in2ebook Chapter 201 Mobile Test
Chapter 201 Mobile Test
"Let such a mind test whether the core is adjusted and whether the maneuvers are complete..."
Abes sighed. If it were before, he would have thought he was crazy.
But now, after seeing the expression on Matthew's face, Abes relaxed.
He likes flying.
He knew the risks, but still made the choice.
Since this is the case, it is acceptable to let Matthew take a risk.
Anyway, Kronos was confident in the design, and Abes himself could easily recover any losses.
The risk is worth it.
There's no way, they need too much time.
And they have too great a need to keep secrets and conceal.
Old Winston anchors the height of the Mage Tower and also anchors the defensive mode.
This meant that even if the mages and apprentices in the Mage Tower wanted to surrender, they were unable to put it into practice.
And that huge cannon is like a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of both the Royal Capital and the Mage Tower.
As long as old Winston himself does not return to the Mage Tower to cancel the spell, once the countdown ends, or something flies over four-fifths of the height of the Mage Tower.
The base cannon will be activated!
The extraordinary people can easily protect themselves, and those whom Abes values can also survive under the protection of the royal palace and castle.
But...what about the people?
Abes is not General Paddy and will not easily abandon the people on the land he controls.
Moreover, if the giant cannon is really fired, the hatred of the people of the royal capital towards the Mage Tower will also arise, which will make it difficult for Abes to incorporate those talented mage apprentices into his own system.
It can be said that even though this hard and smelly old Winston is already lying in prison, the arrangements he made before leaving the Mage Tower have locked the situation in a favorable position for him.
After all, to solve this dilemma.
Or, release old Winston and agree to his conditions so that he can unanchor the floating island of the Mage Tower and cancel the countdown of the cannon.
Otherwise, you must have the power to crush the enemy before the countdown ends, be able to resist the defense system of the mage tower, and be able to destroy the cannon of the ultimate weapon. After landing on the island, you must have enough capital to be recognized by the mages and mage apprentices, and bring old Winston with you to remove the anchor and cancel the countdown.
With old Winston's knowledge of spells and other things, he was sure that such a situation would not happen.
So he had an indifferent attitude towards being captured.
But at this moment, he probably didn't know that his confidence was being broken by a young man flying in the sky.
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The mobile test has begun.
As Matthew slowly pressed down the joystick in front of him, the iron bird, which had been maintaining its balance in the air only by the thrust of the engine, finally responded.
That is, flapping wings.
In the modern world, this type of flying vehicle has a special name, flapping-wing aircraft.
Because problems with control technology, materials and structure have not been resolved, flapping-wing aircraft remain in the model making and conception stage.
But in the current world, this is not the case. Magic and life structures are obviously closer to the truth and are closer to the shortcut to climbing the technology tree.
Instead of allowing them to climb to the pinnacle of aerodynamics and develop the streamlined fixed-wing aircraft of modern aircraft.
It is better to let nature take its course and let them find a way of progress that suits them.
What was unexpected was that Rune Technology had managed to circumvent the problem of materials that was difficult to avoid when researching flapping-wing aircraft in the present world.
If you can't withstand the force of flapping wings, then everything is 0. Although carbon fiber and other composite materials also have high specific strength, the alternating stress generated during the continuous flapping of wings is terrible.
The result of metal fatigue is that after a certain period of use (this time is much shorter than expected, and the current record for flapping-wing aircraft is still over 100 minutes), cracks will appear in the stress concentration areas, which will pose a fatal danger to both people and cargo.
However, magical technology does not require this.
The force field airflow model driven by magic crystals allows the mechanical wings to flap slowly like an eagle instead of vibrating at a high frequency like dragonflies, flies, and mosquitoes.
At the same time, the powerful flow of magic power dispatched by the Iron Core will naturally strengthen the machine itself.
This allows the iron bird, which looks like a toy from the perspective of modern technology, to actually fly.
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Flap wings to hover, tilt, and impact to stop suddenly.
With these simple movements, the iron bird can easily stabilize itself and continue flying after adjusting the posture of its wings.
The next thing to test is rotation and even flipping.
Matthew closed the peephole of the big iron bird's abdomen and tied himself to the seat in the special suit he was wearing.
Now that springs have long been used in magic cannons, it is extremely simple to make an elastic retractor for a seat belt device.
The only problem is that we can’t make a webbing that is strong enough.
With the current level of materials science, there is only one way to increase the strength of fabrics, which is to make them thicker and wider by winding and weaving.
If an accident really happened, what we have to worry about in the real world is that the suddenly tightened seat belt will injure, break, or fracture the ribs, collarbone, and neck; but here, what we have to worry about is that the seat belt is not strong enough and will break.
In short, after being repeatedly thickened and widened, the shape of the seat belt webbing is more like two hemp ropes than a seat belt, one wrapped around Matthew's shoulders and armpits on the left and one on the right.
Click.
After the buckle was closed, Matthew reached out and touched the communication stone in the abdomen of the big iron bird to activate it.
"It's about to start turning..."
Matthew took a deep breath, gripped the joystick tightly, and began the test of continuous spinning and flipping.
The first is rotation, which is divided into self-rotation and axial rotation.
Manipulate the wings of the iron bird and gradually tilt it, then slightly pull up the control stick, and the plane will begin to rotate along the central axis.
After a few stable rotations, Matthew felt fine except for the slight dizziness he had expected.
In fact, Abes had told Matthew about the dizziness and weightlessness or the problems of blood circulation that can easily lead to blacking out, redness in front of the eyes, headaches, chest tightness and other problems.
If it wasn't a world with magic, and if you chose the ornithopter technology tree and the relatively stable flapping-wing flying action, the feeling of dizziness would only be more severe.
After the test completes the axial rotation, the next step is the self-rotation.
In fact, self-rotation is impossible for modern aircraft, because the jet from the engine is shot along the direction of the fuselage from the beginning. No matter how you accelerate and turn, it is impossible to be perpendicular to the fuselage.
If the force acting on an object is not along the tangent direction, it cannot rotate around a center like a circle.
However, this maneuver is possible for an ornithopter.
By varying the force with which the wings flap, or even almost stopping one of them, the iron bird can rotate on its own.
hum!
During the whole process, Matthew only felt the air around him making a sharp whistling sound.
He gripped the joystick tightly, stayed calm, and constantly adjusted the position of the wings to keep the iron bird rotating steadily.
And after doing it enough times, it immediately stopped and headed forward again.
"Next comes... flips and tumbles."
Flip and tumble have similar names, but they describe actions in different directions.
Among them, flip refers to the direction of pitch, which is the basis of fighter stunts such as leaf drift and cobra maneuver;
A roll, on the other hand, is a flip on a horizontal axis, and is generally a very challenging maneuver.
When soaring in the sky, you may not be able to tell up from down, and if you do not maintain the correct direction to continue flying after a tumble, you will end up crashing.
And rolling, more often than not, is more like a precursor to an accident.
"Let's try rolling first..."
Before performing this action, Matthew pressed down the joystick, giving the iron bird enough forward push.
With such a speed, the iron bird folded its wings and began to circle, taking Matthew in its abdomen with it, and they also felt the world turning upside down.
Roar! Roar!
During this process, Tiexin's magic power flowed at full capacity.
Matthew also accurately felt the vibration and resistance coming from his hands, and then chose to release or press down the joystick.
shhhhh!
After skillfully retracting and releasing it, the entire iron bird completed three consecutive beautiful rolls while moving forward.
And then, perhaps because of the congestion in his brain, he was a little excited. He did not give himself much time to rest, but immediately adjusted the elevator.
He began to raise the iron bird slowly but surely.
As the iron bird ascends, the roar of the iron core becomes louder, and as it descends, the speed of the iron bird will make Matthew feel it more obvious.
Fifteen degrees, thirty degrees.
Then sixty, seventy, eighty - ninety!
The entire iron bird is now in a vertical position with the ground.
At this time, Matthew quickly adjusted and folded his wings according to the operating procedures Kronos told him.
The feeling of speed soaring into the sky made him forget everything else.
But when he saw the wizard tower in the sky getting closer, he still raised the joystick in his hand.
It cannot exceed four-fifths of the height of the Mage Tower.
Now he is the only one left. If that black gun muzzle opens fire, it will definitely choose to attack him.
After the joystick is lifted and gripped, the familiar feeling of blood rushing to the brain follows.
It's upside down...Hold on! Hold on!!
Then slowly turn it over.
Perhaps these movements are too difficult for jet aircraft, but for flapping-wing aircraft, such adjustments are just common movements in biological flight.
The entire body of the machine strengthened by magic did not frighten Matthew, but instead allowed Matthew and the iron bird to somersault smoothly in the air.
finished!
As if a sudden inspiration came to him, Matthew immediately began to try to replicate the state that Abes had only mentioned.
Cobra maneuver!
During this maneuver, the iron bird folded its wings and first raised its body, then tilted back and upward.
After charging upward for a while, it pressed back again and formed a short period of level flight.
The flight trajectory during this period was one of rising and then finally leveling out, like a cobra ready to attack.
After a short level flight, the entire iron bird began to press down again and returned to its original horizontal state.
The flight trajectory during this period is like a cobra jumping forward and launching an attack.
During the entire maneuver, the iron bird's flying altitude did not undergo a drastic change.
This is the Cobra Maneuver.
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The iron bird landed.
During the whole process, Abesi was sweating.
Although all preparations were made, when he witnessed the rotation, Abes kept asking himself if something had happened.
And during those times when he charged upward, Abes was worried whether he was flying too far.
After all, when you look up from the ground, your perspective makes it impossible to accurately tell height.
And at the end, after smoothly testing the two options and two rolls, Matthew tried the cobra maneuver, which made Abes almost shout out.
do not!!
I just mentioned it, why did this guy try it?
In reality, this maneuver works because both the enemy and our side have flying aircraft.
An aircraft that performs a Cobra maneuver can take advantage of the moment of maneuver to briefly get rid of the enemy chasing it from behind, and have a launch window with excellent vision and angle.
But now...
Abes really couldn't think of what kind of flying enemies their iron birds would have to face, apart from their innate racial abilities and acquired magical flying abilities.
Besides, the purpose of maneuvering is to create attack windows, and the current Iron Bird has not yet been designed to carry a weapon.
The iron bird flapped its wings and slowly landed on the ground, and Abes and Kronos immediately surrounded it.
Bing Nagi was casting healing spells in the back.
Matthew also saw the figure outside through the peephole.
The sun's rays shone through the clouds, creating a mixture of joy and anticipation mixed with worry on their faces.
So Matthew opened the door of the iron bird's abdomen.
A breath of fresh air blew over me.
Then, Matthew untied the "hemp rope" that "bound" his body, untied the thing called a seat belt, and stepped out of the cabin door.
The sound of the iron bird flapping its wings was still ringing softly, but Matthew couldn't wait any longer and raised his arms towards Abes and the others.
"Are you ok?"
"I'm very good."
Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Matthew, Abes walked over and held his hand tightly.
"What a pity. If it weren't for the battle, I would have made this place more memorable. I would have asked people to prepare flowers and salutes for the festival, and magic shadow stones to record the scene of you walking out."
Matthew was slightly confused, but then he understood what Abes meant.
"That's what you always say. The first one is of great significance."
"But I don't need these things. You know, I don't care. I don't even want my family to know that I'm here... After all, although I haven't heard any news about them, I know that they must be active in the west of the small kingdom and will eventually become your enemy."
"And, I really want to thank you for letting me know that, in addition to herbs and medical treatment, I have another skill that I am good at, and that can definitely be used in combat."
"Flying a flying vehicle, driving something that can make ordinary people fly in the air, my God, even if I throw a barbell on it, it will be a powerful way of attack."
"I, I, I really do!"
When Matthew was a little incoherent, Hyoanagi and Kronos came over together.
Hirayama also temporarily lent his staff, the short stick with frost and snow patterns, to Matthew, hoping that he would cast a diagnostic spell on him to see if there were any problems that were not noticeable to the naked eye.
After making sure everything was safe, the three of them took a step back.
After that--
“Welcome back,” they said.