If you want to have an excellent aircraft, you must first have an excellent engine, and there is a saying in later generations, as long as the engine is powerful, the bricks can fly to the sky!

The entire course of World War II was also a period of great development of military science and technology, especially for aero engines. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Germany's industrial technology is quite advanced, although Germany does not have high-grade fuel, it still manufactures high-power engines.

In aero engines, there are air-cooled and liquid-cooled. As the name suggests, it is a difference in the way of cooling.

Among them, Mercedes-Benz has created the DB601 series is perfect, the liquid-cooled engine reduces the frontal area, and there is no need to worry about the overheating of the engine, so this engine has been used as the main power of German aircraft, used in Me-109, Me-110, Ju-87, Ju-88 and He-111 aircraft.

It can be said that the Luftwaffe preferred liquid-cooled engines.

The last time I went to the UK, after the collapse of Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, pretending to compete, finally acquired Rolls-Royce, this company was divided into two parts, responsible for aero engines, acquired by Mercedes-Benz, responsible for part of the car, acquired by BMW.

Although it was in the name of Volkswagen, Volkswagen did not get anything, after all, Rolls-Royce is arrogant, they will not produce national cars!

At that time, the Merlin engine of Rolls-Royce was already in the initial stage of trial production, and now it is just for Mercedes-Benz to obtain all the technology to facilitate subsequent development, so the DB601 engine of Mercedes-Benz has entered the stage of comprehensive research and development earlier than in history.

In contrast, BMW's aero engine development process is slow.

Although the Luftwaffe clock-cooled engines, however, in World War II, air-cooled engines were not useless.

Although Mercedes-Benz and Junkers are working at full capacity to produce engines, they are unable to meet the needs of the current models. Therefore, if the successor fighter continues to use liquid-cooled engines, it will inevitably disperse the already stretched engine production.

This led to a result, the FW-190 fighter, using BMW's BMW-139 series air-cooled engine, this engine with a rated power of 1,550 horsepower, not only did not support the production of other models, but gave the Fw-190 a strong heart, creating a generation of famous aircraft.

Moreover, after the invasion of the Soviet Union, in the cold regions, the disadvantages of the liquid-cooled engine were revealed, because of the fear of freezing the engine, the coolant had to be released every day, and when it was started, it was necessary to add hot water, which brought considerable trouble to the logistics.

On the contrary, there is no problem with the air-cooled engine, it can be started at any time, and as a result, the sortie efficiency of an air-cooled aircraft is five times higher than that of a liquid-cooled aircraft!

Whether it's air-cooled or liquid-cooled, as long as you can build an advanced aircraft, it's a good engine!

However, now, since the main funds are invested in Mercedes-Benz's new liquid-cooled engine, the investment in BMW is quite small, and BMW has to raise its own funds to develop air-cooled engines, which will take a long time.

The same is true in history, BMW's engine was only in 39 years, and it was only in 39 years that a new BMW13918-cylinder double-row air-cooled engine was developed and installed on the prototype Fw190V1, and later, BMW improved this engine, the number of cylinders was reduced to 14 cylinders, and in the later period, the power even exceeded 2000 horsepower!

But now, as in history, the reconstituted Air Force is fond of liquid-cooled engines, so air-cooled engines are only in the type demonstration stage.

If we get outside investment, we will be able to get this engine out as soon as possible!

When Ciric proposed an engine with fifteen hundred horsepower, sure enough, Howard's whole eyes lit up!

Fifteen hundred horsepower! That means that the new aircraft in my plan can have greater development!

Now, Howard has started the Hughes Aircraft Company, because the purchased aircraft is not suitable, Howard has always wanted to build his own aircraft to break the world record.

But now, his aircraft is still limited by various technical problems, the biggest of which is, of course, the engine!

If you want an airplane to be fast, you need to have more advanced engines! In the plan, is Howard planning to get Pratt? Whitney's engine, they say, can provide a thousand horsepower engines, so that Howard's new plane, will have a surging heart.

And now, Ciric's proposal is even more tempting, fifteen hundred horsepower! If you put such an engine on your own plane, it will definitely break the record!

Ciric was very satisfied, just look at Howard's expression, Howard is quite concerned about this 1,500-horsepower engine! This guy is a big financier, as long as he is interested, he can invest a lot of money!

In this way, BMW's air-cooled engines will appear earlier than in history, and perhaps, more FW190 fighters will fly in the German sky?

"This engine will be very adaptable in the future, in addition to being able to be installed on our four-engine large passenger aircraft for intercontinental flights, it can also be loaded into racing aircraft, and it will definitely break the world record!"

"Okay, I'll send a telegram to Otik and Pammel immediately, asking them to send someone to contact BMW to discuss the issue of this engine." Hughes said.

Odik and Pammel, who are now the engineers of the Hughes Aircraft Company that thinks Howard, are quite talented, and now, they are working on the design of the H1 aircraft, and at this time, there are bigger engines, and of course they can't give up!

"Well, I see, we can work on two models at the same time, and I really can't wait!" Howard remembered the current project and was quite interested, the development of racing aircraft, the development of large long-range passenger aircraft, these will be cross-era progress!

Cillik is also quite satisfied, through this cooperation, BMW will also get a lot of American technology! And you can also get the air-cooled engine out earlier!

This is just the beginning, and there will be other collaborations in the future, waiting for Ciric to promote!

The chat with Howard lasted for three or four hours, although Ciric was a layman in aircraft design, but after all, he was too familiar with the study of World War II, and the two were able to communicate with each other on some details, and the conversation was quite pleasant.

When I came out, it was already late at night.