Chapter 217: High Altitude Drone
Inside the factory, the Rubik's Cube mechanical arms were assembling high-altitude drones at a dazzling speed, almost connecting them into one piece without any mistakes. A mechanical object on the assembly table was getting bigger and bigger...
After assembling the last component, a large high-altitude drone was manufactured. It had four racks with a tail propeller as the power, and each rack could carry an average of three missiles or bombs. The first drone to be offline had to undergo various tests to collect data, and flying became the first thing to do. The Rubik's Cube was depressed to find that it had to build an airstrip in the middle of winter, or at least a temporary airport for aircraft takeoff and landing.
After a hasty survey of the Longshan camp, it was decided to use a straight asphalt road in the golf course as a temporary runway, and wait until the next spring for large-scale construction to get a new one.
So, everyone in the camp saw the Rubik's Cube driving a cleaning car to sweep the snow, mark various signs, and install runway lights. No one really thought that the Rubik's Cube would build something as high-end as an airport, and it was still thought that it was going to build a square dance space.
After a lot of hard work, all the work was ready.
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Early morning.
The factory gate flashed red lights and opened to both sides. Then there was a slight engine sound. A high-altitude drone with a thin fuselage and long wings slowly glided out of the factory. The spherical reconnaissance equipment under the nose rotated back and forth to automatically find the best route to the temporary runway. Zhang Xiaowen ran to the front and lifted the high-altitude drone curiously, and found that such a big guy was so light!
"Please stop interfering! Please stop interfering!" The drone shouted through the sound device.
Zhang Xiaowen stuck out her tongue and quickly let go of the wing. She smiled at the drone embarrassedly, made way and ran to the side of the magic cube.
The drone's intelligent program hurriedly corrected the deviation caused by Zhang Xiaowen's trouble, and continued to slide to the runway as if no one was around.
The magic cube followed behind, observing the status of the drone while connecting the drone's data screen to the monitoring center through the wireless network, and at the same time curled his lips at Zhang Xiaowen's curiosity and said it was too rustic.
"Mofang, when are you going to build a plane that can carry people? I didn't have enough money to buy a plane ticket before."
"How many plane tickets do you want? I'll print them for you for free."
"Get lost, let's get down to business."
"Well... it's not necessary at the moment. Building a plane requires a lot of materials and is not very useful for the camp. Helicopters are still useful, maybe around next spring. It would be convenient if there were helicopter rescue operations." Mofang thought about it and said seriously. In fact, the most important thing about building a plane is the power problem. This kind of drone is better. If it carries people, the aircraft engine has high requirements and long endurance. At present, fuel is in short supply, so electric energy becomes the first choice.
While talking, the high-altitude drone has already glided onto the runway, adjusted its position and stopped.
"Cruise-1 type 001 high-altitude drone is ready and can take off at any time." The mechanical sound of the 001 high-altitude drone sounded in the monitoring center and Zhang Xiaowen's communicator.
"Take off."
"Command confirmed, take off immediately." After the drone confirmed that the command came from the Cube, the engine quickly increased thrust. A white snow fog was blown up on the snow behind the plane. Amid the roar, No. 001 began to glide and the speed became faster and faster. The shock absorber of the landing gear wheel reduced the vibration caused by the irregular temporary runway.
"Oh~ Oh~ The big gray plane is taking off~"
Beside Mofang and Zhang Xiaowen, Xiaojing was wearing cotton gloves and a plush rabbit hat and jumping in the snow watching the plane, while Jiajia was staring at the drone that was slowly rising and taking off, as if she was very interested.
"Let's go back and see what No. 001 did." Zhang Xiaowen picked up Xiaojing and led Jiajia and Mofang to the monitoring center.
The super-long wings of the high-altitude drone increased the lift. After taking off, it adjusted the angle and rose quickly. The thin wings would tremble slightly when passing through turbulence. Facing the sun, the high-altitude drone belonging to the Longshan camp was flying high. On the ground, the survivors who were watching admired the high performance and high technology of the drone, and were also shocked by the four unique hangers. However, people who didn't pay attention to the military before the end of the world and only paid attention to the private lives of celebrities didn't understand why this thing was built. It couldn't be used by people in daily life. When they wanted to say a few words about wasting the wealth of the Dragon Kingdom, they felt that it was a bit irrelevant...
In the monitoring center, the large screen has been replaced with the picture of the high-altitude drone, which is now flying through the clouds. In addition to the various data on the status of the drone, the screen is sometimes white and sometimes blue, and cotton-like white clouds are constantly passing through the screen.
The value of the height displayed in the corner of the screen has been increasing rapidly, and the height can be accurate to 1 meter.
2000 meters...
3000 meters...
5000 meters...
At this time, the sky has already been a vast expanse of light blue. The drone adjusted and corrected the picture and continued to rise.
When the drone passed the 8,000-meter altitude and was still rising, several people who had some knowledge of the military before the apocalypse were already very surprised. Unexpectedly, the high-altitude drone finally stopped when it reached 13,000 meters. The surprised people breathed a sigh of relief. If it continued to fly, it would enter low-Earth orbit. Even 8,000 meters would be useless in the apocalypse.
"High altitude test completed, flexibility test to be conducted below." A mechanical voice of No. 001 came from the communicator, and then the screen turned and began to dive downward.
From high altitude, the ground is a sphere, as if the earth is very small. Everyone sitting in the monitoring room felt as if they were sitting in an airplane watching the rapid dive, a bit like a roller coaster. Xiao Jing stared at the screen with big eyes wide open, and Jia Jia didn't even know that she was drooling.
The altitude value decreased rapidly, and the ground scenery became clearer and clearer...
"That's Jiangcheng!" Living in Jiangcheng since childhood, he naturally recognized the aerial view of Jiangcheng at a glance.
On the screen, all buildings, areas and zombies were marked, and all the red ones were zombies. This was the first time that everyone observed the distribution of zombies in Jiangcheng from high altitude. There was only one feeling, that is, there were too many. Almost the entire Jiangcheng was covered with red, especially the streets were completely turned into red rivers.
After a while, the Jiangcheng screen was blocked by white clouds. Computer No. 001 switched to the reconnaissance mode, and the screen was restored again.
The drone kept penetrating through the white clouds, and it was very close to the ground. Everyone's heart was tightened...
The air flow was chaotic at low altitude, and the drone inevitably bumped. When it approached the height of the roof of the building, the drone's wings and tail changed angles quickly, and the big screen began to gradually change angles. When it was about to fall into the zombie group on the street, No. 001 brushed over the heads of many zombies and rose up again like a dragonfly skimming the water. The messy hair of many female zombies became even messier.
Applause rang out in the monitoring center.