Chapter 2522: The Glory of France One
"Your Highness, do we really want to invite the French aircraft manufacturer to participate in this bidding?" After Henkel reported the preparations for this bidding to Ruprecht, before he was about to leave, he still wanted to ask Let's take a look at the crown prince's attitude towards this matter. After all, when this news spread within the government, the shock caused was relatively large. Many people obviously expressed their dissatisfaction with the possible participation of the French in the bidding. It's a bit fast, and on the other hand, because colleagues are enemies, no one wants to have other people join their dinner table.
"You have a problem with this plan?" Ruprecht asked.
"Well, how should I put it? I understand your original intention. I hope the Imperial Air Force and airlines have better aircraft. But we must take care of the feelings of the domestic aviation industry. After all, we were once enemies. Moreover, it is related to the Imperial military. Or in key areas, if we use foreign aircraft, it will also be a big problem for the safety of the empire. I am afraid that the empire will also be dissatisfied with your actions, the crown prince, and we must also consider political pressure. "
"The most important thing is that the French government may not agree to their aircraft factory joining this bidding. Although we have signed a peace treaty, according to my understanding of the French, their arrogance and stubbornness will prevent France and us Get closer." Henkel said carefully.
"I have considered political issues, so this time, we allow French companies to participate in the bidding only for racing planes, postal planes, transport planes and seaplanes. Military-related fighter jets and bombers are not open to French companies." The crown prince said with a smile.
"Well, Your Highness, you have deep knowledge in technology, and I am an aviation designer. I think we can talk about some things." Henkel said with some irony. To be honest, racing machines and fighter jets have something in common. After all, before the end of World War II, the speed of an aircraft was one of the most important hardware indicators. And this time, the competition for the racing machine participating in the bidding is not only the flight speed, but also the climb speed, dive limit speed and so on! This is simply a bidding fighter!
"I have already said that this statement is to deal with political troubles. It is good to have an excuse. What others think is their business and has nothing to do with me." Ruprecht said with a smile.
"Heinkel, I repeat, I am the future king, and what I care about is that the Royal Air Force has the right aircraft, that the civil aviation sector can develop, and that the domestic aviation industry can thrive against competition, except for these three I don’t care about anything other than the goal. I don’t care whether the Bavarian aircraft factory or a private factory in Germany gets the order. Sometimes I don’t care whether the French get some of the orders. I need to give them Pressure, even if they are a flock of sheep, I will release a wolf and let these sheep run faster!" Ruprecht is very firm on this issue!
"Have I completed your mission? From time to time, do I ask you to select a few more advantageous airlines from France? How is the situation going now?" Ruprecht has already said what he should say said it all,
And seeing that the other party is a famous German aircraft designer in history, the crown prince said it again, that's all right, now all that is left is to execute the order of the crown prince. If you understand it, you must execute it. ! If you are willing, you must implement it, if you don't want it, you must implement it!
"We carefully studied the aircraft of the French in World War I. Most of the products can only be described as quite satisfactory. Among the fighters, there are some relatively excellent products. For example, the S.XIII fighter of SPAD company has better performance than Fu The Ke D fighter is easy to use, and it belongs to an aircraft specially used for air combat. However, the Kingdom does not want to develop a pure air combat fighter at present. What we want is a multi-functional fighter similar to J6, so it is used for Competing for the Austro-Hungarian fighter tender is fine, but we don't need to."
"As for bombers, because of the lack of industrial capacity and technology of the French, they have never developed a bomber similar to the K6 level like us and the British. The only exception is the F60 bomber of Farmand Company. Of course, now this This aircraft has been changed into a passenger aircraft. The performance of this aircraft is actually very average, and the maximum take-off weight is only more than 5 tons, but it is relatively cost-effective. It can carry 1 ton of cargo and fly 1,500 kilometers. It is not bad from an economic point of view, and The ceiling is also high. And the engines it uses are just two 260-horsepower 9-cylinder air-cooled engines."
"From this point of view, if this aircraft is used as a postal aircraft, it should be pretty good. It is moderate in size, economical and relatively less subsidized by the government." Henkel said, although his decision on the crown prince is somewhat different. There are some opinions, but he has done the essential work as a technical consultant. He will collect any information that the high-level needs, and the suggestions given are also very pertinent, without his own tendency.
"Farmand F60? Hehe, this is a famous machine. Sure enough, gold always shines." Ruprecht said in his heart. This aircraft is also very famous in history. In terms of size and performance, the Farmand F60 is far inferior to the V1500. Actually worse than O-400. But the poor performance of this aircraft is due to the poor engine at the beginning. At the beginning, when the F60 used two 260-horsepower engines, it could only carry 1 ton of supplies. increased to 1600 kg.
In history, this aircraft failed to catch up with the battlefield, but it became the world's first commercial airliner and transport aircraft. In April 1919, this plane carried 4 passengers and 1 ton of supplies, flew 2050 kilometers non-stop, and made a sensation in the world in only 18 hours and 23 minutes. Frame, but equipped with France, Belgium, Italy, the Soviet Union, Japan, Czechoslovakia and Poland and many other countries. It is more or less famous.
Moreover, this aircraft also set a record of carrying 12 passengers and climbing to an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, which also broke the world record at the time. From this perspective, the high-altitude performance of the aircraft is really good. This aircraft is compatible with the role of airliner, bomber and transport aircraft!
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