In the second month after Smith became president of the Romanian Petroleum Company, Henry Coanda was also observing the newly built new aircraft with his assistant Aurel Fraiccu.
Aurel Vlajcu was born in Transylvania on November 19, 1882. He faced Hungarian oppression since he was a child. With his own efforts, he achieved excellent results and studied at the Technical University of Budapest, and later went to Munich, Germany.
Further studies at a technical university.
While studying in Germany, he was infected by nationalist ideas and believed that Romanians should be allowed to live in one country. In 1906, he learned from the newspaper that the Romanian aviator Henry Coanda's flight was a great success, which made this 24-year-old genius
The idea of developing in Romania came up.
After obtaining the engineer qualification certificate in 1907, he rejected the invitation of Opel Motorcycle Company and went to Romania to meet Henry Coanda to promote himself. Henry Coanda was initially a little disdainful of this young man who had just graduated from school.
After some exchanges, he was deeply impressed by this young man from Transylvania named Aurel Fraiccu. Later, the two of them talked more and more happily, and finally Henry Coanda asked Aurel to
L. Vlaicu is his assistant. Nominally, Orel Vlaicu is his assistant, but in fact Henry Coanda has to listen to this assistant many times.
Thanks to Edel's huge funding, the masterpiece of the two people's imagination has now been manufactured. This is a guy that is different from ordinary aircraft. The same thing is that it has double-layer wings, the fuselage also has a conventional layout, and the tail fin
It's no different from ordinary ones.
The most important difference in the position of the nose is revealed. An afterburner is added to both sides of the nose where the engine is placed. It looks like the aircraft has puffed up cheeks.
"I heard that the French Séguin brothers invented a new type of engine, which is very good." Henri Coanda told his assistant Aurel Vlaicou about the latest news about the aircraft.
"Perhaps we can buy one and try it. It may help our ideas. We can't always rely on the people in the power laboratory." Orel Vlaicu expressed his thoughts.
Due to Edel's intervention, Molonier and the others in the Power Laboratory have been busy with the research and development of diesel engines and have not invested much money in aircraft engines. Therefore, Henry Coanda and the others gave up obtaining the information from the Power Laboratory after two visits.
Ideas for new engines.
"This aircraft will surprise everyone, right Frajku?" Henry Coanda stared at the aircraft with different power in front of him and asked his assistant.
"I think it's better to experiment. The big guy we designed last time didn't achieve the results we intended." Assistant Orel Vlaicu still felt that it was better to be more cautious. After speaking, he stepped forward to inspect the aircraft.
After all, he designed half of the airplane.
Thinking of the last experience, Henry Coanda felt a little uneasy. Previously, he and Vlaicu built an aircraft with a wingspan of 21.5 meters and a 60-horsepower engine called 'Hercules One'.
Henry Coanda, who was extremely confident before the test flight, invited many media to watch the test flight.
As a result, the 'Hercules 1' failed to fly at all after carrying 50KG of cargo and two people. After reducing the load, the heavy aircraft took to the sky. This made Henry Coanda, who had smooth sailing after receiving funding from the crown prince,
I feel very embarrassed.
"I have sent out the news about our test flight tomorrow." Henry Coanda was a little afraid to look at his assistant. Orel Vlaicu, who was inspecting the new aircraft, turned to Coanda and said. "Coanda
If you do this and the test flight fails tomorrow, we will make headlines."
"Then we can only check more tonight and hope that nothing will go wrong tomorrow." After hearing the assistant's dissatisfaction, Henry Coanda said remedially.
"It can only be the."
Since the inspection of the aircraft lasted until late at night, a group of people did not get up until around ten o'clock the next day. After washing up and eating breakfast, Henry Coanda said to Orel Vlaicu, "Flaicu, please wait a minute.
Take a few people to push the plane out and prepare tools. I will take the remaining people to clean up the site."
After Orel Vlaicu took a few people to the hangar to roll out the new aircraft, Henry Coanda was also carefully inspecting the test runway.
"The weather is really nice in Coanda today." Corik, the Capital News reporter who arrived first, greeted Henry Coanda with a smile.
"Thank you for coming to Corik." After Henry Coanda turned his head and saw the person clearly, he walked over and greeted the reporter named Corik.
Reporter Corik walked up to Henry Coanda and shook hands and said, "I wish you success on this test flight."
"Thank you." Henry Coanda also responded.
As time went by, more and more people came to watch. Henry Coanda saw that the time was almost the same and said to Orel Vlaicu. "Let's start. This time I will operate the aircraft."
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"Isn't this too risky? Otherwise, let's let test pilot Cordo come." Assistant Aurel Fraiccu initially suggested. Flying in this era is risky, and many pilots have died in flight accidents.
, Henry Coanda knew that this was the assistant's own good.
"I know it's a bit risky, but you have to believe that I am the number one pilot in Romania. And you and I are most familiar with this aircraft. This test flight is very important to us, and I can only do it." Henry Coanda said to
The assistant tells the reason.
Seeing that he could not be persuaded, Orel Vlaicu patted his friend on the shoulder and joked, "You must come back. I don't know that the crown prince can't get funding."
Henry Coanda nodded to his assistant and said, "Don't worry, I will come back, and I will come back with full honors."
After saying that, he walked into the cockpit of the aircraft. The other staff began to manually rotate the propeller. As the speed increased, the engine started rumbling. After gaining enough power, Henry Coanda made a gesture to take off. The staff moved the crossbar
Take it away, the plane slowly accelerates on the runway, and after running 180 meters, the plane leaves the ground.
Although not as excited as the first flight, the crowd still waved their arms at the plane piloted by Henri Coanda. Aurel Vlaicu became nervous, because according to the plan, the pilot had to start the jets to gain acceleration after taking off.
After Henry Coanda made a circle in the sky, he started the power fuel chamber. After the burning gas sprayed two plumes of smoke on both sides of the aircraft, the crowd on the ground was startled, thinking that there was a fire. After the staff explained that this was
Calm down after new afterburner means.
"It's so fast," reporter Corik said. "Yes, it's really fast." The reporter's words were responded to, and the crowd looked at this new aircraft in wonder.
When Henry Coanda felt the extraordinary speed, the hidden dangers of this aircraft were also exposed. As the afterburner with extremely high tail flame temperature was attached to the wooden fuselage, it was completely the result of insufficient consideration of fire protection. Now
An open flame appeared on the fuselage baked by the tail flames, but Henry Coanda failed to notice it. By the time he noticed the fire, it was already too late.
As a pilot, Henry Coanda was quite calm, so he quickly lowered his altitude and speed. Seeing a small river in front of him, Henry Coanda pointed the nose of the plane towards the river and plunged down, but was blocked by trees. The entire aircraft was equipped with
In a state of disarray, Henry Coanda was knocked unconscious by the huge impact. His whole body was thrown out of the plane.
After seeing the plane crash, a group of people ran in the direction of the crashed plane. Finally, they found Henry Coanda in a coma near the river, and they took him to the hospital by car.
The news about Henry Coanda's accident was sent to Edel that afternoon, which surprised Edel, who had been paying attention to the rectification of the oil company. He took the report recording the entire incident and read it carefully.
After reading the report, Edel admired the advanced ideas of Henry Coanda and his assistants. At the beginning of propeller flight, they could be considered the first people to conduct jet experiments. Kailai could not let them continue to grow and must control them.
