Romanian Eagle

Just the second month after Smith became the president of the Romanian oil company, Henry Coanda was also observing the newly built new aircraft with his assistant Aurel Fraicu.

Aurel Fraicu was born on November 19, 1882 in Transylvania. He faced the oppression of the Hungarians from an early age. With his own efforts, he obtained excellent grades and studied at the Technical University of Budapest, and later went to the Technical University of Munich in Germany for further studies.

During his studies in Germany, he was infected with nationalist ideas that Romanians should be allowed to live in one country. In 1906, he learned from the newspaper that the Romanian aviator Henri Coanda had a great flight, which gave the 18-year-old genius the idea of ​​developing in Romania.

After obtaining his engineer's certificate in 1907, he turned down an invitation from the Opel Locomotive Company to travel to Romania to meet Henri Coanda to sell himself. At first, Henry Coanda looked down on this young man who had just come out of school.

After some exchanges, he was deeply impressed by this young man from Transylvania named Aurel Fraicu. Later, the two became more and more happy, and finally Henry Coanda asked Aurel Fraicu to be his assistant. Aurel Fraicu was an assistant in name, but in reality Henry Coanda listened to this assistant many times.

Thanks to Edel's huge funding, now the two's whimsical masterpiece has been produced. This is a guy that is different from ordinary aircraft. The same is that it has double-layer wings, the fuselage is also a conventional layout, and the tail is no different from ordinary aircraft.

The most important difference in the position of the nose is revealed, an afterburner is added to each side of the nose where the engine is placed, and it looks like the aircraft has bulged cheeks.

"I heard that the French brothers Seguin invented a new engine, which is very good." Henry Coanda said to his assistant Aurel Fraicu, the latest news about the aircraft.

"Maybe we can buy one and try it out, it may help our thinking. We can't always rely on the people in the power laboratory." Aurel Fraicu expressed his thoughts.

Due to Eder's intervention, Molonier of the Power Lab has been busy with the research and development of diesel engines, and has not invested much money in aircraft engines. So Henry Coanda and the others gave up the idea of ​​getting a new engine from the Power Lab after they had been there twice.

"This aircraft will surprise everyone, right Fraicu." Henry Coanda asked his assistant, staring at the plane with different power in front of him.

"I think it's better to experiment. The big guy we designed last time did not achieve our intended effect." Assistant Aurel Fraicu still felt that it was better to be more stable. After finishing speaking, he went forward to check the plane, after all, half of it was designed by him.

Thinking of the last experience Henry Coanda felt a little uneasy in his heart. He and Fraicu had previously built an aircraft with a wing length of 21.5 meters and a 60-horsepower engine called Hercules One. Henry Coanda, who was extremely confident before the test flight, invited many media to watch the test flight.

As a result, the "Hercules One" did not fly at all after carrying 50KG of cargo and two people. After the weight was reduced, the cumbersome plane took to the sky. This made Henry Coanda, who had been smooth sailing after being funded by the crown prince, feel very embarrassed.

"I have sent the news of our test flight tomorrow." Henry Coanda was a little afraid to look at his assistant, and Aurel Fraicu, who was testing the new plane, turned his head and said to Coanda. "Kanda, if you do this and the test flight is unsuccessful tomorrow, we will be in the headlines."

"Then we can only check more tonight, and I hope there will be no mistakes tomorrow," Henry Coanda said remedially after hearing the dissatisfaction of his assistant.

"we can only do this.

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Due to checking the plane until late at night, a group of people got up at about ten o'clock the next day, and they washed up and had breakfast. Henry Coanda speaks to Aurel Fraicu. "Frayku, you will take a few people to push the plane out and prepare the tools. I will take the rest of the people to clean up the venue."

After Aurel Fraicu took a few people to the hangar to push the new plane out, Henry Coanda was also carefully checking the test runway.

"Coanda is really good weather today." Corrick, the earliest reporter from the Capital News, greeted Henry Coanda with a smile.

"Thank you for coming to Corrick." Henry Coanda turned his head to see who was coming, and walked over to greet the reporter named Corrick.

Corrick reporter walked up to Henry Coanda and shook hands and said, "I wish you success on this test flight."

"Thank you." Henry Coanda also responded.

Over time, more and more people came to watch. Seeing that the time was about the same, Henry Coanda told Aurel Fraicu. "Let's get started, this time I'll operate the plane."

"Is this too risky, or let the test pilot Cordo come," assistant Aurel Fraicu initially suggested. In this era, flying is an adventure. Many aviators have died in flight accidents. Henry Coanda knew that this was an assistant for his own good.

"I know it's a bit risky, but you have to believe, I'm the first Romanian pilot. And you and I are most familiar with this plane. This test flight is very important to us, and I can only do it." Henry Coanda said The assistant says why.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade, Aurel Fraicu patted his friend on the shoulder and joked about it. "You must come and come back. I don't know that the crown prince can't get funding."

Henry Coanda nodded to the assistant and said. "Rest assured that I will be back, and it will be a return full of honor."

After finishing speaking, they walked into the cab of the plane, and the other personnel began to manually rotate the propellers. As the speed increased, the engine also rumbled and started. After gaining enough power, Henry Coanda made a gesture that he could take off. The staff removed the crossbar, the plane slowly accelerated on the runway, and after running 180 meters, the plane left the ground.

The crowd, although not as excited as the first flight, waved their arms at Henry Coanda's plane. Aurel Fraicu was nervous, because according to the plan, the pilot had to use the jet to accelerate.

After Henry Coanda made a circle in the sky, he activated the power fuel chamber. After the burning gas spewed two plumes of smoke on both sides of the plane, the crowd on the ground was startled and thought it was on fire. Calm down after the staff explained it was the new afterburner.

"So fast." Corrick reporter said. "Yeah, it's really fast." The reporter's words were answered, and the crowd looked at the new plane with novelty.

When Henry Coanda felt the extraordinary speed, the hidden danger of the plane was also exposed. As an afterburner with extremely high tail flame temperature, it is attached to the wooden fuselage, which is completely the result of ill-considered fire protection. Now there is an open flame on the fuselage baked by the tail flame, but Henry Coanda didn't notice it, and it was too late when he noticed the fire.

As a pilot, Henry Coanda was relatively calm, and quickly lowered his altitude and speed. Seeing that there was a small river in front of him, Henry Coanda aimed the nose of the aircraft at the river and planted it down, but it was blocked by trees. The whole person was thrown out of the plane.

After seeing the plane crash, a group of people ran in the direction of the crashed plane. Finally, near the river, they found Henry Coanda who was in a coma, and everyone took him to the hospital by car.

The news about the crash of Henry Coanda was sent to Edel that afternoon, which surprised Edel, who had been paying attention to the rectification of the oil company. He took the report that recorded the whole incident and looked at it carefully.

After reading the report, Edel admired the advanced ideas of Henry Coanda and his assistants. When the propeller flight was just starting, it was the first person to do jet experiments. Kailai can't let them continue to grow, and must be controlled.