[71] Climbing

After taking off, the 15 P-51 fighters on the side of the bay formed a formation in a chaotic manner over the Zhoushan Islands, and the efficiency was not bad; when the B-26 reconnaissance planes joined in, it took forty or fifty minutes, and the planes lined up in a line and a herringbone formation, and they easily came toward Puhai like an outing.

Captain Wang Jingyuan Shenhua is full of words, full of confidence, he is an old pilot, from the Hawker three fighters to the P38 fighter to the P40, P47, zuihou to the current P51, can be described as a seniority, in his opinion, the disappearance of the three B-26 a few days ago, most of them were accidents, the B-26 he knew, many people in the Bay Air Force avoided it.

When the U.S. military was just equipped with B-26s for training, there was also a good story that "one plane drops into Tampa Bay every day". The reputation of the B-26 is so bad that when civilian personnel are given the task of flying the B-26 to a US Air Force base, they generally choose to quit their jobs to avoid flying such aircraft!

Since the notorious B-26 entered the Kuomintang Air Force, the situation has been as bad as it is in the United States, and the training accidents have continued, and Zuihou had to change it into a reconnaissance plane, install cameras and observers, and after canceling the bomb load, the load has been greatly reduced, so that this unstable center of gravity "flying bitch" can return to normal.

Therefore, in Wang Jingyuan's view, if the B-26 is targeted by ground anti-aircraft artillery, it will not hit, and the plane itself may also cause an out-of-control crash in evasion, which really does not show any progress in the anti-aircraft firepower of the supply army, in the final analysis, this "Baltimore prostitute" should not continue to be used at all.

Wang Jingyuan is very confident in his P-51 Mustang, which is known as the best fighter in World War II, and its speed and handling are first-class. THE GROUND ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIREPOWER IS A BIRD, LAO ZI LEFT THREE CIRCLES AND RIGHT THREE CIRCLES, TWISTING THE NECK AND TWISTING THE BUTT CAN TURN THE STUPID * B ON THE GROUND DIZZY, PULL TO THE HIGHEST CEILING OF MORE THAN 10,000 METERS, THE 12.7MM CALIBER ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE FOR THE ARMY, 4000 METERS OF FIRING HEIGHT IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH, THE JAPANESE 98 TYPE 20MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN IS AT MOST 6000 METERS OF FIRING HEIGHT, EVEN IF IT IS THE JAPANESE 88 TYPE 75MM FIELD ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN, IT IS ONLY 8800 METERS OF FIRE HEIGHT. Even if the army brought in all these guys captured from the Japanese, they would not be able to hurt themselves in the slightest.

After the P-51 formation was assembled, it began to climb hard, and the whole team pulled to more than 6,000 meters, and the air was pumped into the nose and cooled the nose engine before being used, and the heating input in the cabin made the P-51 pilot very comfortable, but the B-26 behind the fighter shouted and cursed, you fly so high, do you want to freeze to death and wait for me to freeze to death the bomber pilot who has no heating. However, for safety, the B-26 obediently pulled up. No one will be at risk with their own lives, and the disappearance of one plane a day before has already made the pilots of the B-26 a little frightened.

"What's that?" Wang Jingyuan muttered to himself, and as soon as he said it, he realized that something was wrong, it was broken! It's a fighter! The silver-gray bright spots in the distance also seemed to spot the P-51 formation, climbing at high speed.

"Enemy planes! It's an enemy plane! Get ready for battle! Captain Wang Jingyuan shouted loudly on the radio. There was a commotion in the P-51 formation.

Enemy? Since the surrender of the Japanese, the Kuomintang Air Force basically did not have this concept, and the Communist Party now has fighters? With the fear of the unknown, the "Mustangs" pulled up from the cruising speed and scrambled to climb high, ready for this unexpected air battle.

Wang Jingyuan has seen many planes in his life, but he has never seen a plane that climbs so fast. J-5 is really a lightweight model with powerful horsepower, the climb speed of 4500 meters per minute is really against the sky, in the eyes of the pilots of the P-51 Mustang aircraft with a climb speed of only 600 meters per minute, it is simply a monster, a beast!

In the 50s, the guiding ideology of the fighter air combat theory was the geometric air combat theory, but today, the energy maneuver theory has become the main guiding ideology of air combat and plays an important guiding role in air combat.

Geometric air combat theory, in the vernacular, is to pursue the best angle of attack, and everyone wants to go around to the opponent's six o'clock position. For this purpose, the fighters are desperately pursuing high altitude and high speed, and whoever stands high can launch an attack from a high position, and whoever is fast will have priority to occupy the best offensive position. High-altitude dives can combine kinetic energy and potential energy, which can make high speed higher, and can suppress opponents more. The so-called martial arts in the world, only fast and unbreakable, is such a thing.

The theory of energy maneuver is a summary of the air combat theory in the 60s, this theory gives up the one-sided pursuit of high-altitude high-speed, because the so-called high-altitude high-speed is to obtain air combat superiority, if it is only for the sake of fast and fast, high and high, then it is out of the original purpose, no longer to seize air combat superiority, but to compete for data superiority.

Not much to digress, in short, the theory of energy maneuver emphasizes that the pilot's understanding of the combat environment and the fighter's ability to quickly change the flight state are the elements of victory in air combat, and the speed, altitude, and turning radius that many people talk about are not the decisive factors. Familiarize yourself with and master the conversion of potential energy and kinetic energy, kinetic energy and speed, speed and altitude, height and potential energy, and try to lose less energy of the fighter when converting, that is to say, less loss of speed and altitude, or potential energy, which is the key to surviving to Zuihou in air combat.

But this energy maneuver theory is actually a combat theory when the strength of the two sides is about the same, if it is an adult beating a child, then it doesn't matter the trick, even if the child can play a Shaolin Luohan boxing, the adult horizontal and vertical is to split the head and cover the face with a Wang Ba punch can solve the problem.

The fighters of both sides began to fight to pull up after seeing the opponent from a distance, but the P-51 couldn't pull the other group of beasts despite his desperate efforts, and the opponent was already high in the blink of an eye.

Wang Jingyuan quickly counted: "12, we have a numerical advantage." ”

Next he made a decision, he turned on the radio: "Attention machines, keep climbing, prepare for battle." ”

Wang Hai of the empty group continued to lead the team to lift the plane at the highest place, and at the same time commanded the walkie-talkie in the helmet:

"All note, the enemy is all fighters, disarm the multi-altitude formation, all pull up, enter the high altitude, and prepare for air combat. The second squadron entered the airspace on my left, and the third squadron entered the airspace on my right"

A large group of twelve Jian-5 hula scattered in formation, the jet engines roared and roared, and the frenzied fighters were pushed up wildly, and the silver war eagles spread out in pairs, roaring towards the sky.