The helicopter was too important in Gao Yang's plan, so he could put everything first, and he had to look at the plane first.

There were a lot of fighters parked on the runway of the airport, Gao Yang looked at it, basically all MiGs, and the most frequent takeoffs and landings were MiG-27, and during the time of his arrival, there were already four takeoffs and landings.

A group of people left the runway in a big way, passing behind the rows of fighters placed on both sides of the runway, and after passing between the two hangars, they saw a large helipad.

Arriving at the tarmac, in a corner near the airport's control tower, Gilanor pointed to the three helicopters and said, "Major, that's the plane for you." ”

Two Mi-24 Hind transport helicopters, one MiG-17 Hippo transport helicopter, Gao Yang already knows what they will get, it is not surprising that Syria is almost all Russian-made weapons, in terms of the helicopters that can be provided, it can be said that it is lackluster, apart from these two, Gao Yang does not expect any more helicopters from the Syrian side.

The importance that the Syrian side attaches to this cooperation can be seen from all angles, although the top person in charge of the airport did not appear, only sent a second lieutenant to greet them, but the three helicopters were standing near full of people, no need to ask, it must be the crew and specially arranged ground crew.

There were two pilots next to each of the two Mi-24 helicopters, and three people stood next to the Mi-17, because the crew of the Mi-17 was three, and in addition to the co-pilot, there was also a random mechanic.

The flight performance of the Mi-17 is not as good as that of the Black Hawk, and the most annoying thing is that the crew must be three people, and a random mechanic is indispensable. It is even possible to remove a pilot. There's no shortage of random mechanics either. For Gao Yang, pilots are easy to find, but the random mechanic of Mi 17 is too strong, so it's really hard to find.

Gao Yang has been worried, he is worried about whether Israel and Erin, the pilots trained by the West, will be able to fly Russian planes, after all, the cockpit, the operating system. Instruments and the like are not the same as what they flew before.

But fortunately, although Israel is not equipped with Russian helicopters, their training has a course to learn how to fly Russian aircraft, after many wars, the Russian weapons captured by Israel have been stored by Israel and used as equipment for imaginary enemy troops, or sealed to deal with emergencies, so Jachlan and those old pilots have really practiced, although it is impossible to be very familiar, but it is not too unfamiliar. Adapt to it and fly.

Of course, the best thing to do is to find a pilot from Russia. After all, they are the ones who are most familiar with Russian aircraft, but alas, good pilots have not yet been found, and the Syrian pilots, given their poor record and the average flight time of only thirty hours a year, Gao Yang really can't believe it.

Several people walked to the side of the plane, and Jacques and Erin, who drove the transport plane, went straight to the side of the transport plane, while the four old pilots walked directly to the side of the Mi-24.

After Gao Yang walked to the side of the Mi-24 helicopter, he touched the twin 23mm cannon mounted on the nose, nodded and said, "Is this the Mi-24E model?" ”

Giranor immediately said: "Yes, sir, both are Mi-24E types." ”

The two helicopters carried 57 mm rocket nests on short wings, as well as a pair of AT6 anti-tank missiles, and a pair of 80 mm rocket nests, with twin 23 mm cannons in the nose, which was very powerful.

Gao Yang nodded with satisfaction, and the Syrian side took out all the good things at the bottom of the box.

At this moment, Gao Yang saw that there seemed to be a few much smaller helicopters on the tarmac in the distance, he pointed to the small plane he saw, and said, "Is that a little antelope?" ”

Giranor immediately said, "Yes sir, SA-342L Gazelle helicopter." ”

Gao Yang pondered for a moment and said: "I don't know if you have a little antelope, can you give us a little antelope, do a modification, and add a 12.7 mm caliber machine gun to the back seat space, is it okay?" ”

If Grolev wants to participate in assault operations, his ability will be wasted, Gao Yang does not want a machine gun artist to stay in the Mi-24 to watch the excitement, nor does he want Grolev to take the Mi-17 and then hold the machine gun as an assaulter, what is suitable for Grolev is to take a small and agile helicopter, get an extremely good view in the air, and carry out flexible and effective fire suppression.

Gao Yang made a new request, and Gilanoor immediately said, "Sir, I will reflect your request to my superiors. ”

Gao Yang nodded, looked at the straight pilot standing next to the helicopter, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Second lieutenant, we have our own pilots, as a whole, we will use our own pilots, but I need you to provide a random mechanic of Mi-17." ”

Gilanoor said in a deep voice, "If you can ensure that your pilots are capable, there is no problem, sir. ”

Gao Yang nodded and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about their ability, I have a lot of confidence in them, thank you for your cooperation, second lieutenant, can you let our pilot check the mechanical condition now?" ”

Giranor immediately said, "Of course, at any time. ”

Gao Yang snapped his fingers and said to Erin and Jaclan, "What should you check, you know what to check?" ”

Jaculan laughed and said, "Of course, of course, hey, beauty, let's go in and take a look at the meter first?" ”

When the four veteran pilots from Israel got together, the oldest pilot pointed to the helicopter behind him and said, "We want the number one." ”

The pilot opposite him immediately said, "No! We want number one! ”

"We are the best."

"Phew!"

"How do you compare that?"

"Than flying, fighting, or the most peaceful way, tossing a coin."

"Okay, flip a coin, do you have a coin?"

"No, that's longer than who's flying."

"I have flown five aircraft types, 32 years, more than 5,200 flight hours!"

"Oh, that's a good boy, but I've flown all the planes, thirty-five years, more than six thousand five hundred flying hours."

The four old pilots got together and muttered for a while, and one gray-haired old man triumphantly walked to the helicopter newly painted as the No. 1 plane, while the other couple walked to the No. 2 aircraft very unwillingly.

Gao Yang was stupid, he had also flown a helicopter, but there was only one civilian model, and then he had twenty hours of flying experience accompanied by an instructor, twenty hours of solo flight experience, a total of forty hours, and the minimum for the United States to get a pilot's license.

Inspecting an airplane is not like inspecting a car, just open the engine cover, and inspecting the airplane is much more complicated.

The three pairs of children each got on the plane, advanced the cockpit, turned on the power to see the instrument or something, and then they all dodged, the engine started, turned on the rotor on the ground, first tried the engine or something, and then, a few pilots did not bother to leave the cockpit, and with the cooperation of the ground crew, opened a qiē can open the cover and other places to take a closer look.

After reading it, the Israeli pilot, who was not the oldest, but had the longest flight time, walked over to Gao Yang, and then frowned and said, "My plane is just a piece of!" I refuse to fly, do you hear the engine? My eighty-year-old mother is in better shape than this plane! Much stronger! ”

Those who can deal with Gao Yang can speak English, and Gilanor was not happy when he heard it, he immediately frowned: "Sir, if you don't dare to fly, we have pilots!" ”

"I don't dare to fly? Haha, that's funny! I'm not a ground crew, and I don't know the time frame for the overhaul of the Mi-17 engine, but tell me, do you follow the Russian maintenance manuals for maintenance and maintenance? Have it? ”

Giranor frowned, but he didn't speak.

Gao Yang secretly shouted in his heart that he was not afraid of the conflict, but what he feared happened, that is, the maintenance level of the Syrian aircraft was really as bad as he had heard, or even worse.

Before coming to Syria, Gao Yang and Jihad contacted him many times, and Jihad assured them that their planes would be absolutely fine, but unfortunately, Jihad and Gao Yang's standards of reliability were not very consistent, and the most troublesome thing was that Gao Yang was still inexperienced, thinking that he and Jihad had the same standards for the reliability and safety of the aircraft.

Just then, Erin and Jaclyn also got off the plane.

The life-threatening matter cannot be ambiguous, let alone reserved because it wants to save face, Erin frowned, shook her head at Gao Yang and said, "You don't need to open it, it's too poorly maintained." ”

Gao Yang sighed helplessly, and then said to Gilanore: "Ensign, can you send your best ground crew and mechanic?" ”

Giranor wanted to say something, but he finally said with some sadness: "It's all here." ”

Gao Yang understands Giranor, presumably he has a sense of humiliation at this time, the country is poor and the army is weak, and he was judged by a group of outsiders, saying that this is not good and that it is not good, as a soldier, it is strange that he can feel good.

But the facts are the facts, and Gilanore is a technical talent, so he should know what the facts are, and the truth is that they are not right.

Gao Yang was a little helpless, and then the old pilot said: "I'm not afraid of being shot down by missiles or anti-aircraft guns in the sky, but I can't accept flying a problematic plane, being shot down is my problem, but the mechanical failure falls, I can't stand it, if you want to fly these planes, then you must carry out the due maintenance, comprehensive, meticulous, systematic maintenance, to ensure that there are no problems, so you either give me a good mechanic to be in charge of my plane, or I leave." ”

Erin said with a tangled face: "Sir, this plane is really not good, maybe it will fly ten times and a hundred times without accidents, but it is also possible that it will fall off the first time it goes to the sky, this, this is really not guaranteed." ”

After Gao Yang scratched his head, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, we still have time, the personnel haven't arrived yet, wait for me for three days, I will find you an excellent mechanic to ensure that your plane is safe." (To be continued......)