Chapter 2: The Storm Is Coming

The flight engineer carefully adjusted the mixture according to Liu Fei's needs, and in each cylinder of the engine, the aviation gasoline underwent a violent luminescent and exothermic oxidation reaction with oxygen.

The plane climbed rapidly under the drive of huge engines, although the output of these four engines is not very large, but the civil airliner does not have such a high speed requirement, this speed is enough.

Liu Fei flew the plane to about 6,000 meters in the air, and many passengers were on a plane for the first time, after all, the plane was a rare thing at this time, and not everyone could get on the plane. And because Germany is still in the shadow of defeat, the number of civil aircraft in the whole of Germany now does not exceed 200, even if you want to fly, you may not be able to do it.

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The plane soon crossed the French border and arrived in Paris, ready to enter the air traffic control area.

Air traffic control is still very immature, and they don't even have radar. Air traffic control needs to use sand table deduction to command air traffic, and the accuracy of this method can also be hehe. It is precisely because of this backward way that the Grand Canyon air crash occurred in 1956.

[The Grand Canyon air crash was a collision between a Douglas MacDonald DC-7 and a Lockheed "Constellation" in the Grand Canyon. As a result, the DC-7 was knocked off part of its left wing and flew for a long time before crashing into a hill due to uncontrollable stalling. The "Constellation" had its tail cut off and soon fell to the ground. Anyway, the scene was very miserable at that time.]

The air traffic control very responsibly guided Liu Fei into the approach route and began to implement the approach procedure.

[The approach of the aircraft is very cumbersome, and there are many links to be carried out, and it is not until the final approach that it can enter the landing route]

Because there is no ** brother yet, the cockpit door of the plane is opened, and the cockpit can be seen from the cabin. Although the passengers couldn't understand it, and Liu Fei's instructor didn't think it was the right thing to do, Liu Fei still learned the habit of a Scandinavian Airlines captain to open the cockpit door.

Liu Fei landed very smoothly at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, and when the flight attendant opened the cabin door to guide the passengers off the plane, Liu Fei's instructor Mr. Hans patted Liu Fei on the shoulder and said that Liu Fei did a good job.

Not every pilot can achieve a perfect score in the graduation exam, and not every propeller pilot can fly for a period of time so perfectly, especially now that there is only an autopilot that can stabilize the course.

In this day and age, a gust of wind can blow you to the point where you don't know where to go, because the autopilot does not automatically correct the traverse, so that the error will become larger and larger after the traverse......

Whether or not you can fly to the airport depends on luck, so the pilots of civil aircraft in this era have to be afraid when they fly, for fear that they will accidentally miss the course of the airport, which will become a tragedy.

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Liu Fei took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport after replenishing fuel, water, and food, and this time some people went down and some people came up, and in general there were more people on the plane.

Liu Fei operated the plane and quickly climbed into the sky, and the climb rate reached the limit of 20 feet per second for today's propeller aircraft. The four engines have done their best, Liu Fei still feels that it is not enough, anyway, his take-off power time can be maintained for a period of time, first burn the oil, and then fly when he reaches the cruising altitude.

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The cruising altitude was soon reached, but Liu Fei was also close to the English Channel.

The weather in the English Channel is bad today, Liu Fei has always seen the sparks in front of him with lightning, in view of the reliability of the propeller aircraft now, Liu Fei decided to climb the altitude to avoid cumulonimbus clouds.

Although the current flight technology cannot fight against cumulonimbus clouds, it is still possible to avoid this great god. And it's a must, because even later cumulonimbus clouds are very dangerous. The DC-9 and B-733, which were later very advanced, twin-engine turbofan aircraft, could not force through the cumulonimbus clouds.

The lightning caused by friction in the cumulonimbus clouds is secondary, mainly because the engine will stall due to water ingress, which is something that no pilot wants to encounter. Today's planes are not the small propeller planes of the past, and now they need to be vigorous......

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The sky is not beautiful, Liu Fei flew to the edge of the cumulonimbus cloud only to find that the cumulonimbus cloud was even higher than his flight altitude. Going up further, Liu Fei believed that he would crash on the ground because of the plane's stall, but now Liu Fei found that his situation was not much better. Because I'm in the middle of a storm... Beg!

In the era when there was no weather radar, the observation of this kind of weather was full screen artificial ground data feedback, which was very unfavorable for flight, and what Liu Fei encountered was a very terrible cumulonimbus cloud.

As soon as he crashed into the cumulonimbus cloud, Liu Fei felt a very big shaking. This is a normal phenomenon caused by the instability of the airflow in the cumulonimbus cloud, because the airflow is unstable, and Liu Fei cannot have any higher requirements. Now, Liu Fei just begs not to let himself get lost in the cumulonimbus clouds, just get lost in space.

The electric field in the cumulonimbus cloud affects the magnetic field, which in turn causes the flying compass to fail. In this case, Liu Fei can only rely on gyroscopes to drive, because only a stable gyroscope can ensure that it is not disturbed by magnetic fields.

A white light flashed in front of Liu Fei's eyes, and Liu Fei subconsciously burst into a foul mouth: "Beep-" (Hey, hey, a certain country.) In the documentary "The Great Air Crash of the Century", the Dutch captain's "**" became "beep-", and there was no sense of disobedience, and then the four people in the cockpit covered their eyes at the same time and released the steel products that they could touch in front of them.

A huge charge passed through Engine Three and was then drawn out via a lightning rod.

However, Liu Fei was not in such a good mood, because the huge charge passed through the fuselage somewhat, causing everything to be magnetized now, and there were also some errors in the gyroscope and pitot tube.

The battery in the cabin was directly shattered, and the interior of the cabin fell into darkness. Because the engine's generator did not have a direct circuit to the circuitry in the cabin, only the mechanical instruments left in the cabin could be operated. Fortunately, the planes of this era were so old that there were not many electronic instruments, which allowed Liu Fei to still have control of the aircraft.

The No. 7 cylinder of engine No. 3 was shattered by lightning, and the fuel began to leak, because the vibration generated was too great, Liu Fei had to reduce the engine throttle and began to descend in height.

The No. 7 cylinder was quickly ignited by the electric spark emitted by the discharging cloud, and Liu Fei turned the slow dive into a fast dive to extinguish the fire, and the whole plane began to dive downward at a dive angle of 45 degrees.

Liu Fei held the joystick tightly, and the arc in front of him made Liu Fei even suspect that he had encountered the fire of St. Elmo, but fortunately this was not a British Airways flight 009, and there would not be "We had a little problem, all four of our engines stalled, but our pilot had a worse situation."

[It is said that the previous propeller airliner even needed every cylinder for fine calibration]

Because the cabin was made of wood and there was no major electric current, these people were not a big problem, and they all opened the curtain and looked out when they heard such a big movement.

Liu Fei performed a series of diving maneuvers in the cab and also began to check the shutdown of the No. 3 engine. Examine.

"We need to shut down generator three."

"Generator No. 3 is off." Liu Fei's instructor took over the operation of the engine, and Liu Fei continued to dive.

"Turn the throttle to the minimum and the mixture ratio to ......"

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After a series of commands, Engine 3 revved slower and slower, and finally came to a slow stop, but was able to barely make a few turns downwind under the high winds of the dive.

Liu Fei ordered the No. 3 engine to follow the propacular, which would minimize the loss of engine power.

No matter what time of day the aircraft is, it is right to conserve the thrust of the remaining engine after turning off the engine. Originally, the power of this aircraft was not very sufficient, this was still at high altitude, and if it accidentally caused the wing to stall, it would be ruined.

Liu Fei ordered only the generator of the No. 2 engine to be turned on, and after connecting its wires to the landing gear brake power, he continued to dive at high speed, completely ignoring the fact that the cabin behind him was already full of vomit.