In fact, Rock's focus during this period was not on cars. Since the Wright brothers performed an air show in Paris last year, there has been an aviation craze in Europe. Governments have finally begun to pay attention to the new thing of airplanes, and the Wright brothers have also won the award.
Profitable.
Compared with the Wright brothers' aircraft, Nyasaland's aircraft is more stable, has a longer range, flies higher and faster, so it is time to start competing with the Wright brothers.
Just a month ago, the Daily Mail started campaigning for someone to fly across the English Channel. The Daily Mail was willing to offer a £1,000 prize to the first person to achieve this feat.
This is a lot of money. The current middle class in the UK earns just over one hundred pounds per year, so many people are attracted by this award and bring their own aircraft to the English Channel, preparing to challenge this record.
However, the chances of others winning this award are not great. The reason why the "Daily Mail" set up this award is actually to prepare for Nyasaland's plane to go abroad.
In mid-May, a flight team sent by the Nyasaland Aviation Research Institute arrived in Canais, France, preparing to fly across the English Channel from Canais.
The flight team used the "Strong Wind" aircraft tested by Nyasaland last year. At that time, the shooting coordinator had not been successfully developed. To install a machine gun on the aircraft, an additional shooter was required. Now this problem has been solved, but the Aviation Research Institute still uses
Challenge last year’s model.
There is no way. The purpose of the "Strong Wind" aircraft's challenge to fly across the English Channel is to win orders from European countries. The Aviation Research Institute will definitely not use all the ballast bilge technology. The performance of the "Strong Wind" aircraft is as long as Billet.
Brother's "Aviator 3" is better.
The leader of the team is Stuart Coffey. He is originally of French descent. This time he returned to France, which was considered an honorable return to his hometown.
However, France did not treat Stuart Coffey kindly.
At this time, there were already several flying teams from all over the world in Canai, preparing to take on the challenge of flying across the English Channel, including Catherine Wright, the sister of the Wright brothers.
In fact, compared with the Wright brothers, Katherine Wright's reputation is not inferior at all, and her female identity has brought more gimmicks to Katherine Wright. This time Katherine Wright came to Europe to sell the "Aviator 3" developed by the Wright brothers.
"In order to create greater influence, Catherine Wright even hired a photography team. Many media from Europe and the United States are also surrounding Catherine Wright all day long, including the British "Daily Mail"
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This made Stuart Coffey very unhappy.
"Don't force me to find the Lord. When you are reporting, you should pay more or less attention to our own team!" Stuart Coffey found the reporter Eddie Johnston of the "Daily Mail" and reported directly to Eddie.
Dee Johnston expressed his dissatisfaction.
"Mr. Stelter, you should know that readers don't want to know how mysterious the plane from far southern Africa is. They would rather see a woman flying the plane soaring in the sky, so you can't blame us for not paying attention to your team.
It's readers who like to see news related to Catherine Wright - or you can find a female driver, I guarantee that there will be countless media interviews with you tomorrow." Eddie Johnston had no choice,
Many readers simply don't care that southern Africa is that part of the world, and women like Catherine Wright are the darlings of the media.
"Whether we can fly across the English Channel or not, we still have to rely on technology to speak, rather than show off in front of the camera -" Stuart Coffey was very angry, so he spoke a little unscrupulously.
Not far away, Katherine Wright was surrounded by a large group of reporters.
It can be seen that Katherine Wright has great experience in dealing with the media. She chatted happily with the reporters and bursts of laughter came from time to time. This was in sharp contrast to the deserted Nyasaland flight team.
In fact, the Nyasaland flight team had just arrived in Canai, and the plane was still wrapped in skin so it was difficult to see its true appearance, so it was natural that it was ignored by the media.
"Wow, it seems that this gentleman is very confident about flying over the English Channel -" a playful and flirtatious voice came from the side, it was the pilot Hubers Latham who was also preparing to fly over the English Channel.
"Of course I have confidence in my team, do you have any opinions?" Stuart Coffey looked indifferent. Stuart Coffey has never been patient with people who don't want to do anything.
"Hahahaha, it's so funny. I don't know where your confidence comes from. I even doubt how you plan to fly across the English Channel. I heard that there are many Chinese in southern Africa. You don't want to fly across the English Channel on a kite.
Well—" Hubers Latham laughed, as if he had heard the funniest joke.
"How loud the laughter is now, how much your face will hurt when you fall down!" Stewart Coffey said nothing nonsense, raising his hand to call over two security guards from the Umbrella Company.
When the aviation laboratory's flight team comes to France, the person responsible for security is of course the Umbrella Company.
In Europe, the employees employed by the Umbrella Company are all white people, many of whom are Cossacks from the Russian Empire. These Cossacks are physically strong and fearless of life and death. Although they are less disciplined, they are still quite reliable when they don't drink.
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Opposite to the Cossacks, the Germans are the most self-disciplined. Regardless of the frequent conflicts between Africa, Southern Africa and Tanganyika, in Europe, the Umbrella Company still employs many Germans.
The Germans don't mind working for the Umbrella Company. Before the unification of the German Federation, the Germans were the best mercenaries. German mercenaries were present in many wars that broke out in Europe.
The security team provided by the Umbrella Company for the flight team is divided equally between Germans and Cossacks. When on duty, it is mostly Germans and Cossacks who cooperate with each other, which can cultivate a tacit understanding among the mercenaries to the greatest extent.
"Sir, how can I help you?" The tall Cossack mercenary said in a loud voice, and his bald head covered with tattoos was intimidating.
"Please leave this gentleman, he is not welcome here!" Stuart Coffey was impatient. He was a senior engineer at the Nyasaland Aeronautical Research Institute. In Nyasaland, even Rudolf Diesel asked
Give him some face, so he doesn't care about strangers like Hubers Latham.
"Asshole, you are so rude!" Hubers Latham's face turned red. As a popular pilot, Hubers Latham had never suffered such treatment before.
"Sir, please leave here immediately." The neatly uniformed German mercenary was polite and did not give Hubers Latham a chance to attack. His broad body blocked Hubes Latham and Stuart Coffey.
In the meantime, his hand was pressed on the handle of the gun at his waist.
"This is a public place and I have the right to be here -" Hubers Latham argued.
The Germanic mercenaries didn't talk nonsense, exchanged glances with the eyeing Cossack mercenaries beside them, then each of them picked up Hubers Latham by one arm and left.
"Bastard——" Hubers Latham struggled hard, and then his head was clamped by the Cossack mercenary.
God knows what Hubers Latham felt, but Hubers Latham was immediately silenced.
Eddie Johnston was not used to the tyranny of the Nyasaland people, so he was stunned by what he saw in front of him. He subconsciously raised his hand to call the photographer over.
"Stop it, I didn't ask you to report on such a bad thing!" Stuart Coffey was simply angry. Eddie Johnston's behavior was really unprofessional.
There is no friendly feeling of brotherly units at all.
“Oh oh oh, sorry, Hubers Latham is a famous aviator——” Eddie Johnston kindly reminded that even if the Daily Mail did not report Hubers Latham’s death,
The rough treatment received will definitely be hyped up by other media.
"Haha, it doesn't matter, it won't be tomorrow -" Stuart Coffey sneered. At Hubers Latham's level, in Nyasaland, he is at best a test pilot, not even a pilot.
This time the flight team came to Jialai and brought a total of three test pilots, all of whom had rich experience and each of them had accumulated nearly a hundred hours of flying experience.
Considering the performance of aircraft during this period, each of these three test pilots is more qualified to be called an "aviator" than Hubers Latham.
Of course, to fly over the English Channel, one pilot is enough. The reason why we brought three people here is to ensure that everything is foolproof. The other teams preparing to fly over the English Channel are at most a dozen people, one pilot and one plane. Niassa
The team of the Lanzhou Aviation Research Institute has nearly a hundred people, and they have two aircraft and spare engines.
Therefore, there was a lot of movement at the Nyasaland Aeronautical Research Institute. When the staff was preparing to remove the skin from the "Strong Wind", even Katherine Wright's eyes could not help but be attracted.
The "Strong Wind" aircraft is still a biplane. When seeing the true appearance of the "Strong Wind" aircraft, even Eddie Johnston subconsciously sighed.
This time, the planes trying to fly over the English Channel were all monoplanes. From a pure appearance point of view, they were indeed more beautiful than the "Strong Wind".
"The strong wind is the most advanced aircraft we have in Nyasaland at present. It has a range of more than 500 kilometers and a maximum flight speed of 200 kilometers per hour. Needless to say, it can fly from Canterbury to Canterbury and from Paris to London -" Stuart
·Coffey proudly introduced the specific performance of "Strong Wind" and didn't even care whether Eddie Johnston was interested.
