Chapter 216: Istel Test Flight Base
The Mirage 2000 fighter is a pretty good third-generation fighter. Even in the later generations, it is not very outdated.
However, it can be said that it was born at an inopportune time, and when it was born, the French Air Force still used a large number of Mirage 3 and Mirage F1 fighters.
It is impossible for all of these fighters to be reequipped, and the French are not so burning, so even if the advanced third-generation aircraft Mirage 2000 is developed, the direct demand may only be a few hundred.
The French have always been exported, but unfortunately, in Europe, they have failed several times, and every time they compete with the American F-16, they are the failed characters, and if you look around, they are almost monopolized by the American F16 fighters.
In this case, the French started the idea of the Chinese who were reforming and opening up.
In their eyes, China is the most likely to introduce equipment Mirage 2000, so they have been committed to selling to China, but the Air Force and related scientific research units, especially the three aircraft departments, are more fond of F-15 or F-16 fighters, so the Mirage 2000 is just a backup program, and the same situation is also a Tornado fighter.
And now, the air battle in the Bekaa Valley has brought heavy pressure to everyone, coupled with the shrinkage of F-16 fighters, the impossibility of F-15, so the country has finally solemnly transferred to Mirage 2000.
In fact, the introduction of this fighter is said to be not a big political problem, the main problem is the funding!
On the plane, everyone was excited, and after a long flight, finally, the plane landed near Paris.
"Welcome!" Boileau Bovaferna, Head of Overseas Sales at Dassault AG, gave a warm welcome at the airport.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have arranged a visit for you, please go to the company's headquarters and have a visit." Boileau looked at a member of a visiting group from France, and in his eyes, this was a huge business opportunity.
Qin Feng also wanted to get in the car, but was stopped by Boileau: "Excuse me, are you a test pilot who is going to come to the test flight?" ”
Last time, everyone had met, and Boileau remembered that this young man wanted to get on the plane for an investigation, and even in that posture, he wanted to fly once, but he was stopped by his own side.
"Yes, I am." After Qin Feng heard the translator's words, he said to the other party.
"Please go directly to the Istelle test base near Marseille with an interpreter to prepare for the Mirage 2000 test flight." Boileau said.
It's not that if you come today, you will be able to fly tomorrow, you must first prepare for a test flight, and it will take about a week to prepare, and you can only carry out a test flight after you are familiar with it.
Now, Boileau's words made Qin Feng even more excited, can he finally go?
"I'll go too." General Lin came out of the inspection group, and General Lin was not interested in the various activities of the company's headquarters, so he simply went directly to the test flight base and looked at other people's advanced aircraft, which was a close contact!
This opportunity is very rare, especially since it is reimbursed by the French side, and there is no expense for it.
So, Qin Feng, General Lin, and a translator, under the guidance of several French Dassault receptionists, went straight to Marseille.
Marseille, France's third largest city and largest seaport after Paris and Lyon, is surrounded on three sides by limestone hills. In the west, it is the Mediterranean Sea, with deep water and wide harbors, no rapids and rapids, and 10,000-ton ships can be unimpeded, which makes it the largest seaport in France, and at the same time, it also has the best place for test flights.
All Dassault fighters take off from here, and they can conduct test flights over the Mediterranean Sea to minimize the impact on civilians on land, and because of the large number of ships in the Mediterranean, the wind and waves are calm, and in the event of an accident, it is easy to search and rescue.
"After arriving at the base, there are special test pilots to introduce and lead everyone to fly." A fellow Dassault employee said, "Let you get acquainted with it as soon as possible." ”
While talking, they came to the test flight base, and after asking a few people, the accompanying personnel said: "Colonel Mido is in the flight test command and control room, let's go there directly." ”
At this time, Qin Feng already felt that his eyes were not enough to see, the airport here was clean and tidy, and there was a roar overhead, obviously there was a plane flying by, he wanted to look up to see what kind of plane it was, but the roof of the car blocked it.
Soon, they had already come to the flight test command and control room, and after getting out of the car, General Lin, Qin Feng and others walked in.
The domestic test flight is mainly shouted by radio, and all kinds of data are reported by the test pilot, Qin Feng, as a test pilot, is quite familiar with the test flight command room, but when he walked in, he was immediately shocked.
The room here is not big, after everyone walked in, the room was packed, Qin Feng opened his mouth wide, looking at the display equipment in front of him, that thing is simply too modern!
Today's shock is huge, just like Grandma Liu has entered the Grand View Garden, everything is fresh.
In the command room of the domestic test flight, a few chairs, tables, various radios, and charts hung on the wall, that's all.
Display? Nope.
Now, in front of the other party's command platform, densely packed, below is a row of monitors, and above are two larger monitors hanging on the wall.
Due to the crowd below, the two monitors above are the most clearly visible.
On the monitor on the left, various parameters were displayed, although the first time he saw this picture, Qin Feng still recognized it at first sight.
Plain display! What is displayed on this monitor is all kinds of data on the warplane's heads-up display!
Flight altitude, flight speed, course, vertical rate change, aircraft inclination angle, etc., this data should be the data on the fighter being tested, and now, these data can be transmitted to the command and control room synchronously!
Qin Feng remembered the danger he encountered in his previous test flight, if he had such equipment, then he didn't need to constantly report to the ground, the data of his own plane could be seen on the ground at a glance.
They were able to transmit the data from the plane in real time!
Qin Feng was attracted by the data on the left, and watched intently, at this time, one of the data was swishing and rising.
That's a height display!
That data is changing rapidly, and ordinary people can't see it clearly, or rather, most people nowadays are still used to looking at the pointer meter on the dashboard, and are not used to looking at the meter with this kind of number, but Qin Feng can see it clearly, and he has practiced the use of the flat display many times.
The last few digits were beating rapidly, and the front was also rising one by one, and he was also surprised when he roughly calculated it in his heart.
This altitude data is constantly increasing, indicating that it is climbing, and how much this data increases per second can represent how big its climb rate is, and the preliminary estimate is that its climb rate is at least 300 meters per second!