Chapter 915 Eagle Fighter Test Flight

On New Year's Day in 2010, most countries and regions in the world held some celebrations for the New Year's Day, while Major General Li Mo, deputy commander-in-chief of the Somali National Defense Force, secretly arrived at the airborne base 30 kilometers north of Baidoa, accompanied by a group of senior officers.

Today is a very important day for Li Mo, Star Group and Somalia, not only because of the New Year, but also because the 'Space Fighter' plan has finally come up with a stage of results today.

The airborne base is a comprehensive air base. There are high-standard military airports and runways for taking off and landing the 'albatross' transport aircraft. Now, it will be used as the test flight site of the first 'space fighter TKZ-001' verification aircraft.

There is no welcome ceremony, no colorful flags flying, and everything is carried out in strict confidentiality procedures. When Li Mo arrived here with Major General Hussein, Chief of General Staff, Brigadier General Assad, Deputy Commander of the Air Force, and others, Falcon, the commander of the airborne force, and Xu Dong, the head of the development team of the 'space fighter', were already waiting.

"Boss..." Xu Dong's eyes were red when he shook hands with Li Mo.

For more than half a year, the research and development team led by Xu Dong has shouldered too much pressure. The lack of experience and difficulties in design, the gap between soft and hard systems, electronic technology, etc. are all on his shoulders. If it hadn't been for a large number of experts to fully serve this plan, if it hadn't been for Li Mo's full support, today It is completely impossible to verify the test flight of the machine.

"Xu Dong, I would like to thank you on behalf of myself, on behalf of this group and even Somalia. Thank you engineers who work all night. Without your efforts, there would be no test flight today." Li Mo patted Xu Dong on the shoulder and said emotionally.

"Boss, I can't thank you verbally. I think you need to invite everyone to dinner." Brigadier General Assad, the deputy commander of the air force, hurriedly interrupted.

When he made such a tagging, the atmosphere became warm and relaxed again.

"Please have dinner. When today's test flight is over, we will eat here. Falcon, you, the master, should be ready. When everyone is not satisfied, I have to ask you. Li Mo laughed and joked, saying that he also pulled the falcon in.

Falcon also said with a smile, "That's a coincidence. I don't have anything else here. There are a lot of delicacies. As long as you can eat it later, everything will be enough."

Several people laughed again when they heard the words. Everyone didn't seem to care much about today's test flight.

After saying that, everyone took several cars to the command tower, and the staff handed over the telescopes for several people.

"Boss, guess who the test pilot is today?" Brigadier General Assad asked with a smile.

Li Mo raised his eyebrows and said, "It's not that Karim, is it?"

"Ha ha, the boss guessed right, that's the boy." Assad nodded and said with a smile, "In the last test flight, Karim took advantage of his physical fitness and made other pilots jealous in the training camp. Later, when training, everyone worked hard for this test flight. Ace pilots like Jababa were also secretly competing. But in the final assessment, he was still won the first place by this boy and became a test pilot.

Li Mo smiled and said, "He has always been very lucky."

"Good luck is one thing, but its own talent and efforts should not be underestimated. This boy was born to make this kind of supersonic plane. Brigadier General Assad said with a smile.

Li Mo nodded slightly, turned his head and asked Xu Dong, "How many contents are there in today's test flight?"

"Before today, we have conducted 13 test flights, the first flight was 13 minutes, and the next few times were to test the reliability and perfection of aircraft parts and equipment. Today's test flight is mainly to test the plane's last name. Xu Dong answered quickly.

The previous test flights were at night. In order to avoid spy satellites in space, the time of each test flight is very short. It calculates the time of some countries' reconnaissance satellites to detect this area, and always chooses to test the test in the gap.

Today, the aircraft test is carried out in broad daylight, which shows that the research team has extraordinary confidence in the 'space fighter'. Once today's test flight is successful, the data is similar to the design data, and then the final improvement work can almost be finalized.

At 3:00 p.m., under the gaze of Li Mo and others, a black plane was pulled out of the hangar. This is the first time that Li Mo has seen the physical object of a 'space fighter' so close.

The obvious front swept wings, double drooping tails and the pair of fully-acting duck wings in front of the wings are in line with the layout design of modern fighters. Except for the front swept wing technology, which is rarely used in the design of modern aircraft, other technologies are basically the mainstream of military aircraft design.

Because the pneumatic layout of the 'space fighter' is mostly designed according to the 'Golden Eagle' fighter, Li Mo also checked a lot of information about the 'Golden Eagle' fighter during this period. Although most of them are not detailed, and the real name of many materials is questionable, Li Mo does not understand nothing.

From the visual point of view, the front edge of the wing of this aircraft has a smaller swept angle. It is rumored that the Snapback angle of the Golden Eagle is -20°, while the flyback angle of this aircraft is between -30° and -40°, that is, the wingspan is shorter, which requires higher requirements for wing structure materials.

"This plane is a little big." Chief of Staff Hussein also saw the physical object of the 'space fighter' for the first time, and couldn't help sighing.

Xu Dong explained with a smile, "In terms of the length of the fuselage alone, it is 1.4 meters longer than the 'Golden Eagle' fighter and 4 meters longer than the F-22 fighter, and the air weight and maximum take-off weight of the aircraft exceed the 'Golden Eagle' fighter and the F-22 fighter, 25 tons and 40 tons respectively. In terms of aircraft air weight, 'TKZ001' is about 10 tons heavier than 'Golden Eagle' and 'Raptor'. This is because we use a 'Cosmic Wind' engine. This 'nuclear reactor engine' is heavier than an ordinary jet engine, so that the air weight of the aircraft is almost equivalent to that other fighters taking off with full fuel. The weight of. However, the bombload of our aircraft is unmatched by other aircraft, reaching 15 tons.

Speaking of this, Xu Dong's tone is also quite complady, not only because the plane's surname is Neng, but also because this plane is 'unprecedented'.

"Boss, I have a request. I hope you can give 'TKZ001' a name." After Xu Dong finished explaining, he mentioned another idea.

If it is an ordinary person, it is difficult to get rid of the suspicion of flattery, but Xu Dong can't have such an idea. For him, there is no need to flatter Li Mo. Their relationship has gone beyond the subordinate relationship between ordinary superiors and subordinates.

Li Mo was stunned and then smiled and said, "You embarrassed me for a while. Aircraft in various countries generally use the names of flying birds, and some birds of the names of prey have been used up, and even the F-22 fighters directly occupy the 'raptors'. Let me think about it, since everyone uses the name of the Raptor, and our 'space fighter' is not an exception. I think we use the name of the flag 'Eagle' that we once used.

Eagle fighter, everyone meditated on a sentence and thought it was okay. The eagle, during the period of Paraming's cooking army, was the symbol of the Star Organization. Later, the propeller plane developed was used as the 'Golden Eagle', and now it uses the 'God Eagle', which has a sense of deification.

And the Condor fighter is a myth and legend in the eyes of many people.

At four o'clock, it was just five minutes away from a reconnaissance satellite in the United States that flew over the area. Under Xu Dong's order, two vents in the tail of the 'Shenhawk' fighter, which had been waiting for a long time on the runway, suddenly spewed out two blazing white high-speed particle streams. The plane was pushed back by the catapult and added in a few seconds. It's amazing.

In the report of a inspector, Li Mo and others knew that the 'Sing Eagle' fighter sprinted 295 meters and left the runway and rose into the air.

295 meters, which is an amazing number. That is to say, on some aircraft carriers, the Condor can take off and land directly without even borrowing a catapult.

And the most amazing thing is that when the plane starts, there is almost no sound.

In the radar screen of the command tower, people can see that the plane climbed to a height of 25 kilometers in 10 minutes. If this climb rate is seen by other aviation experts, it will definitely shock the chin.

At an altitude of 30 kilometers, the speed of the aircraft has exceeded Mach 3, and when the aircraft rises to 35 kilometers, the aircraft enters hypersonic speed, that is, it has exceeded Mach 5.

At this time, Li Mo was also a little nervous. If it had been in the past, Li Mo would have been very satisfied with the current value. After all, this is the limit that modern aircraft need to look up to. Even many long-range anti-aircraft missiles can only be out of reach. However, after knowing the data of the American 'Dright Goddess' strategic reconnaissance aircraft, Li Mo had higher expectations for the 'Godhawk' fighter.

Test pilot Karim reported the details of the plane every kilometer rise from the beginning, and now every 300 meters rise.

However, the aircraft is now in the stratosphere, but its position is already above the ozone layer. Ultraviolet and high-energy particles without ozone layer isolation may affect the body of the aircraft. However, the fuselage materials of the "Shen Eagle" fighter have been specially treated, so there is no need to worry.

And the pilot has also done a good job of protection in this regard, which can effectively ensure the safety of the pilot.

On this day, some residents of eastern Somalia heard 'thunder', which is very abnormal for Somalia, which is not in the rainy season. Many ground and space monitoring stations around the world have captured a faint faint signal. Although it attracted the attention of some people, it did not find any results and ended up.

And to Li Mo and others at the airborne base, good news came one after another. Although everyone had an identity, the cheers couldn't help coming from the heart.

(to be continued)