Zombie Apocalypse: Creation
Chapter 272: Chapter 272: Plane and Hot Air Balloon
Still, Xiaoyun was a little unhappy with the production as it stated only three per day max. But there was nothing he could do as Anna stated she had to create herself due to the complexity.
Besides the sniper rifle, Anna also stated the three weapons that the three Russians had created.
"What the hell... a plane design?"
Looking at the plane-like shapes first reminded Xiaoyun of the book picture from Wright''s brother''s flight.
However, it leaned much more toward some sort of makeshift aircraft, as the paper report had an attached photo of an already completed prototype.
From the outside, it looked just like a normal biplane, but as Xiaoyun flipped to the other pages, it showed the crammed inside that still had the car gine labels.
"Shuli, have they tested it yet?" Xiaoyun asked curiously.
"No, wh I got there to collect the weekly report, they told me they just finished building it."
"Really... Look like I''m going to need to check it later."
As Xiaoyun put the biplane to the side, he checked the second report from the Russian.
"What the hell are they on? Why are they making so many flying devices?" Xiaoyun wondered as he flipped over to the next page.
In front of Xiaoyun was a hot air balloon with a big circular shape on top, like an egg, with a burner in the middle.
"I think those three Russians are competing on who can make the best aircraft," Shuli replied.
"Yeah, I can see that..."
After finishing reading the second report from them, Xiaoyun moved on to the last one.
This time, it didn''t have a picture of the actual product, as it was only three pages of a blueprint.
"What do you call this? Some sort of big hot air balloon?"
Xiaoyun showed the blueprint to the other two, only for Shuli to point out what it was.
"It''s a zeppelin. I think it''s used in World War One?"
"Really? That far back?"
Yuqi looked surprised by the answer as she was a little confused about what this big aircraft could do.
"Yeah. It usually is used in bombing runs back wh planes didn''t really exist yet." Shuli explained.
"Wait, this thing can carry things?" Xiaoyun asked urgtly as he began to realize what strategic value it could bring.
"Yeah, this bottom part of the zeppelins is where they usually carry passgers and items..."
Shuli paused for a second, th continued.
"But I don''t think it''s really that safe... I remember teaching about the Hindburg disaster in class, where a zeppelin blew up."
"How did it blow up?"
"Something about using hydrog instead of helium causes it to catch fire... But I''m not sure about the exact detail."
As Xiaoyun consider all the material needed and added in Shuli''s explanation, he decided to approve funding for the first two prototype, with the third one rejected due to the cost required.
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The first Russian immediately started noting down Fei Tian''s feedback as Fei Tian continue explaining how he felt about the plane.
After finishing explaining, the four of them moved onto the next aircraft.
It was the hot air balloon as it stood in an concrete plateform next on right of the runway.
To Xiaoyun''s surprise, it was laid down sideway, with an large fan next to it.
The second Russian wt over to the side to turned on the massive fan, and aimed it directly at the mouth of the large nylon fabric.
After running the fan for almost t minute, the top of the hot air balloon was was inflated all the way up as the basket was flipped back up.
"You can light it up!" The second Russian yelled out as he turned off the fan and the other two Russian helped to carry the fan away.
Fei Tian quickly got inside the hot air balloon as the four watched him turned on the burner.
Slowly, the hot air balloon began to rise it as the burner continue to feed hot air into the mouth above it.
"Yes! It worked!"
The second Russian looked in excitemt as the hot air balloon was now all the way in the sky.
The other two didn''t look so optimistic as it still hav''t landed yet.
After a while, the hot air balloon was all the way to the other side of the factory as the wind blew it towards that direction.
"Um, where is it going?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.
"Whatever the wind brings it to." The third Russian explained.
As Xiaoyun watched the hot air balloon flew up and down, the second Russian explained to him that it was meant to change direction as each height had differt wind currt.
Soon, it began to descding down toward the g.
"One last thing... Come on."
The second Russian clunched his fist as they watched the hot air balloon slowly landed onto the grass nearby.
"Look like it''s a success." Xiaoyun clapped as the other two clapped in a grumpy mood.
"Thank you thank you."
The four walked towards the landed hot air balloon, which had the fabric lying at the g as all the hot air had dissepated.
"How was it?" Xiaoyun asked curiously.
"It was very smooth... Althought I panicked a little wh all the wind direction was blowing me away from where I was meant to land."
Fei Tian pointed back at the empty platform, and th pointed back at the grass field.
"It was slightly off... But I''m sure it''s fine." The second Russian dismissed Fei Tian''s concern as he began noting down all the feedback that Fei Tian reported.
With both of the experimt out of the way, the third Russian looked back at Xiaoyun with hope as he didn''t have a prototype to test due to the cost.
"Sorry... I know you want me fund your project. But the zepplins you suggested is just too expsive. Maybe in the future I''ll accept it."
The other two patted the third Russian on the back as they both laughed out in Russian as if they knew that was what Xiaoyun was going to say.
"I understand..."