The Age of the 21st Century Magazine

“It's winter, it's summer... sweat."

I felt a cold sweat dripping down my neck.

Despite the close weather, the whole body of hope is soaked in sweat.

I saw the sky.

There is a floating airship that looks like a cloudless sky, a spaceship.

Although the size is so small, it is possible to recognize the shape very clearly.

It's 22 kilometers from the ground, but reaching out makes me feel like I'm going to get caught.

“Commander, a short time ago, a Special Operations and Transportation team arrived at the crash site of a Type B aircraft. ”

This is a contact from the ground control center.

“Really?

Secure the restraint line from the gas to the ground and recover the software equipment and key components from the ground so that no further accidents occur. ”

“Very well. I will proceed with securing the file on the ground of the golf course. ”

“Yes."

It's futile after finishing the call with the team members who are out at the crash site.

Hundreds of billions won in damage caused by the crash of an airship.

Some large corporations have gone bankrupt and there has been enough damage left.

The multi-articulated airship prototype has become a junkyard that is stuck in the golf course and dismantled.

However, the accident left no sequelae.

I also brought you something unexpected.

If this test had been successful, an additional KRW 400 billion would have gone into making the third prototype.

So I think that good and bad things always stick together like two sides of a coin.

Now that the aircraft is stationary at flight altitude, it's time to check the communication system.

I called the geocorrelation center again.

“Operate the ground control center communication system. ”

“Aye, sir. Activate the communications system. ”

Operators at ground control stations begin booting up for service testing of communication relays.

It takes more than 50 minutes to boot up all communication equipment.

On the ground there is a station shuttle car aimed at a large parabolic antenna on board the aircraft.

To send broadcast data to the airship.

Airship dmb broadcasts allow you to watch HD quality broadcasts.

The countdown number for the airship boot is getting closer and closer to zero as it goes down.

Beep beep!

The number on the large screen pointed to 0.

People gathered on the ground launched the airship dmb app on their smartphones.

periodontal disease

AMBIS News is being transmitted for test broadcast.

“This is MBS News.

There was a plane crash that was being tested on Runway 3 of Monster Hunter at Muan Airport around 11: 00 this morning.

Twenty-eight of these accidents resulted in casualties, and the injured... ”

High definition HD screens and voices are flawless.

“Ah, the news is fast...”

It works well, but if it does, the first test broadcast is about the plane crash.

Should I smile or should I cry?

Hope held true.

Meanwhile, United States personnel exiting the airport headed for the aircraft crash site, the golf course.

An agent arriving at the crash site took out a non-fireworks Titus phone and listened.

On the golf course, members of the support team use various heavy equipment to restrain aircraft.

The airship looks invisible.

“Yes, the Navy Type B aircraft is down. ”

“Very well. I will try to make contact. ”

After the call, the agent left the aircraft that covered the golf course for a while before staring at it.

A few days later, a Windscreen Project Incident Measurement Meeting was held at the Suwon R&D Center.

Unlike conventional conference formats in R&D centers, meetings are intended to analyze the causes of accidents and prevent recurrences.

Hope took out the words.

“Dear R&D Center research team and affiliated research team,

Let's discuss prevention and recurrence measures with the cause of the failure of a multiarticulated airship, which was one of the second types of aircraft. ”

The caisse shape design team will make a presentation first.

“I'm Professor Park of the Kaist Shape Design Team.

The multi-articulated aircraft, which was a prototype aircraft, was painstakingly dislodged from the candidate's fleet due to an unfortunate take-off accident, despite the advantages of being resistant to external shocks.

But I think we still have to open up possibilities for the design of the shape of the multiarticulated aircraft. ”

Hope hesitated for a moment and nodded formally.

Professor Park pushed a multiarticulated airship at a conference held last time, and he sees a lot of it in this big accident.

Much weight is being drawn to responsibility, especially as it is a shape design team that is directly involved.

Even though it is a research and development part, political power struggles are everywhere.

If it was a national agency or other research institute, the cost of research would have been reduced or cut in the aftermath.

It is a common reality to have entertainment or a political mud fight before developing research.

I can't guarantee that there won't be such a political battle between a wide range of organizations because Navis has so many interests on the same scale.

Following Professor Park, the Post-Tax team continued their remarks.

“I am the best professor in the Posttac Materials Lab.

As we argued last time, the transformation proved to be more stable for operations.

As evidenced by the second prototype, the aggregate of graphene and monstrous carbon muscles is considered to have fulfilled my role in the accident of the aircraft due to design defects of the multiarticulated aircraft. ”

Indirectly, when the story of cutting off another arithmetic research team comes out, Professor Park's complexion just spoke becomes red.

It's never a good thing to get this kind of embroidery from a material research team, not a design team.

However, as long as the astronomical prototype production cost 26 billion won was stuck in the middle of the golf course, he had no excuse.

After all, Postec pushed the variation from its aesthetic taste, but the result was as good as cattle back-stepping.

When I saw that remark followed, I realized that I also had to follow my luck in research and development.

‘Oh.. Even if you try so hard, that's what happens when an accident like that happens. ’

In fact, no one here predicted that there would be a problem with the polyarticulated aircraft test.

However, as the accident explodes, the arrow naturally returns to someone.

I don't think it's easy to do research and development that I thought would just roll my head.

“Hmm... I'm Kim, Professor of Material Engineering at Young Nam University.

I'm having a hard time with multiarticulated aircraft, but I'd like to give you a better chance.

I think the opportunity should always be open, as there is no guarantee that this will not happen in the stratospheric orbit in the future. ”

“Seoul University...”

“Consider university...”

The remarks made by university research teams have surprisingly led to numerous claims that abandonment of multiarticulated aircraft is too early.

Hope was a part of that argument, and I thought I should think more about it while creating a prototype for the third airship.

However, the manufacture of multi-articulated aircraft prototypes is prohibited.

Hope compared the proposals of academic research institutes so far and decided to create only eight prototypes.

The original plan was to produce five prototype models that addressed the last defect when both types succeeded in the test flight and entered the final post-test mass production.

After discussions with academics and affiliated research teams, Nabis R&D followed.

“John Smith, Senior Research Team Leader, Navis Shape Design Team.

Even our world-class computer simulation of Navis did not anticipate this accident.

I don't know if it's a suggestion that goes beyond the subject area of our research team, but I think it's better to focus first on preventing these unfortunate incidents than on prototyping. ”

In the words of the Navis research team, I realized that I was missing one thing.

Accident prevention comes first.

No matter how stable the airship is, there is no guarantee that it won't crash this way once.

Furthermore, even if a broken airship crashes out of complete control, the problem may escalate.

“Yes, that was a good opinion.

I didn't think of that as a project executive.

As a Korean, I feel responsible for suffering from insecurity.

In the future, we will consult with external specialized teams on safety measures in a complementary way. ”

Turns out I didn't care too much about safety measures.

In the meantime, it was only in the aftermath of a dangerous operation with the nickname of a butcher.

It was too late, but I felt that more intensive safety measures were needed for the next prototype development or horse-drawing project.

Hope did so after a countermeasures meeting and left the Suwon R&D Center.

I was going home and a black explorer blocked the car of hope.

A stranger got out of the car.

A white man with sapphire eyes on his brown hair.

“What's going on?”

When he lowered the car window and asked, he answered.

“I'm from the CIA. ”

Why at the CIA? ”

Why the hell would Navis suddenly have no CIA?

I'm suddenly nervous because I'm from a scary institution.

Turns out he feels like a typical white collar.

Seeing that you look normal without feeling anything like this, it seems like an outside CIA agent is right.

“You must have come from the institution and been a little embarrassed.

What we came here to do was simply to consult on the purchase of an airship. ”

“Oh, that's it. If it's an airship, there's a prototype coming out now.

It still takes a lot of time to be mass-produced. ”

“You're misunderstanding something.

What we want is the mass spectrum of the first prototype airship. ”

The first prototype type type is a small airship measuring over 40 metres.

Hope returned to unexpected demands.

“No, what would you buy something so small for? ”

“I can't tell you that it's a confidential agenda.

What we want is more than 50 prototypes of multi-articulated aircraft.

Once purchased, the airship's electronic equipment will be on board. ”

Hope hesitated to answer because it was a bit reluctant.

“Oh, I see.

That issue could have political implications, so we need to consult with Dr. Nam, the one who owns it. ”

“Oh, if that's the case, it's easy to sell privately through our ghost companies in the South Pacific. ”

Apparently, it's a multi-articulated airship suitable for combat purposes.

If you sell aircraft to private companies, there are no other constraints.

“Very well. I will ask Dr. Nam first and give him an answer.

One contact, please. ”

“Sure. Here's my business card. ”

I got a business card. It's a business card of a British machine accessory.

You can't just sell a business card to the CIA openly.

The managing director of Navis Inspection also uses the Machine Accessory Warehouse as its headquarters.

The multiarticulated aircraft, which had been stopped in this accident, needed it where it had never been thought possible.