Zhou Zhihan secretly said that the luck of the time traveler is good, and whatever he wants will come to him.
The eagle and dove arrived just in time.
Zhou Zhihan pushed the throttle forward to the full throttle, pushed the joystick forward, pressed the lever left, and blasted hard. After drawing a C-shaped arc in the air, he recovered and threw himself towards the left side of the two rapidly approaching black figures. .
"Uh-oh!"
Everyone on the ground exclaimed in admiration almost at the same time. This C-shaped turn maneuver did not look like a heavy bomber at all. It was like a light-feathered swallow, and the movements were very graceful.
This is the gap!
All the pilots on the ground were secretly praising almost at the same time. This turn was so beautiful, and the timing of the correction was also just right.
What do top students want to do?
People on the ground and on the plane were amazed and puzzled at the same time.
"Commander-in-Chief, a big eagle is catching a pigeon in front of us. Let's fly behind them now and shoot them down!"
Zhou Zhihan said to Zhou Zhirou.
"Eagle? Dove?"
Zhou Zhirou asked, then sat in the cabin and looked around. When he saw nothing, he reached for the navigator's binoculars.
The other three crew members were also looking around at almost the same time.
"In the 185-degree direction from the nose of the aircraft, there is a big eagle chasing a dove. Let's go over and shoot them down. Now is the best time for actual combat training.
Machine gunners get ready, I'll fly over and you kill them with machine guns. "
The heavy bombardment of the Martin 139CW is like a raptor covered with dark green feathers, diving forward quickly from an altitude of 6,000 meters, pushing the speed to the extreme, leaving two thick smoke on the white clouds, lingering for a long time, very spectacular.
Zhou Zhirou quickly looked toward the 185-degree position of the nose of the aircraft. Only then did he see through the telescope that there were two black spots approaching rapidly at an altitude of 3,000 meters above the ground.
Sure enough, it was a big eagle and a dove. Zhou Zhirou secretly praised Zhou Zhihan's eyesight for being able to see so far without a telescope.
This vision.
So amazing!
At this time, the forward machine gunner also saw the flying bird. He immediately became excited, put down his telescope, opened the safety of the onboard cannon, and hugged it with both hands.
An elastic rope is tied to the handle of the cannon and hung on the cabin roof. It trembles slightly up and down with the slight bumps caused by flight.
The machine gunner took off his goggles, held the cannon, and aimed at the practice target first.
This opportunity is so rare.
In the past, we used to shoot red ribbons that were large, slow, and towed by trainer aircraft. Today, we can shoot birds in the air. The opportunity is so rare that we only come across it once every few years.
Due to the slow flight of aircraft during World War II, collisions between aircraft and birds rarely occurred. Chinese pilots had less flying time. Before this, no one had ever flown an aircraft into a collision with a bird.
The science at this time has not yet revealed that the bird collided with the plane because it could not calculate the speed of the plane.
In flight, birds know how to avoid airplanes, but they cannot judge the speed of the airplane, so they collide with the airplane.
It's like standing on a railway track and looking at a train coming straight from a distance. You can't tell what the speed of the train is and when it will hit you.
Of course, the IQ of birds is almost negligible compared to humans.
When people on the ground heard the top students say that birds appeared in the sky, they had no time to think what a coincidence it was, so they all held up their telescopes and looked 185 degrees in front of the plane from the ground.
Sure enough, thousands of meters away, a big eagle chased the pigeon and flew closer and closer.
The speed of the big eagle was obviously faster than that of the pigeon. Several times it extended its claws, but the pigeon used the escape method of suddenly plummeting head and tail, sacrificing height for speed to escape.
One is an aerial catcher and the other is an aerial strategist. The pigeon keeps lowering its height and gaining speed, making it difficult for the eagle to succeed for a while.
The Martin 139 flew in an arc from 100 meters to the left of the two birds at 4,500 meters above the sky. Then it flew 180 degrees upside down and quickly rolled 180 degrees to the lower right and recovered, appearing on the right side behind the birds. The 11 o'clock position.
Just now, Zhou Zhihan was hovering over the airport. When he saw the birds, he pushed the throttle to the bottom and dived southwest at high speed. When the heavy bombardment and the two birds flew behind the birds, he did two 180s in succession. With a quick turn and maneuver, he instantly occupied the rear tracking position of the two birds and followed the birds towards the airport.
"Be good!"
Mao Bangchu couldn't help but murmured, "I'm afraid I will never be able to do these two consecutive 180-degree turns and comebacks."
Gao Zhihang was so excited that he almost jumped up. The heavy bombardment of a double-engine single-wing can fly lighter than a fighter jet. It is estimated that only this top student in the whole of China can do it.
All the spectators have been dealing with airplanes all year round. Even those who cannot fly are also experts in airplanes. They all admired the top students:
"A top student is a top student. No wonder he can graduate early, no wonder he can become the proud disciple of the principal of Randolph Air Force School. It can't be compared, it can't be compared, it's really incomparable!"
Looking at the heavy bombardment in the sky that made people's blood surge, Zhang Mufei suddenly felt something in his heart. When he fought against the Japanese Type 95 water reconnaissance plane yesterday, the slow and heavy reconnaissance plane also made these two 180-degree maneuvers in succession. The turnaround and recovery maneuvers instantly eliminated all the advantages that the P26 fighter had built up so easily.
Yesterday, when covering No. 09 aircraft and returning to Jianqiao Aviation School, Zhang Mufei took out the various maneuvers performed by the Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft and discussed them with all the instructors. When he said that the two consecutive 180-degree circles and maneuvers At this time, all the instructors were silent, including Chief Flight Advisor Claire Lee Chenault.
Many people here could make a 180-degree hookback, but no one could make a 180-degree half-flip recovery after the 180-degree hookback.
180 degree hookback + 180 degree half roll recovery?
Give me a break.
Even the world's top test pilots cannot perform such maneuvers.
"No way, no way!"
Zhang Mufei murmured to himself and shook his head. The Type 95 water reconnaissance plane flown by the Japanese pilot was much lighter than the Martin Heavy Bomber flown by the top student. The Martin Heavy Bomber had a huge fuselage and a single wing.
Zhang Mufei compared it secretly and realized that the Japanese pilot was definitely not as good as this top student.
The Chinese Air Force is really lucky to have top students.
At this time, the two flying birds were getting closer and closer to where everyone was standing and watching, and 139 Heavy Bomb was following the flying birds several hundred meters away, chasing them closer and closer.
The viewing angle of this rear tracking is so comfortable.
Even without binoculars, everyone on the ground could see the 139 heavy bombardment in the air following two birds that were still chasing and fleeing for their lives.
The contrast between the heavy bombardment in the air and the two flying birds is too great. The contrast is so strong that people dare not blink for fear of missing the wonderful moment.
The heavy bombing dive position makes the front machine gunner very comfortable, with good sight lines and good angles.
When he was about to approach the flying bird at 450 meters, Zhou Zhihan pulled back the throttle and set the throttle to the minimum to prevent the heavy dive from overshooting and reaching in front of the target.
400 meters!
300 meters!
200 meters!
180 meters!
"Whoosh whoosh..."
The forward cannon opened fire.
The fuselage trembled.
The 6×0.50-inch Browning water-cooled cannon opened fire, and the tracer bullets trailed their fiery red tails and sprayed towards the two flying birds, weaving a large fiery red net in the air. It was very spectacular!
"Gah!"
"Goo!"
"suddenly!"
"Take it!"
In the shadow of bullets and fire, two birds were frightened by the red tracer bullets and each let out a strange cry, one to the left and one to the right, flying north and south.
"Boohoo!"
The front machine gunner rotated the cannon, and tongues of fire flew in the air, following the larger eagle.
But the machine gunner has lost the optimal firing angle and optimal firing advance.
Zhou Zhihan pressed the joystick right, pointed the nose of the aircraft diagonally at 160 degrees to the southeast, and completed the shooting advance in an instant.
Zhou Zhihan casually presses the lever to operate, which looks very simple and casual, but Zhou Zhirou, who is sitting in the passenger seat, knows that everything that seems simple is actually the result of hard work.
"Save your life!"
"Boohoo!"
As Zhou Zhihan spoke, he pressed the machine gun button and fired.
"Pulp Leng Leng!"
Tracer bullets flashed across the air, and black and gray feathers flew in the air. The eagle was frightened, fell rapidly, dived, circled, and flew southeast from under the heavy bomber's wing.
Zhou Zhihan turned on the system with his thoughts, and the power increased by 20% instantly when he clicked. He immediately felt a surge of power injected into the engine.
Pull the throttle back to the bottom, minimize the fuel supply, press the left lever, left rudder, turn the nose to the left, belly down, the tail falls, push the throttle to the bottom instantly, and the tail swings like a falling leaf. It floated around for more than half a circle, and in an instant the nose of the aircraft was out of the way. It pointed diagonally in the direction of the pigeon's flight, accelerated, and in an instant it was within firing distance.
"Boohoo!"
The tracer bullets dragged the flames and stirred up dozens of gray-white feathers.
The pigeon was so frightened that it rolled several times in the air. In panic, it turned around and chased the eagle in the direction where it had escaped.
This speed is faster than when being chased by an eagle.
Everyone was stunned.
