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"Epoch-making, revolutionary!" The test flight of the Comet jet was dubbed by major London newspapers.

The liveliness of public opinion also shows that Londoners are looking forward to the restart of Britain after the war. Because of the test flight of the Comet jet airliner, this jet craze is spreading from the British mainland to the world.

It's hard to say what's the difference between the Comet and the original. Anyway, according to Alan Wilson, the passenger plane is probably like this. It's a bit like Airbus, and it's a bit like Boeing. That's normal.

In any case, this British first-flight jet airliner ushered in the world of civil aviation into the jet age. It gave Britain a boost, and two days later, the behemoth Comet 1 landed at Canberra Airport in Australia.

This big guy who is out of tune with the times has attracted many passengers at Canberra Airport and pointed at it. The British flag pattern on the rear wing shows the nationality of this big guy, and many Australians are very envious.

Pamela Mountbatten was looking forward to it. Alan Wilson, who was carrying a parachute, experienced the treatment of a head of state under the ultraviolet rays of the southern hemisphere. As if he had seen the world.

At a glance, Pamela Mountbatten, who was targeted, trotted and hugged the man who was carrying a loose bag and was about to eat chicken, "Don't you like being an airplane, you don't feel down-to-earth."

"So it's not carrying a parachute!" Alan Wilson pointed to his paratrooper equipment. Now, even if he joins the paratroopers quickly and becomes a dandelion in the air, it does not violate the harmony at all.

If it weren't for the onlookers, Pamela Mountbatten really wanted to hang on to the man like this, but the concentrated gaze finally made the girl feel the heat, and she let go of it embarrassedly.

As for her fiancé's remarks, Pamela Mountbatten is not picky at all. Alan Wilson has always been like this. Now she dares to cross half the world and come over on the Comet 1 in the experiment. She was very pleasantly surprised. All are moved and nothing else.

After a while, the crew were all divided up, greeting the men and women standing side by side, and saying hello to their bosses. Many people knew Pamela Mountbatten, but Alan Wilson was the real one.

"Miss Pamela, I said why Mr. Allen is coming to Australia." Captain Hunter, as if he had just discovered the secret, sent an assist to the couple he just met.

"How does the long-distance voyage feel? Let's find a place to eat and chat." Alan Wilson grabbed Pamela Mountbatten's hand and asked how it felt like on this long-distance voyage.

The Comet was just a few days old, and the whole world was applauding the first-ever jetliner, but as a new thing there was bound to be something wrong, something only the captain could feel.

As in what Alan Wilson and de Havilland talk about, the most important thing is reliability. Reliability is a big deal. Air travel is not yet widespread. People travel long distances by ocean ships. Airplanes are only available to the rich and high-ranking officials.

In fact, many of the passengers on British Airways flights were local officials such as commissioners and military officers sent by the British government to manage colonies overseas.

If you fall into a fight, it will not be ordinary people who will be wiped out. Alan Wilson did not design aircraft, and it was impossible to avoid all the problems of the first aircraft.

Needless to say, major British airlines have high hopes for Comet 1, even if it is still in the test flight stage.

"It needs to be refueled every four hours. This is not a big problem. I believe that the local engine companies will improve this problem. The key is that we eliminate design problems. What do you think of the conservative plan? The jet itself is the latest type. Anything, no matter how conservative a program is, under the concept of a jetliner, it doesn't seem conservative."

Fortunately, with Pamela Mountbatten there, the Comet was pressure tested, a huge pool was designed, and the plane was immersed in water for various pressure tests.

The water pressure inside the fuselage of the aircraft is continuously increased and decreased to simulate the stress conditions faced in actual flight. In this way, a long period of time has passed, which is equivalent to 9,000 hours of actual flight. After another six weeks, just as the pressure inside the fuselage suddenly dropped, the metal around a window cracked and the fuselage exploded.

Obviously, the fuselage is too thin, thus completely exposing two fatal flaws in the design of the aircraft. The first is its construction. In order to fly higher, faster and reduce weight, the outer shell of the aircraft has been reduced to a certain thickness.

Moreover, when flying at high altitudes, the cabin needs to be pressurized to ensure that passengers can breathe normally. Therefore, the thickening of the shell and the pressurization of the cabin are simultaneously applied to the fuselage. Under the combined effect of these two factors, the aircraft will eventually burst. At the same time, this experiment also improved the Comet 1's window and turned it into a rounded window.

It was this water pressure experiment that made de Havilland lose to Pamela Mountbatten, the second-generation top British power, and improved the Comet No. 1 engine and became the Comet No. 1 today.

As for whether there are other faults, this requires the crew to explore during the voyage.

Since Ellen Wilson arrived in Australia, Pamela Mountbatten's eyes have been unable to move, looking at the arrogance in Princess Margaret's eyes, the high spirits in her own eyes, and the smile on her face has never disappeared.

After some wind and dust, Pamela Mountbatten followed her fiance step by step, returned to the place where she lived, and talked about the harvest of coming to Australia this time, "Some noble children have ideas about me, and I refused without hesitation. "

"Dear, do you want to say that you are very popular?" In front of Princess Margaret, Alan Wilson listened to Pamela Mountbatten's candid confession, and changed the conversation, "Yeah, so big A wealth, who can't be tempted, how many idiots like me are there in this world?"

"They don't deserve to be compared to you." Pamela Mountbatten's eyes seemed to drip, enough to melt the steel will of any man.

Princess Margaret didn't dare to say a word. After being taught by Pamela Mountbatten once, she no longer dared to talk about this topic, and her eyes were rolling between the two of them.

"It now seems that such a big iron ore was really given up by this man?" Princess Margaret was suspicious. She didn't believe this kind of rhetoric at first, but now she has to believe it in this situation.

"Prime Minister Ben Chifley, he attaches great importance to the news of iron ore. The optimistic estimate of one billion tons of reserves also makes the whole of Australia excited." Pamela Mountbatten said about the iron ore, and then some doubts , "However, is it too costly to convene workers from the mainland for exploration? I think it is better to convene Australian workers for exploration. What do you think, should we convene Chinese workers?"

"Australia is not suitable for recruiting foreign groups! I have always believed that the White Australia policy is correct." Alan Wilson shook his head slightly, but seemed to have thought of a way, "If there is a shortage of local Australian workers, Malaya and Japan will Confederate prisoners of war, try your word and see if it works. But it’s uncertain whether they can return to Japan alive.”

Regardless of his previous life or this life, he never thought it was wrong to protect the interests of the main group. Australia should implement the White Australia policy and close the door to Asian immigrants.

As the world's top resource country, Australia can be invincible just by selling mines.

As early as the First World War, Australia's development level was already on par with European countries, and there was no such thing as dependence on a certain country. As long as the minerals are there, Australia can cope with any external force.

In the foreseeable future, it is impossible for no country to do anything to Australia, and it is impossible to occupy the nest. Australia has already tightened its restrictions on foreign immigration and will not give this opportunity at all.

During the Pacific War, the Japanese invaded Singapore aggressively. Australia, as part of the United Kingdom, also has troops stationed in Singapore.

As a result, because the British army completely underestimated the military strength of the Japanese army, Singapore fell into the hands of the Japanese army in just one week. 130,000 British troops surrendered to the Japanese, including 15,000 Australian soldiers.

That's why Australia's hatred of Japan is absolutely deep-rooted! What the Australian people advocate is to pay for blood debts for granted!

"When the war just ended, there were more than 600,000 prisoners of war from the Japanese Southern Army in Malaya. I don't know how many are left, but we cannot detain these prisoners permanently." Alan Wilson knew in his heart that if the Korean War If it breaks out, Japan's status will be reflected.

Japan is the stronghold of the US controlling Asia~lightnovelpub.net~ The economic shackles will also be loosened, so next year at the most, the US will definitely put pressure on the British Malaya to release hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war.

These prisoners of war could not stay for long. The 1950s and 1960s was the beginning of Japan's economic rise, and it was at that time that Australia opened its iron ore export ban.

So now the problem is, no matter how Alan Wilson calculates it, British Malaya and Japan will start at about the same time in the plan, and he always has to use a little trick to stumble this competitor.

"Regarding the development of iron ore, if the Malaya side handed over 100,000 prisoners of war to Australia, they may not survive much, but from the perspective of British interests, this is not a bad thing." Alan Wilson smiled at his fiancée. "It's better to be tortured to death, but we'd better leave evidence. I just don't know if Australia wants the chance to retaliate."

Princess Margaret opened her eyes wide, looking at Pamela Mountbatten's educated admiration, her body trembled involuntarily.

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