Thump, thump, thump, thump—
As the two radial engines simultaneously started, the stormbird prototype began to taxi down the runway.
Its propeller engines had a rotating function, providing an upward diagonal vector.
So, even without the exaggeratedly curved flaps of an STOL aircraft, this "stormbird" only taxied seven or eight meters before successfully taking off.
Because a flight path had been applied for in advance with air traffic control, this "stormbird" was assigned the shortest route, passing through New York State, the Great Lakes Region, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and finally entering Alaska.
"Oh, Old Father! That's enough, it's time for Konrad Curze and me to fly!"
After waiting eagerly for over an hour, little Broly finally couldn't help but remind his Old Father, Li Pu, that it was time for a change.
"How dare you!"
Sitting in the rear cabin, Jessica Jones gripped the mesh ropes on the cabin wall tightly with both hands, almost screaming her throat raw.
She had Superman-like jumping abilities, capable of leaping dozens of meters in one go, but they were currently at an altitude of 8 or 9 kilometers, okay?
Falling from this height, she would still die a terrible death.
Although the little secretary's choice of words just now was a bit confused, Li Pu still chose to forgive her.
Because he was kind.
(¬‿¬)
"Look, Jessica objects. There are four people on the plane right now. You and Koz each have one vote, and Jessica and I object. Two against two, isn't that a stalemate? If it's a stalemate, the resolution can't pass."
Li Pu "earnestly" lectured Broly.
However, if he weren't gripping the rudder tightly, looking like 'I haven't played with this toy enough yet,' his persuasiveness might have increased just a tiny bit.
Seeing his older brother Broly feeling a bit dejected, little Koz immediately thought of a good idea.
"Father, if Sister Jessica wasn't on the plane, could we then take turns flying?"
Hmm? Faced with an unforeseen question, Li Pu was momentarily at a loss for how to answer.
And little Broly's eyes lit up upon hearing his younger brother's excellent idea, and he darted towards the plane's cabin door.
"I'll open the cabin door..."
Well, Li Pu finally "surrendered."
Facing two sons who were full of mischievous ideas and incredibly proactive, he, as the Old Father, occasionally had to compromise.
Handing over the pilot's seat, he walked to the rear cabin and sat down helplessly with Jessica, giving the girl a resentful look.
This little secretary still needed some training; she wasn't helpful at all. Couldn't she have held out a little longer?
Just as Li Pu was about to say something, his two wonderful sons had already taken their seats in the pilot and co-pilot positions.
Broly: "Ready, Corporal Little Trouble?"
Koz: "General Big Trouble, all Systems go!"
The two brothers exchanged glances.
Then, both grinned and said, "All forces, attack!"
Before Li Pu could even figure out which cartoon these two children were quoting, they gave their Old Father a big surprise.
Koz quickly pressed several buttons on the primitive electronic control panel.
Due to limited funding for building the plane, this stormbird prototype couldn't have an advanced numerical control System.
But this didn't stump little Koz.
This Primarch child simply used embedded assembly language to program many hidden functions using the simple electronic control panel.
When building this plane, he didn't just buy parts and assemble them like building blocks; he even personally modified the two radial engines—the thermal efficiency of the engines had even received a cross-generational upgrade.
It's just that he normally didn't need them, so many functions were locked, and his recent actions were to unlock those restrictions with a program.
As Koz unlocked the functions, the pilot's seat suddenly began to transform, and with a creaking sound, some control levers that hadn't been there before extended from the control panel.
Li Pu: ⊙⊙!
No, how come I don't know about these things? You two rascals actually hid something from your dear Old Father!
What was even more outrageous followed... Koz, who knows where he learned it, even pulled out a small incense burner from his pocket, lit three sticks of incense, inserted them, and then silently prayed a few words.
This series of actions even confused little Broly, who was sitting in the pilot's seat.
Fortunately, after Koz finished praying, he explained: "I exchanged a prayer ritual with Old Wang at Kamar-Taj using the Sichuan Pepper Hot Sauce secret recipe. It's said to even soothe machinery.
After all, we've only simulated this with computers before, never actually tested it. Doing this is just an extra layer of insurance."
Little Broly readily accepted his brother's explanation, nodding in agreement: "Makes sense!"
After waiting a few seconds, partly for the prayer to take effect and partly for the machinery to fully preheat, Broly then pushed the newly extended control levers.
For reliability and cost-saving, these control levers were not equipped with hydraulic assistance, meaning these hard-linked levers required approximately 300 to 400 pounds of force to push.
Nevertheless, Broly had to control his strength to the utmost, pushing them uniformly with particular "gentleness."
The stormbird, already flying at 700 km/h, shook several times with a "clunking" sound, like a heavy truck shifting gears, and then shot forward with a "whoosh."
The speedometer on the control panel immediately maxed out.
Its speed instantly soared to over Mach 1, exceeding 1224 km/h.
Because, at the moment of acceleration, this stormbird emitted a deafening sonic boom.
A normal propeller plane, suddenly accelerating to this extent, would likely have nine out of ten turn into the Bharat Air Force.
However, little Koz and little Broly's modifications to this plane were not limited to just the engines!
Behind their Old Father Li Pu's back, and within a limited budget, the two children secretly added a lot of "black technology" developed by Koz to the stormbird.
For example, despite its crude appearance and non-aerodynamic design, it even had a small shockwave resonance device, custom-machined by Koz himself using an electric machine tool, specifically to handle supersonic flight... For the rest of the flight, little Broly and little Koz took turns flying, and there were no mishaps whatsoever.
The only oversight the two little ones had was that during design and modification, they basically didn't consider the passenger's experience.
Of course, this wasn't a big deal in itself.
After all, setting aside the superhuman physical qualities of the father and two sons, they could always use a portal or Bukūjutsu to leave the plane if things got dire.
But Jessica was different. Although she had no problem with the load brought by the sudden acceleration, the vibrations of this crude, homemade plane flying at a constant supersonic speed almost made her throw up everything she ate last night.
However, fortunately, the stormbird flew fast enough, and the flight from New York to Alaska was from east to west.
So, this girl only endured such a journey for a little over an hour before the plane landed at an airport in the Anchorage area.
"Hold on, don't throw up!"
Finally, with the support of her boss, Li Pu, the girl, whose legs had turned to jelly, managed to disembark from the plane.