readx; Faced with too many doubts from the headquarters and the military, Bond could only reply in a down-to-earth manner:

Based on the experience of Chinese airlines, I firmly believe that such a flight can be done. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although it is possible to prove that such a flight may not be possible, my opinion is that I will never admit that it cannot be done until actual experiments prove that it is impossible!

There are still no grandiose words, but it is enough to shock the world and cry ghosts and gods!

This in itself is a miracle.

Looking around China's land border, most of the neighboring countries are "chickens and dogs", only India is like a thousand mountains and rivers far away, but as long as you open the map, it is clear at a glance - the two countries are so far apart, as if they are on the edge of the sky, in fact, they are close to each other. Obstructing the view and cutting off the passage are the ice peaks and snow-capped mountains that have been daunting to this day and stretch for thousands of miles.

At 8,848 meters above sea level, Mount Everest stands majestically between China and India as the world's highest height. The rolling hills that stretch for more than 2,000 kilometers from east to west are the famous Himalayas.

Stretching southeast, there are more than 70 peaks above 7,000 meters above sea level on this belt of ice and snow made up of steep mountains and standing peaks. These large and small, continuous icebergs and snow peaks stretch south and south, like a sharp wedge, embedded in Assam, India. And at the end of it, it almost overlaps with the Hengduan Mountains in China

The rolling and snow-capped Himalayas separate China and India like a vast ocean, and the craggy Hengduan Mountains are like a huge barrier, cutting off the routes of "AVIC".

If it is a landscape TV film, Everest and its winding Himalayas can be called the goddess of beauty who is pure and pure, arrogant and cold, contemptuous of the crowd, and sobs gracefully, but once she treats the human beings who are about to cross over her head, she seems to be transformed into a fierce witch, and she performs violent witchcraft - winds, showers, blizzards, dense fog, and strong air currents that come without warning and come in an instant.

How many Chinese and foreign mountaineering teams are in these places, when they see the approaching peak, they will be crushed by sudden strong winds, heavy snowfall, and strong air currents.

All the climates that people have not experienced in nature are all brought to the fullest here! Human beings, in the face of nature, are too insignificant.

I can't complain about the Ministry of Communications, I can't complain about Bond, and I can't complain about Wang Chenghuang, it's really helpless. I have thought about everything, and I can't find a better route than this, so I can only take this line.

Bond handed over the flight plan of the new route to Wang Chenghuang, and Wang Chenghuang reported it to the Ministry of Transportation, and before waiting for the reply of the Ministry of Transportation, this side has already begun to fly!

If you don't fly, you can't do it. The front [***] was running out of ammunition, and Chennault's P-40 fighter jets were no longer able to take off properly. The little devil's "Mitsubishi" swished over his head all the time, and the old man Chen, who had no oil bombs, was so anxious that he screamed one telegram after another urging for supplies. The Ministry of Communications has long been busy, and the person responsible for supervising the delivery of goods back to Kolkata asks every telegram: Why haven't you come to the plane yet!

Uh-huh--A flash of light!

At this very moment, surrounded by strong winds, showers, blizzards, dense fog, and strong air currents, Sharp and his C-47 drew a silver arc between the barren, snow-covered cliffs and craggy peaks!

The majestic and snow-capped roof of the world, the steep and rugged, dog-toothed Hengduan Mountains welcomed the first brave men who dared to cross them!

Sharp broke through, followed by Chen Wenkuan and Wu Shi, Liang Guangyao, Chen Wenhui, Tan Huanzai, Chen Qifa, and Chen Hongen also passed, and under the leadership of the first batch of Chinese to serve as "AVIC" pilots, Chen Guanyue, Lu Mingkui, and Huang Tianjue, who had obtained the qualification to pilot, all followed.

This is not an artificially formulated route, this is a route that the brave pilots of China Airlines have broken out with their own lives.

The propeller stirred the air to break the silence that had been inaccessible for thousands of years, and the vast snow-capped mountains and thousands of miles of ice peaks ushered in a group of warriors who regarded death as home! A longest-lasting, most difficult, and almost impossible air flight transportation in the history of mankind has slowly kicked off in the continuous, one after another, vast ice peaks and snow-capped mountains

Stretching across the Himalayas to the northeastern Indian state of Punjab, Tingjiang Airport sits at the foot of snow-capped mountains. The plane took off from Tingjiang to join the route and went diagonally to the southeast. If nothing else, everything goes well, you can fly to Kunming in about three and a half hours, a distance of 820 kilometers.

It's easy to say, and it doesn't seem to be difficult, but when I asked the old people who flew this route, they all said in unison: in my memory, I rarely had the impression that it took only three and a half hours to fly to Kunming easily.

This route of more than 800 kilometers is known as the "straight line", which is the shortest compared to the later "northern route", but it must pass through Myitkyina. Because Myitkyina is a checkpoint on the route, the captain must confirm it on the chart before he can align the plane with the Kunming course. The reason why the Burmese defeat made the chairman of the committee furious and said that he was so desperate to capture Myitkyina was because this passage was really a top priority, both on the ground and in the air.

Whoever can get Myitkyina will get the final victory.

Everyone knows what everyone understands.

Stilwell and his allies just failed to hold Myitkyina, which caused the "AVIC" and the US 10th Air Force and later the Allied Indo-Chinese Wing to suffer a lot. Ever since Myitkyina was occupied by the Japanese army, they avoided it a little further away from Myitkyina, but basically followed this line. Because walking here, it is relatively close to a straight line, and you don't have to completely cut in from the Himalayas, you only need to pass one side of the tail of its southern foothills, which saves time. They don't know about the impatient company consultant Arthur. In his desperate letter to the Chinese Foreign Minister, Young's advisers referred to the route of the upcoming flight as the undulating hump back, and coincidentally, the pilots also referred to the route as the hump (hump route). Not only are there mountains and peaks below, but the flight route must also be ups and downs, with climbing mountains and drilling valleys for a while. The camel is only two peaks on its back, and there are countless along the way.

I still love to be "around" since I was a child. Using Myitkyina as a checkpoint, the "road" will be a little easier, and no one wants to lose their lives in that iceberg and snowy world where the biting wind blows day and night! If you pass by the little devil, you can avoid the Himalayas, and you can fly over a Hengduan mountain that is also snow-capped, steep, and full of valleys.

It's not easy to walk in a straight line.

After taking off from Tingjiang, the plane immediately had to climb to an altitude of 15,000 feet. It's too difficult for a fully loaded C-47 powered by only two engines! But you can't climb it, the right side of the route is close to 4000 meters of Bupabum Mountain, a little negligence is a big trouble. When I entered Myanmar, I was greeted by two mountains of nearly 4,000 meters on the west side of the Nmeikai River, the names of which I still don't know. After about an hour of flight, you will be over the Hengduan Mountains in China. What Gaoligong Mountain, Nu Mountain, Xuegong Mountain, Biluo Snow Mountain, Fugong Mountain, Lishadi, Wabumu, Yuandima, Gongshan are between the Lancang River and the Jinsha River, from south to north, and they are also high peaks. For example, the southeast of Yunlong, the northeast of Yunlong, Eryuan, Walnut Tree, Lanping South, the northwest of Jianchuan, Yuping Mountain, the northeast of Ramaro, and the altitude of Dali Malone Peak are mostly between 4000-6000 meters, and the C-47 at that time can only fly 3500-4000 meters, and the maximum is only 5000 meters, which is already close to its limit.

Almost all of them are drilled in and out of ravines

But there is also the problem that no matter how you fly, it is in the troposphere. Convection, convection, as the name suggests, wind, frost, rain, and snow all happen in this, flying high, the plane freezes, flying at high altitude, the plane is afraid of this, once it freezes, the aerodynamic shape of the plane will change, falling down like a stone, flying low, and hitting the mountain, it is so contradictory.

But that is just "going over the mountains and mountains", but the difficulties that are full of dangers are one after another, closely interlocked.

Climate, climate was the enemy of flight at that time. The old man went on to say that there are two climates, the rainy season and the winter. This may sound awkward, but for flying at high altitudes, this is the concept, and it is perfectly normal.

The rainy season begins in May and ends in October and November. During this period, during the whole flight and at all altitudes, there was not a single time when I did not go in and out of the rain, either here or there, anyway, it was like entering a water curtain hole.

Continuous light rain, sudden showers, squalling winds.

In the pouring rain, the pilot must fly as an instrument throughout the whole process, otherwise he will not be able to maintain the course at all! As long as it deviates slightly, it will hit the cliffs on both sides.

Even so, everyone still loves the rainstorm season, why? The airflow is relatively stable during the rainy season, and the turbulence during the flight is not so severe

In the pouring rain, every time we fly, the most worrying thing is that we are afraid that the rain will seep into the fuel tank, causing the engine to stop, this kind of thing has happened, a brave pilot of the "China Aviation Corporation" is on the way when the rain seeps into the fuel tank, causing an engine to stop, he uses an engine to fly, and insists on going to the Tingjiang River. Fortunately, it was from Kunming, and fortunately, the plane had less load, and if it flew the other way around, the result would be difficult to predict. If both engines stop, it's over. From Tingjiang to Kunming, there is hardly a flat place in the whole process, and the forced landing means the death of man and machine!

Parachuting? In addition to the icebergs and snow peaks under your feet, there is a primeval forest, and if you don't freeze to death, the beast will eat you!

When the sound of rain is not heard in the air, the raindrops of beans are not crackling on the windshield of the C-47, and the wipers do not have to "squeak" and twist desperately, all this is invisible, there is no water, and it is easy to look forward to the damn rainy season, and winter is here again.

People on the ground call this the "dry season". The "dry season" is our "winter". Compared with the "rainy season", the weather is sunny, except for the dense fog on the ground during takeoff, but once in the air, at an altitude of 3500-4500 or higher, all encountered are strong westerly winds.

How intense? If the speed exceeds 100 miles per hour, it is about 150 kilometers when converted into kilometers, and it is a typhoon on the ground. The C-47 also has a cruising speed of about 270, which is only more than 100 kilometers faster than the wind. Fly downwind, Tingjiang to Kunming, no accident, more than 2 hours to arrive, and from Kunming to Tingjiang, it takes more than 5 hours, is this concept! Two American children of the 10th Air Force flew more than seven hours from Kunming to Tingjiang. Flying one meter and half a meter back, the plane almost did not move, it was consumed in the air for a whole day, and it was crawling inch by inch, and after coming down, the base did not believe that they could come back alive, and they all thought that they must not know where to fall.

Before taking off this season, the amount of fuel must be considered.

When encountering a strong crosswind, the captain has to make the plane do 15 to 25 degrees of deflection correction while flying to offset the strong wind, such a large correction of the course is extremely rare in flight, but it must be done, otherwise, it may really blow you to Mount Everest! The trouble is that at this wind speed, the direction finder often fails, and the consequences, you think. Accompanied by strong crosswinds, there are more intense rising and descending airflows, and the magnitude of the rise and fall is jaw-dropping.

On March 13, 1943, the two planes, one in front of the other, were only ten minutes apart, and when they flew over the first ridge, they reported to the ground that the planes encountered a strong updraft, and within one minute, the C-47 rose 8,000 feet uncontrollably, and then fell rapidly, possibly 4,000-5,000 feet. We left late, but we ended up arriving early. After they landed in Kunming, the three crew members were soaked, and they were all [***], as if they had just been fished out of the water.

8,000 feet a minute, what does that look like? The latest fighter jets may be faster than that, but they are freighters. C-47 is not a sealed cabin, at that altitude, there is not even oxygen, people can't stand it. There is also serious icing, there is no navigation station, not to mention, I really don't know how it came back then!

Between the snowy peaks of the icebergs, a propeller plane roared hoarsely, trying to break out of the world surrounded by ice and snow

And at this time, the most anxious was Chennault.

He's been out of cooking for a long time!

Chennault and his mercenaries were destined for China, but the first stop they arrived across the ocean was Burma. At that time, although there was no war in the vast Pacific Ocean, the whole of China was in the midst of a raging war, and there was no quiet place in the "national control area" where aircraft could be assembled and trained.

Chennault struggled to secure an airfield in Taungoo, Burma, with the consent of the British. In order to assemble these P-40 fighters, the Nationalist Axe specially relocated the Central Aircraft Factory to Lei Yun on the Sino-Burmese border.

For a long time, Chairman Chiang and the Ministry of National Defense, including Chennault himself, could not figure out whether the British were really interested in the war against the invaders in China, whether they were to stand by and watch or gloat! Just as he agreed to his own proposal to close the Burma Road but open the Kai Tak Airport, and later to retreat on his own as soon as he came into contact with the fighting, the British authorities, as colonists, agreed that Chennault and his crew could stop in Taungoo, but could not fly over it for training.

In fact, until the little devils invaded Burma, the scheming British always wanted to avoid this war that had nothing to do with them, and they didn't want to offend either side!

It took a long time and twists and turns, and in the end, even Mao Bangchu, then deputy director of the Aviation Commission, came forward, and the British reluctantly agreed. Unfortunately, a lot of time has passed. The prerequisite for victory in air combat was intensive training, and Chennault hurriedly asked his team members to train, but as soon as the training began, an accident occurred - 3 planes crashed.

Die before you get out of school! If spare parts were updated on time, the tragedy would not have occurred at all.

Lack of jet fuel.

Every drop of high-octane gasoline for aircraft engines is brought in from the continental United States, 12,000 kilometers away. The slogan "a drop of gasoline, a drop of blood" was shouted at this time.

Every drop is as precious as blood! To what extent.

Also, not to mention the large piles of weapons and ammunition, medical supplies, and food, it is difficult to guarantee that the P-40 tail tires, circuit switches, electronic tubes, machine gun solenoid valves, oxygen cylinders, carburetors, spark plugs, and thousands of small parts of the battery will not crash the plane?

The basic supplies can't keep up, and they still have to train and fight, but in addition to the "miracle" that the National Political Axe, the Aviation Commission, and the Chinese Air Force still expect them to appear, the Department of Defense really doesn't take this group of people seriously in the United States, and seems to have forgotten about them. When the President of the United States, Chairman Chiang, Soong Ziwen, Bond, Wang Chenghuang, the Chinese National Defense Supply Bureau, the National Political Axe, the Ministry of Communications, and the "AVIC" Company were still discussing "new routes" and making various plans for the final "passage", on December 6, 1942, the old man had already led his "stragglers" to beat the little devils severely.

In the first battle, 6 little devil "zero" planes were shot down, and the little devils who fell into the desert all returned to the base, and they have not yet tasted back: in the past, as soon as the Chinese knew that we were coming out, they would have run far away long ago, and they couldn't see it if they wanted to, so what happened today?

In fact, the little devils who fought in today's battle did not "see".

Chennault is indeed very powerful, knowing that his P-40 surname can not be used, he is not an opponent of the "Zero" aircraft, he uses the trick of "air guerrillas", waiting in the air in concealment, after the little devil enters the ambush circle, he rushes down from a high altitude, and then hits and runs!

(To be continued)