Battle of the Third Reich

"It's good to keep the descent rate." Major Victor Oheim held the steering steadily and moved his eyes from the window back to the instrument panel. All the current instrument parameters are within the normal range.

"We are about to land, and we will inform the people behind to ensure that everyone wears a seat belt." The captain turned his face and said to the deputy aviation mechanic sitting directly behind the throttle console.

"Observe, sir." The deputy mechanic loosened the **** the seat and stood up and walked towards the rear of the cockpit.

"Remember to come back immediately after the notification." The captain reminded loudly.

"Observe, sir." The deputy mechanic nodded vigorously, straddling the cockpit threshold with his hand on the partition beside the cabin door.

At the rear of the cockpit is the mechanical and electronic equipment cabin, seen from the front of the aircraft, the right side is the aisle and additional folding seats, the left side is the spacious radio console and the dazzling circuit dashboard and mechanical console, This is a combat position for radio operators and aviation mechanics.

This aircraft is equipped with a full range of remote radio transceivers, and also has a radio transponder produced by Lorentz. Radio operators can use these devices for direct intercontinental remote communication.

In front of the seat of the aviation mechanic is a control panel full of instrument partitions and throttle levers. The instrument shows all six BMW engines equipped with the aircraft and their attached generators, oil pumps and hydraulic pumps. The mechanics monitor the changes of each data on these instruments in real time, relying on adjusting the throttle valve of the engine and the hydraulic pump of the circuit to ensure that the aircraft's power and control system can operate without error during long-distance flight.

"Hi Scholes, where are you going?" The telecom operator greeted the deputy mechanic while sitting on the radio operator's seat.

"I'm going to inform the group of comrades behind that the plane is about to land. This is the captain's order." The third-ranking sergeant Shuers said loudly on the radioman's shoulder.

"Okay, go, go." The telegrapher patted Scholes' back and said he knew.

The aviation mechanic heard the movement behind him, turned his head and nodded to his deputy, saying hello, and then turned his attention back to the console, the aircraft was preparing to enter the landing procedure, this time can not be tolerated There is a slight mistake.

The originally spacious aircraft cabin aisle and the rear stacking platform are now filled with all kinds of cargo, and various types of wooden crates of various sizes are firmly fixed with wire ropes to the tethers embedded on the cabin floor All kinds of canvas bags and sacks are placed on the cargo box, and they are all fixed with straps. The rifle and weapons and ammunition were placed on the weapon rack on the bulkhead. A thin iron chain passed through the trigger guard of the entire row of guns, and a small lock was buckled after the other end of the weapon rack was fixed.

In the seats on both sides of the bulkhead, there are now more than two dozen passengers, all wearing gray-green German Army field uniforms, wearing shiny medals and army etiquette. The lowest rank among these people is one. Corporal, the chief adjutant who led the team was two army captains.

"Comrades, the plane is about to land, and everyone has to wear a seat belt as before." The assistant mechanic opened the doors of the control cabin and the cabin, and stood there and announced loudly.

"Thank you, Scholes. We've already prepared it." Captain Binz Horne replied loudly, raising his hand and shaking at the other.

"Very good, Captain." Scholes nodded at Horn and then looked at the sides of the bulkhead. After finding nothing unusual, he turned and drilled back into the control cabin, and closed the door again.

"The arrival time is earlier than expected, and we can have lunch in Haiphong." Horne turned his head and said to Stauffenberg sitting next to him.

"Finally, it's about to end. Captain Oheim's technology is very good, and only this pilot has the ability to manipulate this huge monster." Stauffenberg said with emotion.

He stayed on this plane for about seventy hours before and after. He departed from Toulon Port to Haiphong Port in French Indochina. He only landed and rested three times on the way. The load-bearing capacity left a deep impression on the count.

Blom & Fox is known for its excellent shipbuilding technology. Its subsidiary aircraft manufacturing department is called Hamburg Aircraft Manufacturing Company. It has some business dealings with Lufthansa, so it was drawn into Lufthansa R&D across the Atlantic. Tender list of long-range seaplanes.

Lufthansa's goal is to obtain a large long-range seaplane that can carry more than 20 passengers and the large amount of luggage and parcels they carry for trans-Atlantic flight. After the implementation of the Hindenburg that year, the Germans always wanted to resume the operation of the transatlantic air route, and Lufthansa saw the business opportunities.

The trade between the Americas and Europe can only rely on large, high-speed ocean-going cruise ships, but even the fastest cruise ship needs four days to sail across the Atlantic. But with a modern flying machine, it takes only a dozen hours to complete the flight. For a business man who values ​​time is money, they will throw away a lot of money without hesitation, in exchange for the precious time saved. .

At that time, the companies that were bidding with Blomfors at the same time, as well as the veteran aircraft manufacturer Heinkel and Dawnier, the former was good at designing large passenger aircraft, and the latter developed and manufactured various types of flying boats all year round. Compared with these two competitors, Blomfoss has no advantage at all. Up to now, the most successful design is still the early long-range seaplane ha139. Although the performance is excellent, it is not good, whether it is production or sales. On par with Dornier's pile of water monsters.

Speaking of ha139, there is also an interesting story hidden here. The Luftwaffe initially gave the Bromfors aircraft the production number is ha, which is the abbreviation of Hamburg Aircraft Manufacturing Company. As a result, in order to declare its own ownership, the head office The BLOOMFOSS was added before a ha number, so the final model came out as BLOOM & FOS Ha-Xi, but it was more complicated. In order to reduce the burden on typists, the German Aviation Ministry simply gave him a bv number, directly representing Blomfors, and made him feel happy.

Turning back to the topic, many people may think that this company's name is somewhat familiar. As mentioned earlier, his own business is actually shipbuilding, from the battleship Bismarck to the u-type submarine, all of which are products of this company.

For Lufthansa's bidding, the company attaches great importance to it. As a veteran shipbuilding company, they have a very deep accumulation of ship fluid mechanics information. They may have some difficulties in building small airships. The larger the size, the more experienced they are.

In the end, their six-engine large seaplane design defeated two overconfident strong enemies and won Lufthansa's R&D and manufacturing contracts. But what the company's top executives did not expect at the time was that the Luftwaffe was also eyeing this project.

The Luftwaffe wanted to obtain this long-range transport aircraft capable of transatlantic flight, used to carry out long-range force projection tasks. In fact, this is Gorin's possessive desire. He does not want the civilians to have aircraft with better performance than the Air Force, so he uses the name to cleverly take advantage of others and take the fruits of others into his own hands.

As for how to use this plane, Goering never thought about it. However, after the design was fully developed, Goring was dealt with by Hitler, and then sitting in the seat of the commander of the Air Force was the then deputy head of state Reinhardt von Steide.

The deputy head of state was very interested in the project from the beginning. Not only that, he also personally participated in the design of the aircraft. He not only produced a perfect drawing, but also gave the R&D team sufficient development. Funding, and ordered the Air Force to give people and things and give full support to the completion of this project.

There is only one condition given by Xu Jun. Test flight and finalization must be completed by September, and at least four finished products must be produced. The Air Force directly issued the first batch of twenty identical aircraft orders, while deploying a large number of raw materials controlled by the Air Force. What most excited the R&D team was that the Air Force also granted the company a batch of engine quotas. At that time, the most demanding BMW db601.

Historically, the products of this engine have long been monopolized by Messerschmitt and Heinkel. Other aircraft manufacturers simply cannot obtain product quotas and can only seek secondary-level engines as alternative products. As a result, many Good design can't show actual performance.

The bv222 "Viking" seaplane in the history is one of the victims in this regard. Because it cannot receive strong support from the Air Force, it can only choose the unstable and outdated product of BMW Bramer 3 as the main engine. , Seriously affecting the performance of this aircraft.

This engine with only a thousand horsepower was only used by a few models such as Dornier 17 and 200 at the time. It was a second-line engine and was only used for models with limited output and low speed requirements.

But now with the more powerful, smaller, and lighter db601 engine, the Viking giant has finally got a vibrant heart, and is able to exert better flight capabilities than the same period in history.

This aircraft is 37 meters long, and its wingspan has reached 46 meters. It is the largest active aircraft in the world at present. The b17 air fortress just developed in the United States is like a huge bv222. A stunted pupil.

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