Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Everyone was stunned when they heard that the Vice President was also resigning.

"Mr. Vice President..."

The vice president waved his hand firmly. "I've made up my mind, I'm going to write my resignation letter now." After saying that, he quickly left without waiting for anyone to say anything else, leaving everyone confused.

"This is how to do?!"

The current Constitution does not mention anything about how to deal with "the Vice President is unable to perform his duties" (the original U.S. Constitution had a very limited description of the functions and status of the Vice President. When the founding fathers of the United States established the position of Vice President, there was no It has not been seriously considered and discussed). In the past, whenever the vice president died or resigned for some reason, the White House simply left the position vacant until the next election to fill it. In the history of the United States, there have been 16 vice presidential vacancies.

This loophole was not closed until the 25th Amendment to the Constitution (1965). According to this bill, whenever the office of Vice President becomes vacant, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon approval by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.

And now, the president and vice president actually want to resign at the same time. This is really an unprecedented and unheard-of "strange thing."

Soon, the news spread to Congress, and there was an uproar in Congress. It's okay for President Wilkie, after all, his health does not allow him to continue to perform the duties of the president; but the vice president's behavior is more like an attempt to evade responsibility. To put it bluntly, this is an act of desertion!

But no matter how many people blamed, begged, complained, or were moved by emotion and reason, the Vice President was determined to resign. Even if you didn't agree, I would just slap my butt and walk away, which made everyone so angry that they almost came forward to beat him.

Just as the U.S. Congress was quarreling, Yannick came to a secret flight base to watch the test flight of the latest aircraft developed by the Horton brothers (Rima Horton and Walter Horton).

The reason why he is interested in this is because the appearance of this new aircraft, numbered "Ho-229", is quite peculiar. It is very similar to the later American B-2 bomber. It has a tailless flying wing with neither a horizontal tail nor a vertical tail. layout.

Some military fans in later generations thought that the "Ho-229" was the predecessor of the B-2 bomber, but such a flying-wing layout was proposed as early as 1910. In 1924, Boris Cheranovsky of the Soviet Union developed the world's first flying-wing aircraft. Six years later, the American John Northrop (he was the founder of the American military giant Northrop Grumman, which later designed and manufactured the "B-2") also built the American Flying wing aircraft "1929 Flying Wing" (X-216H).

In 1943 in the original time and space, the Horton brothers began the development of large-scale flying-wing aircraft for military use. Facing increasing pressure from the US and British Air Forces, the already overwhelmed Reichsmarschall Göring fully supported the Horton brothers' flying-wing aircraft. At the same time, clear technical performance requirements were put forward - it must have a bomb load of 1 ton, a speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, a combat radius of 1,000 kilometers, and it is required to have both air and ground combat capabilities.

Such performance is difficult to achieve even in later generations, especially the heart power system of the aircraft. The piston propeller engines of the time simply did not meet the requirements. Fortunately, by 1944, Germany had made some achievements in jet engine technology. The Horton brothers immediately realized the great value of this revolutionary power device to flying wing aircraft. They used the Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engine as power to create a jet-powered flying wing aircraft called the "Horton IX".

As the first practical jet-powered flying wing aircraft in history, the "Horton IX" is designed to have a safe operating overload of 7G. Its cockpit is located quite forward, with a Junkers Jumo-004 turbojet engine installed on each side. The nozzles protrude from the rear surface of the wing. The middle part of the wing body adopts a traditional welded steel pipe structure, and the entire aircraft is basically made of multi-layer plywood as the skin. Of course, metal is used near the engine nozzle to withstand high temperatures. The outer section of the wing is an all-wood structure, and its important edges are made of special reinforced materials made of thin wood chips and resin pressed together. Only the wing tips are all metal. Initially, some people doubted whether the wooden fuselage could withstand the powerful jet power, but the test results showed that such a design could fully meet the strength requirements while reducing weight. Moreover, due to the lack of important metal resources during the war, it was somewhat difficult to use wood as the main body. It is a last resort, and carpentry has relatively low manpower requirements.

This aircraft was tested three times in total, but it crashed on the third test flight and killed everyone. However, Göring, who was seriously ill and went to hospital indiscriminately, still ordered 40 aircraft and started production at the Gotta company's factory. As a result, Germany declared defeat before it could even roll off the assembly line. These unfinished airframes and some improved associated production lines all fell into the hands of the Americans. One of the V3 prototypes was used for testing. After traveling around the United States and Britain, it was numbered T2-490 by the Americans and placed in the National Air and Space Museum (NASM).

Yannick watched the "Ho-229" hovering in the sky for several times and prepared to land, and murmured in his heart that the test flight went quite smoothly.

The rear landing gear of "Ho-229" had touched the runway, but when the front landing gear fell, I didn't know whether it was too hard or a braking problem. The left landing gear broke apart, and the entire aircraft suddenly lost control. The left wing It slid forward along the runway for a long distance before coming to a stop. The left wing that was rubbing against the runway was already on fire.

Fortunately, the ground crew on the side quickly ran over, put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, and rescued the test pilot.

Seeing Brother Holden's face turn a little pale, Yannick said. "It's a good design. But now is not the time. The design of this aircraft is too advanced. Wait 20 years, and when the computer develops to be responsible for most of the flight functions, that's when it will show its talents."

Before modern flight control computers and wire transmission systems mature, flying wings will have no practical value at all. This is true whether it is the Ho-229 or Northrop's early XB35 and YB49 test machines. This is also the reason why most countries, including Germany, stopped developing flying wings after the war.

"Twenty years?" Brother Holden looked shocked. Rima Holden hesitated and said carefully. "Well, Your Highness, will this layout design be outdated by then?"

"Outdated?" Yannick almost laughed out loud. The most advanced bomber in the world in later generations is the B-2 with a flying wing layout. How can it be outdated? "Of course not, and this layout design has a big advantage." That is, its unique shape can reduce radar reflection waves, and with special absorbing materials, it can be invisible on radar. It is said that the radar reflection cross section of the B-52 bomber is 100 square meters, while the B-2A is estimated to be 01 to 1 square meter, which is only equivalent to the radar reflection cross section of a flying bird in the sky, which makes it difficult for radar to detect it.