At 5:30 in the morning, Li Zhan stood at the door of the maintenance workshop, holding a flight helmet in his right rib and a white labor protection glove in his left hand, looking at the black and sloppy sky and sighing slightly.

All pre-flight preparations have been completed.

But it was pouring rain outside, which made him feel like he was in the rainy season in the south.

This weather is a bit abnormal, in previous years, there was no such heavy rain around the Spring Festival in Sichuan. It's not terrible to have a lot of rain, but it's the drastic drop in visibility and the strong winds that come with it. The cloud map shows that the Cumulonimbus clouds have not yet left the plateau, which should be calm, but it is stormy.

Li Zhan didn't give up, so he waited in the maintenance workshop.

Waiting until 7:30, he saw that the wind had stopped, the heavy rain had turned into a light drizzle, and the most important thing was that the sky was bright and the visibility was up to the mark.

He immediately said to Yu Niandong, who was guarding with him, "Is it the window?" I request an immediate take-off. ”

Yu Niandong didn't say much, immediately contacted the meteorological station, and then said, "Yes, at most half an hour." Are you sure you want to fly? ”

"Sure." Li Zhan said without hesitation.

Yu Niandong immediately applied to the tower, and the tower had been waiting, and he also thought that it was a window that could be used, so he decisively approved Li Zhan's request to take off.

Li Zhan simply shook hands with Yu Niandong and said goodbye, and quickly entered the cockpit of No. 037 J-7E along the boarding ladder. The ground guide gave a signal that he could slide out, and Li Zhan pushed the throttle lever to release the brake, driving the fighter to slowly drive out of the maintenance workshop.

The entire flight area was empty, and the few J-10B multi-role medium fighters that were ready to be delivered to the troops, which had not yet been painted, were pulled back into the hangar as early as last night. The lonely low-visibility gray livery with the tail and the devil's head logo on the tail of the No. 037 J-7EGG light fighter taxied quickly along the taxiway, and the left red and right green navigation lights and landing gear lights were clearly visible.

"Tower, I took off directly after aiming at the runway, over." Li Zhan called the tower.

The tower replied, "Dong three turns, you can take off directly, pay attention, just received a request from civil aviation, there is a passenger plane to land at a first-class airport, you take off and climb to 3000 degrees to give way to the airspace, do you understand?" ”

"Dong Sangui understood, took off to thirty degrees and climbed to three thousand, over."

Li Zhan replied, the throttle stick was pushed to the end, and after the engine speed reached the standard, he released the brake, and the fighter was pushed forward hard, and the acceleration performance was significantly improved compared with before.

The No. 037 J-7EGG, which was mounted on three auxiliary fuel tanks, roared, took off from the ground, retracted the landing gear, turned right to the course of 30 degrees, and continued to climb at a large angle. The smoothness that is more skillful than the test pilot amazes the duty officer of the tower.

The shadow of the famous tree of people has heard that there is a very powerful pilot with a lever at the North Reservoir Station in the west, and the flight hours have reached 1,200 hours in two years. Everyone has a clear understanding of this concept, but what is the specific level of the pilot, now that we have an intuitive understanding of it.

It's really amazing!

They are all experts, and they interact with the test pilots on the side of the tower every day, and they are very clear about what action reaction and what level, and they can see seven seven or eight at a glance.

The tower didn't forget to call Li Zhan, "Dong Sangui, adjust the frequency XXXX.XX, contact Lan Zhi, you listen to his command, over." ”

"Dong Sangui received, adjust the frequency XXXX.XX, listen to Lan's command, over."

Li Zhan quickly adjusted the frequency and called Lan Zhi, "Dong San Gui calls Lan Zhi, frequency XXXX.XX, over." ”

"I'm Lan Zhi, Dong Sangui is waiting for radar recognition, over." Lan pointed out that the reply was very fast, and the ground command post in the area was fully manned 24 hours a day.

Li Zhan flew horizontally northeast at an altitude of 3,000 meters, waiting for Lan Zhi's radar identification.

"Hole three turns, radar recognition, friend and foe identification, keep heading altitude fifteen thousand, pay attention, there are massive cumulonimbus clouds in front of you, over." Lan Zhi's voice was very energetic, not at all like staying up all night.

Li Zhan said, "Understand, keep the heading altitude of 15,000, there are cumulonimbus clouds ahead, over." ”

He wondered how the massive cumulonimbus cloud was not in the west, and how it had gone northeast. Could it be another Cumulonimbus cloud? Not surprisingly, this season is the season when cold air is constantly moving southward, and there are too many cumulonimbus clouds under the convection of cold and hot convection. It is worth pointing out that what Lan Zhi should pay special attention to must be large-scale clouds, and if it is a small cloud, the pilot can bypass it with a simple evasion after visual discovery.

There are too many impossibilities in this trip, so Li Zhan didn't dare to use the afterburner indiscriminately, otherwise he would have to make a diversion if he burned up the oil in advance. If the pilot makes an irregular operation during the transfer and causes the diversion landing, the pilot will be punished, and perhaps it will be punished.

In every dangerous situation, the first thing the investigation team wants to rule out is whether the pilot's maneuvering actions are compliant. There was a time in the 101st Brigade when Han Hongjun pressed the wrong button to release the parachute when he was flying on the side of the third turn, which was a very serious personal accident. If it weren't for Li Zhanli's security and the safe landing of both man and plane, Han Hongjun would definitely have been punished. It is more of a mechanical failure, under normal circumstances, the maintenance has to take the blame, and no matter how good the situation is, it will be criticized for "not rigorous work".

Continued to climb, without afterburner, Li Zhan chose the appropriate angle of climbing, and the climb rate was the highest in the most fuel-efficient situation.

Li Zhan looked at the sea height from time to time, and the height stubbornly climbed from three thousand to a larger number, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand, swinging, swinging, spinning, jumping......

"Lan finger! I stalled and went into a tailspin, six thousand at a height! ”

At that moment, Li Zhan had the feeling that he was suddenly dragged out and thrown into the strong air flow when he was sitting on the sightseeing cable car and enjoying the beautiful scenery, and the whole person was spinning in the whirlpool.

The strong air flow came unusually suddenly, and Li Zhan could clearly feel that it was coming from the west, and overturned the fighter in one breath, the wingtips stalled instantly, and the fighter lost control and entered the tail spin. It's like a child throwing a badly folded paper airplane out and barely flying a few meters, then falling straight down in circles.

Li Zhan couldn't even do the action of throwing away the auxiliary fuel tank.

The instantaneous overload reached 10 G, but unfortunately, Li Zhan's state today was not very good, and at the moment when the report was completed, the whole person quickly fell into a semi-comatose state after blackening, and only a trace of consciousness remained in his mind.

"Three crutches? Hole three turns! Can it be changed? Can you change it out? Three turns in the hole? ”

Lan Zhi kept calling Li Zhan, his voice getting louder and louder, Li Zhan finally slowly regained all his consciousness, and when he looked at the sea height again, it was only four thousand. Below are mountains three thousand meters above sea level.

"Come on, come on, old man, change out, change out, change out with me, come on, come on!" Li Zhan thought silently in his heart, constantly repeating the action.

No. 037 J-7EGG did not react, and continued to spin and jump towards the mountain.

"Drop fuel tank thrown!" Li Zhan decisively decided to reduce weight.

No response.

I tried again, but there was still no response.

Li Zhan gave up the action of throwing out the auxiliary fuel tank, and continued to repeat the action of changing it. Rao is that he is the Eagle Falcon boss, and there is no second way at this moment. The disposal plan was bought by the predecessors with blood, and every action was the most correct.

After several unsuccessful attempts in a row, Li Zhan was ready to skydive.