"It's good to keep going at this rate of descent." Victor. Major O'Haim steadfastly steered the rudder and moved his gaze from the window back to the dashboard, where all gauge parameters were within normal limits.

"We're going to land in about ten minutes, Scholes, you go down there and take a look, make sure all of them wear seatbelts." The captain turned his face to the navigator who was crouching at the throttle console.

"No problem, sir." Ensign Scholes raised his wrist to look at his watch, stood up and walked towards the cockpit door.

"I'll go back to my place when I'm done." The captain reminded you loudly.

"Yes, sir." The navigator nodded vigorously, holding on to the partition next to the hatch and stepping over the cockpit threshold.

Behind the cockpit is the mechanical and electronic equipment cabin, from the direction of the nose, on the left is the passage aisle and two folding seats mounted on the bulkhead, the navigator's navigation seat is placed on the rear bulkhead wall, a map table is placed in front of the comfortable aviation sofa chair, which is covered with a high-end cowhide tabletop, and an instrument box is fixed in front of the map table, on which the speed, altitude and heading tables are arranged in turn, and there is a huge aviation table clock, the navigator relies on these data, Calculate the distance of the demarcated flight path and the existing coordinates of the aircraft on the map.

On the left side of the cabin is a spacious radio operator station and a dazzling array of electrical instrument panels and mechanical stations, which are the combat posts of radio operators and aviation mechanics.

In addition to a full range of long-range radio transceivers, the aircraft also carries a Lorenz radio transoceanic repeater that can be used by radio operators for direct intercontinental long-range communications.

In front of the seat of the aviation mechanic is a panel wall full of instruments and a mechanical console installed with two rows of joysticks, the instrument shows all six BMW engines equipped with the aircraft and its attached generators, oil pumps and hydraulic pumps of various index parameters, the mechanic monitors the changes of each data on these instruments in real time, and adjusts the damper, throttle and hydraulic pipe pump of the engine at any time to ensure that the power and control system of the aircraft can operate normally in long-distance flights.

"Hey, Schules, where are you going?" The telecommunications man sat down on the radio operator seat and greeted the navigator.

"I'm going to inform the group of comrades below that the plane is about to land, and the captain asked me to check it one last time." Scholes crouched down the staircase on the front right side of the cabin and spoke loudly to the radio operator.

"Okay, be careful when going up and down the stairs." The telecommunications man reminded with a smile.

The aviation mechanic heard the movement behind him, turned his head and glanced at it, then nodded to the navigator as a greeting, turned his face and returned his attention to the dashboard, the plane was preparing to enter the landing procedure, and there was no room for error at this time.

Entering the lower deck along the straight gangway, the spacious front cargo compartment and stacking platform of the aircraft are already filled with all kinds of cargo, large and small wooden crates are tightly fastened to the tethered ties embedded in the cabin floor with wire ropes, and various canvas bags and sacks are stacked on the cargo boxes against the bulkheads on both sides, all of which are firmly fastened to the bulkheads with straps.

"Go back to your seat and fasten your seatbelt." Scholes spoke to the heavy, who was smoking a cigarette as he leaned against the side of the nose of the aircraft to defend himself as he smiled and showed the ensign the buckle of the safety rope around his waist.

Tapping the heavy on the shoulder, the navigator walked down the aisle, which was crowded with cargo, towards the rear hold. At the top of the second compartment were the girders of the wings, and the two sides of the compartment were separated by a short distance, and a row of rifles, machine guns, and submachine guns were placed on weapon racks next to the bulkheads, through which a thin iron chain passed through the trigger guards of these guns, and a small lock was fastened at the other end of the weapon rack. The various ammunition and equipment are neatly placed in wooden storage compartments fixed to the sides of the bulkheads.

Scholes checked the safety of the secure latch, then opened the hatch in the bulkhead and entered the rear cockpit.

It is a spacious cabin, and the whole cabin is divided into three equal sections with the line of the bottom of the airframe rising from front to back, every three meters or so from front to back. Now on the seats on either side of the bulkhead, there are more than two dozen passengers, all dressed in gray-green German army field uniforms, wearing shiny medals and army ceremonial ornaments, the lowest rank is a corporal, and the responsible officers are two captains.

"Comrades, the plane is about to land, and as usual, everyone must wear seat belts." The navigator stood in front of the hatch and shouted to the officers and men on both sides.

"Thank you, Second Lieutenant Scholes. We've been ready for a long time. "Binz. Captain Horn replied with a smile as he sat on the sidelines, raising his hand and shaking it at the other.

"That's for the best, Captain." Scholes replied with a smile.

The navigator checked the bulkheads and canopy on both sides again, and after feeling that there was nothing out of the ordinary, he nodded to the two officers, turned and walked back to the hold, and closed the hatch again.

"Arrived earlier than expected and we were able to have lunch in Hai Phong city." Horn turned to Stuffenberg, who was sitting next to him.

"It's finally coming to an end, Captain O'Haim is very skilled, and only this kind of pilot has the ability to control this giant monster." Stauffenberg said with emotion.

He spent about seventy hours on the plane, making only three landings and rests from the port of Toulon to the port of Haiphong in French Indochina, and was impressed by the plane's exceptional long-range flight capability and impressive load capacity.

Blomforss, known for its excellent shipbuilding technology, and its aircraft manufacturing division, registered as the Hamburg Aircraft Manufacturing Company, had some business dealings with Lufthansa, so it was included in the Lufthansa tender for the development of transatlantic long-range seaplanes.

Lufthansa's goal was to have a large seaplane that could carry more than twenty passengers, including a large amount of luggage they carried, and a bunch of parcels and the like, for long-distance transatlantic flights. After the Hindenburg crash, the Germans wanted to resume transatlantic air route operations, and Lufthansa saw the opportunity for a long time.

At this time, trade between the Americas and Europe could only rely on large, high-speed ocean liners, but even the fastest cruise ships needed at least four days to cross the Atlantic. But if you change to a modern flying machine, it only takes more than ten hours to complete the flight, and for businessmen who pay attention to time is money, they will not hesitate to throw a lot of money in exchange for the precious time saved.

At that time, the companies that competed for the competition at the same time as Blomforss were the old aircraft factories Heinker, which was good at designing large passenger aircraft, and Dornier, who had been developing and manufacturing various types of airboats for many years. Blomforss had no advantage over these two competitors, and their most successful design to date was the early long-range seaplane, the Ha139, which was excellent but not so popular that it could not be compared to Dornier's pile of water monsters in terms of production or sales.

Speaking of HA139, there is also an interesting story hidden here, the Luftwaffe initially gave the production number of the Blomforth aircraft HA, which is the abbreviation of the Hamburg Aircraft Manufacturing Company, but the head office added Blomfors before each HA number in order to assert its ownership, so the final model came out as Bolom and Foss HA-so-and-so, but he made it more complicated. In order to reduce the burden on the typists, the German Ministry of Aviation simply gave him a BV number, which directly represented Blomfors, so that he could have a good time on his own.

Turning back to the topic, many people may think that the name of this company is a little familiar, as mentioned earlier, his business is actually shipbuilding, from the battleship Bismarck to the U-boat, all of which are now the company's fist products.

For the Lufthansa tender, Blomfors is very important, as a veteran shipbuilding company, they have a very deep research accumulation in ship fluid mechanics, they may still have some difficulties in building small airboats, the larger the size of their more experienced.

In the end, their six-engine large seaplane design defeated two overconfident rivals and won the Lufthansa development and manufacturing contract. However, what the company's top management did not expect at that time was that the Luftwaffe was also eyeing this project.

The Luftwaffe wanted to acquire this long-range transport aircraft with transatlantic flight capability to carry out long-range force projection missions. In fact, this is Goering's possessiveness, he does not want the civilian sector to have aircraft with better performance than the air force, so under the pretext of stealing and plundering, the results of others into his own hands.

As to how the plane should be used, Goering never thought about it. However, just as the design was in full swing, Goering was disposed of by Hitler, and the next person to sit on the throne of Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force was Reinhardt, the then deputy head of the Reich. Feng. Stadler.

The deputy head of state was obviously full of interest in this project from the very beginning, and not only that, but he even took part in the design of the aircraft himself, not only did he come up with a perfect design drawing, but also allocated sufficient funds to the research and development team, and ordered the air force dignitaries to give people and materials to give them full support for the completion of the project.

Xu Jun put forward only one condition for the factory, the aircraft must be tested and finalized by September, and at least four finished aircraft must be produced by then. The Air Force directly issued an order for the first batch of 20 aircraft of the same type, and at the same time allocated a large number of raw materials controlled by the Air Force, and what made the R&D team even more excited was that the Air Force also approved a batch of engine quotas for the company, the model was the most sought-after BMW DB601 at that time.

Historically, the production of such engines has long been monopolized by Mercedesschmitt and Heinker, and other aircraft manufacturers have no product quotas at all, so they can only seek sub-engines as substitutes, resulting in many excellent designs that cannot be used to perform in reality.

The historical BV222 "Viking" seaplane is one of the victims of this problem, because it does not have the strong support of the Air Force, so it can only choose BMW's Brammer 323, an outdated product with unstable performance, as the main engine, which seriously affects the performance of this aircraft.

This engine, which could only reach up to 1,000 horsepower, was only used by a few models such as the Dornier 17 and FW200 at that time, and was a second-line engine, which was only used by models with limited production scale and low requirements for flight altitude and speed.

But now with the more horsepower, smaller and lighter DB601 engine, the Viking Giant finally got a heart full of vitality and was able to fly better than its contemporaries in history.

With a length of 37 meters and a wingspan of 46 meters, this aircraft is currently the largest active aircraft in the world, and the B17 Flying Fortress that has just been developed and formed in the United States is like a stunted schoolboy in front of the huge BV222.

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