Chapter 1,032 Airship Transformation Plan

If you dare to demonstrate your skills, you won’t be afraid of others learning from them. Lin's attitude is the real reason why others are willing to cooperate with him for a long time.

As long as I can watch from the side, I can take the time to ask a few questions when I have the opportunity. Let’s not talk about the mathematics that no one really understands, and let’s not mention the infinitely promising automobile manufacturing. People who are exposed to the latest technology have never heard of the name of the airship Sid. They even mentioned it to someone in private, but Lin never let go.

Now, thanks to his friends coming forward, everyone has the opportunity to get in touch with this area. There is no reason to extrapolate.

But it was only then that everyone realized that the magician in front of them that everyone looked up to also came from the wilderness. Even many new things in recent years have emerged from that wild land...

Those who think about fearful things will soon be forgotten by everyone. Since he made his fortune in the Holy City, achieved the reputation of a master of mathematics in the Holy City, and gained the honor of being a great magician in the Holy City, then he is from the Holy City. The past is not important. The most important thing at hand is of course the airship.

But no matter how enthusiastic everyone is, there are only two people who really have the decision-making power on the Gauss Bertong. Juan Javier, the captain of the airship, is also the person who has the power to act freely on the Gauss Bertone far away from the Southwest Leon District Chapter. The other one is, of course, the great magician Guy Blasch Tripwood, the main designer.

It's okay for others to watch from the sidelines; it's okay for most people to ask questions. As long as it starts with 'I have a question...' instead of 'Isn't this right? ’

In the former, Lin will give a complete or partial answer depending on the situation; in the latter, someone will directly say: "If you feel something is wrong, please leave. My design is not worthy of your ideas." The meaning of this sentence is almost a slap in the face. Said: Your level is too low to keep up with my skills. So get out of here!

However, the person being scolded did not dare to be really angry, because the other party had the performance of the Sid in front of them. For a pragmatic magician, having works that prove his strength is more important than anything else. Unless there is other evidence to prove that the Sid is not the work of the person in front of him, or his subsequent works will all be failures, destroying the reputation he previously established.

Back to Juan Javier and Lin. The airship captain finally decided to upgrade the existing Gauss Bertone. Even with the funds he has available now, it is not a problem to build another airship. Maybe it's not a top-notch one, but it's what Lin can describe. It's a real next-generation airship, not a modified semi-finished product like the Sid.

However, building a new ship faces an unavoidable problem: future maintenance costs!

A stingy traveler, in line with the principle of saving what he can and using it when he needs it, when calculating the cost, of course he will not forget the maintenance cost that will only occur in the future. This was also the part that Juan ignored at first.

In the modern world, "car maintenance" is not an unfamiliar word to most people. And an inorganic car also needs the word "maintenance". You can imagine that the daily cost is definitely not light. Even if you don't make unnecessary modifications and upgrades, if the car wants to move, you can't get around the refueling step, let alone regular maintenance.

The same situation applies to airships, with the Gosbottom being particularly important.

The construction of the Gauss Bertone was completed three hundred and thirteen years ago. This is an unimaginable level of magician power in the southwest, which is considered a "barbaric" area. Therefore, since the completion of construction, although it has participated in many battles, it has not suffered much damage. Basically, they are the kind of armed forces that can make a final decision as soon as they appear on the scene.

There was no serious damage, and it was the only one. In addition, the southwest was remote, and there were no colleagues to discuss and discuss with each other. Therefore, the Gauss Bertone basically maintained its appearance when it was built more than 300 years ago, without any experience. What modification. The generations of magicians who served on the airship just guarded the old ship and learned how to maintain it, and never thought about changing it.

However, it was the fault of the wilderness area. Even more than three hundred years ago, the design of the Gauss Bertone was quite old. But even if it is an old style, there are still people in the traditional cultural circle in the center of Midi. One can imagine how slow the speed of technology replacement in Midland is for a time traveler accustomed to Moore's Law.

The biggest difference between the Gauss Bertone and the airship technology developed later is that there is no air bag. Instead of hydrogen or helium, Midi found a special gas found in magical experiments. Its characteristic is that it heats up and cools down extremely quickly, and the higher the temperature, the stronger the buoyancy, and even breaks through the height limit of traditional airships.

The gas was not characteristic of any Earth gas Lin knew about. It is used in the airbag of an airship, of course, to provide buoyancy for the airship to fly. Before there were air bags, the buoyancy of the airship came from magic, which required the consumption of power, and it was a lot of power. Even if the air bag cannot completely replace the function of floating magic, it can reduce the consumption of power, thereby increasing the floating time.

However, airbags are also a very obvious weakness, so the new airships in modern times and airships used for military purposes still maintain designs that do not use airbags.

The traditional ship design of the Gauss Bertone is still used by many modern airships in Midi. However, the disadvantage of this design is that it cannot be anchored on the ground, and can only choose to be anchored on the water or moored. The tethered state means that the airship is fixed to the ground only by one or several cables, and the hull basically remains in the air. In short, it is continuously consuming power.

I won’t go into detail about the internal design and magic array of the Gaussian Bertone. In the eyes of Lin, a modern Earthling who values ​​efficiency and energy conservation, this airship is a disaster.

To use the words of the earth's mobile phone advertisements, it means that the standby time is short, the talk time is short, and the charging time is long. Moreover, the functions are not very complete, and the appearance is not very good. It is simply a brick in the mobile phone industry. No one would want to take it out and make phone calls with it. Its best use is to hold down newspapers that will be blown away by the wind.

No matter how proud the magicians who were chosen to be the crew of the Gosbottom are, Lin probably has a higher opinion of this airship than the Hindenburg built by the predecessor of the Sid, the goblin Totokani Just a few. It’s just that I haven’t been on many airships.

According to calculations, after the transformation led by Lin, it is conservatively estimated that the endurance of the Gauss Bertone can be increased by three times, the cruising range can be increased to fifteen times, and the conventional energy consumption can be reduced to one-ninth of the original. If the annual savings are saved, the cost of saving for eleven or twelve years will be the price of a new airship.

Looking at such data estimates, Juan Javier has no reason to oppose such a transformation plan.