Flying snake fighters were never prepared for high altitudes. For example, the engine used in the current Flying Snake fighter does not have a supercharger at all!

The Flying Snake fighter uses the V-1710 produced by Allison Engine Company, which has been developed since the 30s, and was even used in airships at first, which is a suitable aviation engine.

But it has a disadvantage, that is, there is no supercharger.

In the process of development, this engine is also equipped with a supercharger, but it is also the most basic first-stage supercharger, which makes the performance of the engine not much improved, and the Flying Snake fighter was originally designed to be used at low and medium altitudes, so in the later models, it even directly abandoned the supercharger.

This is also a prominent flaw of this aircraft, it can only be used in the airspace below 5,000 meters, in the technical data, the practical ceiling of the Flying Snake fighter is only 5810 meters, as for its engine, the effective working range is also below 4600 meters.

In fact, even the P-51 equipped in the U.S. Army Air Corps, in the early days, was equipped with the same Alison liquid-cooled engine with only a first-stage supercharger, resulting in poor high-altitude performance, but the P-51 has a more advanced air intake configuration and overall layout to greatly improve cooling and aerodynamic efficiency, and incorporate laminar flow wing design to further enhance high-speed performance.

It wasn't until the British Merlin engine, which was later modified with a two-stage two-speed supercharger, that its high-altitude performance improved by leaps and bounds.

The later model of the P-39 also reached tens of thousands of meters, which improved the aircraft's engine to the standard of a first-stage supercharger, but it was still not a high-altitude fighter, and its performance at an altitude of 10,000 meters was quite poor.

For piston fighters, the air at high altitude is thin, and in order for the aircraft engine to work properly, it is necessary to have an efficient supercharger, and when the intake air is insufficient, the engine will not work.

(It's also strange that when World War II first broke out, the technology of aero engines that seemed to be Americans was not very good.) It took the British Merlin engine to rise tall, and sure enough, the heritage of an old capitalist country like Britain is profound. ）

Different from history, in this era, due to the rapid development of German aircraft high-altitude technology, the United States is also constantly developing new high-altitude superchargers, so that the aircraft can fly higher, including the engine of the flying snake shrinkage equipment is also improving.

But this does not include the Flying Snake, as a kind of unpopular domestic aircraft, when it is about to become a specialized export aircraft, there is no need for the American Bell company to make step-by-step improvements for it.

It's the king of low and medium altitudes, that's all.

And now, Roy was in a trance, competing with the other party to climb, and this time, he also climbed to a height of four thousand meters, at this time, the aircraft engine has begun to perform because it can't breathe enough air, if he climbs up again, the engine should be turned off.

Roy knew he couldn't climb anymore, and at the same time he knew that if he finished climbing first, the other party would definitely catch up.

The only way is to immediately turn into a dive and get out of it!

Roy pushed the lever, and the fighter changed out of the climb and began to dive downward.

Now Roy only hopes that the other party can delay his own dive, so that he can open up the distance, and no matter how maneuvering he is, it will be easy to say.

Moreover, now there are fighters taking off from the air bases of the Soviet Union, and the number of these German fighters is not very large, and if they are interested, they should return home.

At this time, on the runway of the base, Safonov's fighter jet had already risen from the runway, the throttle was fully open, the engine was roaring, and this stubby and cute fighter was climbing at full power.

Safonov's hand kept shaking the lever, trying to put away the landing gear of the fighter, it was the first fighter in the Soviet Union that could retract the landing gear, but it was the most cheating manual operation, each pilot in the retracting landing gear, have trained the unicorn arm, the arm is quite powerful.

At the same time, his eyes were also anxiously looking at the sky, the American plane had just flown in, and it couldn't just be shot down, it was the property of the Soviets!

At this time, he also saw the two fighters that were climbing, and shouted in his heart that it was not good, it seemed that until now, no fighter could surpass the German planes in the climb.

Sure enough, when the two planes climbed synchronously, the Flying Snake fighter first flipped down, and at this time, his heart had already risen to his throat.

Whoever comes down first will be the disadvantage.

Now, it's up to the German pilots to react, after all, the backward view of any aircraft is not as wide as the forward one!

When designing the F190, at the suggestion of Ciric, the cockpit was raised to make the pilot feel as if he was riding on an airplane, with a wide field of vision, even so, the backward vision was not very sufficient, especially after the left wing with air pressure ejection, in order to protect the safety of the pilot's cervical spine, the backrest behind was very high, and the rear vision was very poor.

Pilots are never lone heroes, though.

Just after Alcatel flew down to free his young pilot, Woodrich realized that he had just made a mistake and he was almost shot down.

He didn't fall in love, he flew high into the air, and began to give instructions to his long plane, and now, when he saw the enemy plane falling, he immediately shouted on the radio: "The enemy plane has fallen, captain, catch up!" ”

Alcatel received a radio alert and immediately pushed the nose of the plane and dived down.

The two sides were only separated by two seconds, and if you look at the sky, that is, the Flying Snake fighter just dived down, and the F190 on top of it also dived, and when it dived down, the two sides were separated by less than 500 meters.

Alcatel would not give up the opportunity, and after he swooped down, he saw the tail of the opponent's plane and immediately pressed the cannon button.

"Tom tom." The 20-mm cannon was fired downward, and after only a few shots, I saw the tail of the opponent's plane, and suddenly flames appeared.

Hit!

For Alcatel, it was just an ordinary battle, and the cheers of Woodrich in the headphones made him want to laugh at his rookies.

Originally, he wanted to continue to catch up and continue to fire, but after glancing at the surrounding airspace, he saw that several I-16s were flying towards him, especially the leading one, which accelerated its climb and rushed towards him.

Although Alcatel is not afraid of these backward wooden planes, but today his mission is over, and he still needs a certain amount of fuel to ensure that he returns to the aircraft carrier, and find some weak chickens to make his pilots experience the actual combat for the first time The purpose has been achieved, and it is time to go.

One last look at the smoke-sinking fighter, Alcatel pulled the lever and began to climb upward.

In this process, the anti-aircraft artillery around the base has not fired, mainly for fear of accidental injury, and by the time Alcatel's fighter shot down the flying snake, he had climbed to a high altitude, and the anti-aircraft artillery units opened fire sporadically, without any threat to Alcatel.

At this time, Alcatel did not know that what he had just shot down was his teacher and friend in the United States.

Perhaps, this is the arrangement of fate.

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