Looking at Pokryshkin's beautiful take-off action, Ron also had to praise: "It's really worthy of Pokryshkin." Then he quickly released the brakes and started taking off.

After a successful liftoff, Ron contacted Pokryshkin by radio, "Lieutenant Colonel Pokryshkin, is it still easy?" ”

"Yes, such a big thing, but it's a lot more flexible than I imagined." Pokryshkin made another roll to the left and a roll to the right, "the roll is also fast, not at all worse than those single-engine planes, and not even worse than the LA-5FN." ”

"But if you try his circling, you might be disappointed." Ron said.

"I'll try!" Pokryshkin made a 90-degree roll, and then began to pull the rod to circle.

"This guy hovers in a good instant...... Well, it's really not good to hover steadily at low speeds. At most, it's about the same as the German FW-190. In a violent circle, the speed dropped too fast. Pokryshkin withdrew from the hovering and began to accelerate the recovery of energy.

"Well, that's a great acceleration! Much better than the LA-5FN. Pokryshkin exclaimed.

"Actually, the best thing about it is its speed," Ron said, "come with me, let's experience the speed rush." Ron then piloted the P-81 and began to climb rapidly. The maximum speed of the aircraft that we usually see in some performance introductions actually has a limiting factor, that is, the high [one ^ book ^ read ^ novel] [.[ yb][du].] Degree. The higher the flight altitude, the thinner the air, the less drag, and theoretically the faster you can fly. But on the other hand, the performance of the engine will continue to decline as the altitude increases. So the higher the plane flies, the less power the engine can provide, and the slower the plane will be. Under the influence of these two contradictory factors, the nominal maximum speed of any aircraft is the speed at a certain altitude segment that is most suitable for its performance. So don't see that one type of aircraft has a higher top speed than another and assume that it can fly faster at any altitude.

For example, the P-51D and Maozi's La-7, looking at the maximum speed alone, the P-51D has a maximum speed of 705 km/h, which is higher than the LA-7's maximum speed of 680 km/h. But at low altitudes, you will find that the La-7 is much faster than the P-51D. At sea level, the La-7 can easily fly at speeds above 600. And at this altitude, the P-51D had a speed of only about 580.

The plane quickly climbed to an altitude of 7,500 meters. It took less than 7 minutes. Such a climb made Pokryshkin amazed.

"This plane is a climbing monster! His dive must be great too, right? Well, there is no bad dive in your American goods. With such a climb and dive, even if it is rotten in the circle, it is a top good plane! ”

"Okay, let's take a look at the top speed." Ron said.

"Okay!" Pokryshkin pushed the throttle to the maximum. With the roar of two twin wasp engines, the P-81 flew faster and faster.

“680、700、720、730…… 750, that's fast! Pokryshkin watched the numbers on the speedometer rise and was excited.

At this moment, Ron's P-81 whizzed past him at a significantly higher speed.

"How did you fly so fast?"

"Because you didn't turn on the water jets."

In the end, both planes flew 760 kilometers in level flight.

"What a plane! I'm getting more and more fond of it. ”

"01, 02, you flew too far, return immediately!" The headset came the command of the tower.

Pokryshkin looked down: "We really flew too far. It's all close to the front line. ”

"Let's go back." "We're going to dive down and give you a taste of what it's like to dive to 900, and then we'll see how fast it can fly at low altitudes." ”

"Good!" Pokryshkin took the lead and swooped down.

At an altitude of 3,000 meters, they leveled the plane and began to return home. That's when an airport appeared at 4 o'clock.

"See, that's our front-line airfield, we have a squadron of Il-2s and some Yak-9s deployed there."

"I've heard about your Il-2, supposedly a flying tank. It's a pity that I haven't seen it, when will I get one and let me fly it? ”

"That's fine, it's on me. You see, there are a few IL-2s over there ready to land. ”

Ron looked over and saw that there were indeed several IL-2s circling and preparing to land.

"Wait, what's that!" Ron found out that not far from those Il-2s, there were several planes.

"Damn, it's the German FW-190!" Pokryshkin immediately turned and dived towards the enemy aircraft. Ron followed him closely.

Luther was an FW-25 ace with a 190 shot down record. Now he is on a safari mission with a formation of 4 aircraft. In fact, safaris were first developed by the Germans on the Eastern Front. In fact, a large part of the record of many super aces is a sneak attack during safari.

Now, Luther is eyeing an Il-2 attack plane, which he intends to attack as soon as they begin to aim at the runway. Because, at that time, the pilot's full attention was focused on how to land safely. And at that time, the plane was at a low altitude and slow speed, and it was simply impossible to make any evasive maneuvers. In this case, Luther was very sure that in the attack, he accurately hit the IL-2 with the MK-108.

However, just as the IL-2 was aligned with the runway, lowered its flaps and landing gear, and prepared to land, Luther flew up in the FW-190. His wingman suddenly shouted, "Attention! Enemy aircraft at 6 o'clock! ”

Luther was completely unaware of the exact position of the enemy aircraft in relation to him. The FW-190's tragic cockpit vision made it difficult to see enemy aircraft at six o'clock, and his current altitude was not conducive to maneuvering. Even, in order to be able to launch accurate fire against the IL-2, his speed is not high.

Luther knew he didn't have time to think, and he immediately made a defensive barrel roll.

In World War II, there was no aircraft with better roll energy than the FW-190A series. So with a defensive barrel roll, the FW-190 can escape from being bitten by someone and shoot at six o'clock, and even have a chance to make people rush to the front and become your target. But timing is important when doing this. It's late, and everyone's shells hit me; It's early, people pull the plane up, watch you waste energy on yourself below (any tactical move will lose energy), and when you're almost wasted, you can clean up as much as you want!

Of course, Luther knew that his action might be a little too early, but it was a safer thing to do, and as for the later problems, he could hope for other friendly opportunities.

This action did allow him to escape from under the gun. In the barrel roll, Luther also saw the two fighters that tried to attack him, as well as the clear white five-star logo on the two planes.

"Isn't this an American plane, how did it get to the Eastern Front?" Luther's heart was filled with doubts.

But this was not the time to wonder, as the two strange planes quickly completed a somersault with a small radius and dived towards the other FW-190.

"Carter, get out of the way!" Luther shouted.

The FW-190 made a sharp turn and escaped from Pokryshkin's gun, only to crash headlong into Ron's gun. Of course, Ron didn't let go of such an opportunity. With a salvo, that FW-190 went up in smoke.

Instead of paying any further attention to the FW-190, which was already on fire, Ron and Pokryshkin pulled up the plane again and dived towards the other two FW-190s that were struggling to climb.

At this time, those Il-2s also terminated the landing and began to form formations. At the same time at the airport, several Yak-9s were taxiing on the runway at high speed. As long as Ron and Pokryshkin can temporarily suppress the four FW-190s, these Yak-9s will be able to take off and join the battle. So at this time, Ron and Pokryshkin's strategy was to prioritize attacking the German fighters who were trying to approach the airfield and were preparing to take off, so that they could not threaten the Yak-9 that was taking off.

This is not too difficult for Ron and Pokryshkin, in fact, just after Ron hit one FW-190, causing it to catch fire and burn, the remaining 3 FW-190s were already very nervous. Now the Germans were no longer thinking about how to achieve results. What they were thinking about now was how to escape safely. For example, Luther, who lost his wingman, took advantage of the opportunity of Ron and Pokryshkin to attack the other two planes, increased the throttle and fled in the other direction.

Unlike Luther, it will not be easy for the remaining two to escape in front of the P-81, who has the advantage of energy. The pilot on the FW-190 that had just caught fire had already parachuted. Ron saw that there were already motorcycles and jeeps (aided by the United States) from the ground troops going that way, and if that guy's luck wasn't good enough to go against the sky, he probably had to go to Siberia to chop wood.

Now, the two FW-190s, which have become the targets of Ron and Pokryshkin, have lowered their altitude to about 10 meters in one go in order to save their lives, so it will not be easy for Ron and Pokryshkin to dive into them. Ron didn't care, though, and he and Pokryshkin held their heights steadily, waiting for their chance.

At a height of 10 meters, you can't fly fast anyway (if you're fast, you're waiting to hit a mountain or something). So both Ron and Pokryshkin felt that it would be a safer choice to wait and let the Yak-9s that were taking off catch up and beat them up when Pokryshkin had not yet fully mastered the performance of the P-81.

By this time, 4 Yak-9s had already flown over, and by radio, Pokryshkin explained the task to them. He turned around with Ron to find Luther's FW-190 that had fled in the other direction.