The next day, Nie Renfeng took Luo Yunchong to the imperial capital, Tan Renhao didn't ask, he didn't even go to see off the principal and Luo Yunchong, the main reason was that he didn't want to be involved, if the principal had any nerves and wanted Tan Renhao to go to the capital with him, then he couldn't cry.

In the next few days, Tan Renhao occasionally went back to Gan Yongxing to brag and chat, but most of the time he stayed at home, accompanied his son, who had already begun to learn dumb language, played chess with his father, accompanied his mother to the city to visit the market, and played a few games of badminton with his sister. The most important thing is that Tan Renhao finally found time to make up all the letters he had not written to his wife, and he also cleverly dropped different dates, but he forgot a little, and the postmark on the envelope would not give him time back. Of course, most of the time, Tan Renhao still had to go to the Navy Headquarters on time to report, and then find a reason to sneak out, as for what he was going to do, I am afraid that no one would dare to ask except Gan Yongxing.

On this day, Tan Renhao went to the Navy Headquarters on time to report, after reading the newspaper and drinking two teas, he decided to slip away, his son was already learning to shout "Dad", even if he was allowed to continue to stay in the office, it was also in Cao Ying's heart in Han, and that was to make him torture.

"Remember to sign for me in the afternoon, don't forget!"

"No problem, I remember it every day!" Du Xing also knew what Tan Renhao was going to do, and in order to help Tan Renhao sign his autograph when he got off work in the afternoon, he also imitated Tan Renhao's notes many times to try not to let people see the problem.

"Why, want to slip away so early today?"

Hearing this voice, Tan Renhao knew that trouble was coming. He felt a little strange, Gan Yongxing usually handled official documents in the morning, and if Tan Renhao was still at the headquarters in the afternoon, he would come to Tan Renhao to chat for a while. I would hardly come to Tan Renhao early in the morning.

Duchenne stuck out his tongue, he had already seen the chief of staff standing behind Tan Renhao.

"Yes, that's it, you go deal with it first!" Tan Renhao gave Du Xing a look, and then turned around. "Chief of Staff, the sun came out of the west today, and you got the matter done so quickly?"

"You kid have to pretend. Pretend to be presentable, too. Gan Yongxing walked over with a smile, "Don't think that Du Xing can imitate your signature after learning it a few times, the people in the office have reacted to me many times." You're going home, no one is stopping you, there's no need to ask Duchenne to sign for you, right? ”

Tan Renhao laughed, and he felt his face turn red. If it gets out, it's going to be a big joke.

"You should also be mature, your brain is sometimes very smart, and sometimes you can only drill the horns, and you are not a person within the establishment of the Navy Command. Do I need a signature? Gan Yongxing shook his head, "I said hello to the people in the office, you don't need to sign in the future, you can come if you want, and no one cares about you when you sleep." Of course, this is only when the principal is away, and when the principal comes back, you still have to behave a little better, you know? ”

"Thank you, Chief of Staff, can I go?"

"Why are you in such a hurry? Are you waiting for Xiaobao to call you 'Dad'? ”

……

Tan Renhao looked at Gan Yongxing in surprise. Could it be that Gan Yongxing also arranged a few eyeliners around his house, otherwise how would Gan Yongxing know what Renhao was doing at home?

"It's not so fast, Xiaobao is not old enough to speak, don't think you can shout loudly. You're going to call 'Daddy,' my boy, who hasn't called me by the time he's two and a half years old!" Gan Yongxing sighed, "There's nothing important today, right?" ”

"This ...... I don't think so, but I don't think there's anything to do to stay in the headquarters, so I ......"

"That's good, you pack up, and I'll call you later."

"What?" Tan Renhao didn't know what the chief of staff was going to ask him to do, and every time he was asked by the chief of staff to do something. He had a bad premonition.

"Follow me to the airport, the first 'peregrine falcons' have arrived. Listening to our test pilots, the performance is quite good, much better than all our previous fighters, and even all the fighters of the Army Airlines, let's go and open our eyes first. ”

"Alright, I'll be on my way right away!" At this time, Tan Renhao was also interested, and he didn't expect that the "Peregrine Falcon" would go offline so soon.

"Then you wait outside for me first, Xiao Zhang is going to drive, and I'll be out in ten minutes."

After Gan Yongxing left through the side door, Tan Renhao immediately packed up his things briefly, and when he came to the outside of the headquarters building, he saw that Gan Yongxing's adjutant had already listened to the car next to the stairs. Tan Renhao was not in a hurry to get in the car, and after he chatted with Xiao Zhang for a few words, Gan Yongxing also rushed out. The sedan drove all the way to the airport, and Tan Renhao also wanted to see this legendary "extreme" fighter.

After winning the Navy's 27-year contract of intent to purchase, Hafei manufactured the first batch of pre-production "Peregrine Falcon" fighters in early December, and immediately launched factory test flights. In order to speed up the test flight, Hafei organized hundreds of engineers, more than 30 pre-production fighters all participated in the test flight work, the main purpose of this stage of the test flight is to find the main defects in the design, and collect basic flight data, so that the designer can timely modify the defects exposed in the test flight, and according to the basic performance of the exposed problems, the fighter is optimized to design, as far as possible to improve the performance of the fighter. In the past, this stage of the test flight work may take several years, or as short as a few months, but during the war, by increasing the number of test aircraft, the density of test flights, and increasing the number of engineers, the time can be shortened to two or three months, or even dozens of days.

By the end of December, several major flight test work was completed, and engineers quickly came up with modifications, and then Hafei produced the first official model of the "Peregrine Falcon". Half of this batch of fighters will be provided to the Navy for acceptance test flights, and the rest will generally continue to participate in factory test flights to accumulate data for future improvements. The planes were delivered to Zhoushan Airport the day before, along with more than 20 engineers from Hafei and more than 50 experienced technical workers. When the planes arrived, they were disassembled, and it took less than a day for the workers to assemble several fighters and provide them to the Navy's ground test units.

Before arriving at the airport, two fighter jets of a novel shape flew over the head of the sedan. The height is very low, but the speed is not very fast.

"Hurry up, it seems that those test pilots can't wait!" Gan Yongxing also seemed a little excited, which made Tan Renhao very strange, as far as he knew, Gan Yongxing used to be a staunch "big ship and giant cannon" activist.

The sedan began to accelerate, how can it be compared. are much slower than airplanes. Ten minutes later, the car drove directly into the airport and stopped next to several fighter jets with their propellers still spinning. When Tan Renhao and Gan Yongxing got out of the car, the group of workers and engineers who were busy next to the fighter just glanced at them, as if they didn't notice the two, and continued to bury their heads in work.

"Second Lieutenant, who is in charge of you here?"

When the second lieutenant officer turned around. only to find out that it was Gan Yongxing who came. "Report to the Chief of Staff, our commander is General Luo Jinming."

"Luo Jinming?" Tan Renhao didn't expect that it was Luo Jinming who came to test the flight this time!

"Go and call him." Gan Yongxing didn't talk much to the second lieutenant officer, he called Tan Renhao aside, "You should know Luo Jinming, right?" ”

"It's not just awareness. It's still familiar. When I was a staff officer in the 1st Task Force, he was the wing commander of the aviation unit, and later he went to the reserve force, mainly responsible for the training of recruits. ”

"The test pilots are the best pilots, but I haven't heard that Luo Jinming has been transferred to the test flight unit, probably because he came here temporarily to make a cameo."

Tan Renhao also felt so, because he didn't know that Luo Jinming was going to do test flight work, as far as he knew, Luo Jinming had been in the reserve force. Moreover, he is now the commander of the naval aviation training unit, and many pilots who have retired from the First Task Force have gone to Luo Jinming, such as Zhang Zhitao, who is now one of the best instructors under Luo Jinming.

Soon, Luo Jinming, who was wearing a bomber jacket but no flight cap, ran over. He had seen Gan Yongxing and Tan Renhao from afar, so when he ran closer, he did not show a surprised look, but very politely saluted Gan Yongxing first, and then nodded to Tan Renhao.

"Luo Jinming, you kid is doing well, why haven't I heard that you are now in charge of test flights?"

"Chief of Staff, I'm just here to see." Luo Jinming laughed, and walked towards the fighters with Gan Yongxing and Tan Renhao. "Some of the second batch of 'peregrine falcons' will be supplied to the teaching troops. I brought a group of instructor pilots over and asked them to familiarize themselves with the performance characteristics of these fighters. This will make it much quicker to get started in the future. ”

"Yes, what about your people?"

"They all flew up." Luo Jinchao pointed at the few fighters in the sky that were almost invisible, "At the beginning, the test flight team finished flying the most dangerous ultra-low-altitude project, and now we are testing the ultimate speed of the fighter, hoping that Hafei is not bragging, and can meet the technical indicators they provide." ”

Tan Renhao looked up at the sky, the sky was very clear, this was a rare good weather in winter. The fighters flew so high that they were almost just a small black dot. This made Tan Renhao think that if something went wrong, the pilot should have enough time to parachute. But then he thought that the instructors under Luo Jinming were all veterans who had flown thousands of hours, and they were basically ace pilots, so they shouldn't have any accidents, right?

In fact, if you want to see a fighter jet at an altitude of several kilometers clearly, even if you can see it, you can't see it clearly, and it doesn't make much sense. Tan Renhao didn't raise his binoculars and look up at the sky like Gan Yongxing, his eyes focused on the three fighter planes that were being overhauled next to him.

It is not the same as the previous "Sparrowhawk", "Vulture", "Falcon", and even the "Golden Eagle" that is being used now. The Peregrine Falcon does not use an inverted gull-shaped wing with relatively high air resistance, but a smooth, straight lower wing. Perhaps because of the location of the test aircraft, the fuselage of the fighter did not have many protruding parts, it was very smooth, and it was not even painted, revealing a silvery-white aluminum skin. The fairing of an aircraft engine is carefully designed with a certain taper, but not large, which minimizes air resistance. In addition, the cockpit uses a monolithic bubble cockpit with no frame on the glass cover, and judging by the reflection on the edges, it should be reinforced bulletproof glass. The pilot's performance is relatively high, which provides the pilot with a good view, and in order to strengthen the pilot's survivability, the cockpit is forged from high-strength alloy steel, which is also the only large steel component except for the aircraft's main landing gear. Four standard 20 mm guns were still set up close to the wing break. Tan Renhao also found that the "Peregrine Falcon" still uses folding wings, but the wings are folded upwards instead of rotating backwards like the "Golden Eagle", which can effectively reduce the space occupied by the aircraft when parked on the aircraft carrier. In addition, there is a main pylons under the belly of the aircraft, and there are 5 pylons under the wings, but now there are only a few connectors here, and the pylons have not yet been installed. The horizontal tail of the aircraft is fully moving, and the vertical tail is slightly larger than the area of the "Golden Eagle", and the difference in height should not be very large.

Finally, Tan Renhao noticed a feature of the "Peregrine Falcon", which uses a smooth arc transition at the junction between the wing and the fuselage, rather than directly inserting the wing into the fuselage like other aircraft. After thinking for a while, Tan Renhao thought that the purpose of this design must be to reduce the induction resistance.

The engineers were busy inspecting the plane, and Tan Renhao didn't bother them. After he observed the detailed characteristics of the "Peregrine Falcon", the three "Peregrine Falcons" that were conducting speed tests also appeared at the end of the runway, lined up in a triangular formation, slowly lowering the altitude and preparing for landing. To Tan Renhao's surprise, the low-speed version of the Peregrine Falcon is not bad, which should be related to the newly designed ailerons, as well as the extra lift generated by the flaps. And the "Peregrine Falcon" also glides over a fairly short distance when landing, only it is still much longer than the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

The three pilots jumped out of the plane, and they all gave Luo Yunchong a thumbs up, apparently quite satisfied with the performance of the "Peregrine Falcon". Tan Renhao and Gan Yongxing glanced at each other, both of them laughed, it seems that Hafei's engineers really didn't brag, they made the best fighter for the Imperial Navy!