"Tell me. What do you want me to do for you? Using motors and mechanical transmissions, do you plan to make a rotorcraft?" Lanze asked.

"Guessed it right."

"There are several major categories of rotorcraft structures today. Which category do you prefer?"

Lanze basically didn't know much about gyroplanes. If he had any knowledge, it was only when he had calculated the height and speed when playing games before to make it easier to shoot down. He didn't know what the structure of gyroplanes was. But common sense told him that no

There may be only one kind. Asking this question is like interviewing a student, trying to cheat first.

"Well, I have learned about these existing structures in the past two days." Wei Hanyang smiled confidently. "I don't use them at all."

"Huh? Do you want to use them all or not use them at all?"

"Let's do something else. Otherwise, why would I take action?"

Wei Yaoji took it for granted. Lan Ze was speechless.

The goblin said: "I want to make a distributed power system. There may be a lot of things that I need you to help me calculate."

"No problem. The school is on holiday. Even if I have to prepare new lessons, it will be after the Chinese New Year."

Lan Ze decided to put aside the matter of designing new [radiation-resistant neuron] cells from scratch that he had thought about in the past two days, and concentrate on helping Wei Yaoji do the math.

After listening to Wei Yaojiing's general explanation of his ideas, Lan Ze discovered that Wei Hanyang was indeed a genius.

He is worthy of being a great system engineer with a professional background.

The aircraft Wei Hanyang wants to build is an atmospheric vehicle.

The plan is very targeted and is only designed for a world where air exists. It does not consider extraterrestrial space where there is no atmosphere at all.

Lanze taught mathematics at an aviation school for two years and was exposed to some aerospace cases. As far as these cases are concerned, the design ideas of normal aircraft are not like those of Wei Yaojing:

He plans to install thousands of large and small rotors on his aircraft. How many and how to install them requires a mathematical model and calculation. In his vision, the aircraft will have no less than a thousand rotors on its body.

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The reason is very strange: birds are covered with feathers, so they are not afraid of falling!

When young birds learn to fly, they jump directly from trees or cliffs. Even when they roll and climb, their wings barely flap. They struggle while falling. There is always a falling process when learning to fly.

A flightless baby bird is not absolutely invulnerable to death, but it is definitely more resistant to falling than other animals.

In his gyroplane, the rotors are equivalent to feathers.

Part of the surface rotor is connected to the fuselage engine and uses active power; part of it is rotated by the airflow and is passive power.

When an aircraft stalls and falls, the rotors on the body are squeezed by the air below and passively rotate to generate updrafts, which are enough to make the aircraft fall to the ground or sea at a safe speed. From this perspective, the aircraft may break many rotors, but

With the lifting effect of the airflow when descending and the shock-absorbing effect of the rotor hitting the ground first, the people inside and the equipment that are thicker than people will definitely be safe and sound.

Even if a person is slightly injured, it will not lead to death unless he is frightened.

Wei Hanyang's rough calculation shows that safety can be guaranteed if dropped.

Moreover, if the broken power rotor is less than a certain proportion, it can still take off again. If you fly slowly, you can still complete the voyage. You can also further consider using a power switching device to make the passive rotor become a backup power rotor. You can pass

Damaged power rotors that undergo body self-inspection become passive rotors and participate in flight. Damaged rotors that fail to pass self-inspection are retracted and deactivated.

Passive rotors can not only play a role in deceleration protection. When thousands of rotors rotate, an airflow layer will be generated on the surface of the aircraft.

When the aircraft moves in the atmosphere, this airflow layer interacts with the airflow in the atmosphere, and the rotation of the passive rotor is affected and undergoes various changes.

Through the sensor connected to the rotor shaft, the control system can sense the presence of various external airflows.

Genius engineer Wei Yaoning came up with a bold idea:

Since his plane can feel the airflow everywhere [outside] it, it can completely use the airflow that originally exists in the atmosphere to move at high speed.

Complex and changeable atmospheric turbulence is actually the nemesis of traditional atmospheric aircraft.

But in Wei Yaoning's vision, his aircraft relies on the control of airflow and micro-manipulation of the rotor, and can enter and exit the natural wind at will. The sensitive sensing network and precise control system can ensure the safety when playing in the wind.

High-altitude airflow will become the "high-speed cloud road" that aircraft can rely on.

With the help of global geography and meteorological systems, by finding suitable airflow, we can achieve 24-hour global direct access in a low-energy way. Although so-called global direct access, the farthest straight-line distance does not exceed half of the earth’s circumference, which is two

Twelve thousand kilometers. But after all

This is a rotorcraft. It can fly more than 20,000 kilometers in just one day, and its speed is already close to Mach 1. If it encounters strong winds on the scale of an alien planet, it is not impossible to fly faster. But there is no way to expect it to be like a jet engine.

Like an airplane, it reaches the first cosmic speed...

Of course, all the above are just his imagination.

He also needs Lanze's help in establishing mathematical models and making precise calculations.

If the mathematical model is established and calculated, no high-quality solution can be obtained... His plan is not afraid of falling, but it will not fly well, so he has to think of other solutions.

Lan Ze listened with great interest.

He was distracted.

I began to imagine using cells, tissues and organs to replace the thousands of mechanical rotors of the Guardian Fairy... and even more rotors could be developed, reaching the order of magnitude of hair follicles on animals.

If the rotating shaft is connected to the nerve endings... Oh, by the way, is there any?

The ganglia and further brain of living organisms are a brand new design field, and the development of software and hardware involves too many problems.

For the time being, you can find an old bracelet or something and re-flash the program. Use existing electronic equipment to build an ultra-small control system for flying creatures. Fix it on the body surface, connect to the neural circuits, and it is ready to use.

This experimental creature must be fun to fly.

Animals with rotary wings do not exist on earth at all. However, plant seeds have long evolved various aerodynamic shapes that use air to travel.

There is no real technical obstacle to the development of usable biodynamic rotors because there are no ready-made DNA codes in the animal kingdom for reference.

Therefore, people should communicate with each other.

Multicellular organisms are naturally large distributed systems composed of independent small units (cells).

However, the design of every specific function always involves majors other than biology. Lanze basically doesn't know any of them... Every time he looks for information, he can stumble and solve the problem, but in the end it is not smooth.

Wei Yaojing's major is large-scale systems engineering in engineering. It focuses on the integration of various fields and majors in engineering. He is good at completing complicated things in a concise and precise way.

Moreover, Wei Yaojing's own abilities came from practice. While others were reading textbooks and studying classic cases in school, he had already subcontracted projects and transformed the city.

The two fields may seem far apart, but are actually very related.

If Lanze only needs to translate the engineering design into the nucleic acid language of organisms (DNA, RNA, and a limited number of artificial symbols), then he will be quite worry-free when designing organisms.
Chapter completed!