The tactics of high and low double formations, invented by Lieutenant Colonel Novotny, made its debut in the "Great Air Battle of Newfoundland" on 8 April and achieved satisfactory results. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe Germans' 12 Me262T squadrons were divided into 36 4-plane high-low double formations, each of which specialized in one F7F. First of all, the two Me262Ts flying in front and high places launched the attack, they relied on excellent high-altitude performance and speed to fly over the target to launch a dive attack - the F7F does not have a cannon on its back, if it wants to feint, it will not be able to fly at an altitude of 10,000 meters, so it is left to be beaten, and in the blink of an eye, there are seven or eight F7Fs that were hit by the Me262T's 30mm machine gun and were full of flames, dragging black smoke straight down.

The F7F, which reacted relatively quickly, began to dive, and as a result, it hit the muzzle of the "low group" of the Me262T's high and low double formation. The F7F piloted by Thom, who had a pair of farsighted eyes, also unfortunately crashed into two Me262Ts, and was smashed into a sieve by 8 MK108 aircraft carriers with a caliber of 30mm, and then fell down as it swirled.

Captain Bush was lucky not to be targeted by the Me262T, but he witnessed one of his wingmen being hit by two lightning-like Me262Ts.

"Not an opponent at all!" Captain Bush gritted his teeth and muttered to himself.

The F7F is also a very good heavy fighter, perhaps the best in its class. But at extreme altitudes it is no match for jets, which are almost 300 km/h faster and can easily fire from a good position. Moreover, the Me262T's 4 30mm cannons are too brutal to withstand no matter how strong the F7F is.

Escape! Must escape to low and medium altitudes! Captain Bush quickly made up his mind, and while reporting the ambush by Me262 to his superiors through the radio, he drove the F7F into a rapid dive, trying to get rid of the Me262T.

All the surviving F7F pilots in the sky had almost the same idea, so the encounter over 10,000 meters quickly turned into a one-sided chase. From time to time, the Dive F7F was hit by the Me262T's cannon, or crashed with thick smoke, or turned into a fireball in the air. Screams of terror kept coming from the headphones that Captain Bush was wearing, and some of the pilots of the planes that were hit let out desperate howls -- this was not over the island of Newfoundland, but the North Atlantic Ocean as far as the eye could see, and the water temperature was still very low, and it was very difficult to save the pilots who had fallen into the water! Others were pilots who were frightened by the death of their comrades and shouted.

However, Captain Bush did not panic, he was a veteran of the war of attrition in the air over the Hawaiian Islands, having shot down and damaged 27 Japanese planes before and after, and had been shot down by the Japanese five times.

And at this moment, the real crisis has emerged. Captain Bush's eyes suddenly began to darken, and his vision became very blurred -- this was the so-called "black vision," a physiological phenomenon caused by the overload caused by the plane's acceleration and dive. If the "black vision" is further aggravated, it is very likely that it will cause fainting, and when the time comes, without the attack of the Germans' Me262, Captain Bush's plane will also crash because it is not piloted.

Bush, knowing that he might faint, did not immediately pull up the fighter plane that was diving at high speed, because he knew that the phenomenon of black vision and red vision (which is more dangerous than black vision) belonged not only to American pilots, but also to German pilots who would also encounter such trouble. Now it's up to whoever can't carry the plane first!

In addition, the F7F has excellent diving performance, the body is very strong, and it has no problem reaching speeds of 900 km/h. Although the Me262T can theoretically rush faster, there is a limit to the endurance of the fuselage and the pilot. So when competing for dive ability, the Me262T is not stronger than the F7F.

So Captain Bush made the right choice, and later achieved the expected results, the two Me262Ts chasing after him swooped to an altitude of about 7,500 meters, then pulled up the nose and flew away - in fact, these Me262Ts were ordered by Hirschman Jr. to support the Me264 group that was about to be attacked by the P-47.

At an altitude of about 7,200 meters, Captain Bush, who had almost fainted, finally pulled up his F7F, and it was not a level flight, but continued to descend at a smaller angle and at a slower speed. Then he looked back, and there was no trace of Me262 in his dark eyes, and he was relieved that he had finally escaped death!

Being ambushed by Me262 jet fighters above 10,000 meters should be the thing that all American pilots fear the most. But where did they come from? It was close to Newfoundland, and there were no German-controlled islands nearby.

Where did these jets that look like F7F come from? Could it be that it took off from an aircraft carrier of the Germans?

Captain Bush, who had not fully recovered from black vision, was dazedly pondering the origin of these damn Me262s when he didn't know whose shout rang out in his headphones: "Enemy planes! It's a Fokker plane! ”

Fokker aircraft?

The groggy Captain Bush was suddenly an agitator. As a veteran of the Pacific Theater, could he still not know the prestige of the Fokker aircraft? The Fokker Zero (the Americans also called the Japanese Zero the Fokker aircraft) was an ace model that could beat the world in the early days of the Pacific War. And on the Atlantic theater, the Fokker 636 once again recreated the Fokker myth. It is the king below 5000 meters, and at medium and high altitudes of 5000-7000 meters, the Fokker 636 is still one of the best fighters. As for above 7000 meters, there is no doubt that the Me262 jet fighter is the king!

"Captain, Fokker plane, 9 o'clock, climbing." Sergeant Halton, Captain Bush's navigator, shouted loudly.

Captain Bush looked to the left, and sure enough, he saw four Fokker 636s climbing, about 6,000 meters away.

The Fokker 636 has good climbing performance, which is not comparable to a twin-engine heavy aircraft like the F7F. As for coil grappling, even the P-51 can't deal with it, let alone the F7F? Its only weakness is that its high-altitude performance is not particularly ideal, but it is ......

Captain Bush did not know that the Me262 in the air had flown away. But even if he got the report, he didn't dare to fly too high. Those horrible jets had knocked him out of his mind.

"Captain, they're almost over our heads, they're going to dive and attack!" Bush's navigator, Sergeant Halton, shouted again.

Bush, who was still a little dizzy, knew that he could not climb like his opponent, let alone dive again, because his body had not yet recovered, and second, he would not be an opponent of the Fokker plane when he rushed to a medium and low altitude. But Bush, as an old bird, still has a way, he looked at the altimeter: 7100 meters. This is the maximum airspace that the F7F can reach -- Bush flies the F7F in the medium and high altitude version, not the medium and low altitude F7F, which is used to attack the surface fleet, so this plane can fly the fastest speed at an altitude of 7,400 meters.

In addition, both engines of the F7F are equipped with combustion supporters, which can obtain additional power for a short period of time by adding a mixture of water and methanol to the engine's cylinders. And this system of "drugging" the engine is not effective at all altitudes, the airspace of 7000-9000 meters is the altitude at which it comes into play.

Through the afterburner of the combustion device, the F7F driven by Captain Bush can achieve a top speed of nearly 760 km/h in 10 minutes, which is enough to get rid of the Fokker 636, which focuses on medium and low altitudes (the Fokker 636's top speed is not slower than that of the F7F, but the altitude of the top speed is 6000 meters, and above 7000 meters, its engine performance has decreased).

Therefore, Captain Bush immediately made the most correct choice -- to fly at an extremely fast level.

"Nick, sit tight, we're going to fly the plane!" Bush turned on the afterburner system, and the plane's engine suddenly roared loudly, and the speed of the propeller also increased sharply, producing tremendous forward momentum, and in the blink of an eye, he shook off the Fokker plane that was trying to bite its tail. Although in the process, two Fokker planes that used dive acceleration chased after each other for a while, and also fired a 20mm cannon, but in the end, because the distance was too far, they did not hurt Bush at all.

However, not all F7Fs made the right choice the first time, and not all of them were as lucky as Bush. Therefore, the Fokker 636 at an altitude of 7000 meters still achieved good results, just above 10,000 meters by the Me262 hanging a moment, the F7F group was hit again, in just ten minutes, there were seventy or eighty F7F were beaten all over the smoke, these Fokker aircraft results, even more than the previous Me262!

And more than 100 Me262s that robbed and killed the F7F fleet encountered P-47D that was preparing to attack the Me264 fleet at this time. Although the high-altitude performance of the P-47D is much stronger than that of the F7F, it is still not enough to encounter jets above 10,000 meters.

P-47D, who was originally going to act as a hunter, suddenly became a prey, and no longer had the heart to attack Me264.

At the same time, more than 300 Me264s, which were originally flying at an altitude of 7,500 meters, suddenly began to dive at an angle of 45 degrees, rushing down to a medium and low altitude below 5,000 meters.