Dressed in a dark green flight suit and anti-load suit, Bill Kaever confidently walked to the Mirage 2000 fighter at the end of the runway.

He graduated from the French Test Pilot School in 1977 and served in the Naval Aviation for two years before joining the Test Flight Center.

As a test pilot at Dassault, you need to fly an average of 140 to 160 hours per year, including 100 hours of test flights, and the rest are pilots who perform, retrain, deliver and train customers. Bill's annual flight time has reached more than 200 hours, and sometimes he can fly five or six hours a day in a test flight subject.

In particular, today is an air show, and the air show in front of so many people gives him a sense of satisfaction.

In addition to test flights, it is also the responsibility of each test pilot to promote the sales of various Dassault products. For them, how to demonstrate the performance of a combat aircraft is also an art and skill, and such a performance is essential to build the image of the company and the aircraft.

The flight of the Mirage 2000 at the air show is already the second time, and at the air show in the United Kingdom last year, the Mirage 2000 showed its majesty for the first time.

However, the development of the Mirage 2000 is not over, with the continuous test flights, the development of new flight envelopes, so that every flight performance of the aircraft, has made greater progress than before.

Next to him was the fifth prototype of the Mirage 2000. This prototype is mainly used for structural tests and various overload experiments under sub- and supersonic speeds, without plug-ins and with 4 air-to-air missiles, that is to say, this aircraft is mainly used to fly various maneuvers, and after flying, it is the most exciting of several prototypes.

Stepping on the ladder, Bill slowly stepped onto the cockpit, and at this time, he didn't know that in the distant stands, his peers were looking at him with envious eyes.

Qin Feng picked up the telescope in front of him and looked at Bill, his eyes were full of envy, the other party had already flown on the advanced third-generation aircraft, and he could only overcome the technical failures of the countless second-generation aircraft!

How nice it would be if I could fly this kind of fighter!

With the same mood, of course, not only Qin Feng, almost all the air force officers present had this idea.

It is a conventional practice that if you want to be an officer in the Air Force, in addition to political officials, almost all of them need to climb up from the pilot, and General Lin is an old pilot, at this time, like Qin Feng, he is also looking at Bill who stepped into the cabin.

As if sensing the attention from this side, Bill turned his head to look this way the moment he stepped into the cockpit, and then, stretching out his right hand, made an OK with a romantic gesture unique to France.

Then, with the canopy snapped on, the engine was started, and Bill operated the Mirage 2000, slid forward a few meters, steadily aligned with the centerline of the runway, and then turned on the afterburner.

Suddenly, the M53-2 engine behind it came with a roar of full effort, and a lilac afterburner tail flame came out of the tail nozzle, and it couldn't wait!

Bill released the brakes, and suddenly, the Phantom 2000 began to run wildly on the track like a wild horse, and a huge push back feeling came, and Bill pulled up the lever without hesitation.

"God, how can their take-off be like this?" Someone here let out an exclamation.

Domestic fighters, when taking off, will pull a 30-degree angle of attack at most, no matter how big it is, they are afraid of falling all at once, but what about people? This angle of attack is at least 60 degrees, and it is like pulling onions on dry land, flying straight up!

It's incredible!

Qin Feng's eyes were also full of surprise.

According to the information of the outside world, fighters such as F-15 and F-16 are designed for air superiority, with large engine thrust and a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 1, and only this kind of aircraft can take off at a high angle of attack.

How did the Mirage 2000 do it? It can't be cheating, right?

Because the M-53 engine is a single-rotor engine, the thrust-to-weight ratio is not high, so the climbing ability of the Mirage 2000 is not outstanding, the aero engine has always been the industrial peak of the Everest, involving materials, processing, design and other links, the French aviation industry can develop this turbofan engine on its own, has done its best. But this engine also has advantages, high reliability, simple structure, low maintenance costs.

Qin Feng guessed correctly, so on this flight, Bill also cheated slightly.

He only carried fuel for air performances, and there was not a drop of fuel in the huge wing fuel tanks, only some fuel in the fuel tanks in the fuselage, so that he could make the dashing take-off maneuver just now. Moreover, this is a testing machine, and there is no other equipment installed, such as radar, etc., so it has a very light weight.

At an altitude of 1000 meters, Bill leveled the fighter, and the air show officially began.

The Mirage 2000 uses a huge delta wing structure with a very large wing area, resulting in a rather small wing load, even under combat weight conditions, the wing load is only 234 kg/m². Even in the afterlife, it is very small, and its usable lift is relatively large, so the instantaneous hovering performance is very good. It has a maximum instantaneous angular speed of 30 degrees per second.

Bill's first performance was the horizontal roll and horizontal figure-of-eight flight that most highlighted the performance of the Mirage 2000.

"Attention, the plane is coming." Boileau explained.

The people below looked and saw that the plane that had just flown out of sight was flying rapidly from the left.

Bill glanced at the airspeedometer, the speed of 400 knots was just right.

With the lever in his hand, Bill began to expertly push to the right.

Suddenly, the sky began to rotate in view, the horizon on the left disappeared, and the plane began to roll horizontally.

If it was an untrained person, I am afraid that he would already be dizzy at this time, but Bill's brain was extremely clear, he looked at the outline of the earth above his head, which had turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and then saw the horizon on both sides of the wing, and completed a three hundred and sixty degree roll, but he did not give up, and the hand holding the bar did not let go until the plane turned three times and completed three rapid rolls.

Bill then pushes the lever in the opposite direction and begins the reverse roll again.

The people on the ground watched in amazement as the fighter in the sky rolled around happily as they moved forward like a skilled little fish, and they couldn't help but applaud.

This action is so exciting!