Chapter 36

The four fighters of the first squadron dragged a long orange-red high-temperature tail flame and climbed steadily until an altitude of 10,000 meters, and then changed to level flight, and then maintained the formation flight according to the predetermined flight plan and turned to course 245.

The night sky at an altitude of 10,000 meters is extremely dark, and you can't see your fingers.

Looking up, the bright moon is shining brightly, and the stars are blinking, hanging on the top of the unreachable sky.

What a beautiful and gorgeous starry sky map.

The starry sky overhead is the ultimate pursuit of human beings, and the 10,000-meter-high altitude is still in the atmosphere, but it is only the initial stage of entering the starry sky.

"I don't know if I can have the opportunity to fly a plane out of the atmosphere and into the infinite universe before I retire." After Yang Luo raised his head and glanced at the top of his head, an idea suddenly popped up in his heart.

Yang Luo smiled unconsciously, feeling ridiculous for his own fantasy.

Until now, only rockets have been able to go into space. It is almost impossible for an airplane to go into space, but it is not necessarily, and who knows what the future holds?

Throwing off his thoughts, Yang Luo drove the No. 801 fighter seriously, his eyes were glued to the dashboard, and now he was flying at night in formation, and it was taboo to wander. If you are not careful, it will lead to the tragedy of a collision between two planes.

The most important data for formation flight is three things: altitude, speed, and course.

Compared with the performance team, the combat unit has much lower requirements for formation flight, it is not very strict, and the altitude and speed can be almost the same, and it is okay to fly in formation.

But for the course, it is just as strict, and this is to ensure safety. If the course deviates slightly and is not corrected in time, it may crash into the plane next to it.

Flying in formation at night is a great test of the pilot's instrument flight skills.

In the military radio channel, Ye Jianlong's voice was serious, and he reminded: "This time it is a long-distance night transfer formation flight, different from the daytime, the danger factor is very high, everyone cheer up." If there is any abnormality in each machine, report it immediately. ”

"801 Roger." When Yang Luo heard this, he immediately replied.

"803 received."

: 804 received. “

Xue Fei and Zhao Long then responded in turn.

Transition flight is one of the most important daily training subjects, and the distance can be far and near. The nearest ones may be hundreds of kilometers, and you can fly a round trip in an hour, and the far ones may be short of aviation fuel in the aircraft, and you need to mount auxiliary fuel tanks.

Tonight's night flight is a formation transfer flight, from Dongling Station to Lunbei Station, the flight distance is 1,500 kilometers, the aircraft fuel is sufficient, and there is no need to attach an external fuel tank.

The straight-line distance is more than 1,000 kilometers from Donglingchang Station to Lunbeichang Station, but in order to familiarize myself with the airspace in advance for the confrontation drill half a month later, the detour above Anxian Field Station also lengthened the flight distance of this night flight.

The current course is to fly to Anxian Station.

After flying in the air in a lateral formation for ten minutes, Ye Jianlong ordered: "According to the training plan, the first formation." ”

After Yang Luo received a response, he first slowed down and flew a distance, widened the distance from the flight direction of the No. 802 fighter, and then increased to the original flight speed and maintained.

The so-called No. 1 formation is an oblique formation, with Ye Jianlong's No. 802 as the head plane, and other scattered planes flying in an oblique rear in turn.

There are many kinds of flight formations of fighters, such as horizontal formations, oblique formations, and herringbone formations in the horizontal direction, and they can also fly in formation when the height difference is opened in the vertical direction.

Whether it is a two-plane formation or a multi-plane formation flight, the only formation method that does not exist is a column.

Because of the column flight, after the rear aircraft inhales the exhaust fumes of the front aircraft, it is easy to cause engine failure and even stop in the air.

Therefore, we usually do not see the formation of planes flying one after the other.

Tonight's formation flight training plan includes almost all formation methods, the first formation is just the beginning, and there will be the second formation and the third formation......

About half an hour later, the plane arrived over Anxian Station, did not reduce its altitude, remained at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and then turned to the 302 course.

The course of 302 is northwest, which translates to 32 degrees north-west.

Wearing an oxygen mask and breathing the oxygen provided by the on-board oxygen supply equipment, Yang Luo held the joystick boringly, his eyes on the dashboard in front of him, forcing himself to concentrate, ready to carry out Ye Jianlong's instructions at any time.

Flying in formation is different from flying alone, and it can maneuver in various ways at any time. Most of the time the formation flight is in level flight, maintaining a stable speed, altitude and course.

It can only be operated when switching formations, so to speak, for most of the time in formation, the pilot is a wooden man, sitting stupidly in his seat, unable to move his hands and feet.

If the villain J-10 flies in formation, your hands and feet can be freed, and you can directly set the flight parameters and turn on the autopilot function.

But the J-7 is not good, the J-7 does not have an autopilot function, and all the operations depend on the pilot, especially the J-7G has a design that does not leave the stick.

Flying in formation at night, unlike flying during the day, you can also chat and relieve boredom. The night flight formation needed to concentrate, so it was quiet in the communication channel, and only when Ye Jianlong gave orders from time to time would a sound come from the headset.

In the dark night sky, the belly heading indicator of the four fighters flashed, the fuselage was shrouded in a faint moonlight, constantly changing formations in the air, and the orange-red tail flame sprayed, pulling out a long white trajectory cloud.

Flying in formation and flying in peace is as boring, but pilots just have to endure loneliness.

Time passed, turned to the 302 course, flew at cruising speed for more than an hour, entered the prairie, and arrived at the transfer destination of the night voyage - Lunbei Station.

Departing from Donglingchang Station, it lasted one hour and forty minutes, and finally arrived at the destination.

Because it was too late, Yang Luo will spend the night at Lunbeichang Station and return to Donglingchang Station the next morning.

Guided by the tower of Lunbeichang Station, four J-7Gs smoothly descended from an altitude of 10,000 meters and entered through the clouds.

"802 called Lunbei Tower, four of our planes have entered the site, requesting landing, over." Ye Jianlong shouted, as the supreme commander of this formation, the liaison work should naturally be his job.

"The tower received, 802, wind direction 264, wind 802, speed 5 meters second, field pressure 996, please land on runway 3, taxi to the 8th apron, over."

The commander of the Lunbei Tower immediately replied, resounding in the headsets of the four people.

"802 received, over." After Ye Jianlong replied to the tower, he immediately instructed, "Pay attention to each plane, according to the training plan, land in order." ”

"801 Roger." Yang Luo replied.

After Ye Jianlong's fighter landed, Yang Luo immediately pressed the lever, controlled the fighter to face the runway, and stared straight ahead through the cockpit glass with his eyes.

The night was shrouded, and it should have been extremely dark, but the Lunbei Station was brightly lit, illuminating the entire station and driving away the darkness at night, and it was full of red and yellow indicator lights, which were particularly conspicuous in the white lights.

Yang Luo, who was taxiing on the runway, inadvertently skimmed the hangar next to him, and suddenly his eyes shrank.

"What's that?"