The air confrontation on the Eastern Front is not fierce, so the J6 aircraft of the Bavarian Legion can maintain a large fleet size under high production costs, and the production requirements are not high. However, the Western Front is different. Germany faces the British and French air forces on the Western Front, and the losses of fighters are very large. In this case, the first thing the Luftwaffe wants is a cheap and reasonable fighter jet. There is no particularly high requirement for ground attacks and range. In fact, just look at the Folk D aircraft, the air weight is 680 kilograms and the maximum take-off weight is 910 kg. This basically has no other carrying capacity except the pilot and necessary fuel!

In fact, Folk himself is also ambitious. He is keenly aware that the future of fighter jets will not only be air combat, but will also undertake ground attack tasks. So he also wants to build fighter jets like J6. Unfortunately, he does not have the technical conditions, and even if he does it, there will be no production capacity. Therefore, many things are just on the drawings and are not completed. However, after the war is over, the demand for fighter jets has dropped greatly, and Folk's drawings are probably only locked in cabinets. However, what I didn't expect is that they will still have to be taken out now!

"Yes, everyone needs to cheer up. Our opponents are not only Bavarian aircraft manufacturers, but also French colleagues. Folk is under great pressure to compete, and we are not small. We may have a head-on conflict with Caudron's new plan," said Junckers.

The French bombers were much worse in terms of performance level, and it can even be said to be not at the same level as those of England and Germany, but this is also subject to the battlefield situation. In other words, the French could not provide enough resources and production capacity to equip a large number of bombers, especially heavy bombers. Therefore, the performance of the bombers they equipped was relatively average. For example, the Gauderon's R11 bomber had a maximum take-off weight of only 2 tons. A very small bomber had only two 210 horsepower engines as power, and the two combined were not as good as a German late engine. Even the largest Breguet F60 bomber, the maximum take-off weight was only more than 5 tons, which was very ordinary. It was far worse than the German K6 and K8 bombers, but what about the saying? The Bavarian aircraft manufacturer can despise it, but it is not the turn of Junx!

In the future, if Junckers wants to make achievements in the dual-engine medium-sized aircraft, then first of all, they must defeat their colleagues from France and then wrestle with the Bavarian aircraft manufacturer. Therefore, Junckers is under a lot of pressure.

"If possible, I think we can develop some technology together? Or bid for certain projects that our single company cannot afford? For example, large aircraft." At this moment, Donier made a suggestion.

"Is this a monopoly to some extent? Didn't you just say that Bavaria doesn't like monopoly?" Folk said.

"No, we are integrating resources. Our current level is far from monopoly. In some mainframe projects, Bavarian aircraft manufacturing plants will definitely participate. The French Breguet and Farmann also have certain strength. They are very likely to join forces, and there is also the Prussian aircraft manufacturing plants in the north. They may also participate. After all, in addition to Bavaria's orders, there are also orders from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is definitely even larger. In this case, I think the alliance is a good way. If possible, I think we should build a four-engine large aircraft similar to the v1500 level!" said Donier.

"So what is the use of building such a large aircraft? I don't think that simple cargo or postal aircraft can use such a large aircraft. As for heavy bombers, the equipment volume in peacetime will definitely not be large. Even if we can cooperate with each other and get production orders, the quantity will definitely not satisfy us." Folk thought for a while and said.

"This kind of aircraft may not be of much use in China. After all, even Germany is definitely not vast. But we can target the international market, such as the future European civil aviation industry and the transportation of the empire in the colonies! We cannot build railways in the vast Africa like Europe, so that investment is too large, and when we need to transport some things, air transportation is one of the options. If civil aviation can develop, it will also require a larger aircraft." Donier said. Donier is actually very ambitious. Thinking about the super spacecraft Do-x equipped with 12 engines in history, you can understand how deeply this guy has obsession with large aircraft... Of course, Donier does not have this confidence yet, but it does not prevent him from developing a large aircraft!

"It is a bit of a challenge to go directly on four large engines, and the number of orders is estimated to be not large, which is not economically cost-effective. In addition, from a technical perspective, we cannot compete with other companies in the existing technology framework, because we do not have the advantage in terms of mainframe design experience or reserves. Therefore, if we decide to create a new aircraft, we must have new technical breakthroughs, such as all-metal aircraft! To be honest, the wooden aircraft has too many problems in environmental adaptability and maintenance, and the flat-panel wings are too large and occupy too much space. The fuselage design must also be improved. Most of the current aircraft's fuselage design does not conform to aerodynamics at all." Junckers said.

Hugo Junckers is indeed a veteran of the German aviation industry. He has a very deep understanding and research on aerodynamic layout. Otherwise, he would not have built the first wind tunnel in Germany! He knew very well that if it was just a simple expansion, then they had no chance of winning, because if it was simply spread the cake, the Bavarian Aircraft Design Bureau could do better. If the basic structure remains unchanged, just change the K8. Just for this, Junckers and the others had no chance of winning, because so far, none of the three companies had ever had a take-off aircraft with a weight of more than 8 tons!

Therefore, Junckers' idea is very simple. We start with twin-engine aircraft and directly adopt new technologies, such as creating an aerodynamic layout that at least looks like it conforms to the mechanics of air fluids, for example, creating a relatively sturdy body with relatively advantages in maintenance. Of course, for Junckers, we must continue to innovate in engines. Compared with Folk and Doneille, the biggest advantage of Junckers is engine production?
Chapter completed!