"I have to admit that the venerable Prince Ruprecht was definitely the most scientific and logical man of all the German aristocracy, and he always presented a new thing to the people almost perfectly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info is well-founded and convincing. In Moltke's diary, he used to write. As for the airplane, the prince's description of the airplane quickly caught Moltke's eye.

Don't pretend that Dakong and Moltke will say how great the future of the plane will be, and the future range and bomb load of the plane can be compared to that of an airship or something. None of this is of much use. Why? Because this one looks so fake! People are accustomed to seeing is believing, and people can't see, and if you say that these are of limited use, so the prince's first first step is to focus on the advantages of airplanes over airships.

So what's the biggest advantage? That's naturally - cheap! Moltke looked at the information behind, and he suddenly found a problem, as long as there are people with ****** design and construction experience, they can easily assemble such an aircraft, and almost all the raw materials can be bought from the civilian market! For example, the wood used to make these planes is even inferior to the wooden furniture if it is not as detailed! The only thing that was a little technically difficult was the engine, but as long as Moltke wanted to, a telegram would pass, and in four days, a Daimler engine would be delivered. How much can such a thing be worth?

And cheap means it can be produced in large quantities! It is completely possible to make up for the lack of quality with quantity, and the cost of an airship to build such an aircraft must be more than 2 dozen, right? Although these planes seem to be very rudimentary, the airships of this era are also unsuccessful.

The first flight of Count Zeppelin's LZ-1 airship lasted only 18 minutes, and in the prince's letter it was made clear that his own thing flew for more than half an hour! And the flight speed is also faster than that of an airship, as for maneuverability? Not to mention, look at the photos of the plane leisurely spinning in circles, flying figures-8, shallow dives in the air, and then look at those huge cigar smokes, and make a judgment!

The only advantage of the airship is in the ceiling, the latter has a maximum flight altitude of more than 2,000 meters, and the aircraft in these photos currently fly at an altitude of only 500 meters. Moltke Jr. has carefully compared this key data, referring to the size ratio of the plane in the photo and the surrounding landscape, Moltke Jr. can be sure that this altitude is not fake, after all, people are also people who have been on the airship, and there is still some basic skill for high-altitude image recognition.

And this altitude is not fake, it is the result of a test pilot No. 3 weighing only 55 kilograms flying in a lightweight Flyer 1 aircraft with only half the fuel on board. "Before this plane landed, I even suspected that it would probably fall apart in the air!" Afterwards, the pilot said with apprehension. After this incident, Lilinthal and others finally began to consider using lighter and tougher materials for the aircraft, so aluminum alloy and plywood gradually appeared in their field of vision! Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

The first round of the Prince's photograph and commentary had a very good effect, not to mention that, at least it attracted Moltke's attention, and at the same time made him realize the superiority of the aircraft, so well, now it's time to move on to the next step, which is to look to the future! At this time, it was too early to say how great the future of the plane was, and the prince came up with something else that seemed close to being realized. Thanks to the technical and military-industrial department of Bavaria, the samples they came up with were simply fascinating!

Moltke picked up another photo and looked at it. The photo shows a machine gun, and below it is a ring-shaped gun carriage with a special saddle-shaped drum mounted on both sections of the machine gun, which can hold 150 rounds. "Airplanes can quickly fly from 150 to 200 meters in the air with machine guns, strike at ground units, disrupt infantry units, or strafe mobile units such as horse-drawn carriages, cars, trains, etc. With special incendiary bombs, you can easily destroy improvised civil bunkers, cars, and wagons. ”

This description is very objective, just imagine what it would be like for a giant bird with a wingspan of more than 10 meters to roar down from the sky and then spread a series of deadly bullets? Let's not talk about the lethal effect on infantry, but at least the deterrent effect is quite good! Sometimes, soft kills are more deadly than hard kills. If the enemy's infantry can be kept in a state of tension and panic through continuous dive attacks, then it can also be quite useful.

Although the accuracy of the plane's hit is very low, if you hit a large target such as a train, a car, or a horse-drawn carriage, you still have a chance to hit, not to mention the attack effect, if an attack can cause damage to a batch of carriages and the materials on it, then it is worth it. (provided that the plane is not shot down--! After all, this plane is not worth much, how much is the fuel consumption alone?

Later chapters show an experimental sight that, as explained in the pictures, can correct the speed and angle of the aircraft, thereby ensuring the accuracy of the bomb. The photo in the back shows a new type of pylons and a variety of bombs carried, but there is practice later, and ground bench tests can also be used, but unfortunately, none of the aircraft can be equipped with ....... It's too heavy!

There are many types of bombs, but in the eyes of the experienced Moltke, these primitive bombs are almost copies of mortar shells! However, the fuse was improved, and the walls of the shells were made thinner, and wooden stabilizer wings were added. The internal charge is exactly the same as the army shell, such as high-explosive shells, grenades, incendiary bombs, smoke bombs, flares, and so on.

In the mode of attack, the prince focused on the superiority of the aircraft attack - that is, better maneuverability, and the ability to reduce altitude to improve accuracy. This is not available to airships, which can only bomb horizontally at high altitudes, and what they can hit when they drop a bomb depends entirely on their faces. And judging from the operability of the airship, you can't play low-altitude bombing if you want to lower the altitude. Wind speed and ballast are huge limitations! The prince very cleverly emphasized the accuracy of the aircraft's attack, and put forward the theory that precision should be used to compensate for the amount of ammunition carried.

Of course, these things alone were not enough to convince Moltke to go out of his way to push this forward, and most importantly the last few pictures, which are pictures of several new "aero engines", ranging from 70 hp to 130 hp. If someone understands engines, then at a glance you can see that the parent type of these engines is the gasoline engine of the car, of course, Moltke does not understand the ....... And the new motivation finally reassured Moltke, and he decided to join forces with the prince again!

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