Chapter 221 Airship Repair Station
It is related to the food supply problem of the entire territory. Even though he already knew the reason, Perfectikt still went to attack the airship early the next morning. The boat had a comprehensive inspection.
At the same time, in order to prevent the airship from being unable to operate and continue to affect the food supply of the territory, Purficott also asked the Behemoth to make a trip to bring the fresh food that the southern part of the New World colony could still produce during this season. Vegetables, fruits and meat were shipped north.
As a large airship, the Behemoth's carrying capacity is far superior to the small airship that Purficott originally prepared for his escape, so it made a trip The efficiency is naturally far better than that of small airships.
However, the Behemoth is always a warship, so Purficott has no problem letting it go temporarily. This is something she can do within the scope of her rights as the Northern Lord.
But Purficott couldn't keep letting the Behemoth do this. This was neither in line with the rules nor in line with the principle of maximizing efficiency.
So while working part-time on the Behemoth, Purficott still had to find a way to repair the damaged small airship.
After inspection, Purficott can confirm that this ship is indeed a broken drive shaft as Professor Archibald said yesterday, and in addition to the damaged one, there are also Many parts need to be repaired and replaced.
"It needs a comprehensive overhaul and maintenance, and all wearing parts need to be replaced. This ship has suffered too much wear and tear this winter." Purficott gave the final conclusion and gave up on himself Plans for repairs.
It's not that she can't repair it. After all, she designed and built it. It's not a big problem to repair this airship.
But Purficott is an alchemist, but he is not an omnipotent person. When she built this airship, she also used a lot of ordered parts. Now asking her to repair it will be a huge amount of work, and she can only rely on She rubbed it with her own hands.
So after evaluating how much time it would take to repair the airship, Purficott decisively gave up the idea of repairing it himself.
Instead, they obtained a drive shaft from the spare parts of the Behemoth that could be installed on the malfunctioning airship. After allowing the airship to fly, they let it Return to the empire for maintenance.
Of course, Purficott did not forget to send a telegram to the empire to explain the situation, and asked the Navy and the Minister of Industry and Commerce to adjust the progress of the plan and send people to the north to build an airfield after the spring. Boat repair station.
The repair station is not a shipyard and only has simple repair and basic maintenance capabilities, but it is crucial to the maintenance of the airship.
Although the empire's local industry is strong, under the premise that everything will be abandoned in the next two years, it is essential to enhance the industrial strength of the northern border and establish an airship maintenance system.
Before the industrial system of the Northern Territory was established, the Northern Territory had the ability to maintain airships through the import of parts from the Empire, which could be regarded as a way to ensure the use of airships in the Northern Territory. compromise.
At least in this way, a group of technical personnel can be trained first to make them familiar with the maintenance work of airships. At the same time, it can also let them understand the problems that airships can encounter in cold climate environments, so that they can Prepare in a targeted manner.
According to Purficott's future plan, airships will become the main means of transportation in the north in the future, and a supporting maintenance system does need to be established.
Originally Purficott considered using trains and railways, but considering the difficulty of maintaining railway lines after the winter snowstorm, she had to be prepared for both. After all, airships are really expensive in terms of maintenance costs. Much cheaper than the railway.
After solving these matters, Purficott summoned the alchemists currently at the Eagle Beak Cliff base, and then took out the shelter design he designed. "This is the concept map of the northern town I designed. I would like to hear your opinions or suggestions on this." Purficott did not explicitly say that this was a shelter prepared to deal with the end of the world. He just said that it was a shelter prepared for the end of the world. An underground town specially designed to withstand the northern wind and snow.
Although these alchemists are all alchemy professors and related people from Langton, Perficott still cannot tell them about the end of the world until the empire announces the news. information.
Even if it was just a design drawing of the shelter, Purficott had to change the name before he could show it to them.
Fortunately, these alchemists were attracted by the design drawings that Perficott took out, and did not care what kind of design drawings it was.
In a sense, the design drawing presented by Purficott is indeed very attractive to alchemists. After all, the drawing itself is a very exquisite alchemical creation.
"Did you, Lord Earl, invent this kind of drawing? This is simply great! You can zoom in or out at will, adjust different viewing angles..." An alchemist praised loudly, with an expression on his face. Zhong couldn't hide his excitement: "I never thought that a drawing could have so many functions! With this, I no longer have to worry about misreading the drawing, or the apprentice not being able to understand it!"
See these People turned their attention to the drawing itself, and Purficott had to speak out to stop them from continuing to distort the building, and brought the topic back to the design of the shelter.
After Purficott brought the topic back, a group of alchemists began to seriously study the shelter on the drawing.
One of them said: "Although Lord Earl, your design can theoretically be extended infinitely, in fact we cannot dig it very deep or build it very large. The population of the North is Not to mention not much, the amount of work and construction difficulty alone cannot expand infinitely
According to the data given in your drawing, if this underground city is only the size of a town, I think the depth of one hundred meters would be the limit. As for the size of the plane..."
"As for the plane, I think the radius of one kilometer is already very large. A small town is so big and has a multi-story structure, which can already accommodate a large population. "Another alchemist took up his words and gave his estimated size.
Most of the others agreed with the judgments of the two alchemists.
After all, The technological level of this era is here. If you want to dig deeper and build larger, both the construction difficulty and the construction cost will rise linearly.
And an excessively large area will also bring about another problem. The problem is the management and material support of the shelter, as well as other related supporting services.
Obviously, it is unlikely that the current Northern Territory, or even the Northern Territory for a long time in the future, can support a huge underground city.
"So do you have any suggestions for improving it?" Perficott looked at everyone expectantly.
(End of this chapter)