When a large aircraft group fights, no maneuver is completely correct. Only to protect yourself from being hit is completely correct.
In the melee of large aircraft groups, those complex and seemingly dazzling maneuvers are not as powerful as fast in and out, rapid shooting, and rapid pull-up and escape, which are more powerful and life-saving.
Perhaps, the most popular Immelmann maneuver at the moment had just reached its peak, and when he was about to recover from a half-roll, an enemy plane that was being chased with no way to escape happened to pass by. The ace pilot was taken care of and was able to use the shrapnel produced by the explosion of the plane to stop the pursuers.
Maybe a rookie missed it when the broken S maneuver just made a 180-degree turn.
The A214 Spitfire is surrounded by enemy planes from all directions, and all routes are blocked. If it is pulled upward into the thick smoke, it is equivalent to being a target drone, because there are German fighter planes at all heights in the sky, and it is impossible to give the A214 another chance. No. The chance to escape by breathing fire into the black smoke, he is now the target of public criticism.
But no matter what, the A214 Spitfire would not sit still and wait for death. After hitting the Stuka, it rose again.
At the height where they entered the black smoke, several Messerschmitts were circling.
Just when all the German aircraft thought that the A214 Spitfire would make another jump maneuver to escape, Zhou Zhihan made three jump maneuvers in a row.
All the German pilots were stunned for a second. Anyone with some common sense would know that this was a death maneuver.
Pull up + jump is to accumulate the energy of the aircraft and then rise after the jump. Three jump maneuvers in a row will directly exhaust the energy of the aircraft.
Just like the three-step basket in basketball, when the last step jumps up, the final fate is to reach the top of the height, the lift is exhausted, and it inevitably falls.
After three consecutive jumps, the A214 Spitfire basically reached zero airspeed in the air. Even if the throttle was pushed with full force, it would fall like a 100-ton heavy truck that stalled on a steep slope and had no brakes.
The nearest Messerschmitts immediately pounced on it. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch the leak. All German pilots believed that the A214 Spitfire had a malfunction, and it was definitely not man-made.
It's definitely not man-made.
It must be a fighter plane malfunction.
How could the pilot of the A214 Spitfire make such a low-level mistake?
If he really made such a low-level mistake, then Moldes and King of One Day would lose so unfairly.
Several other Messerschmitts also flew over quickly and staggered the height of the other fighters to ensure that they would not hurt their own people when they opened fire.
The experienced German pilots could see that the A214 Spitfire would stall immediately and crash. It was not certain who could pick up this huge leak.
When the energy of the A214 Spitfire's final leap was almost exhausted, Zhou Zhihan lowered the throttle valve to the bottom. The power generated by the aircraft's lowest speed could not maintain the weight of the fuselage. It suddenly stopped and suspended in the air for a second. Zhou Zhihan continued Tread on the rudder, and then, the A214 spits out fire like an elegant and tranquil leaf, spinning and falling vertically from top to bottom. In the blue sky, in the sky where bullets are flying everywhere, it looks graceful, ethereal, and weird.
Fallen leaves floating action.
Zhou Zhihan directly pressed the machine gun firing button with his thumb, and the eight machine guns fired at the same time, performing a gyroscopic downward-swinging rotating shot in the air.
All the German pilots who saw this scene were stunned for a few seconds as if they had seen a ghost.
"God! What kind of maneuver is he doing... Damn it... I was hit..."
"God...damn...he was actually able to float and fire and hit me...I'm going to parachute..."
"Oh... the A214 spitting fire was like a leaf spinning down from the sky... This may be the weirdest maneuver I have ever seen... I was hit..."
"What is he flying... I was hit..."
"Oh God! What the hell is this... My propeller was hit..."
Four Messerschmitts were hit one after another. The pilots exclaimed that it was too strange and parachuted to escape.
The A214 Spitfire opened fire while falling and turning like a leaf. It took almost two seconds to complete a circle. It was not until a few seconds later that all the bullets were fired. Zhou Zhihan stopped pedaling the rudder and leveled the stick in the opposite direction of the rotation. The fighter plane went from zero to zero. After recovering from the 360-degree rotation of the radius, he immediately pushed the throttle to the lowest 60-degree dive speed, and flew out from under Messerschmitt's encirclement.
This falling leaf is nothing compared to modern air combat technology, but in 1940, it was a ghost-level existence, which could have the effect of killing people and killing people.
There were several explosions behind him. These were the explosions of several Messerschmitts that were hit. As for how many, Zhou Zhihan didn't bother to count them.
All he wanted now was to escape quickly from Schmidt's encirclement and fly towards the beach.
No one chased the A214 Spitfire.
No one dares to chase.
Three squadrons of Royal Air Force Spitfires that quickly came to support had stopped the bomber group, and two squadrons of Dauntless fighters also entered the sky above the beach to assist in the defense.
Seeing the arrival of Royal Air Force reinforcements, a large number of Messerschmitts immediately went to escort them. The airspace just now became much more relaxed.
Then, four more Hurricane Squadron fighter jets arrived at full speed, specifically attacking the Death God Stuka. Immediately, another Messerschmitt stepped forward to intercept...
At this point, the largest air battle between Britain and Germany since Germany's blitzkrieg broke out, and the prelude to a large-scale air battle between the two famous aircraft in the world, the Spitfire and the Messerschmitt, officially kicked off.
The German fleet still had an absolute advantage in numbers, and the Allies continued to have fighter squadrons coming for reinforcements.
The British Royal Fighters changed their previous strategy of dealing with Messerschmitt first and attacked the German bombers with all their strength. Sure enough, without the advantage of diving, the Messerschmitts were like a group of slow and faltering old men tied by iron chains. The foal on the cow's body can no longer gallop on the battlefield, but can only fight with spitting fire and hurricanes.
"303, 304 Squadron, leave the battlefield immediately and check to confirm the fuel level and ammunition." Zhou Zhihan took advantage of the Spitfire's superior turning performance during the dive to increase speed, and performed two plane maneuvers in a row, getting rid of the shadows behind him, and intercepted him halfway. The two Messerschmitts loudly asked the brave Polish pilots to withdraw first and take a breather.
This short few minutes of fighting felt like it lasted for hours.
Royal Air Force reinforcements arrived, and the 303rd and 304th Squadrons suddenly felt the pressure drop suddenly. After hearing the order, they immediately left the battlefield.
Of the 24 fighter planes in the two squadrons, only 13 are left. Among them, two of them were smoking black and took the opportunity to leave the battlefield and return. Now, including the A214 Spitfire, only eight can remain in the sky above Dunkirk. shelf.
In just a few minutes, more than half of the 303 and 304 Squadrons were lost. Four pilots died in the battle, and several others parachuted to the Allies and were rescued.
Their sacrifice was worth it. It was these few minutes that delayed the German bombers from advancing. All this was clearly seen by the Allied warships cruising in the deep sea.
Zhou Zhihan was about to say, let everyone report the amount of fuel and ammunition. If there is not much left, return immediately. Those who still have bullets and fuel will go with me to kill for a while, but he swallowed the words again. He himself can limit the amount of fuel, but the Polish pilots cannot. The full-speed fierce battle just now consumed a lot of fuel. It stands to reason that everyone's fuel and ammunition should have reached the red line.
Zhou Zhihan decided to return with the Polish pilots. If he stayed here and continued to charge, the amount of fuel and ammunition would be unreasonable in the eyes of a caring person.
"Brothers, our mission has been completed, now let's return!"
