Chapter 117: Failed Ejection
Just now, when he heard the sound of the tom cannon behind him, Drogba knew that something was wrong, and he put his legs together, and then he was about to pull the tab.
But at this moment, he hesitated.
Will you be able to get out alive?
Before World War II, there was no automatic life-saving equipment on fighter planes, and pilots carried umbrella bags before getting on the plane, and in case of an emergency, pilots needed to climb out of the cockpit on their own, jump off the plane and parachute to land.
This is almost difficult, after all, once you encounter a situation, it is almost a plane hit, emitting smoke and the like, and it takes skill to jump.
Therefore, later with the acceleration of the speed of the aircraft, the designers designed a fully enclosed canopy, but the pilots like to open the canopy to fight, once there is a situation, the pilot will turn the plane upside down, and then kick the legs, with the help of the attraction of the earth, you can fall directly from the cockpit.
As long as the plane is still operable, they can escape like this.
However, there are also aircraft designers who brainily design a hatch like a car door, which seems to be convenient for pilots to get on and off when entering from the side, but it is even more difficult to escape in an emergency, and the pilots look at this kind of aircraft, which is incessantly scolding.
It's just that soon, this solution will soon not work.
As technology has evolved, fighter jets have become faster and faster, so the speed of the oncoming air flow faced by pilots when exiting the cabin on their own has also increased. When the plane reached a speed of 600 kilometers per hour, the pilot relied on his own physical strength and could not overcome the head-on air flow out of the cabin.
Even if you finally get out of the cabin, it is easy to be scraped to the tail by the high-speed air flow when leaving the plane, so you will hit the tail or flat tail. At this time, the wing surface, like a broadsword, is enough to split the pilot in half.
Needless to say, the jets of later generations, even the propeller planes of World War II, many pilots died in this way. Statistics show that when the airspeed is greater than 360 km/h, the survival rate of pilots who parachute out of the cabin on their own is only about 2%.
You know, by the end of World War II, almost all airplanes could exceed 500 speeds.
In any country, pilots are an extremely valuable combat asset, so the demand for aviation automatic life-saving equipment is increasing, and it is in this context that the ejection seat came into being.
The first to invent the ejection seat was of course Germany, after all, Germany was technologically advanced at that time, and had already come up with a jet machine, the speed was so fast, there was no ejection seat, there was simply no possibility of escape.
After decades of development, the progress of ejection seats is also very fast, for example, up to now, the most famous K-36 ejection seat in the Soviet Union has also come out, this ejection seat almost meets the life-saving ability under the entire flight envelope, and in later generations, it has also saved the lives of many pilots, and has performed brilliantly at air shows many times.
However, this advanced ejection seat, which was prepared for the MiG-29 and Su-27, did not have the MiG-25 for the Soviet Union's own use, let alone the export version.
The MiG-25 is only equipped with the same KM-1 ejection seat as the MiG-21! This ejection seat is a question of whether it exists, and the pilots of the MiG-21 know that if they really use it, only God knows whether it can save their lives.
And now, when used on the MiG-25, the restrictions are even more, and now its height is in the 25,000 range, can it save its life?
Successfully ejecting out, that is the first difficulty, and after ejecting out, surviving is the second difficulty.
What's underneath?
It's all mountains down there!
The mountain peaks are steep, full of snow, and the whole thing is no man's land, he jumps down, he doesn't have to worry about being captured, there are no roads in many places, the defenders are slow to search, what he has to worry about is how to walk back?
Even if he survives, the greatest possibility is that he will freeze to death and starve to death below.
Therefore, Drogba hesitated, and just as he hesitated, he saw the flames rushing from the rearview mirror of the cockpit. The entire rear fuselage is already burning!
So, Drogba knew that he couldn't hesitate any longer, and he didn't care about the ejection for now, if he didn't eject now, he would definitely be burned here.
Drogba then pulled his feet away from the rudder and onto the pedals of the ejection seat, bringing his legs together and pulling the ejection tab between his legs hard.
Then, there was a huge thrust on his ass, and his entire body was flying upwards rapidly, and the moment the thumping cap gun pierced through the cockpit, his ejection seat was already pushing his body upward.
When the ejection seat is ignited, the huge overload will make people want to die, some pilots are because of the ejection spine injury, can no longer fly, Drogba has barely reacted, already in the huge overload has a feeling of faintness.
At an altitude of 25,000 meters, the temperature is tens of degrees below zero, which is very warm in the cockpit of the MiG-25 fighter, and at three times the speed of sound, the cockpit is like a steamer, and now, the sudden cold outside makes Drogba's body shiver.
The all-encompassing helmet prevented Drogba's face from being exposed to the oncoming high-altitude currents, the MiG-25 fighter was falling down, and his seat was flying upward, so he was supposed to be able to stagger with the fighter.
However, this ejection seat let him down.
This kind of ejection seat, at a height of more than 10,000 meters, is not very effective, and now, the height is 25,000, when it catapults out, the posture can not be maintained, suddenly, it actually rolls and begins to fly backwards!
If it is a K-36 seat, sitting on it, the sense of security is full, but the current ejection seat only scares Drogba's soul.
At this time, the rear fuselage of the MiG-25 was still burning, and suddenly, a huge fragment flew out, with the emblem of the Air Force of the Three Kingdoms on it!
That's a piece of the MiG-25's hanging tail!
The tail swirled in the air like a bursting grinding wheel, and it spun forward and flew past Drogba's side.
"Whew!" With a soft voice, in the midst of a huge overload, Drogba was already unconscious, and now he opened his eyes again, and the sharp pain stimulated the nerves of his brain, and he looked at his body in amazement, the lower part, which was gone, had fallen from the seat!
The four pieces of the vertical tail just now are made of stainless steel, just like a big knife, which actually cut Drogba in half!
But the strange thing is that there was no blood, the temperature was dozens of degrees below zero, and as soon as it was cut, it was frozen.
A great pain came over Drogba, and his eyes closed again.
It's a failed ejection, damn ejection seat!