Chapter 403: The Biggest Gain
The airship's initial take-off was very smooth, and under the control of the two intelligent robots, the huge Yufeng airship easily rose to the limit altitude of five thousand meters, and circled the Feng family's racecourse lightly and quickly.
I don't know if it's because of the excitement, or if I really want to test the taste of riding the immortal weapon in person, or if I have to do it, Cheng Yanjin and Feng Zhengqian didn't flinch in the slightest when they faced the invitation to get on the boat.
What shocked the two of them was that if it weren't for the fact that they could easily see the Feng family's horse farm shrinking outside the porthole, they wouldn't have felt that they had unknowingly come to the air, completing the reverie and legend of the ancients flying into the sky.
Li Anran, who even went to space, couldn't understand the excitement of Cheng Yanjin and Feng Zhengqian at all. After just caring about the two of them not to vomit on the spot because of airsickness, they took Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun to the viewing cabin specially designed for sightseeing.
Unlike other places where there are only portholes, the capsule, including the floor, is made of large chunks of tempered glass. Not the kind of person who has a lot of guts, it's easy to scare people when they stand here.
The only thing that made Li Anran dissatisfied was that the weather was bad that night, and it was gloomy and dark. After growing to a high altitude, nothing can be seen except the area covered by the airship's own lighting system, and such a good viewing capsule is completely blind.
Fortunately, in addition to this, the flight speed, flight altitude, stability and safety of the Yufeng I are all excellent. On second thought, though. This Nima is actually a black technology, so it's strange that the table is not good.
After a few laps of repair, and by the way, I also admired the rapid-fire electromagnetic cannon on the airship when it landed, blasting the startled night birds into slag, so as not to cause danger to the airship, and then the airship re-landed in the area where it took off.
For this flight, Li Anran was quite satisfied. Especially when I went to the cockpit that was completely isolated and had its own emergency escape system, I was even more relieved to confirm that the control system of the Yufeng I was simpler than that of the subway.
With this test flight experience. In addition, Li Anran had an in-depth understanding of the technology and application of airships. Pretty much for sure. For Datang Time and Space, things like airships are the best means of transportation.
Because China's terrain is relatively poor, two-thirds of it is mountainous and hilly, and half of the remaining area is either dense forests or water networks. There aren't many decent plains. So. Transportation construction is rare to make people want to cry without tears.
Don't talk about it, take the modern railway with the widest coverage of time and space as an example. If you want to say whether the railway is good or not, it is indeed good. It doesn't matter if it's a cargo or a person. Once a complete line network and operation mode are formed, it can indeed play a huge role in the field of transportation.
But the problem is that this thing is not only expensive but also has a long cycle, and coupled with the limitations of the terrain, it is impossible to repair it everywhere. The biggest headache for Li Anran is that the number of personnel required for the railway network is quite huge.
Not to mention the staff on each train, it is the maintenance, management, logistics and other links of each station, even if the demand for personnel at those small stations is not so large, but the number of stations that can't support the entire land of China is terrifying!
In comparison, road transport is much less affected by terrain restrictions, but it is not much better. The Celestial Empire in modern time and space loves to build roads, but it took more than 70 years to repair the roads in most towns and villages across the country.
As for the aircraft, not to mention the cost of the problem, just the vertical take-off and landing, the simplicity of control, the carrying capacity, the ability to completely ignore the terrain, etc., is enough to throw the aircraft that has no other incomparable except for the advantage of speed out of N streets.
Especially for the southwest region where the terrain is so complex that it makes people vomit, the airship is simply a means of transportation like an artifact. As for safety, Li Anran has never been worried, because airships are safer than airplanes from any point of view.
In fact, after consulting the records of air crashes collected from modern time and space, Li Anran found that even a very unsafe hydrogen airship is much safer than an airplane. This is evidenced by the famous historical downfall of the Hindenburg.
In fact, in Li Anran's view, the reason why the Hindenburg fell is that it can be regarded as a miracle of losing its character in a large way, and in terms of probability, there is no "lucky one" in a million.
But even so, at the time of the Hindenburg accident, only about thirty-six of the ninety-seven passengers and crew were dead. Shenma, you say that the proportion of deaths is already very high? Come on, it's in the air in a hundred, dear!
If this is replaced by a plane that suddenly takes off and explodes at this altitude, well, even if it does not catch fire and explode, it just falls from a hundred meters in the air, according to the analysis of the intelligent brain Cortana, these ninety-seven passengers and flight attendants, I am afraid that none of them will survive.
Not to mention the Windbreaker I, the safety design used is far beyond the speed of modern space-time airship technology. Take those startled night birds as an example, in fact, you don't have to use rapid-fire electromagnetic cannons to bombard, even if you hit them, there will be no problem.
Even, even if the fireproof, explosion-proof, and bulletproof airbags are penetrated, and at the same time, the inner capsules like honeycombs are instantly discharged, and the electromagnetic pulse engine of the airship is enough to land the cabin safely.
Not to mention that the airship is also equipped with perfect emergency rescue equipment, if this is not as safe as the plane, then Li Anran has nothing to say except that the black technology possessed by his cheap brother-in-law is too unreliable.
In addition, if you just use the airship to transport more goods and less people, in this way, even if there is a major accident that loses your character, you don't have to worry about too many lives. Of course, this does not mean that all other modes of transportation except airships should be abandoned.
In Li Anran's plan, the construction of ground transportation still cannot be abandoned. However, under normal circumstances, when the basic conditions are very poor, the construction of roads can generally only start from the www.biquge.info of Biqu Pavilion and then build all the way to the destination.
If the conditions at the end are good enough, and there are enough manpower at the same time, the top of the sky is to start repairing at both ends at the same time and then enter the opposite direction. As for the middle section, it is difficult to start construction at the same time due to problems in the transportation of construction materials, personnel management and placement.
And this aspect of the problem is also the reason why the earlier and more desolate the road, the slower it is to build. But if there were airships to transport these materials and personnel, the situation would be very different.
It is possible to start construction in multiple sections at the same time, and as long as the manpower and materials are sufficient, coupled with the management system is perfect, the construction progress of a highway can be ten times faster or even higher. If it's still too slow, then just increase these starting points.
As for the railway, after asking Zhinao Kotana to calculate the input cost and operational numbers, it was decisively thrown into the back of Li Anran's mind. If you have the time and energy to do this, it is more meaningful to transport inland river boats to toss.
After experiencing the alternative feeling of spending the night on the grassland, early the next morning, under the command of Li Anran, the Feng Family Racecourse began to rush the batch of horses that had been prepared before, which were divided into upper, middle and lower grades according to quality, to the airship.
Regarding the fact that this Yufeng I-type airship can only carry 20,000 kilograms, and according to the average of 300 kilograms per horse, it can only carry about 70 horses, although Li Anran is not satisfied, he is definitely not disappointed.
After all, this kind of airship recommended by the intelligent brain Kotana is mainly manned. Don't look at the fact that horses can only be loaded with such a little, but according to the average weight of 100 kilograms, it can be loaded with 200 people at a time, which is not less.
Who made Li Anran very anxious this time, but fortunately, the Tengyun I cargo airship has been arranged into the construction sequence of the multi-functional exploration spacecraft. For the time being, I'll make do with the Wind I, or it won't be long before you can change the island gun.
It's just that this time I came to Fengjia Racecourse, and the biggest gain for Li Anran was not this batch of horses with a lot of quantity and good quality, nor was it the Yufeng I airship that was tested and flown smoothly, but Su Xiaomei's words:
"Young master, if only that immortal artifact in the upper realm could be like an airship, it could be broken up and brought to the lower realm to be assembled." (To be continued......)