Chapter 485 Eagle over North Africa (Season 1)

@@@@@@@@@ "September 20, 1911, sunny"

"It's another sunny day!"

"To be honest, I have never hated sunny days so much! This damn place is almost always sunny all year round.

"Although the conditions here are very good, and we have tried our best to eat and dress well, I am still homesick. I fly alone in the sky every day, and I can't even see a bird, which makes me very sad. In fact, everyone is thinking about it, but we don't know when we can go back."

In the Basra oil field, in the spacious warehouse built with wooden boards, the young pilot Zhu Binhou stood on the edge of the plane, using his wings as a table, and buried his head in the diary, which recorded his life experience of more than a year from departure to arrival here.

When he was halfway through the writing, biting the tip of his pen and racking his brains to think about words, a loud voice sounded from the door of the warehouse. He only saw Captain Tian Yun walking into the large parking garage with several pilots, discussing flight skills with the second batch of rookies around him.

"No."

"Your action of pulling the vertical pole is too big, so it will cause the fuselage to rotate quickly. You must pull it gently and try to be as soft as possible!"

"Get out of here, everything you say is about women. Do women want to be soft?" Tian Yun kicked away the rap rookie, pointed to the nearest aircrew and shouted, "Xiao He, remember to wipe the No. 7 engine with lubricating oil later. This sand is really harmful!"

"And you, Ma Jun, you bastard, have you seen a woman in the sky? So anxious! In addition, don't fly low if you have nothing to do. The sand here is too thin to damage the blades and engines! Don't flatten your mouth. It's your worst when you come out this time. You've changed the engine five times!"

"Guo Sheng, don't laugh, you four, it's better not to go there! If you do this again, I'll kick you all back!"

Holding a thick flight schedule, Tian Yun walked past each plane and crew, nagging more than a broken-mouthed woman, which made the hangar laugh more and the atmosphere gradually lively.

Tian Yun smiled in his heart. He did it on purpose. If he wanted to maintain morale in a foreign country, he must constantly look for various ways to relieve stress. He knew that his heartless bastards sometimes scolded them, but he felt much more comfortable.

Over the past year, in order to maintain the operation of this so-called fan flight base, the Air Force Command has tried its best to bring all kinds of hometown news and snacks through tankers, but also bring letters once a month.

But it's too far away here after all, so we have to stimulate everyone through this small means.

Since he came to the Basra oil field in the name of a flight enthusiast at the end of last year, he and these partners have been hiding here to test the plane's surname. Because of the fear of being too exposed, he can only take off a maximum of five planes at a time.

To be honest, he still doesn't understand why he and the good players selected from various regiments of the Air Force have been sent here, but this year has not been in vain. At least under the destruction of sand and dust, the engine got a big test. As the problem continues to be exposed, the engine power sent from China is down. It's bigger and bigger. At present, this batch has exceeded 400 horsepower, which is a miracle!

"It seems that it still needs to be consumed more! I don't know whether the hundreds of scrapped goods sent back will make the logistics department cry. Tian Yun smiled and walked to his beloved landline, but when he saw the smooth fuselage, he sighed.

The dragon wings are gone!

Dragon wings are the new logo of the air force. Originally, the air force chose a pair of eagle wings, but later everyone felt that it was easy to be confused with the army's double-headed eagles. The headquarters found several calligraphy and painting masters, combined with Western and Eastern styles, and designed a pair of dragon wings with fire. After being sent to the emperor for review, the emperor was in the wings again. A golden dragon ball was added.

When the two-winged bead logo was painted on the plane for the first time, everyone cheered loudly, because it means that the air force has officially become the wings of the dragon kingdom, and the dragon wings and dragon claws are treasures on the dragon, at least it gives the air force more confidence, so that it will not be crushed by the navy to dare to look up.

The sky of Xinhua has been full of dragon wings. Although countries have also strengthened the research and use of aircraft after the Battle of West Bilu Island, according to the current statistics of the Air Force Intelligence Department, as of last year, there were only 200 military aircraft equipped by the five major military powers in Europe, while the United States had only 15, but Xinhua A special air force has already been formed, and the naval aviation system has appeared for the first time. There are as many as 600 military aircraft in the country, and the special military pilots have broken through the 3,000 mark.

But after all, this is not a domestic air base that can fly freely, so the air force dragon wing logo is banned. Fortunately, the headquarters finally did not treat itself badly, at least bringing the F3 vulture in front of it.

After the official number, the first generation of Falcon he flew was numbered as an F2 fighter, and the F3 was born from the improved version of the Falcon. In addition to using a larger horsepower engine, it also slightly modified the wing shape and adopted a streamlined fuselage, but there was no qualitative change overall, so the original timing was accurate. The name F2B was used, but in the end, the air force decided to let it be sequenced separately.

At present, there are a total of 48 F3 Condor here. In order to take advantage of this opportunity to test various subsystems of the aircraft as much as possible, which not only brought more than a dozen technical experts to observe on the spot, but also used the star engine of Changchun Engine Factory and the inline V-type six-cylinder engine of Hanyang Engine Factory respectively.

In addition to the engine, the wings have also been modified twice, the wing flaps have also been modified once, and the transmission connecting rod has been modified five times. In the end, the first batch of aircraft were even directly transported back in China, bringing the brand-new F2 vultures in front of them.

However, this did not make everyone too happy. In order to keep it secret, the separate voice radio was dismantled and the wireless navigator was dismantled. The most hateful thing is that the bastards also dismantled the synchronous shooter invented by the emperor, which is known as the air force's largest secret weapon. At present, the only weapon is to exceed it in front of the cockpit. A light machine gun of propeller height.

The synchronous shooter is a big treasure. It uses concave and convex gears and connecting rods to form a synchronization with the rotation of the propeller, which solves the big problem that the machine gun often breaks the propeller after firing, so this thing must not appear in Europe that has not been equipped with weapons at this moment.

Tian Yun climbed on his plane and sat in a chair looking at the simplified cockpit. He was really helpless. The headquarters sent his people here to test the new equipment, or did he simply exile them?

With the captain's shouting, a busy day began in the hangar. An engine was hoisted out for inspection, oil maintenance for the mechanical connecting rod, checking tire inflation, etc.

But when everyone was immersed in work, there was a sudden shout outside: "Airplane! Two, four o'clock direction!"

The sound instantly made the hangar noisy like a pot. Everyone rushed to the door of the hangar, and Tian Yun quickly took over the telescope from the aircrew.

Whose plane will come here?

Shortly after Tian Yun raised the telescope, he found two small dots approaching quickly. As the small black dot slowly zoomed in, two familiar navy ospreys appeared in the field of view.

Looking at the ferocious dragon claws in the white circle on the navy's body, Tian Yun shouted excitedly, "It's the navy, naval aviation!"

It is unimaginable for ordinary people to be able to see ospreys from their hometown soaring in front of them thousands of miles away, so when the identity of the other party was confirmed, Zhu Binhou and five pilots immediately flew the bald eagle to welcome their comrades-in-arms from afar.

In addition to the landing gear, the seven almost similar fighters soared in the sky, circling up and down like flowers and butterflies, just like lovers who have not been seen for many years, to release all lovesickness.

If it weren't for the strict lift-off restrictions, Tian Yun would have been able to release all the planes in his hand and let everyone be wild.

When ten minutes later, the two Ospreys sent their condolences by radio and began to return, everyone was still standing in the long yellow sand, reluctant to watch their comrades-in-arms leave.

Looking at the condolences from the navy, Tian Yun excitedly and at the same time, he couldn't help but think that the arrival of the navy indicates something? ——

In the new flight command module of the rear bridge of the Yarlung Zangbo River, two aircrew observers saw two slowly returning ospreys from the telescope and breathed a sigh of relief.

As Osprey slowly landed beside the Yangtze River-class No. 5, a formation composed of another sister ship, Nujiang, and three improved Duke-class battleships, showed ferociousness in the Indian Ocean.

"Sstaff General Wu, the plane is back." On the deck, there was a busy scene of lifting the work behind him. Captain Tang Kun took the long message he had just received from the Basra oil field as a love letter, and laughed and said, "These kids seem to be suffocated."

Wu Yingke nodded and said with a smile, "The hungry tiger is the real tiger. Soon they will understand." This sentence made the two people look at each other and smile. As the two planes were taken back separately, the formation quickly began to turn around and sail out of the Persian Gulf.

As one of the first former Beiyang old people to go to Honolulu that year, Wu Yingke witnessed the crazy growth of the navy. He was also promoted from the captain of the destroyer and the captain of the battleship to the current chief of staff of the naval political department.

He doesn't envy those front-line commanders. There are too many people in this fleet who can fight, and there are too many arrogant soldiers, so the task of his political staff has become particularly important.

This mission was aboveboard. It not only notified Britain, but also France, Germany, Italy and other countries. According to the plan, the formation was ready to carry out a round-the-world training, but in fact, the Admiralty suddenly sent him as a political staff officer, which is self-evident.

Looking at the three improved ships, replacing the original four double 203mm naval guns on both sides with four single-pipe L45/305mm naval guns, Duke-class, his eyebrows frowned again.

The Intelligence Department has heard the top-secret news from Italy that they are going to pay attention to in North Africa, but no one knows when the war will start, so no one knows. When the Ottomans see this kind of big guy specially improved for them, similar to the low-level version of the Chinese battleship, will the third promotion be successful?

Wu Yingke took out a cigarette and looked at the bow splitting the waves. The white spray rolled up from both sides of the hull, and his thoughts began to drift away.

At this moment, on a tall steel cylinder behind the tall front bridge, something like a square trumpet suddenly rotated slowly...

(to be continued)