Chapter 855: Giving Wings to Humanity (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
Everyone has a dream!
At least everyone has the right to dream.
For Japanese laborers like Zoten, who came to the colony penniless, they not only got jobs here, but also found families. Even if they just married local natives, it was a great comfort to them.
After all, no matter what, they finally have wives and children.
After having a child, they had new expectations. They hoped that their daughter would become the master's concubine, or at least a maid in the house, and while serving the master's daily life, she would also give birth to children for him and change her fate from then on.
It is not difficult to realize this dream, but it takes time. However, for many people, this is their dream and their hope.
At least for Wesley, this is his hope. He used to be a captain in the Argentine army and has now completely integrated into this ancient continent. As a Catholic, he has three lovers, who have given birth to 16 children for him. The eldest daughter is already five years old.
"Xiaohui should be finishing school soon!"
As usual, while supervising the laborers at work on the plantation, Wesley would occasionally cast his eyes toward the distant path.
Xiaohui has always been his pride. Not only is she beautiful, but she is also very smart. You can’t see much of her mother’s blood in her appearance. She has fair skin, dark hair, and a smart brain. What does this mean?
As long as she has the opportunity to go to middle school, she can find a wise man in middle school who is willing to marry her, and then her fate will change over and over again.
Not a housekeeper, but a hostess!
Whenever he thought of this, Wesley's heart was filled with expectations, expectations for the future. People always have to have hope. Once upon a time, he had hoped to return to Buenos Aires, to his wife Emilia and daughter, but what about now? His hope was very simple, that is, a better life in this land, he and his family...
Many times people's dreams are always very simple.
The colony has always been a land full of dreams, even fantasy. An ordinary Chinese here can become a wealthy plantation owner overnight. Also, many people can realize their dreams and live a life they never imagined.
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Dreams and ideals are different. Ordinary people have their own dreams, but ideals? Sometimes they belong to only a few people, just like Li Lin, whose ideal is very simple, which is to build an airplane.
Along with the roar of the engine, the solemn expression on his face began to change, and the corners of his lips rose from time to time.
The corners of his lips slowly turned into a smile.
"Ding San, look, it's been running for half an hour!"
Pointing at the running engine, Li Lin said with some pride.
"I told you, aluminum can definitely make engines!"
As an engineer, Li Lin has been trying to build a "flying machine" in the past few years. They have been studying and manufacturing a glider. After years of experiments, they finally discovered that balance and lightness are crucial for an aircraft to take off.
The difference between a flying machine and a glider is that it requires an engine, but the engine has low horsepower and heavy weight, which makes the aircraft too heavy to take off. Although they redesigned the aircraft's engine, they still faced the problem of the engine being too heavy.
It was at this time that Li Lin set his sights on aluminum. Although aluminum was extremely expensive, with the funding of His Majesty, they obtained a large amount of aluminum for testing. However, at the beginning, the process of using aluminum to manufacture engines was not smooth because the strength of aluminum was not enough and encountered many problems in application. So they tried to increase the strength of aluminum. The method they tried was very simple. Similar to alloy steel, aluminum alloys were obtained by adding other metals to enhance their hardness and strength. Finally, they obtained a new type of aluminum alloy by adding about 4% copper and a small amount of magnesium and manganese. Its hardness and strength were increased.
By using this aluminum alloy to make the crank, using aluminum castings for the cylinder head cover and cylinder barrel cooling fins, and using steel sleeves for the wearing surface of the cylinder barrel, the weight was successfully reduced by half while maintaining the same 50 horsepower.
However, the biggest problem with this three-cylinder engine is its cost - it uses more than 10 kilograms of aluminum, and the cost of raw materials alone exceeds 10,000 yuan, but the most important thing is... it is very light!
It is very light and can be installed on an airplane, allowing the airplane to eventually fly into the sky on its own power!
"Put on the propeller!"
Soon, the wooden propeller was installed on the plane. After turning the propeller and starting the engine, strong wind blew from the test bench. In the past few years, in order to make the plane fly into the sky, they have been constantly researching and improving the aircraft and engines, while also constantly improving the propellers to increase efficiency and thrust.
Feeling the strong wind, Feng Kai said with a smile.
"This engine should be able to be installed on the Flyer One, Yu Peng. We have been testing it for such a long time. Why don't we check it and give it a try?"
Listening to Feng Kai's suggestion, Li Lin thought for a while and then said.
“Then give it a try!”
"Flyer One" is an aircraft they designed based on the Type 6 glider after modifying and adjusting the center of gravity structure of the body. The biggest difference from the glider is that it has an engine compartment, but it has never successfully taken off in the past because there was no suitable engine.
Now, with the successful testing of this aluminum engine, they finally have the opportunity to install the engine on an aircraft.
Unlike ordinary gliders, it has a wooden frame inside the nose, which is embedded with bolts. The engine is tightly connected to the aircraft through bolts to form a whole.
It was very easy to install this engine which weighed only a few dozen kilograms. It took only a short while to complete the installation of the engine. After installing the propeller, Li Lin, Feng Kai and their assistants and colleagues all looked at the plane in the air with expectant eyes.
“Can it really fly?”
Everyone was asking themselves this question. They had failed too many times in the past few years. Now facing this "plane made of gold", they felt a little nervous, but besides the nervousness, they were more expectant.
Whether their dream can be realized depends on the next experiment. They have been waiting for this day for a long time.
(End of this chapter)
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