Chapter 528 Jet Engine
While Arthur was sighing with excitement as he watched the rising housing prices in the United States, the Royal Aircraft Factory also reported good news, that is, there was a huge improvement in aircraft technology.
Although Australasian aircraft are currently some distance ahead of other countries, there has been little improvement in aircraft after World War I, and the gap in other countries has been partially closed.
Arthur's investment in aircraft research and development has never been reduced. The research and development of aircraft technology has always been one of the important links in Australasia's military technology research and development, second only to rockets, missiles, and nuclear weapons that Arthur currently has high hopes for.
In fact, the technology this time was not researched by the airport alone, but with the joint efforts of Diesel and the airport, the aircraft engine was further improved and the famous jet engine of later generations was designed. .
Yes, jet engines.
This advanced technology has actually been explored hundreds of years ago, but it has not achieved much success until now.
It is worth mentioning that in 1915, Albert Fano, a technical expert from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, designed a device that used gas and compressed air to increase the range of artillery shells. This device used a variable-section air inlet to propel the artillery shells at high speed Airflow during flight is compressed and ignited, providing thrust.
The Austro-Hungarian army did not adopt Albert's design, which gave Arthur the opportunity.
After the First World War, Arthur formally invited Albert Farno to join the Royal Academy of Australasia, where his main research focus was on power generation.
After that, Albert worked as Diesel's assistant, concentrating on the research of aircraft-specific engines, and the research lasted for several years.
Finally, after several years of hard work, the engine for a new generation of aircraft has finally achieved results.
Of course, the newly researched engine is somewhat special. Albert and Diesel had their own ideas. They cooperated with each other and came up with two jet engines with different principles.
Although this seems incredible, if you understand the achievements of the two men in history, it is actually natural.
Albert is studying a supersonic ramjet engine, which is also a jet engine and has the advantages of simple structure, light weight, small size, large thrust-to-weight ratio, and low cost.
However, this kind of ramjet engine does not have a compressor. During testing, it basically cannot be started when the ground is stationary, so it is not suitable as a power plant for ordinary aircraft.
In order to solve this shortcoming, Albert and Diesel worked together to develop a second jet engine.
The second type of jet engine is similar to the axial flow jet engine. Compared with the first type of jet engine, it is more suitable for the power system of ordinary aircraft, that is, military aircraft.
Of course, this does not mean that the ramjet engine designed by Albert alone has no use.
Although the ramjet engine is not suitable as a power plant for ordinary aircraft, it is very suitable for disposable aircraft such as missiles, and is of vital help in the research of missiles and rockets.
This also means that the two newly researched jet engines will play a vital role in military research in Australasia. This is something Arthur did not expect, but it is definitely a good thing.
Without thinking much, Arthur immediately arranged his schedule and came to the place where the two engines were tested, which was the Royal Aircraft Factory.
The birth of the jet engine also means that the birth of jet aircraft is not far away. This is why Arthur is really important to this technology.
Compared with the biplane propeller aircraft in use in other countries, Australasia's single-plane propeller aircraft is already very advanced, but the propeller speed has an upper limit, which also limits the current use of Australasian aircraft to a certain extent. speed.
If the research of aircraft can be placed on jet aircraft, the flight speed of the aircraft will increase at a quite exaggerated rate, which will be a huge lead for the aircraft of other countries.
Because it has been proven that ramjet engines are not suitable for use on military aircraft, this technology has been handed over to rocket research projects to help better research on rockets and missiles.
Another jet engine technology is currently being explored in collaboration with the Royal Aircraft Factory to build Australasia's first jet aircraft.
In fact, the theory of jet aircraft was born ten years ago. The first people to propose the jet propulsion theory were Captain Macny of France and Henry Conda of Romania.
Henry Conda also studied the earliest jet aircraft ten years ago, but the jet engine technology at that time was not perfect, and the Romanian government did not invest much in this area. Therefore, the jet aircraft test failed at that time. Relevant research data are also directly discarded as waste paper.
Although Henry Coanda's experiment failed, as a pioneer of jet aircraft, he naturally received an invitation from the Australasian Academy of Sciences. He has now joined the scientific research team of Australasian jet aircraft and is working on the Australasian jet aircraft. Work in West Asia.
This is also one of the current characteristics of Australasia, which is very keen to win over well-known foreign scientists.
Basically, any scientist with a certain reputation in Europe and the United States has been invited by the Royal Academy of Sciences. This has also made many scientific research teams in Europe and the United States very dissatisfied with Australasia. After all, Australasia's poaching behavior has caused them to suffer quite a lot. loss.
Although Henri Coanda's jet aircraft experiment failed in the end, his design concept of jet aircraft still has certain merits.
At least with Henry Coanda's failure experience, Australasia can avoid some detours when developing jet aircraft and have some experience that other countries cannot have. In fact, jet aircraft are still too advanced a concept for this era.
In the original history, even if jet engines had related ideas and even applied for patents, many aircraft manufacturers were still not interested in it.
They stubbornly believe that the realization of jet engines is as incredible as putting a man on the moon, which is completely unrealistic.
At present, Australasia has led the world in the research of jet engines and jet aircraft for at least ten years. This is a precious opportunity for Australasia, which can far surpass other countries in the jet aircraft stage. Opportunity.
When they rushed to the aircraft manufacturing plant, the experts had already moved out the prototypes of the two jet engines so that Arthur could actually see them.
The two jet engines are quite different in structure because of their different principles.
Looking at these two modern engines, Arthur nodded with great satisfaction, looked at Albert and Diesel who developed these two jet engines, and asked with a smile: "At present, How much thrust can these two engines produce?"
"Your Majesty, the jet engine we develop can use a variety of fuels as energy sources. When the fuel is different, the thrust that can be produced is also very different." Diesel explained to.
"If we use our special diesel, both jet engines can provide 4 to 5kN of thrust. The speed of the current first-generation engines can reach the fastest speed of existing fighter jets." In terms of speed, jet engines are compared
to The improvements in propeller engines are huge.
The He178, the first jet engine to successfully test flight in history, successfully achieved a top speed of 700 kilometers per hour, which already has a huge advantage over ordinary propeller aircraft.
Arthur nodded again, still satisfied with the current power of the jet engine.
However, although jet engines already exist, it will take a long time to fully equip them on fighter jets.
Although the development of jet aircraft did not start from scratch, there was no example to follow.
Coupled with the need to keep secrets from other countries, basically all original parts need to be produced by ourselves, which also increases the difficulty of building jet aircraft.
There is also the power guarantee of the new jet engine. Compared with ordinary propeller aircraft, jet aircraft have greatly reduced taxiing capabilities.
This also means that if the engine loses power or is damaged, it will be a huge disaster for the jet aircraft.
How to ensure the performance and stability of jet engines is what Diesel and Albert need to study next.
But in any case, Arthur was quite satisfied that a jet engine could be developed at this point in time.
This is equivalent to the beginning of an article, the most difficult part has been completed, and the rest is not a big deal.
No matter how difficult it is to design a jet aircraft, it will never be as difficult as researching a jet engine.
On the premise that it already has a jet engine, I believe that the aircraft manufacturer will not disappoint Arthur. It is not far away that Australasia will have its own jet aircraft.
After encouraging many experts, Arthur also asked the airport to design a jet aircraft as soon as possible and start experiments.
After receiving satisfactory responses from many experts, Arthur left the airport with satisfaction and ended his trip to inspect the jet engine.
Of course, Arthur didn't do nothing before leaving the airport.
Jet engine research is a big deal for Australasia, and therefore, experts who research jet engines need to be rewarded.
All experts received a check of 500 Australian dollars each, and the main players, Albert and Diesel, each received 1,000 Australian dollars. Together with the statistics of the experts' contributions, this is the reward and reward for Arthur and other scientific research experts.
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