Closer, closer, finally see the coastline! Andrei felt that he was lucky today, when the altitude dropped further, he also caught up with a stream of air, blowing from east to west, and taking advantage of the tailwind, it was more fuel-efficient.

It's back, it's finally back! From the window of the tower, holding a telescope, Kozhdub looked at the fighter plane in the distance that was entering the landing route, this guy, was he lying to himself just now? Just a ton and a half of fuel, flying hundreds of kilometers? How is this possible?

However, according to calculations, this guy who ran into the sky over the island country of Hokkaido will definitely not have too much fuel left in the fuel tank of the plane.

This mystery was quickly solved, and his partner, Colonel Ivanov, the commander of the 513 regiment, led the entire aviation regiment to attack this time and returned home, and after landing, he went straight to the tower, concerned about the situation of his reckless subordinate.

Now, standing at one of the railings outside the tower, he visually observed the difference in this MiG-25, with one engine in the tail stalled!

Is it a mechanical failure? It shouldn't be, otherwise Andrey should have reported it, then, in other cases, it can only be that this guy took the initiative to extinguish an engine to extend the range!

Recently, Andre, a young man, is a little strange, these practices are not at all different from the impression in the previous group! Ivanov frowned and thought, but this time Andrei did a really exciting job.

With one engine turned off, the control of the fighter is somewhat difficult, and it doesn't matter if you cruise at high altitude, but now you have to operate the landing, and the danger will follow.

You know, normal planes, take-off and landing phases are dangerous, not to mention shutting down an engine! However, it is easy to turn off, but it is not so easy to start in the air, and Andre can only gently push the lever, which is extremely gentle.

After several flights, Andrei has mastered the essentials, this kind of fighter because of the high-altitude performance, resulting in too large a low-altitude aerodynamic torque, the result of the formation is similar to the pilot-induced shock (PIO), the amount of control lever is too large, it will cause the fighter to maneuver in the opposite direction, and then operate in the opposite direction, which further aggravates the shake of the fighter, and finally, it has become the biggest enemy of the fly-by-wire system, and the pilot induces the shock.

The solution is also simple, just be careful!

Pushing the operating lever little by little and accurately entering the descent course, Andrei knew that he only had one chance, the fuel gauge had bottomed out, and maybe there would not even be enough fuel for the go-around.

Down, down! Finally, the fighter plane was upside down, and the main landing gear had touched the runway!

A heart relaxed, and Andrei let out a sigh of relief.

The nose continued to raise its head and glide forward for a few more seconds, and the landing gear in front of it also touched the ground, and at that moment, the roar of the tail completely disappeared.

The other engine, also stalled! The fuel is completely depleted, and this operation is really exciting!

Andrei sat in the cockpit and watched as the fighter continued to slide forward, stepping on the rudder with both feet at the same time, ready to brake the wheels.

When in the sky, stepping on a rudder alone will control the rudder surface behind, while on the ground, when you step on both feet at the same time, the hydraulic oil will be injected into the braking mechanism of the main landing gear to play the role of braking.

Now, when he stepped on both feet at the same time, he found that his feet were hard and he couldn't step on them.

Not good! The engine is off! In the era when fly-by-wire operation was not yet popular, the control of the fighter was hydraulic, and on the engine of the fighter, the hydraulic pump was driven to pressurize the operating system, otherwise, it would not work at all!

And now, the engine is turned off, there is no pressurization, and on two feet, you can't control the brakes at all!

Even the parachute at the tail is released by a hydraulic mechanism! In this way, watching his fighter plane shuttle forward like a car on the highway, Andrei knew that the situation was not good.

The runway of the base is 3,000 meters long, which is enough in normal times, but now, in the case of brake failure, this 3,000-meter runway is quite short in front of the fighters taxiing more than 200 kilometers per hour.

The speed of the fighter was decreasing, the runway was also shortening rapidly, and when Andrei saw the end of the runway in front of him, the speed of the fighter plane was at least fifty kilometers per hour.

It must be unstoppable! At the end of the runway, there is a wood, if you hit there, I am afraid that my fighter will have to be overhauled, it seems that a big punishment is that it will not be able to run away.

"Bang." At this moment, there was a sound from below, and Andre secretly screamed in his heart that it was terrible, the house leak happened to be rainy, and the engine wheel exploded!

The fighter plane suddenly deviated, and then began to jerk up and down violently, although he was tied to the seat with a seat belt, although he was wearing a helmet, Andrei still felt his head slam into something next to him, and his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.

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Where is this? When Andre woke up again, it was white everywhere, a dim light bulb hung from the ceiling, next to it was a large blue oxygen tank, which was already a little mottled in appearance, and on the other side of a yellow-painted table, there was an old green iron instrument, at this time, the wavy lines on the instrument were constantly beating.

There was some pain in the head, and the smell of disinfectant water constantly entered Andrei's nose, which, he knew, was in the hospital. Moreover, looking at the heart monitoring instrument, Andrei knew that he was still in the Soviet Union in 76.

Sitting up, pulling off a few wires on his chest, and looking at the handful of black heart guards that appeared on his chest, Andre suddenly felt a sense of helplessness in his mind.

That day's crossing was so sudden, that night, Andrei hardly slept all night, in addition to thinking about Belenko as a traitor, but more about a kind of uneasiness in his heart.

He didn't want to be here, he wanted to go back to the world he was! All this is like a dream!

In the past two days, whether it is cutting the wings and engines of the EP-3 with the MiG-25, or driving the MiG-25 around Hokkaido, the island country, the style of courage and vigor, as if he does not take his life seriously at all, in fact, it is some subconscious unwillingness.

Perhaps, at that time, he thought that he could still travel back in the violently maneuvering fighter plane?

Pinched himself hard, Andrei was sure that he was not dreaming, but actually crossed over, came to the USSR, and became a pilot of the MiG-25 defending the airspace of the USSR!