The director of the first blood was originally Ted Kotchev. This excellent director was already a famous Hollywood director ten years ago, and the halo over his head was also one after another.
For both Nathan and Jenny, of course, they would not choose a famous director. Such directors are usually very arrogant and have a great temper. Even if Nathan and Jenny are high-spirited heroes and heroines, they have become For the dazzling new star of Hollywood, this is not okay. In the eyes of other big directors, you are a small star as an ass.
Stars are also popular with directors. Directors can praise you and block you at any time.
Besides, as long as Nathan doesn't say anything, who knows the director of the first blood.
So, Nathan and Jenny, of course, have to take care of their old buddies.
Although Jenny still wants to feel the feeling of sitting behind the motorcycle like last time, especially when the motorcycle is started, the wind blows on her body and on her head, her long hair swaying in the wind, that feeling, It is definitely fresh in the memory.
Jenny wanted to try it, but this can only be a dream.
She is already a member of Parliament, and her every move will attract the attention of the public. Therefore, Jenny can only sit in her special car and go to her destination with Nathan.
Mercedes-Benz is on the wide intercontinental highway, and you can see Optimus Prime with a long nose. Every time you see this scene, Nathan feels very magnificent.
That's right, it is to describe it as magnificent. The big nose, the whining sound, and the shock brought by the full speed make Nathan feel that this is the Big Mac on the road.
Every time he saw these things, Nathan couldn't help but compare with the fighters he was driving. These pilots were all experienced veterans.
Even, they have two gear levers. When changing certain gears, they need two hands to cooperate. In this way, no one takes over the steering wheel for the time being. That kind of action is simply too cool.
"Hey, do you people have a desire to control any mechanical thing?" Sitting behind, Jenny asked Nathan.
"Yes." Nathan said, "I really want to drive it. If in the future, when I get old and can't fly a plane, I might choose to be a truck driver."
As a boy, he is naturally interested in machinery. In the exaggerated sayings in the West, it is a few-year-old child who took his father’s car apart in the garage and reassembled it to be able to start. With it.
For Nathan, of course this is not the case. In his memory, in his previous life, he had been interested in machinery since he was a child. He could go to the library and read the books on mechanical principles. Later, he became interested in flying.
Now, it is too far to think about this.
"But now, I want to drive a fighter even more." Nathan said.
In the United States, it is still much better than in China. Pilots in the United States can drive cars and motorcycles. In China, pilots are the key protection objects. As long as they are still flying, they can’t do anything dangerous or drive cars. !
Nathan was talking, looking into the distance. At this moment, in the endless fields around, a small agricultural plane was flying above.
The United States has a large area of arable land, but there are very few people engaged in agricultural production. Therefore, farmers in the United States have long started to use various machinery to improve agricultural production efficiency.
Historically, in 1921, near Troy, Ohio, a pilot of the Army Air Force flew a JN-4 plane and used a temporary metal funnel to spray lead arsenate downwards to kill the Tian'e Maomao that harmed an orchard. Worm became the first agricultural spraying flight with a powered aircraft.
And what really allowed the aircraft to enter agricultural production was the Second World War. With the end of the Second World War, a large number of pilots became professional, and a large number of aircraft remained. In this way, the military biplane trainers that were heavily equipped during the war fell into the field of pesticide spraying. In the hands of the operator, the remaining aircraft and pilots with flight experience are transferred to the crop spraying industry.
For example, the most typical of these was the "Stillman" 75 two-seater biplane developed by Boeing in the mid-1930s. It was designated PT-17 and N-2S in the U.S. Army Air Force and Navy, and became airborne after the war. The main force of spraying operations. Most of the cloth used on the control surface of the aircraft was replaced with a metal skin, and a more powerful radial engine was installed. A hopper was installed in the front compartment to store sprays.
Because the performance is outdated, the price is quite cheap, and it has produced more than 8,000 aircraft. After the war, thousands of them were sold for only $250.
Less than the price of a motorcycle!
Of course, the fighter jets produced in the World War II era continued to give play to the waste heat in agriculture. It was only a matter of ten to twenty years. Probably in the late 1950s, it entered the era of agricultural aircraft replacement.
At this time, specially designed agricultural aircraft appeared.
It has its own unique requirements: good stability and low-altitude maneuverability, easy to fly over obstacles such as woods and wires; small turning radius, easy to turn around at the end of the spray stroke, and shorten working hours; good ultra-low altitude performance to ensure the quality of drug spraying It can take off and land on a simple site; large payload; convenient loading and unloading; good cockpit visibility; good safety, convenient inspection and maintenance, etc.
Of course, there have also been specialized agricultural aircraft companies, such as the famous "Air Tractor" company. The founder of this company, Leland Snow, has devoted his life to the development of agricultural aviation. There is the famous "air tractor" brand.
And now, this plane flying in the field is an AT-302 aircraft of Air Tractor Company. From the outside, the yellow paint is the most conspicuous, and the convexity of the cab looks more. How ugly is ugly, but the sound of its engine is the peculiar roar of a turbine.
Propeller airplanes are generally piston type. After World War II, this kind of engine has developed to its limit. It is large in size and low in combustion efficiency. It is used to drive propellers and has reached its limit.
Later, the propeller aircraft is no longer a piston engine. It is driven by the same turbine as a jet. The engine is small in size and high in combustion efficiency, which is more suitable for the layout of the aircraft.
And this AT302 is the first agricultural aircraft to be replaced with a turbine. Its engine power has reached 500 kilowatts!
If compared with the power of a fighter jet, it is quite compact, but compared with other agricultural aircraft of the same era, the engine power of an ordinary agricultural aircraft hardly exceeds 300 kilowatts, and you can know how powerful it is.
When he saw this plane, Nathan couldn't help but think that if he retire in the future, it would be good to fly an agricultural plane! (End of this chapter)