"Your Highness, are we really going to invite the French aircraft manufacturer to participate in this bid?" After Henkel reported the preparations for this bid to Ruprecht, before he was about to leave, he still wanted to ask about the Crown Prince's attitude towards this matter. After all, when the news spread within the government, the shock caused was quite large. Many people obviously expressed great dissatisfaction with the possibility of the French participating in the bidding. On the one hand, it was because the two sides had fought to the death before, and the enemy was a bit fast. On the other hand, it was because the peers were enemies and no one wanted anyone else to join their dinner table.

"Do you have any objections to this plan?" Ruprecht asked.

"How to say this? I understand your original intention. I hope the Imperial Air Force and airlines have better aircraft. But we must take care of the feelings of domestic aviation operators. After all, we were enemies. Moreover, it is related to the Imperial military or key areas. If we use foreign aircraft, it is also a big problem for the Imperial security. I am afraid that the Imperial will be dissatisfied with your actions within the Imperial Prince, and we must also consider political pressure."

"The most important thing is that the French government may not agree to their aircraft manufacturer joining the bid. Although we have signed the peace treaty, based on my understanding of the French, their arrogance and stubbornness will prevent France from getting closer to us." Henkel said carefully.

"I have considered political issues, so, this time, we only allow French companies to participate in the bidding, including racing aircraft, postal aircraft, transport aircraft and seaplanes. Fighters and bombers related to military are not open to French companies." The crown prince said with a smile.

"This, Your Highness, you have a deep technical experience, and I am an aviation designer. I think we can say something more." Henkel said with some amusement. To be honest, the racing plane and the fighter themselves have some similarities. After all, before the end of World War II, the speed of the aircraft was one of the most important hardware indicators. And this time the racing plane competition participated in the bidding was not only the flight speed, but also the climb speed, dive limit speed, etc.! This is simply a tender fighter!

"I have already said that this statement is to deal with political troubles. Just have an excuse. Whatever others think is that their business has nothing to do with me." Ruprecht said with a smile.

"Henkel, I repeat again. I am the king of the future. What I care about is that the Kingdom Air Force has suitable aircraft, the civil aviation field can develop, and the domestic aviation industry can thrive in competition. Apart from these three goals, I don't care about anything else. I don't care about whether the Bavarian aircraft manufacturer or the private factory in Germany. Sometimes I don't care about some orders for the French to get. I need to put pressure on them. Even if they are a group of sheep, I have to put a wolf to make these sheep run faster!" Ruprecht's attitude on this question is very firm!

"Have I finished your mission? From time to time, I asked you to select a few of the many French airlines that are more advantageous? How is the situation going now?" Ruprecht had already said everything he should say, and for the sake of the other party being a famous German aircraft designer in history, the crown prince said it again, so well, what is left now is to execute the crown prince's orders, and if you understand, you must execute, and if you don't understand, you must execute! If you are willing, you must execute, and if you don't want to, you must execute!

"We carefully studied the French aircraft in World War I. Most of the products can only be described as regular. There are some excellent products among the fighters, such as Spad's S.xiii fighter, which is better than the Folk D fighter. It is a type of aircraft specially used for air combat. However, the Kingdom does not want to simply develop a pure air combat fighter. What we want is a multi-functional fighter similar to J6, so it is still possible to compete for fighter bidding for Austro-Hungarian Empire, but we don't need it."

"As for bombers, due to the lack of industrial capabilities and technology of the French, they have never developed bombers of the K6 class like us and the British. The only exception is the Falmann F60 bomber. Of course, this aircraft has now been changed to a passenger aircraft. The performance of this aircraft is actually very average, with a maximum take-off weight of only more than 5 tons, but it has a relatively high cost performance. It can carry 1 ton of cargo and fly 1,500 kilometers. From an economic perspective, it is good, and the ceiling is also very high. The engine it uses is only 2 260 horsepower 9-cylinder air-cooled engines."

"From this perspective, if this aircraft is a postal aircraft, it should be pretty good, with a moderate size, good economicality, and the government's subsidies are relatively small." Henkel said. Although he had some opinions on the decision of the crown prince, he did the essential work as a technical consultant. He collected the information he needed, and the suggestions he gave were very pertinent and did not have his own tendency to be mixed with.

"Is the Farman F60? Haha, this is a famous aircraft. Sure enough, gold always shines." Ruprecht said in his heart. This aircraft is also very famous in history. In terms of volume and performance, the Farman F60 is far inferior to the V1500. In fact, it is also worse than the O-400. However, the performance of this aircraft is poor because the engine at the beginning is relatively bad. At the beginning, the F60 used two 260 horsepower engines and could only carry 1 ton of supplies. After the model was replaced with a 450 horsepower engine, the payload increased to 1,600 kg.

In history, this aircraft failed to catch up with the battlefield, but it became the world's first commercial passenger aircraft and transport aircraft. In April 1919, the aircraft carried four passengers and one ton of supplies, and flew 2,050 kilometers uninterruptedly, which took only 18 hours and 23 minutes to sensation the world. Subsequently, although the total production of this aircraft was only 60, it was equipped with many countries such as France, Belgium, Italy, the Soviet Union, Japan, Czechoslovakia and Poland. It is somewhat famous.

Moreover, this aircraft has also set a record of carrying 12 passengers and climbing to more than 6,000 meters in the air, and also broke the world record at that time. From this perspective, the aircraft's high-altitude performance is really good. This aircraft is compatible with the roles of passenger aircraft, bombers and transport aircraft!
Chapter completed!