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Chapter 978: Flight

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To give the glider speed, Roland requested the Ministry of Construction to build a runway along the cliff towards the sea It was designed with both ends curved upward like a crescent

Once the glider was lifted and fixed in position, it could be released by unleashing the fixer Due to gravity, it would glide forward and speed up until it darted out of the runway The flyer would have a si on a roller coaster in the

Of course, these alone were insufficient as the wings needed more power to ascend Thus, Wendy had to provide solider darted out of the cliff that was 15 meters above the water surface, it would have plenty of buffer space Whether the glider ascended or descended, its slow speed provided both the flyer and rescuer tined the prototype to have two seats in the first place

Now that both Lightning and Maggie were fighting on the Barbarian Land The rescue job was naturally handed over to Tilly

She took the job joyfully

"It's tiht it was time to take off

Wendy nodded She clenched her fists to encourage herself and then walked up to the glider with Tilly

It was not until she was on board that she found the aircraft to be er than she had expected

Particularly the two pairs of straight wings that separately lay above her head and below her feet They were larger than any birds' and were even longer than the transfigured Maggie's wings

As Wendy saw the sli in the sea wind, concern rose inside her It felt like the wings would easily snap frolider took off

Roland had s were asse around it The frame was made of hard aluminum This was to ensure that it could endure the ih the air The skin was created by Soraya It was more resistant than ordinary leather and cloth As a result, the wings looked quite slis, their thickness could alnored It was as if they were pieces of paper

"My Lady, let me know if you're ready" A soldier's voice awoke Wendy

"I see Well the first step is"

"Confirm that every control surface is okay" Tilly on the back seat tried to calm her down "Don't be nervous I'll protect you even if so"

"Thank you" Wendy felt relieved when she heard that Exactly, she was not the only one who took His Majesty's class on the principles of flight If sootten, she would make fewer mistakes

"First, pull thea deep breath, Wendy put both hands on an iron lever before her seat and pulled it As she did that, a click was heard under her seat She knew that the sound was produced when the wire connected to the other end of the lever pulled tail She had done this step hundreds of times on the simulator before the prototype was ready

"The elevator is okay The next step is um, the rudder," Tilly continued

But the components in the simulator were much simpler It only contained two vertical levers, two pedals, and a feire ropes At first, it was hard for Wendy to believe that only these few things could allow the glider fly like a bird After all, it was al as a bicycle

The elevation control lever could only be moved forward and back while the direction control lever could only be ht because the holder had limited their movement space On the other hand, a bicycle's head could make circles

"The rudder is okay too Last is the aileron"

According to His Majesty, an aircraft generally had three pairs of wings One in the front and two in the back, giving the impression of the shape of "土" when viewed from the front The rudder, which was the erected part, worked like the one of a boat It could change the direction of the aircraft's nose in the wind

The short horizontal bar was the elevator, which was also called the "tail" It rose and dropped with the aircraft's nose, looking very sie from the chapter "Decomposition and Synthesis of Forces" in Primary Physics, Wendy could easily understand the principle of this coer horizontal bar represented the aileron Wendy did not understand why it was called the "aileron" until she saw the real thing It was inlaid at the back of the large wing and was noTwo ailerons were connected with iron wire to the two pedals near her two feet, one left and one right