Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 359: Haiphong Port (middle)

"Keep the speed of descent, that's good." Major Victor Oheim steadily steered the rudder and moved his sight from the window back to the instrument panel. At present, all instrument parameters were within the normal range of indicators.

"We are about to land soon. Go and notify the people behind and make sure that everyone wears seat belts." The captain turned his face to face the deputy aviation machine sitting directly behind the throttle console. The teacher said.

"Yes, sir." The deputy mechanic loosened the shoulder **** the seat, got up and walked towards the back of the cockpit.

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

"Yes, sir." The deputy mechanic nodded vigorously, and crossed the cockpit threshold with his hand on the partition beside the door.

Behind the cockpit is the mechanical and electronic equipment compartment. From the front of the aircraft, there is a passageway and additional folding seats on the right. On the left is a spacious radio console and a dazzling circuit dashboard and machinery. Operator station, here is the combat post for radio operators and aviation mechanics.

This aircraft is equipped with a complete set of long-range radio transceivers, as well as a radio trans-oceanic repeater produced by Lorentz Corporation. Radio operators can use these devices to directly carry out intercontinental remote communications.

In front of the seat of the aviation mechanic is a control panel with a partition wall full of instruments and a throttle control lever. The instruments above show all six BMW engines equipped with the aircraft, as well as their attached generators and oil pumps. As with the various index parameters of the hydraulic pump, the mechanic monitors the changes of every data on these instruments in real time, relying on adjusting the engine's throttle and electric circuit hydraulic tube pump to ensure that the aircraft's power and control system can operate correctly during long-distance flights. .

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

"I'm going to inform the group of comrades behind that the plane is about to land. This is the captain's order." Third-class Sergeant Scholes said loudly, holding on to the shoulder of the radio operator.

"Okay, go, go." The telecom operator patted Scholes on the back and said he knew.

The aero mechanic heard the movement behind him, turned his head and nodded to his deputy as a greeting, and then returned his attention to the control console. The aircraft was preparing to enter the landing procedure. Can not tolerate the slightest error.

The previously spacious cockpit aisles and the rear cargo platform are now filled with various cargoes. Various types of wooden crates, large and small, are firmly fixed with wire ropes to the anchors embedded in the cabin floor. It was left tied, and various canvas bags and sacks were placed on the cargo box, all of which were fixed with straps. The rifle and weapon ammunition are placed on the weapon rack on the bulkhead. A thin iron chain passes through the trigger guard of the entire row of guns, and a small lock is also fastened on the other end of the weapon rack.

On the seats on both sides of the bulkhead, there are now more than 20 passengers seated, all wearing gray-green German Army field uniforms, wearing shiny medals and army etiquette decorations. Among these people, the lowest rank is It was a corporal, and the chief adjutant leading the team were two captains.

"Comrades, the plane is about to land. As before, everyone must wear seat belts." The deputy mechanic opened the doors of the control cabin and the passenger cabin and announced loudly from the door.

"Thank you, Schuls. We are already ready." Captain Binz Horn replied loudly, and at the same time raised his hand and shook it at the other party.

"Very good, Captain." Schuls nodded to Horne, then looked at the sides of the bulkhead, and found nothing unusual, then turned around and got back into the control cabin and closed the door again. .

"The arrival time was earlier than expected. We can have lunch in Haiphong City." Horn turned his head and said to Stauffenberg, who was sitting next to him.

"It's finally over. Captain Oheim's skills are very good, and only this kind of pilot is capable of manipulating this huge monster." Stuffenberg said with emotion.

He stayed on this plane for about 70 hours before and after, starting from Toulon Port to Haiphong Port in French Indochina, and only landed and rested three times in the middle. This plane has excellent long-range flight ability. And the amazing load capacity left a deep impression on the earl.

Blom & Flowserve, which has always been known for its excellent shipbuilding technology, its subordinate aircraft manufacturing department is called Hamburg Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and has some business dealings with Lufthansa, so it was pulled into Lufthansa The tender list for the development of long-range seaplanes across the Atlantic.

The goal of Lufthansa is to obtain a large long-range seaplane that can carry more than twenty passengers and the large amount of luggage and parcels they carry for trans-Atlantic flights. After the implementation of the Hindenburg that year, the Germans have always wanted to resume the operation of the transatlantic air route, and Lufthansa has seen the business opportunities in it.

Business personnel exchanges between the Americas and Europe can only rely on large-scale high-speed ocean-going cruise ships at present, but even the fastest cruise ships that want to cross the Atlantic need four days of sailing. However, it only takes more than ten hours to complete the flight with a modern aircraft. For businessmen who pay attention to time is money, they will not hesitate to throw away a lot of money in exchange for the precious time saved. .

At that time, there were companies bidding at the same time with Blomfors, as well as the old aircraft manufacturers Heinkel and Dornier. 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, Blomfors has no advantage at all. The most successful design so far is the early long-range seaplane Ha139. Although it has excellent performance, it is not well received, and neither production nor sales volume It's on par with Dornier's water monsters.

Speaking of HA139, there is also an interesting story hidden here. The Luftwaffe originally assigned the production number of the Blomfors aircraft to HA, which is the abbreviation of the Hamburg Aircraft Manufacturing Company. As a result, the head office wanted to declare its ownership. , Blomfoss was added before each HA number, so the final model became Bolom & Foss HA-XX type, which made it more complicated. In order to reduce the burden on the typists, the German Aviation Department simply gave him a BV number, which directly represents Blomfoss, and let him take it easy.

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

The company attaches great importance to Lufthansa’s bidding. As an established shipbuilding company, they have accumulated a lot of data on ship fluid mechanics. They may have some difficulties in building small airboats. The bigger they are, the more they will be. experience.

In the end, their six-engine large seaplane design defeated two overly confident enemies and won the Lufthansa R&D and manufacturing contract. However, what the company executives did not expect at the time was that the Luftwaffe was also eyeing this project.

The German Air Force wants to obtain this long-range transport aircraft capable of transatlantic flight to undertake long-range force projection tasks. In fact, this is Goering's possessiveness at work. He doesn't want the civilians to have aircraft with better performance than the Air Force, so he takes advantage of the name and takes the achievements of others into his own hands.

As for how the aircraft should be used, Goering never spent time thinking about it. But just after the design was fully developed, Goering was dealt with by Hitler, and then sitting in the seat of the commander-in-chief of the air force was the then deputy head of state Reinhard von Steide.

The deputy head of state has been interested in this project from the very beginning. Not only that, he also personally participated in the design of the aircraft. He not only produced a perfect drawing, but also gave it to the R&D team. Sufficient research and development funds, and ordered the Air Force to give people and materials, and fully support the completion of this project~IndoMTL.com~Xu Jun gave only one condition, and the test flight and finalization must be completed by September, at least Take out four finished products. The Air Force directly placed an order for the first batch of 20 aircraft of the same type. At the same time, it deployed a large number of materials controlled by the Air Force. What excites the R&D team most is that the Air Force also granted the company a batch of engine quotas. The most popular BMW DB601 at the time.

Historically, the products of this kind of engine have long been monopolized by Messerschmitt and Heinkel. Other aircraft manufacturers cannot get product quotas at all, and can only seek next-level engines as alternative products. As a result, many excellent designs fail to deliver actual performance.

The historical BV222 "Viking" seaplane was one of the victims in this regard. Because of the lack of strong support from the Air Force, the only choice was the Bramer 323 of BMW, an outdated product with unstable performance. As the main engine, it seriously affected the performance of this aircraft.

This kind of engine with only 1,000 horsepower was only used by a few models such as the Dornier 17 and FW200 at that time. It was a second-line engine and was only used for models with limited production scale and low speed requirements.

However, now with the DB601 engine with greater horsepower, smaller size and lighter weight, the Viking Giant finally has an energetic heart and is able to perform better flight capabilities than the products of the same period in history.

This aircraft is 37 meters long and has a wingspan of 46 meters. It is currently the world’s largest aircraft in active service. The U.S. has just developed a finalized B17 sky fortress in the huge BV222 In front of him is like a stunted primary school student.

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