"Call Takali, call Takali, it's 29-5! Call Takali, call Takali, here is 29-5...... I'm located southwest of Comino Island, with a damaged tail and an enemy aircraft behind me, can I provide support? ”

Pavarini tried to contact Takali Air Base by radio, if they are ready for combat and have fighters in the air to meet them, then they can continue to drag the "tail" forward, because with the technical conditions and tactical level of both sides, two G55 "Centaur" or C25 "Hound Dog" will definitely be more than enough to deal with one R-44T, if it is a G5 or C-2, 3-4 will be enough to drive the enemy aircraft away!

After two attempts in quick succession, but still receiving no response, Pavarini couldn't help but worry about the fate of Katari Air Base and his partner Lieutenant Garopa. After a moment's thought, he decided to fly farther away towards Sicily. At the current time, it normally takes six minutes to reach a military airfield in Sicily, and it would be bad if it was attacked by a trailing person on the way.

When turning, the tactile sensation of the flight pedals is not abnormal, but the response of the fighter plane is much slower. Seeing that the enemy plane following behind him still did not attack, Pavarini felt more and more that he was a mouse being played by a cat, but in this situation, he could only suppress the anger in his heart and concentrate on waiting for this Italianate fighter that could strike at any time...... Since the First World War, Italy's aviation industry has always had a place in the international aviation field, 944 G55 test flight success, immediately with brilliant data among the top piston fighters, and into the Italian Air Force service, their performance in various training exercises does live up to expectations, but there are also high maintenance requirements, difficult to adapt to the heat and cold areas of the problem, and the reliability and stability of the airframe has never been tested in actual combat. Based on these points, they are not enough to truly compete with the top piston fighters in Germany and Ireland, let alone the jet fighters that were born at the same time and have the advantage of generational differences.

After adjusting the course easily, the captain of the Italian Air Force suddenly caught a glimpse of the enemy plane in the rearview mirror swooping towards him, this is the rhythm to end the game and collect the results?

Pavarini did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly increased the power output and adjusted the air combat flaps to make the fighter re-enter the angle and dive. Perhaps it was too hasty, or perhaps the damaged tail was overwhelmed, and the "Centaur" did not fly as the pilot intended after entering the dive state, and its nose fell like a lead block, so that the depression angle became larger and larger. Pavarini had to hold the joystick with one hand and open the flap angle to the maximum with the other, but this move had little effect, the reading on the gauge quickly passed 7, the fuselage was shaking terribly, and the only thing he could do now was to keep the plane as balanced as possible. At this time, once the plane falls into a spiral, not only can it not change the result of the inverted onion falling, but even the opportunity to parachute to escape may be lost!

4m, 3m, 2m...... The flight altitude of the fighter plane dropped sharply, and just as Captain Pavarini was about to give up, the horizon in his line of sight began to move upward, which meant that the nose of the plane began to rise, the angle of descent of the fuselage began to decrease, and the "Centaur" gradually got rid of the critical state of tending to disintegrate, and slowly lowered from an astonishing 75 kilometers.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and Captain Pavarini's heart was immediately "tugged" by the scene in the rearview mirror: the enemy plane was still closely following his buttocks, and the distance between the two planes was less than a kilometer, that is, his landline plane had dropped 3 meters close to the limit that the body could accept, and still failed to shake off the enemy plane. At the current distance, the opponent can use the machine gun to strike a fatal blow at any time!

Captain Pavarini was unwilling to accept his fate but was unable to get out of trouble, but at this time, a noisy call came from the headset:

"Captain Pavarini, Garopa calls! Captain Pavarini, Gallopa calls! ”

Hearing this voice, Pavarini was surprised and delighted: "Hernan, where are you?" How's it going? ”

The other party shouted, "Captain, is that you?" Please be louder, I can't hear clearly! It seems that radio communications throughout southern Italy were jammed by the Irish! ”

"What the hell!" Pavarini roared, "Hernan! I'm Pavarini! I was north of Comino Island, my tail was damaged, the plane was out of control, and there was an enemy plane right behind me, and it was bad! I could be shot down at any moment! ”

"What...... Are you north of Comino? I'm also ...... Flying to Sicily...... Takali Airport ...... Air strikes by enemy aircraft...... Can't take off and land......"

Through the irritating cacophony, Pavarini struggled to make out his partner's words. Takali airbase was also destroyed? What desperate news! He thought to himself that if the airport in Sicily had not been attacked, Lieutenant Garopa would have had to fly to the south of the Italian peninsula, and that if there had been no oil spill, the fuel would have been sufficient......

Just as the captain of the Italian Air Force was distracted by this, the sound of a crackling cannon came from the R-44T in the back. The trajectory of an ordinary 2mm cannon shell is difficult to discern with the naked eye, and it is customary to load a tracer bullet every few times to see the light points flying in the rearview mirror, and Pavarini's whole body trembled, and his strong intuition drove him to pull the ejection button.

At the moment when he was thrown out of the cabin with gunpowder, the machine shells fired by the enemy plane tore the metal skin of the "Centaur", broke its fuel tank, ignited the fuel inside, and the second half of the fighter plane was wrapped in flames in a blink of an eye, and the body could no longer maintain balance, like a kite with a broken string, and immediately fell to the sea in an irregular spiral, and within a few seconds, it exploded in mid-air, and the remaining body instantly turned into countless pieces!

The moment the parachute opened, Pavarini's tangled mood suddenly calmed down. He hung silently under the parachute, letting his body sway with the parachute rope, and the blue-gray painted carrier-based fighter easily broke away from the high-angle dive. I saw it fly near Pavarini, and then fly east without looking back.

Seeing this, Pavarini let out a long sigh. The pilots of the new United Kingdom Navy were as temperamental as the Germans, and they never killed enemy pilots who parachuted out, just as knights in old times did not bother to slash escapees from behind. This is not a form of respect, but a contempt for the opponent by the arrogant.

The despised captain of the Italian Air Force gradually approached the surface with his parachute, although he was not a naval pilot, but because he was stationed on an island like Malta, his carry-on equipment included a simple life jacket that allowed him to float on the surface for a long time, as long as he did not get caught in the parachute rope when he fell into the water, it was not too difficult to wait for rescue or swim back to Malta by himself.

After falling overboard, Pavarini calmly unbuckled his parachute bag, freed himself from the entanglement of parachute lines and nylon fabric, and floated on the surface of the sea in a backstroke position. After a while, there was a roar of engines in the sky, and he followed the prestige, and soon saw two fighters with dark green paint flying from west to east, it seemed that they might be the fighters who survived the attack at Takali Airport......

Pavarini's idea was good, but he ignored the harsh reality that his opponents were far ahead in radar technology and relied on their economic and industrial strength to equip every carrier-based fighter with expensive and sophisticated airborne radars. In contrast, most Italian pilots didn't know what the airborne radar looked like, so their tactical thinking naturally stayed in the visual air combat mode, and the other side had already entered the era of line-of-sight air combat. The two dark green painted fighters had not yet flown far, and suddenly swooped down from a high altitude two blue-gray painted fighters, their swift and precise attacks were like eagles pounced on rabbits, and the two Italian fighters only had the strength to dodge in a hurry, and had no power to parry and fight back. In less than three minutes, two new United Kingdom Navy carrier-based fighters shot down the two Italian Air Force fighters with clean lines.

Pavarini, who was floating on the sea, saw it really and was dumbfounded. Before experiencing this scene himself, he had never thought that there was such a big gap between the aviation forces of the two countries, and just a few hours ago, he still felt that the new United Kingdom and Austria-Hungary should not be afraid to join forces, because the declining Austria-Hungary only has two or three hundred first-class fighters that can compete with the G55 and C25, and although the equipment level of the new United Kingdom is good, the overall size of the aviation force is less than two-fifths of that of Italy, and now it seems that this is not the case at all!

While Italian Air Force Captain Pavarini was calmly contemplating the overall situation of the war in the cool waters, Malta's three major military airfields were all attacked by air raids, among which Halfar Air Base and Takali Air Base both suffered near-devastating blows, and only Valletta Airport, the largest and last to be attacked, still retained some combat effectiveness.

Valletta Airport was used as a military base during the British rule, and was later developed and reinforced by the Germans and Italians to become the most well-equipped air base in the entire Mediterranean. The main ammunition depot and fuel depot were carved out of the hard limestone and even equipped with water pumping and extinguishing devices used on warships, designed to withstand the bombardment of battleship guns and heavy aerial bombs, especially after the dive bomber technology matured, and Italian engineers added a thick layer of concrete above these important facilities to ensure their "absolute safety".