"Surprise?" Aaron heard this and took another look at the machine lying quietly in the open space.
This thing has a typical dwarf style, with all kinds of bolts and gears exposed, and the connection of various components looks very casual and rough, as if it will fall apart at any time.
Two pairs of metal wings extending parallel to each other indicate that this machine should be capable of flying. There is a three-wing propeller blade at the front of the fuselage, which provides forward power for this machine.
There are two seats left in the center of the fuselage, and a steam engine lies quietly at the back. The steam engine has not been ignited at this time, so there is no problem, but Aaron always feels that as long as it is ignited, it will spray steam wildly.
"Airplane? I saw the master craftsman test it last time at Gnomeregan. Have you built an airplane that can fly stably?" Aaron looked at the simple airplane and said to Sicco Thermaplugg.
"Hey, how could I be like that conservative old guy who only thinks about developing a flying vehicle?" Sicco Thermaplugg said dissatisfiedly, controlled the mecha and walked to the front of the aircraft, pointed to the bottom of the fuselage, where there is A thick gun barrel that was very familiar to Aaron stretched out. Inside the barrel were eight gun barrels stacked around the center. "This is an airplane equipped with my improved machine gun. It may even be able to shoot down a giant dragon."
"You're just here, would you like to help us test this aircraft? As the founder of the company, I think this honor should belong to you." Sicco Thermaplugg said to Aaron.
"I'll test it? Okay." Aaron agreed eagerly and looked at the pilot's seat of the aircraft. "Wait a minute, don't you give me a parachute? It doesn't matter to me, but others may not be able to fly."
"If you say so," Sicco Thermaplugg pondered for a moment, jumped off the mecha, and ran to the company. Not long after, he ran out with two tattered-looking canvas bags.
After throwing one of the canvas bags to Aaron, Sicco Thermaplugg patted his head and said, "I just said that I seemed to have forgotten something just now. How can the test aircraft not use a parachute?"
"Is this thing really useful?" Aaron opened the parachute bag and took a look inside. Looking at the colorful thing inside the parachute bag that looked like a parachute, Aaron really suppressed his urge to throw this thing out, "It won't open up and break into several parts in the air, right?"
"Probably not." Sicco Thermaplugg scratched his bald head, "We have all used this thing before, and we haven't seen anyone have any problems."
"Okay, I'll trust you just once." Aaron put this backpack on his back. Anyway, he has the ability to fly for a short time. Even if this thing is unreliable, there won't be a big problem.
"Wait, can you let me try it too?" Vereesa said excitedly from the side, "I haven't tried the dwarf's flying machine yet, let me try it."
"No problem, this time is for testing anyway, it doesn't matter who comes." Sicco Thermaplugg was very talkative, and agreed to Vereesa's request without hesitation, threw another parachute bag to Vereesa, and simply told Vereesa how to use it.
"It's not that difficult. If something goes wrong, just pull the rope, right?" Vereesa put on the backpack and gently patted the parachute rope hanging on his shoulder to show that he understood.
Seeing Vereesa's relaxed attitude, Aaron didn't know what to say. It was also his first time trying to fly a plane, so he hoped there would be no serious problems.
In order to avoid a flight failure, Sicco Thermaplugg gave the two people a thorough explanation of how to control the aircraft. Fortunately, it was not very complicated and Aaron did not need to look at various instruments.
As he walked towards the plane, Aaron couldn't help but recall that when he first arrived at Gnomeregan, he witnessed High Tinker Mekkatorque's parachute accident due to the failure of the test plane. At that time, the craftsman was hanging pitifully on the tree branch. It was such a tragedy.
After Vereesa was in place, Aaron made a ready gesture to Sicco Thermaplugg, and saw several dwarf craftsmen checking the fuselage one last time and turning on the steam engine.
As the steam engine ignited, Aaron saw the propeller in front of the driver's seat rotating rapidly. The seemingly unattractive propeller provided powerful propulsion for the aircraft.
Sitting on the fuselage, Aaron could clearly feel the powerful lift imparted to him by the fuselage. After a short while, the aircraft quickly took off and headed straight into the blue sky.
"This thing is so noisy," Aaron said while holding the joystick and controlling the plane to fly in a direction away from the crowd. He felt the vibrations transmitted from all parts of the fuselage. He thought that he would make a suggestion to Sicco Thermaplugg later and add some earthquake resistance to the fuselage. Otherwise, if the vibrations continue like this, the probability of the aircraft falling apart will be too high.
"Okay, Vereesa, let's start testing the machine gun." Aaron saw that the plane had flown to the sea far away from the crowd, turned his head slightly and said to Vereesa.
"What did you say? The wind is a bit strong, I can't hear you clearly!" Although she had flown in a vehicle that could take off more than once before, Vereesa still felt fresh about flying in a plane made by dwarfs. In addition, the noise of this thing flying was really loud, so the girl didn't hear Aaron's words clearly at first.
It was just that Vereesa subconsciously increased the volume, causing Aaron sitting in front of her to feel that her ears were deafened. Aaron had no choice but to press the joystick with one hand to ensure the stability of the navigation. The other hand reached behind her and reluctantly gestured towards Vereesa, indicating that she could start shooting.
Vereesa finally understood the meaning of Aaron, lowered his head and searched in front of the seat for a while, and then found the machine gun control buttons marked with Gnomish and Common.
When Vereesa controlled the machine gun mounted in front of the aircraft to fire, Aaron felt a strong reverse thrust coming from the control, causing Aaron to have to increase its strength to stabilize the heading.
After stabilizing, Aaron began to carefully observe the results of firing the machine gun. Unfortunately, there was no target in front of the machine gun to test the damage. All he could see was the waves created after the bullets were fired into the sea water.
Just when Aaron was thinking about finding something like a rocky shipwreck to test the power of the machine gun, a subtle cracking sound suddenly came from his ears. Before Aaron could react, he heard a loud noise, and then felt his body falling. Aaron realized at that time that something was not good.
"Oops, jump!" Aaron was not very worried that he would fall into the sea, but he did not trust the dwarfs' machinery. Even if the dwarf mechanical products did not explode like Goblin, he had seen this plane explode once.
Thinking of this, Aaron didn't dare to delay. He hurriedly spread his wings and jumped out of the driver's seat. He also pulled out Vereesa who was looking for the parachute rope. Then he hurriedly flew away from the plane. After flying far away, he stabilized his body and looked back at the tragic situation of the plane.