Volume 1: The Rise of Elanhill Chapter 0100 An Important Day
"Start the engines! Start the engines!" On a flat grassy field, a staff member shouted loudly to the ground crew standing on the wing.
In front of him, a newly produced and adjusted ME-109 fighter was ready to take off. Its fuel was purified, and almost half of its engine parts were manually adjusted by engineers.
With the efforts of the ground crew, the fighter's engine started to turn, making a roaring sound. The propeller started to turn, and as the speed increased, it gradually disappeared from people's sight.
"Everything sounds normal! There is no problem with the operation! The vibration is also within the reasonable range!" An engineer who was testing reported loudly to the teacher beside him: "It is exactly the same as the data in the laboratory!"
"Ground testing is over! Now we will conduct the takeoff test!" The middle-aged engineer nodded and gestured for takeoff. After seeing his gesture, the ground crew began to evacuate the plane. The plane, which was originally packed with people, soon became deserted.
Then the fighter plane began to slide forward little by little, and the speed of sliding became faster and faster. In the middle of the runway, the tail landing gear of the plane left the ground. Finally, at the end of the lawn, the two main landing gears of the plane also left the ground, and the whole plane was truly flying at this time!
"Beautiful! It's flying!" Chris raised his hands like a child and cheered. Beside him, Des also raised his arms like a child and cheered.
This was the result of their joint efforts in the past ten days. It gave humans wings, and made it so that dragons were no longer the only ones flying in the sky of Ailan Hill.
"Buzz..." In the sky, Orank was driving this fighter full of instruments, and he had the most basic memory of how to fly this fighter in his mind. He knew that this was the experience brought to him by the magic ball of knowledge, which made him very excited.
He did many tests on the ground, including physical fitness and anti-sickness tests. Among many pilot candidates, he stood out and became the first test pilot who could fly a fighter jet into the air. This was his honor.
When he actually flew into the sky, he found that he seemed to be born to fly. He shuttled through the ups and downs of the air currents in the sky without feeling any fear.
On the contrary, he was very excited and knew the aircraft's status very well. He gently pulled his joystick, and the nimble ME-109 fighter began to roll swiftly, one circle after another.
The overload of force pressed on his chest, making him feel as if he had thrown all worries out of his body. His plane engine roared as it flew low in the sky, carrying an inspiring momentum and stubbornness.
"In a few weeks, we will have dozens of such planes. In another half a year, we may have hundreds of such planes to defend our airspace! Ireland Hill will no longer be a lamb to be slaughtered. It will stand in the East and become the backbone of the world!" Chris spread his arms and shouted loudly to the empty sky in front of him.
He really needed to vent. These days, he was busy with one thing every day. He used his work, his infinite enthusiasm, and his respect and love for ordinary people to do something that was destined to be recorded in history.
Before Elanhill, mortals were a group of slaves, kneeling at the bottom of exploitation and struggling. After Elanhill, mortals flew in the sky, tore off the shackles of confinement and looked down at the whole world.
Orank was flying in the sky, imagining that he had wings. He could feel the clouds playing beautiful music above his head, and the air around him knocking against his window frame.
Pulling up his joystick, he steered the plane to climb above the clouds, he heard the regular and steady roar of the engine; pressing down his joystick, he steered the plane to dive like thunder, he felt the trembling of the wind cutting through the plane.
For someone who had not left the ground a few months ago, any flight, any precious soaring was a pleasure. Orank cherished such an opportunity, he really wanted to keep flying like this, flying to the other side of the horizon.
If, if someone deprived him of the right to fly, if someone invaded Elan Hill, Orank would not mind fighting to the end with his life! For the first time, he felt the value of freedom and the significance of dignity.
"Test! Test! Test the spare parts radio communication system! Can you hear me? Can you hear me?" The voice of the commander on the ground came intermittently from Orank's headphones, which made him feel extremely magical.
It is very difficult to make people hear the voices of others far away in the sky. In addition to the engine, the most difficult part of this plane is the radio communication system.
There are only three communication systems installed on this plane in the entire Ailan Hill! One is in the laboratory, the other two are on the ground, and one is installed in this plane.
This allows pilots to maintain good communication and contact with other pilots, and also receive orders from ground command - in the sky, communication is a very important link. Only by ensuring efficient communication can tactics be developed, formations can be completed, and coordinated operations can be carried out.
However, before, Ireland Hill did not have this kind of short-distance communication tool. This was also a "sample" that Chris and his team made bit by bit by hand. Now this kind of thing cannot be mass-produced, but it has been manufactured.
It is really a great pleasure to have drawings and assembly experience. As long as conditions permit, you can also make what you want by just manually piling it up - the only regret is that if you want to mass-produce it, that is another matter.
"I can hear..." Because he had already mastered the instructions and demonstrations of the communication equipment in his mind, Orank quickly adjusted the channel and answered the question in the sky.
What he didn't know was that after he gave his answer, the people on the ground cheered loudly again. Everyone was so excited that they hugged each other and cried and laughed, because everything they tested today seemed to be successful.
The radio communication system successfully ensured contact, and anyone with a clear vision could see the fighter's aerial performance. The current Ailan Hill seemed to be countless times stronger than a month ago. They no longer had to fear the threat of the dragon, and in the future they might even threaten the Holy Demon Empire in return!
At the same time, in the laboratory, an engineer who was enhanced by the Knowledge Magic Ball and majored in "communications" picked up the receiver in his hand, and a test voice of "Do you hear me?" came from it. With a smile on his face, he responded to the other party: "I heard you!"
The first telephone was successfully tested in the castle of Seris. Like the radio communication equipment, this equipment made Chris's work much easier: he only needed to make a phone call to find the person in charge of the relevant project without having to wait for the waiter to summon him.
And those waiters who used to wait by his side to run errands now have a new job: His Majesty the Grand Duke's secretarial team just needs these very capable young people. They are responsible for copying many official documents, as well as receiving guests and arranging itineraries, etc. The workload has increased instead of decreased.
At the same moment, when the telephone experiment was successful and an airplane was soaring in the sky, in the factory on the ground, another group of workers and designers looked at their babies and moved slowly.
The first car in Ailan Hill, or the first car in the world, started moving in front of everyone's eyes. After half a year of primitive accumulation and running-in, industrial civilization began to show its huge and awe-inspiring future prospects.
Precision machinery began to appear. Because there was no need for trial and error and no time wasted, the people of Ireland Hill could make samples in just a few weeks, which would have taken decades to perfect and develop. They did not have to face detours and mistakes, and they did not need to make improvements - they only had to follow the finished products outlined in the magic ball of knowledge.
This car, which was decorated with a complete steering mechanism at the time of its birth, is much higher than its predecessor, the ancestor of the car born in Mercedes-Benz. It is almost at the same level as the bucket car, but its workmanship and design are much better than the bucket car.
Yes, in another world, this ugly-looking car has a very resounding name - JEEP.
Chris wanted to come up with a multi-purpose vehicle that could transport the wounded, provide transportation for soldiers, and also serve as an officer's vehicle. After careful consideration, he chose the classic American jeep during World War II.
There are many reasons for choosing it. After comprehensive consideration, Chris decided to mass-produce this car because it is a relatively comprehensive off-road vehicle - compared with the German bucket truck, the jeep is more comfortable.
Another reason that makes people laugh and cry is that Chris didn't want to turn his Ireland Hill into an alien version of Germany (well, at least he thought so). So he deliberately avoided the equally good German barrel car and chose the American Jeep, which was almost the same.
Exactly two years after Chris came into this world, Ireland Hill owned an airplane and a car on the same day. The magic of mortals shone even more brightly on this day.
