, and then was put on the head by the arms of the Cossack mercenaries.

God knows what Huber Latham felt, anyway, Huber Latham was immediately silent.

Eddie Johnston was not used to the domineering of the Nyasalanders, so he was stunned by what he saw, and subconsciously raised his hand to call the photojournalist over.

"Stop, I'm not looking for you to report such a bad thing!" Stuart Coffey is simply furious, and Eddie Johnston's behavior is simply too unprofessional.

There is no friendship at all with the fraternal unit.

"Oh oh, I'm sorry, Huber Latham is a famous aviator—" Eddie Johnston kindly reminded that even if the Daily Mail didn't report on the rough treatment of Huber Latham, there would certainly be a lot of hype in other media.

"Hehe, it's okay, it's not tomorrow-" Stuart Coffey sneered, Huber Latham's level is at most a test pilot in Nyasaland, not even a pilot.

This time, the flight team came to Jia Lai, and brought a total of three test pilots, all of whom have rich experience, and each of them has accumulated nearly 100 hours of flight experience.

Considering the performance of the aircraft during this period, these three test pilots are all more qualified to be called "pilots" than Huber Latham.

Of course, to fly over the English Channel, one pilot is enough, and the reason why three people are brought here is to ensure that nothing goes wrong, and other teams that are ready to fly over the English Channel are at most a dozen people, one pilot and one plane, but the team of the Nyasaland Aeronautical Research Institute has nearly 100 people, and the planes are all two and carry spare engines.

So the movement on the side of the Nyasaland Aeronautical Research Institute was a bit loud, and when the staff was about to remove the skin from the "strong wind", even Catherine Wright's eyes couldn't help but be attracted.

The "Strong Wind" aircraft is still a biplane, and when he saw the true face of the "Strong Wind" aircraft, even Eddie Johnston subconsciously sighed.

The planes that tried to fly over the English Channel this time were all monoplanes, and purely from the outside, they were indeed more beautiful than the "strong winds".

"Strong Wind is our most advanced aircraft in Nyasaland at the moment, with a range of more than 500 kilometers and a maximum flight speed of 200 kilometers per hour, not to mention flying from Galore to Canterbury, from Paris to London—" Stuart Coffey triumphantly introduced the specific performance of "Strong Wind", not caring whether Eddie Johnston was interested or not.

Standard straight man thinking.