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Space associations and airships

“What do you want me to do about this? Ministers?”

“Public opinion on the current $415 million contribution is too poor.

Perhaps it would be better to realign the contribution under $400 million through negotiation. ”

“As the ministers know, the renegotiation issue is not as easy as I thought.

South Korea relies heavily on the United States for intelligence assets such as military reconnaissance, meteorology, communications and GPS, placing a lot of pressure on it to cut $5 million.

I don't intend to cooperate with Korea because other countries, such as Japan and China, have finished coordinating their positions. ”

In the President's words, the ministers do not think of any other pointed way.

The space powers are already weaving plates in a way that divides their interests, because Korean diplomacy literally has its limits.

This is why there is a diplomatic proverb that if you twist it, you should become a great nation.

“Still, the continuing deterioration of public opinion will have catastrophic consequences in the elections. ”

“Hmm... like the last surgical outburst, you don't have a picture? ”

“As a last resort, there is still a way for Navis to go directly to the Space Society lobby. ”

When Navis, who boasts global superpowers, is told, the ministers' faces light up and darken again.

If the influential Navis gets out himself, it will be solved.

However, they are human beings, like nuclear bombs, who don't know where the cerebral cortex is going.

I feel comfortable not touching them.

The President hardens his complexion because of whether or not the last case came to mind.

“Dr. Nam must have a lot of fever from the last Gangnam incident."

“I will, though. But since the doctors' researchers left for Seoul,

The Feud R&D Center research project has been suspended, causing a major blow to the company. ”

“Hmm.. The Navis air flow is not unusual because of the coordination and surgical problems.

And bring out the contribution problem again. ”

Nevertheless, Navis is still intertwined with the issue of coordinating bounties for damage in Guacheon and Gangnam, making other demands.

The Nam Ph.D. will be full of these problems if they don't.

However, it is unknown how long before the electorate can ignore the deterioration in public opinion caused by contributions.

I would rather ask Navis to do it one more time than hold an election.

In doing so, Navis was in a situation where he would fall into an unwanted storm due to the problem of contributions.

Meanwhile, three prototype aircraft are assembled in the aircraft renovation window at Muan Airport.

Originally built for Navis' aircraft renovation business, this single building is the largest prefabricated building in the East.

200 metres wide and 800 metres wide, it's really incredibly long, huge and simple.

The factory entrance is as big as a huge building.

To remove the airplane and assembly materials.

Press the slide door opening/closing switch and the huge door slowly pushes aside with the magnificent sound of the electric motor.

You can open the side door, but the window opens a big door deliberately to show hope.

“This is the renovated building where the airship is being assembled. ”

The renovation yard entered between the slide doors and said.

Hope looked around the building and answered.

“Wow, I didn't really care about the new facility, but looking inside, it's huge. ”

The building uses the Monster Hunter site, but in fact, it is the first time hope has ever come to this facility.

The entire site of the company was so big, even though it was an aircraft renovation window located in Monster Hunter.

The window continues to explain.

“Four buildings are just over 200 meters wide.

The original purpose was to renovate here, from large transporters to next-generation transporters. ”

“Hey, what's that big pipe over there? ”

“Oh, this pipe line is a newly built pipe to inject helium gas into an airship.

The aircraft was originally retrofitted, so there was no helium gas injector for the aircraft, so we completed the installation urgently. ”

“Oh, right. The airship is helium.”

I almost mistaken planes and airships because I am the same object that flies through the sky.

Looking closely at the pipe, it is labeled helium gas in English.

Since the pipes are quickly newly installed, the smell of the newly painted paint still hasn't gone away.

Workers in the building are performing skeletal welding with friction stir welders and plasma welders.

Some workers are wearing exoskeleton drivers that seem to have left only the skeleton of the HGD.

In fact, the exterior of HGD1, the HMD arming system, etc. are removed and the device adapted to the factory version is correct.

“You'd better wear a mask from here.

Even though there are dust protection facilities in the building by area.

But even a small amount of carbon nanoparticles and beryllium dust enter the lungs, which is very dangerous.

May cause lung cancer. ”

“Oh, yeah. ”

Hope wore a gas mask with a 3M mark on it, according to the advice of the window.

The skeleton of the airship is made of a material similar to the NAB080 alloy, a carbon beryllium scandium aluminum main component used in HR1 horse-drawn outer gloves.

Strength is weakened and ductility is enhanced and has the code name NAB085.

If NAB080 was tighter and enhanced bulletproof performance, NAB085 enhanced bending and restoration performance instead of lowering strength.

It is made to be advantageous for maintaining a huge hull as opposed to a horse-drawing machine.

For that purpose, graphene wires extracted from the gangrene muscles were mixed at 50 to reduce weight to about 20 percent less than HR1's outer gloves.

The gangrene muscles have the property of accumulating electricity, so the airline skeleton also has a complex charging function.

The skeleton of an airship becomes a kind of massive accumulator.

“That's a skeleton made from a mixture of advanced NAB085 materials and monstrous life.

It's charging. ”

“The skeleton of the four airships is charged with electricity from solar cells so that it can be used at night.

Moreover, the weight is so light that it leaves only a third of the aircraft compared to the traditional Duralumin-based airship skeleton.

When you use that material, the weight of the airship is almost no different from that of a balloon aircraft. ”

A tandem balloon-type airship is an airship without an internal skeleton, unlike Navis' airship, which is simply a cheap airship with a power mechanism on the balloon.

Large aircraft require an exoskeleton.

“You can also use that ultra-lightweight backbone material to achieve more than double payloads compared to conventional airships."

“Yes, that ultra-lightweight, high-rigidity material allowed me to build a monster airship that had twice the payload of American Lockheed Martin and German Zeppelin aircraft. ”

In short, it is a fraudulent airship that can carry twice as many aircraft of the same size.

After welding the skeleton, you can see skilled people who work on fitting a large airbag-like cloth to the machine.

Hope saw that airbag in the cloud 3D cad program.

“Is that the air bag? ”

“Yes, those balloons maintain altitude.

With that compressor connected to the air-bag, when the air-bag is inflated, the airship sinks down.

On the contrary, if you squeeze it, the lighter density airship will rise up to the sky. ”

The vessels had principles similar to those of submarine water tanks.

It is similar to sinking when submarine tanks are filled and rising when emptied.

If you put outside air in the air-bag, it sinks, and if you take it out, the airship opens.

It also serves to ensure that the aircraft elements are properly positioned and centered on the centre of gravity for flight.

“Hmm... is the airtight coating of the vesicles done? ”

“Each of the four nanopolymer membranes is coated in and out of the quadruple to provide a special barrier that prevents the outside air of the vessels from mixing with the helium inside the hull. ”

“Great. That's perfect. ”

That's how I toured the prototype airship assembly line.

Most of the components that make up the airship are made with 3D printers and those that require rigidity are made with custom CNC milling.

“Hmm... I've seen all the assemblies. I need to see the power unit...”

“The entire facility is confidential.

Except for the minority development team, I can't get in or out. ”

“Oh yes, then I should have gone there alone. Well done."

“Yes, then."

Hope for a renovation under the auspices of the window entered the power unit assembly line factory next door.

“Welcome. Hope, this is Kim Jang Chi Pat's senior researcher. ”

Chief researcher Kim Jang Kimchi, a secret R&D part of Navis, welcomed hope.

Kim Jang Kimchi is a project team with a special character sense for Nam Ph.D., meaning that it contains delicious skills.

“Oh, this is Kim Jang Kimchi's UFO facility called Skunk Works in Korea."

“Yes, it is. I've been working on a lot of secret projects.

It's a lot of security. ”

“Although... I suppose so. Is this the ion engine that gets into the airship? ”

Hope pointed to a complex mechanical device with fingers on the restraint device.

Machine tools emit bright white light and produce fine earthworms around them.

“Yes, low-ion engines are experimental engines designed to be very small for prototyping.

They make most of the body of the engine out of carbon complexes extracted from flying monsters for lightening, and they're extremely expensive. ”

“But we have to increase the engine thrust rate...

Approximately how much does the engine cost? ”

“That little engine costs over $25 billion.

But of course, there's a cost of development.

And the real gas prototype prices over there are about 40 billion. ”

“Bummer... is that so? ”

No matter how expensive an ion engine is, it's too expensive to be a state-of-the-art engine to get into a spaceship.

One F15 fighter engine costs roughly $5 billion.

25 billion is the price of five large fighter engines.

“Of course, those ion propulsion engines are custom made for prototype airships, which is why they're expensive. ”

“So that's the price of an airship engine with six engines in it? ”

“Yes, roughly 150 billion won. ”

“Blank!”

Hope was appalled by the amount of money. With four to six ion engines per airship, the total engine price is roughly over KRW 100 billion.

The price of ion engines entering the prototype of three airships is approximately 4,000 billion won.

“Obviously, there's a lot of development costs. If it's 350 billion won, you can float a satellite. ”

“Obviously, rising in the air is a little pricey. ”

“How long will the engine last? ”

“Once the small engine thrust test is underway this week,

It is envisaged that the prototype will be available for mounting by next week. ”

“Okay, so after about two weeks, we can finally see the stratospheric aircraft that we built on top of Korea. ”

“Yes, I'm looking forward to it. Our ion propulsion engine is a single stratospheric airship.”

The top researcher also looked at the ion propulsion engine created by Kim Jang Kim Chi.

Hope realized, on the one hand, that we had to roll our heads at the cost of development and the cost of production.

If the cost of development of stratospheric aircraft is caught between KRW 50 billion and KRW 70 billion, it will cost between 10 trillion and 14 investigators to build 200 stratospheric aircraft that will cover the entire planet.

The cost is close to KRW 20 trillion if it is said to be combined with the cost of mainnance, such as the cost of servicing and maintaining parts.

If the technological problems get out of the way during development, the total business costs could be close to $30 trillion at worst.

Thirty trillion won is the total amount of money that can be acquired by one of South Korea's most powerful financial groups.

“Well... this is why you pay for development costs. ”

Hope is experiencing a realistic part of budget pressures as a body.

Now I'm just building three prototypes of airships, and 500 billion won just flies away.

With the hope of leading the development of the first project, it became clear to the body how low-budget XHR1 had been developed for the first time in humanity.

It would have taken at least three to four times the budget if Dr. Nam had undertaken the overall technological development himself.

But Dr. Nam is an Italian supercar company, Lamborghini Ferrari Fargani, a parts company, Magnetti Morelli,

SKF, a Swedish bearing company, MAXON, a Swiss BLDC motor company, and Korean technology companies, titles and geomones were very well utilized to factor in the cost of development, dramatically reducing unit prices.

If Hope had not actively utilized the relevant technology infrastructure of the Fusion Group Alliance forces, development costs would have surpassed KRW 1 trillion by now.

It also naturally makes sense why the Fusion Group is leading high-tech companies in 2016.

The spirit of Korean ancestors also led to the Fusion Group.

“The problems that arise after the prototype must be solved in the fusion group pool as much as possible.”

Hope, once Nam developed XHR1, decided to benchmark his know-how in the development of airships.

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I like Kim Chi Jang Kim. Or is Kim Jang Kimchi going to have children?