Almost all the large and small ships in the sea around the base stopped. The sailors stood on the ship drinking beer and watching the flight show. Today is the base's ribbon-cutting test flight, and the sailors can relax as much as they want.
Zhou Zhihan took off from the Raider aircraft carrier at the shortest distance, crossed the front deck at a small angle and pulled the control stick. The F4F Wildcat quickly climbed into the air to an altitude of 1,500 meters at a high angle of attack. The throttle was fully lowered. When the fighter aircraft reached the vertical climb The power at the top was almost zero. At the moment when everyone on the ground looked up and wondered what he wanted to do, Zhou Zhihan opened the left flap, pressed the right stick, and turned the right rudder. The F4F Wildcat remained almost stationary in the distance for 0.5 seconds and then turned its nose to the right. Crooked, the body attitude is with the tail as the axis of rotation, and the nose of the aircraft quickly turns toward the ground from top to bottom.
"Oh..."
The cheers from the sailors around him continued.
"What kind of maneuver is this?"
All the pilots on the ground saw such maneuvers for the first time. They were both novel and shocked, and they all blurted out questions.
"The Wildcat uses the tail as the axis and the nose rotates from top to bottom. It looks like the hands of a clock are ticking from 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock. This is really amazing. This Chinese How did the Air Force pilots come up with this novel and unique maneuver?”
A U.S. Navy lieutenant colonel held a telescope and saw Zhou Zhihan's "bell-shaped" maneuver clearly, and explained it loudly and excitedly.
The nose of the aircraft was downward, and the F4F Wildcat dived almost vertically. Zhou Zhihan slowly pulled the lever to reduce the dive angle of the fighter. Just when everyone thought he was going to continue to pull up, the Wildcat suddenly made a 360-degree roll to the right and rear. .
This maneuver was exactly the classic maneuver that Zhou Zhihan used to break the Messerschmitt dive with a hurricane during the Battle of London.
"Colonel Zhou, we must win! China must win!"
British reporters and pilot representatives cheered in unison. Colonel Zhou's maneuver has become the only magic weapon for every British pilot to break the Messerschmitt dive. It has been tried and tested repeatedly. This maneuver has saved many British people. Therefore, when Zhou Zhihan made a sudden backward 360-degree roll maneuver during the dive, all the British people present cheered for China and Zhou Zhihan, making people think that Zhou Zhihan was in the UK at this time. Another home for him.
Just after recovering from the 360-degree backward roll, the bulldog-like wild cat suddenly turned into a nimble flying swallow, making a continuous 720-degree roll along its own horizontal axis.
"Oh ho..."
"call……"
The ground was filled with the enthusiastic screams and whistles of young pilots.
It is not difficult for veterans to perform two consecutive 360-degree rolls alone.
But Zhou Zhihan's two consecutive 360-degree lateral rolls are difficult. The difficulty is that they are connected from a dive and then a 360-degree roll backward. The most straightforward way to put it is that these maneuvers are every veteran They can all do it, but connecting them together must be as smooth as flowing water. 95% of the veterans present do not have the courage to try it, and the remaining 5% of veterans can only try it because they cannot be so precise. Excellent connection.
The consequence of inability to achieve exquisite connection is flight accidents.
Nishizawa Hiroki's dead fish-like eyes suddenly glowed with brilliance, and then darkened. He was excited because he could see such exquisite maneuvers, but also felt uneasy because he was not sure to complete these groups of maneuvers, and fear gradually rose in his heart.
The Wildcat does not have a graceful body, but it continuously performs exquisite maneuvers. Amid the cheers of the crowd on the ground, Zhou Zhihan recovered from the roll, pulled the lever, pushed the throttle, and the Wildcat made a wonderful lifting jump. .
There were applause, whistles, and screams from the ground again!
Amidst the screams on the ground, the Wildcat made a maneuver similar to that of a helicopter that pilots currently don't know about. During a steep climb, the nose of the aircraft suddenly rotated 180 degrees from top to bottom, turning the nose of the aircraft to point to the ground.
This time the nose of the aircraft rotated 180 degrees downward, which was more difficult than the "bell" maneuver just now, and caused a greater shock in the hearts of viewers.
The azure sky leaves behind a series of chaotic but beautiful condensed wakes, which are like watercolor paintings and are rendered all around. It is very beautiful.
The Wildcat continuously performed vertical bell maneuvers, backward roll maneuvers, horizontal roll maneuvers, and a magical pull-up jump maneuver, which were combined into a 180-degree reversal of the nose, completely igniting the audience's emotions.
From a visual point of view, the combined maneuvers performed by Wildcat include the exquisite small-radius turning of the nose of the vertical maneuver, the regional changes of the horizontal maneuver, and the unpredictable changes of the roll and flip maneuvers. Several actions are connected. The smoothness, coupled with the unbridled lifting and jumping, brings a fresh, thrilling and exciting visual feast to viewers on the ground.
Zhou Zhihan closed the throttle and pulled the lever. After the Wildcat recovered from the dive, he pushed the throttle to the bottom and made another pull-up jump. Then he pulled the stick back sharply during the pull-up jump. He held the throttle with his left hand and then opened the tail wing. After the aircraft entered the fighter, he closed the tail, pulled the right aileron to change the course, and performed a super Immelman maneuver. Just when everyone thought that he was about to press the stick, push the rudder, roll, and recover after the fighter plane reached its peak, The Wild Cat actually performed a Coulbit maneuver that looked like a somersault, but was actually several times more difficult than a somersault.
These two maneuvers were once again perfectly connected by Zhou Zhihan. Veterans can fly the Immelman maneuver, but many people think they can't reach the lifting height. The sudden appearance of the Coulbit maneuver is refreshing. Feeling shocked.
No one here has ever seen this Coulbit maneuver before.
The ribbon-cutting test flight ceremony today was attended by almost all the elites in the American aviation industry, especially super test pilots from major aviation manufacturers and the military. They also came to the scene and sat in the VIP seats high up as experts. At first They watched the aerobatics of Chinese and Japanese pilots with the mentality of expert judges and instructors. Now they were shocked by Zhou Zhihan's several super maneuvers, and they immediately changed from the mentality of instructors to studying and observing like students.
"How did he do that?"
Everyone is asking questions.
But everyone has an explanation in mind - genius.
A test pilot said: "This action looks a bit like a somersault at first glance, but it is obviously different from a somersault. I really can't imagine that the power of the Wildcat can actually fly this maneuver."
Another test pilot put down his telescope: "This action looks like he is turning somersaults around his tail at a low speed. In fact, he is doing somersaults with a very small radius. I have never seen this action before." However, the momentum is too strong, and it is also a big killer in fighting... Oh... He made another falling leaf... The wild cat is like a leaf, spiraling downward and falling lightly... Oh my God... 600 meters away from the ground rice……"
Zhou Zhihan did not want to cause psychological pressure to the audience on the ground. The delicate fallen leaves floated 500 meters above the ground and then recovered and accelerated. The wild cat swept forward rapidly at low altitude.
No one could imagine what maneuver the Wildcat would make next. After all, the plane was too low to the water at this time, and any maneuver would be dangerous.
Sudden.
The nose of the Wildcat, which was accelerating forward, was suddenly pulled up, and the elevation angle increased rapidly during the almost straight rise, forming a posture in which the tail protruded forward and the nose lagged, making people feel that it would inevitably stall next. Spin, crash.
"ah……"
"Oh...pop..."
There were bursts of screams mixed with applause and cheers from the ground.
When all the veterans saw the Wildcat's nose suddenly raised and reached a stall state, they all thought that Zhou Zhihan had made a fatal error in his operation, causing the fighter to suddenly suffer a mechanical failure and scream out in surprise as it was about to inevitably crash.
Zhang Mufei and Gong Yeti's hearts almost jumped out of their chests.
The Japanese thought that Zhou Zhihan made a mistake and the Wildcat was about to crash and become a dead cat, so they cheered and applauded.
But the next second, the Japanese people's joy was replaced by disappointment and despair, because the wild cat in the sky seemed to turn into a living king cobra that raised its head, spit out messages, and sacrificed its fangs, and was pulling upward. The process shows the dynamics of drifting to the upper angle of the oblique direction.
This time, Zhou Zhihan did not use the system. He just pushed the throttle valve and turned on the afterburner of the fighter, adding drift to increase the visual effect. The Cobra maneuver he did was just a painted tiger and lacked the essence, but Even so, in the eyes of World War II pilots who had never seen the Cobra maneuver, this was already an action that only God could accomplish.
Three seconds.
The air seemed to condense for three seconds.
Three seconds later, overwhelming applause and praises erupted from the ground. The pilots were completely conquered by this action similar to the cobra drift. Applause, cheers, and roars sounded like a tsunami, which made Zhou Zhihan, who was sitting in the closed cockpit, You can feel the enthusiasm coming from the ground.
Nishizawa Guangyi's face was ashen, and there was resentment in his dead fish-like eyes. If Zhou Zhihan hadn't shown the cobra's air-drifting maneuvers, he could still muster the courage to fight, but now, all his courage, The self-confidence and spirit were shattered by this Cobra Drift maneuver, floating in the air, and could no longer be condensed.
Nakaso Moritaka and Kato seemed to feel the despair coming from Nishizawa Hiroki. They looked at each other and then realized that the other's eyes were full of despair.
Can't win.
Not to mention anything else, just by the last cobra-like aerial drifting maneuver of the Chinese, their hope of victory has been completely extinguished.
Amid the overwhelming cheers, Zhou Zhihan stopped showing off his skills, pushed the lever lightly, closed the throttle, and the F4F was like an elegant civet, hovering down from the sky, slowly lowering its altitude, preparing to land.
Before taking off to perform aerobatics, Zhou Zhihan had already landed on an aircraft carrier once, so people no longer worried about him, and they were all talking about the cobra drift maneuver just like a fairy from heaven.
The Japanese camp was deathly silent amidst the cheers of others.
"God...what is he doing..."
Dick Best suddenly shouted loudly, "The angle, direction, wind direction, and speed of Zhou Zhihan's landing are all wrong... Damn it, was he dizzy during the showoff just now... Damn it... he is going to fall into the sea. "
