Blackstone Code

the weather is getting hotter.

Winter can be cold sometimes, but as long as you wear more layers of clothing, there will always be warmer times.

Summer is really painful. Even if you don't wear clothes, you will still be hot. The heat is everywhere. Even the wind is scalding. When it blows on people's bodies, they will not feel cool, but will become hotter.

Even on the busiest streets of Bupain, the flow of people has dropped significantly, and people are afraid of the heat.

Lynch thought of the summer in Nagaril. The summer temperature there was obviously a little higher than the temperature in the Federation, but it didn't make people feel hot.

The hot heat waves in the shade of the whirling trees become cool, blowing on people's bodies with a coolness, which is refreshing.

There is nothing more enjoyable than sitting on a wicker chair, blowing in the wind, and watching the Nagarilese sweating profusely on the construction site in the hot summer.

When Lynch entered the institute, a group of staff were debugging some machine.

"What are they doing?" Lynch asked casually.

The director of the institute who came to greet him immediately explained, "They are installing a thermostat. This thing can keep the space temperature in the institute within a stable threshold range."

"Some materials that are sensitive to temperature changes need to test their performance in different environments, so we purchased a set. They said it was from the central government... or something." The director couldn't remember the word clearly, and he was not familiar with this aspect. Matters a lot.

In fact, it was central air conditioning, Lynch nodded.

In fact, his perception was slightly wrong. This thing is not just as simple as a central air conditioner. It can reduce the temperature of some rooms to close to zero, which is difficult for current air conditioners to do.

Sometimes a breakthrough in cutting-edge technology can often lead to successive breakthroughs in many related technologies. For the current federation, it is about to enter a period of technological explosion. As long as those people have fantastic ideas that can convince others, it will not be difficult for them. Obtain investments from wealthy people.

Lynch spent a small amount of money to acquire this research institute. The research institute itself is not valuable, and the land is not valuable either. For less than 300,000 yuan, it became Lynch's property. Of course, there will be no information or researchers in it. , there are only some precision instruments that cannot be considered outdated, but are not the most advanced research instruments.

This research institute is currently assigned to "Blackstone Industries". Blackstone Industries is not an operating company in the ordinary sense. It actually does not produce anything itself, not now and not in the future.

This is an institution that specializes in research. Lynch invested a lot of money in it and hired some real scientists and a small number of citizen scientists. Its value is to provide various ways to realize people's interesting ideas.

These methods will be registered as patents and then licensed to Blackstone Manufacturing and other companies in which Lynch has a stake.

For example, the aircraft company that many relatives of congressmen and military representatives have joined will obtain authorization and then produce something.

It is impossible for Lynch to regard this kind of enterprise that is obviously a profit transfer company as too important, let alone assign some important work to it.

Companies with loopholes cannot save anything at all.

After the two of them had eliminated static electricity, they officially set foot inside the research institute.

"Mr. Lynch, we have already started designing some of the ideas you provided about the aircraft engine..." The director took the initiative to open a door for Lynch, and the two entered the interior of the institute.

The security force used in the entire research comes from Blackstone Security, which is owned by our own people, so we can use it with peace of mind.

Many researchers knew Lin Qi, but they obviously had no intention of coming over to chat with Lin Qi. Instead, they were seriously doing various calculations or experiments.

Lynch promised that if they can produce the first dedicated aircraft engine before January 1 next year, then the profits generated by the first-generation aviation engine will be at least 3% and no more than 10%. Proceeds will be used to reward all researchers.

It doesn't seem like a lot. The authorized production cost of an engine may only be tens of thousands of yuan, but the quantity of this thing is definitely not small.

Whether it is purchased by the military or civilian enthusiasts, researchers at the institute believe that it will not be a problem to sell a few thousand units during its lifespan. Then the 3% dividend generated from the licensing fee alone will be as high as hundreds of thousands. even more.

As long as this engine is not completely discontinued, the researchers at the institute will continue to benefit from it.

In this period of economic downturn, it is rare to have such benefits, and everyone is working very hard to design.

The director of the institute is not a high-level researcher. He is an engineer in the laboratory of a heavy industry group. He is mainly responsible for designing high-horsepower engines to serve some construction machinery.

This job was relatively boring and lacked a little passion. It wasn't until Lynch found someone to ask him to change his job that he regained his new passion.

Flying has always been one of the most romantic fantasies in human beings. Everyone has the freedom to yearn for the sky, and the director is no exception. So when someone came to him and told him that Lynch planned to invite him to study the engine of the aircraft, he immediately I agreed.

Not only did he come alone, he also recruited some people he knew in the industry who were willing to change jobs. Of course, this also had something to do with the price Lynch offered.

Lynch is very enthusiastic, passionate about people, and passionate about money. Enthusiasm is often the hardest thing for people to refuse.

"Based on some of the ideas you provided, we have actually completed the preliminary design..." Lin Qi said nothing along the way. The director felt a little uneasy. It has been three months since the institute was established.

If there was no progress at all in three months, he would feel a little embarrassed. He walked to the innermost part of the institute, where there were many plywood with drafts of various patterns and formulas on them.

The director found a piece of it, pushed it out, and showed it in front of Lin Qi.

"After some research and discussion, we theoretically pushed the horsepower of our first-generation engine to more than 100 horsepower, and our aircraft designer designed a very beautiful appearance for it..."

The director patted the draft of the airplane behind him with some pride. This shape was designed by those civilian scientists.

During this period, there was no stereotyped mutual contempt between academic scientists and private scientists, and both sides cooperated well.

It was a biplane that was very different from Lynch's impression. The propeller was in the front. The structure was simple and effective. In fact, many aircraft designed by civilian scientists now look like this.

"Why two wings..." Lynch asked a "little question", but obviously this little question is not so easy to answer.

The director stuttered for a while, then apologized and called in the designer, a civilian aircraft scientist who was personally invited by Lynch.

Lynch had seen his performance. The plane took off smoothly and then crashed. It was impressive.

After this guy arrived, Lynch asked his question again, and the citizen scientist's answer was "stable."

"Mr. Lynch, the biggest problem we face in the air is stability and solidity. The wings are designed to take care of one point. We don't need to worry about it suddenly disintegrating, nor do we need to worry about it breaking when we pull up. Wings.”

"The new engine will give it more power. When doing some maneuvers we first have to consider whether our wings allow us to do it..."

This civilian scientist is obviously a practitioner. Judging from his flight experience, which is said to have never landed smoothly, his experience is actually more valuable than the formulas written in drafts by the researchers at the institute.

This is exactly why Lynch, after recruiting a group of academic scientists, also recruited some civilian scientists with rich flight experience into the institute.

Practice is always more meaningful than doing work on paper. Their experience comes from failure, not simulation, and these experiences are more valuable.

The civilian aircraft scientists who survived this period and were active for a long time definitely escaped from various desperate situations.

Those civilian scientists who were not capable enough and had insufficient brain power would have died in the last flight accident long ago.

He kept describing his views. In fact, in the end, he concluded that the current materials are difficult to support high-horsepower aircraft to perform some complex movements in the air.

In other words, the current engine of the institute has theoretically surpassed all previous engines. The design of the aircraft must adapt to the engine, rather than letting the engine adapt to the aircraft.

"How long and how far can it fly?"

"We currently have three designs..."

"The first type of single-pilot, cutting out all unnecessary equipment, can theoretically fly about 500 kilometers."

"The second type can carry two people, and the flight distance is about more than 300 kilometers."

"The third type can carry a pilot and six 105 howitzer shells, and the flight distance is about 150 kilometers."

When telling these data, both the director and the private scientists seemed very proud. If this kind of data were released, it would definitely detonate the entire industry.

They even designed an attack system in advance to drop artillery shells directly from high altitude!

Some aircraft before this had also considered attacking, but their approach was obviously of little significance. For example, using pistols, rifles, machine guns, etc. on the aircraft were of little value.

Pistols and rifles cannot hit people on the ground. Machine guns can, but they need to fly at low altitude.

As we all know, the biggest problem with current aircraft is that they cannot pull up after a rapid dive and often crash into the ground. Therefore, using a machine gun as an attack method is obviously not feasible.

As for throwing grenades...

If you fly too high, the grenade will explode in the air. If you fly too low, you will easily be hit by a machine gun. In addition, it is difficult to land. Therefore, until now, the aircraft has not completely entered the sight of the military of various countries.

As long as it cannot form effective combat effectiveness, no one is willing to study it excessively. It is better to let the civilian scientists continue to work on it, and the military and some enterprises will give them a little money from time to time.

It's best if you can produce results. If you can't produce results, there won't be much loss.