At three o'clock in the afternoon, the scorching sun was entrenched on the west side of the sky, dumping the blazing line of fire on the earth.

The slightest breeze in the sky not only does not bring coolness, but rather helps to turn the air on the ground into a heat wave.

On the taxiway of Nanyuan Airport, a large passenger plane with silver and white paint is slowly turning the runway exit and taxiing towards the runway end line of the main runway to prepare for takeoff.

In the northwest corner of the airport, the camouflage net of a half-buried bunker hangar has been lifted, and the door of the hangar is open, and from time to time mechanics in yellow vests and soldiers in grass-green half-sleeved military uniforms enter and exit.

Ning Lei stood in the shadow of the airport terminal, looking at Tang Wan standing in front of him helplessly.

"Xiaowan, haven't you been preparing for a long time for the test on the Tibet route of United Airlines, why did you suddenly decide not to go. Ning Lei pointed to the silver-white BAC1-11 airliner taxiing on the runway, and Wen Yan asked.

"You take off to the United States at six o'clock in the evening, if I go to the plateau with the crew, do you think you can fly back at six o'clock?" Tang Wan glanced at Ning Lei.

"It's just a business trip, going to the other side of the Pacific Ocean to pose and do an interview, what do you have to worry about. Ning Lei said.

Grumman not only persuaded the US Navy to open the Le Mor naval base between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Coast Mountains in Southern California, but also allowed the US Navy Department to agree to Ninglei's trial of the US aircraft carrier-based aircraft training system.

As the largest carrier-based aircraft training base in the U.S. Navy, Le Mor Naval Base is only a primary training base for carrier-based aircraft pilots in the U.S. Navy. There are no other advanced training tasks here, except for the physical selection of carrier-based aircraft pilots and familiarization with the F14, F18, A6 and other aircraft in service on the Navy's aircraft carriers.

On the scheduled schedule, Ning Lei will experience the selection and training process of U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft pilots at Naval Base Lemore.

As far as Ning Lei is concerned, experiencing the selection and training of carrier-based aircraft pilots of the US Navy is not beneficial to improving his combat level and quality, but it still has great reference value from the perspective of the future military construction of the Republic's navy and air force.

This time Ning Lei went to the United States, and the exchanges between the Chinese and American militaries were a big leap forward, but what Ning Lei didn't know was that the present was only the most magnificent twilight in the era of harmonious Sino-US relations. In the near future. The pair of would-be allies are about to metamorphose into quasi-adversaries.

"Besides, didn't Xiao Wan strongly agree with going to the United States to participate in the NATO Tiger Conference, if it wasn't for Xiao Wan convincing Uncle Geng, how could I go out so neatly. Ning Lei said with a smile.

Looking at the heartless smile on her husband's face, Tang Wan secretly sighed softly. The keen sense of politics has already told Tang Wan. The ice sheet on the volcano could melt at any time. If you don't get this straight guy out of your own house, you'll have to worry about it in the future.

"The first time I publicly set foot on the Japanese mainland as a Chinese **, my family Ning Lei is proud of my ancestors. How can I not see this off. Tang Wan said with a bit of admiration, and her tone was extremely gentle.

This time Ning Lei went to the United States to participate in the Tiger Club, and the landline full of crash records will also go to the United States.

Considering that it would cooperate with the main red color of the Republic and overwhelm the momentum of the Tiger Club-themed painting tiger, the two girls made a decision to replace Ning Lei and abstract the phoenix in the traditional culture of the Republic and paint it on the F14 fighter.

In terms of the vast width of the Pacific Ocean, how Ning Lei and the landline went to the United States to participate in the Tiger Club was a headache, at first the United States raised Yì shipping F14, and then Ning Lei himself took a civil aviation to the United States.

However, this proposal was categorically rejected by Ning Lei, for Ning Lei, since it was a military exchange, he had to act in accordance with the conventions of the Tiger Club to participate in NATO's Tiger Meeting, and none of the pilots who participated in the Tiger Meeting did not arrive at the venue by plane in person.

Let his landline float in the Pacific Ocean for more than half a month, and then enter the United States by civil aviation, which is unacceptable to Ning Lei, since it is a professional military exchange, what kind of thing is it for fighter pilots to go to civil aviation, for Ning Lei, this is simply discrimination.

After he became familiar with the US Navy's air refueling system, he used the F14 fighter jet to enter China that year and flew directly across the Pacific Ocean to the United States.

Although Ning Lei stressed that the tanker was only borrowed for a short period of time and returned immediately after the trial, how could Americans believe this kind of foolish rhetoric.

In the first battle of Nansha, the Republic's classic car-like Yun-8 refueling aircraft made great contributions, and both the navy and the air force had a deep understanding of the huge tactical role of refueling aircraft.

In addition to the Navy's additional order for Y-8 tankers, the Republic Air Force placed an order for two Y-8 tankers to fly west even before it decided to acquire F14 fighters.

It's a pity that the Yun-8 tanker produced by Xifei only solves the problem of the republic's sea and air power amplifiers, and the performance is basically bitter tears.

If the Americans believe Ning Lei's nonsense and take the initiative to send the refueling aircraft to the door, I am afraid that the republic will restore the refueling aircraft to parts as soon as possible.

After a period of incomparably frequent bargaining, the Americans finally worked out a compromise plan that was basically satisfactory to both sides.

Ning Lei will fly an F14 fighter plane to take off from the Nanyuan base in Beiping, pass through the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the Sea of Japan, and then enter Japan's airspace, and finally land at Futenma Airfield of the 6th Combat Unit of the US Navy stationed in Japan.

At this point, the first leg of Ning Lei's route ended.

After a short overhaul and refueling, the USS Independence aircraft carrier battle group under the US Pacific Fleet will take off three F14A+ fighters, plus Ning Lei's plane F14A to form a formation to take off from Futenma Base and fly directly across the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of the United States.

However, after the reformation takes off, Ning Lei and Qiao Pengfei, who went to the United States together, will serve as radar officers of F14A and F14A+ respectively, and the pilots of the formation will be carrier-based aircraft pilots of the USS Independence aircraft carrier battle group.

The F14 formation will conduct three mid-air refueling operations in Guam, Hawaii and the ocean east of Hawaii, with the entire flight expected to take more than 13 hours.

Finally, at around 4 p.m. local time in the United States, we arrived at the Lemore Naval Base in California, located on the west coast of the United States.

Of course, the Americans also offered other options, such as ending the first leg of the flight piloted by Ning Lei in Seoul and completing the transfer.

For Ning Lei, the place in Seoul where his own Lao Tzu once entered it openly, and it belongs to a place that has been wandered around, so how can he personally fly a plane to land on the Japanese mainland.

Without any consideration, Ning Lei directly chose to transfer at the Futenma base in Okinawa.

After this most practical difficulty was solved, Ning Lei's trip to the United States to participate in the Tiger Club was already a smooth one, but with Tang Wan's full promotion, Ning Lei was finally sent out of the republic before the volcano exploded.

Of course, whether in the 80s or 90s, or in the new 21 st century, Japan, as a nominal landlord, had basically no say in such matters.

The republican direction is no better than the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the republic, and the so-called Sino-Japanese friendship does not exist in the dictionary of the republican side, and in this kind of military-led negotiation, the term Japanese government does not even have a chance to appear.

For the Republican side, it can be regarded as deliberate neglect, and for the US military stationed in Japan, as long as the interests of the United States are located, the Japanese government is just a ...... Hehe.

Although this kind of uplifting matter is limited to someone who is good at reading and does not seek to understand much, and who is committed to promoting Sino-Japanese friendship, and cannot be hyped up, it still stirs up a lot of waves in the small circle of people who know.

At the very least, Ning Jianzhong specially summoned Ning Lei home to drink a few cups.

Seeing Tang Wan showing a little bit of adoration like a little girl before marriage, Ning Lei felt something, raised his hand to sort out the silk on his wife's sideburns, and said in a condensed voice: "I hope that one day, we can rely on our own strength and land in Narita, Tokyo in a dignified manner." (To be continued......)