No. 240 Afterburner take-off on a rainy night
The training was only temporarily cancelled, so Yang Luo did not announce his disbandment, but waited in the briefing room, waiting for the rainstorm to pass, to see if there was a chance to go up.
As we all know, rainstorms generally come and go in a hurry, and they don't fall for long.
However, this time, Yang Luo miscalculated, he waited in vain, and the torrential rain fell intermittently for a whole afternoon, which made Yang Luo very disappointed.
Fortunately, the drainage facilities at the CAT station are very good, and even with such a large amount of rainfall, the rainwater can be sent out in time without the risk of flooding.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Luo disbanded the team and let them move freely.
"It's normal for the sky to be unpredictable." Yang Luo didn't leave immediately, and when he saw Yang Luo's lost table, he comforted: "Manpower is sometimes poor, the way of heaven is determined, and in the face of nature, we human beings are still too small." ”
"Hey, the funds are almost spent, I have to report to the air division, I have to have some visible results, otherwise how embarrassing." Yang Luo sighed and said.
"The air division gave you 10 million, and I heard that you got another 10 million from the 75th Division, why did you spend it so quickly? I haven't seen you shoot any live ammunition! Ye Jianlong was taken aback.
Yang Luo pursed his lips and said: "You don't need money to eat, drink, and Lasa aviation materials, and there is aviation fuel that accounts for the majority, and 20 million can last until now." ”
"Well, you're worried about going, I'll go first." Ye Jianlong smiled and left in the commuter car.
Yang Luo went to the tower to see if there was a training window at night, and he was very happy to get the news that the rain would turn into light rain after six o'clock in the evening.
After dinner and a short rest, at half-past six, all the pilots gathered again in the flight briefing room.
"Tonight, we carried out a low-altitude penetration ground attack, saying that we have not hit a ground target for more than half a month, and it happened to be a rainstorm today, so we don't have to worry about catching fire." Yang Luo couldn't help laughing as he spoke.
There is a shooting range for shooting ground targets at the Kart Field Station, but Yang Luo has not used it much, and the place he chose to shoot the ground target is in the Hengduan Mountains, and the target is a big rock.
The fly in the ointment is that every time you hit the ground target, you must choose a rainy day, otherwise it is easy to cause forest fires.
"The target information of the ground target has been marked on the tactical tablet, you can see for yourself." Yang Luo said, "Divided into three groups, I took the sword squadron up first, the Ye team commanded at the tower, and then when I returned, the Lu team took three people up, and finally the Ye team took two people, because it was a rainy day, take a single takeoff, understand?" ”
"Understood."
"It's still raining tonight, and the visibility is very low, so don't be reckless when you penetrate at low altitude, and pay attention to the altitude." Yang Luo reminded.
"Team Yang, don't worry, we know what level we are, and we will never joke with our lives." Lu Younan said.
"Team Yang, you see that we weren't careful in that flight, it had your crazy energy." This is what Xue Fei said.
On formal occasions, he usually calls Team Yang, but not necessarily in private, sometimes he is called Yang Luo, sometimes he is called crazy.
"Scorpion, you have the ability of Team Yang, you can also be crazy." Xu Zhiqiang squeezed.
"Xiaoqiang, don't talk about me, you have the ability, you are crazy to show me." Xue Fei went back.
"Stop, Xue Fei, you guys go with me to change clothes." Yang Luo hurriedly shouted, let them quarrel, it must become a vegetable market.
Not long after, Yang Luo and the others changed their flight equipment and went to the hangar, while Ye Jianlong went to the control tower, and there were six pilots of the 75th Division left in the flight briefing room.
After checking, signing, and going through the process, Yang Luo sat in the cockpit of No. 301 J-10C.
With the assistance of Gou Quan, connected the radio and closed the cockpit glass, Yang Luo immediately checked the various systems of the fighter that had been turned on and idled.
Then, Gou Quan climbed down the boarding ladder, removed the boarding ladder, and played a flag in front of him that he could slide out.
Yang Luo pushed the throttle valve to supply oil, and the (cāo) control fighter slid steadily out of the hangar.
On rainy nights, it was dark and visibility was extremely low, and although there were a lot of lights in the flight area, the view was still not as good as usual.
Yang can clearly feel that the grip of the aviation tires on the landing gear has weakened, there is a hint of slippery feeling, through the cockpit glass, you can see the raindrops almost in a straight line, the rain is still very strong, enough to meet the standard of moderate rain.
Smoothly and quickly entering the take-off position, the brakes stopped, Yang Luo called to the tower: "Call the tower, 301 is ready, request to take off, over." ”
(shēn), Xue Fei's No. 311 J-10C slowly drove into the runway in moderate rain, stopped on the right rear side of Yang Luo, and waited for Yang Luo to take off.
Ye Jianlong looked at the 301 J-10C flashing red, green and white navigation lights on the runway, and said after reporting a set of meteorological parameters: "301 can take off, pay attention to the low cloud cover, less than 3000 meters, over." ”
"301 understands, the clouds are less than 3000 meters, ready to take off, over."
After Yang Luo responded, he pushed the throttle valve, released the brake, and turned on the afterburner by the way.
The 301 J-10C roared angrily and accelerated its glide on the slippery runway, like a discharged cannonball, and the tail nozzle spewed out an orange-red high-temperature tail flame, raising a large cloud of water mist.
"Yang Luo, you are a loser, you drive afterburner, you don't care about the engine at all, you are a loser......"
Gou Quan, who was at the door of the hangar, scolded.
The machine attendant on the side heard Gou Quan's scolding on the street, and they all laughed one by one.
However, Yang Luo couldn't hear it.
Soon, the fighter reached the take-off speed, and Yang Luo pulled the rod up and took off at a large elevation angle.
After takeoff, Yang Luo turned off the afterburner, the tail flame returned to a clear blue, and its length was shortened a lot, and then climbed to an altitude of 2,500 meters with a climb rate of 200 meters per second, not daring to go up again, and the clouds in summer are often accompanied by thunder and lightning.
Airplanes flying in the air are not equipped with lightning rods, but airplanes will still have lightning protection devices.
In fact, a lightning rod is a lightning rod, which is installed on a building or structure on the ground, and its function is to direct the current generated by lightning strikes in the air to the earth through a lightning receiver, down conductor and grounding body, thereby protecting the safety of property and people (shēn).
The lightning protection device on the aircraft is a "static discharger" installed at the tip of the main wing or tail of the aircraft, which is a metal discharge brush like a brush, called an electrostatic discharge brush, about 3 fingers thick, composed of dozens of very thin needles.
According to the principle of tip discharge, the discharge brush can release a large amount of charge accumulated in the aircraft shell into the atmosphere, and some aircraft have as many as a dozen electrostatic dischargers installed.
In addition, the structure made of non-metallic materials in the aircraft shell is generally equipped with lightning protection strips, for example, the surface of the nose radar radome is pasted with lightning protection strips, and the tail is also buried with lightning protection strips, their function is to make lightning current smoothly pass through the surface of the casing.
Therefore, when an aircraft is struck by lightning, the lightning protection device described above helps the current to be quickly discharged by transmitting the current through the casing to the machine (shēn) or the metal discharge brushes that extend from the wings.
Although warplanes have lightning protection devices, it is still a very dangerous thing to be struck by lightning (qíng), and sometimes (shēn) or other parts will even be penetrated, and the aircraft struck by lightning will generally be checked after landing, and it will generally be found that the discharge brush has been knocked out.
Therefore, flying in the area of thunderstorms is a must, as it is too dangerous.