Chapter 270 It feels quite good to test fly the F14!
ββIn the blue sky, two F14A Tomcat heavy carrier-based variable-wing fighters flew around like lightning in a sea of clouds.
With Yang Weiping's flying skills, which were not even two knives, Ensign Cosdemann, who was sitting in the back seat, screamed again and again from the beginning, and now he is silent, and he is engrossed in taking the initiative to cooperate with Yang Weiping to do all kinds of flight maneuvers.
Because, Cosdeman hopes to use his skills to help the young Chinese general not to lose ugly at the hands of Colonel William.
It's just that even if Cosderman manipulates the F14 in the state of the slow machine they control, he is extremely flexible, but when he encounters Yang Weiping, an amateur partner, he is powerless.
Except for take-off and acceleration, Yang Weiping tried a supersonic flight of 1.8 times the speed of sound (Mach 1.8), and he did not dare to try the fastest F14A again.
From stationary to Mach 1.8, it was only 75 seconds in total. With such a strong acceleration ratio, Yang Weiping has to sigh that the F14 is indeed the first-class heavy fighter in the first generation of fighters.
In this short period of less than a minute and a half, Yang Weiping was in a state of black vision for at least fifteen seconds.
Fortunately, the U.S. military's decompression flight suit is quite good, and his own physical fitness is also strong, so there is no embarrassment in front of Cosdeman.
It's good to be young! Yang Weiping secretly thanked God for his gift.
In his previous life, the reason why he suffered from heart disease in his later years was largely because when he was working in the United States, he caused a certain amount of damage to his body and heart when he flew F14, F15, and F16 at supersonic speed.
Anyone who has ever played a roller coaster should know that the rapid dive of the roller coaster can make people feel dizzy and nauseous, because the gravitational acceleration has reached 5g.
The acceleration of gravity not only depends on the amplitude of change, acceleration or deceleration, but also plays an important role in the adaptability of our body. When the human body is in gravitational acceleration. The foot is the most vulnerable part of the body, and this condition causes blood to flow backwards to the brain.
If the vertical gravity acceleration value of 4~5g lasts for 5-10 seconds, the human body will have tunnel vision, which is commonly known as black vision, and thus lose consciousness.
This time he personally flew the F14, and Yang Weiping also wanted to test his physical fitness.
Qiu Fang once said that his physical fitness and flexibility are very good. It is even stronger than those who have been practicing kung fu for twenty years. In this regard, Yang Weiping has not had any obvious feelings.
However, Yang Weiping knew that flying a fighter jet at supersonic speed is the best way to conduct a comprehensive test of the human body, organs and tissues.
After practice, Yang Weiping is naturally very satisfied with his current young and strong body. Pass this test. He also has a more intuitive understanding of his individual combat effectiveness and self-protection ability.
"Fake!Shet!" came the frustrated exclamation of Costman in the back seat in the headset, "General." We've been locked up by Colonel William for the seventh time!"
"Second Lieutenant, there's no shame in losing to Colonel William. Yang Weiping smiled disapprerovingly: "As an excellent US military pilot, second lieutenant, you should know that a pilot who has not flown for a long time, when he flies an aircraft for supersonic release, doesn't he need to have a certain adaptation process?"
"I'm sorry, General, I forgot about this. Costman said apologetically.
"Alright. Ensign, we are now beginning to test the changing wing state of this Tomcat. Yang Weiping said with a smile: "Theoretically, the change range of the tomcat's wing sweep angle in flight is 20%~68%, and the maximum change speed is seven per second, which we now use to manually adjust." See if the differential flat tail can play the role of ailerons in an emergency situation. β
"No problem, General. Kosteman smiled confidently: "I can freely adjust the flattail deflection angle in the range of +15Β°~-15Β° at any time. β
Flexible wing change in flight. is the biggest feature of the F14. After personal verification, Yang Weiping can now basically confirm that the tomcat he is driving is a genuine tomcat.
"General, Colonel William is here again!" Cosdemann couldn't help but shout again.
"Then let's get rid of him!" Yang Weiping said with a smile, and after speaking, he easily held the joystick with his right hand. Let the fuselage make a roll maneuver, followed by horizontal acceleration, and instantly increase the speed to about Mach 2.
This time, Yang Weiping did not have a black vision effect again. Despite being high at 12000. There are no clouds, no reference can be found, no obvious sense of acceleration. However, he could clearly feel that the whole person seemed to be floating in the air.
Although he was wearing a flying helmet, he could still clearly hear the sound of the airframe cutting through the air, and even the sound of cutting wind.
Subconsciously, Yang Weiping turned his head and looked out through the cabin glass. However, near the wings, air intakes, etc., a linear object appeared out of thin air. On the other side of this line, the space is visibly distorted.
"Ha Luha, General Yang, you have maneuvered quite beautifully this time!" suddenly came the bold praise of Colonel William from the headset.
"Colonel, I am honored to receive your compliment. Yang Weiping replied with a reply: "If you can become a fighter pilot colonel of the US Air Force, you are indeed the trump card of aces." β
"Ha Luha, General, your plane has been shot down by me at least seven times now!" Colonel William's smug laughter came over the radio: "General Yang, your flying skills are really not at the same level as your tactical theory level! However, General, your understanding of Tomcats is indeed more profound than that of us pilots who have flown for more than 1,500 hours!"
The Tomcat can really engage in close-range aerial combat with enemy aircraft! Medium-range acceleration and preemptive attacks are also feasible, you may be right, as long as you master this set of aerial combat techniques, the Tomcat will be the overlord of the air!"
"Colonel, the tomcats are not yet the most perfect tomcats. Yang Weiping smiled indifferently: "I can clearly feel that the engine of the Tomcat I am driving still has some kind of defect." β
"General, you are indeed a connoisseur. Colonel William sighed, "I have flown ten different Tomcats, and sixteen of them have had different engine failures. We have already responded to this problem to Pratt & Whitney, and they have not yet come up with the best solution. β
"Colonel, said General Young, he can help us with this. Costman continued: "He said that as long as the first-generation nickel-based single crystal alloy developed by Huaxia is used, the Tomcat's engine will become more powerful and powerful." β
"General, I'm looking forward to this Sino-American military cooperation!" William said happily.
"Of course, I will make the tomcat an invincible cat in the true sense of the word!" Yang Weiping laughed loudly.
After that, Yang Weiping mainly aimed to test the comprehensive performance of the F-14's iconic AN/AWG-9 radar.
The AN/AWG-9 radar is indeed not as powerful as the newly developed AN/APG-71 radar developed by Hughes in the 80s.
Advanced airborne radar, no less important for military aircraft than engines. Although the AN/AWG-9 radar installed in the F14A is not as powerful as the AN/APG-71 radar, it still has obvious technical advantages over the Grifo-7 multi-functional radar of the Italian company Fira, which is currently imitated and improved by Huaxia.
It has to be said that the current avionics system of the United States imperialism is indeed the first-class in the world, and it is much stronger than the avionics system of the Soviet Union.
Come to think of it, the electrical system of the E2 Eagle Eye early warning aircraft, which has not yet arrived, should be more complete.
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In the following month, Yang Weiping personally led the technical team of Huaxia First Aviation Industry Group to systematically test the first batch of 24 F14A Tomcats delivered by the United States.
The TF30-P-412 afterburner turbofan engine provided by Pratt & Whitney for the F14A really had a large number of technical defects, and 15 of the 24 F14A had engine failures of different ranges during the test flight.
This is not the manipulation of the batch of F14A delivered by the United States, but in fact, the TF30-P-412 afterburner turbofan engine manufactured by Pratt & Whitney does have problems.
Yang Weiping knew that this was a quality problem that had occurred since the birth of F14A, but of course he would not say this kind of thing, but insisted that this was someone from the United States who had done tricks and provided parallel imports, which was a malicious sabotage of Sino-American friendship.
In this way, it is natural that Oppelli, the deputy director of the CIA, is full of buds and shouts that he has been wronged.
The U.S. side conducted a systematic and comprehensive investigation of all F14A that Grumman has delivered to service, and the result, of course, was that a large number of engine failures were found.
During this period, Director Yang Da, who flew over the British Bobcat helicopter, naturally did not miss the opportunity to personally test fly the UH60 Black Hawk and the AH1W Super Cobra gunship. With his critical eye, he must have belittled the batch of air force equipment delivered by the Americans to the point of being useless. What he said is all the truth, and it cannot be refuted by the American technicians.
Now that the equipment was in hand, Yang Weiping of course secretly instructed the Chinese technical experts to avoid the sight of the Americans and conduct a systematic and comprehensive reverse mapping of every part of the F14A, C130H, UH60, and AH1W military aircraft.
As for the F14A's binary external pressure intake with a straight channel, as well as the two TF30-P-412 afterburner turbofan engines assembled, Yang Weiping took the power experts of both China and the United States to justifiably dismantle them.
In this regard, the US personnel naturally did not dare to put another fart.
There's no way, who let this batch of aircraft provided by our United States really have quality problems!
Damn Pratt & Whitney, the faces of the Americans have thrown you this garbage TF30-P-412 afterburner turbofan engine away!
This is the common grievance in the hearts of all the US technicians currently staying at Xiaoshan Airport. ______________________