Chapter Twenty-Seven: Engines to be Backed Up
"Report." Outside the office of the commander of the Sokolovka base, a voice was heard.
"Come in." Kozhdub shouted, and when he heard the voice, he knew it was Belenko.
"Belenko, what's the matter?" Kozhdub asked Belenko.
"Report to the commander, I would like to ask when my No. 31 fighter will be able to be repaired." Belenko asked Kozhdub.
"Belenko, your engine has reached the overhaul period, it has been disassembled and sent to the overhaul plant in Vladivostok." Kozhdub said.
Adhering to the Soviet Union's consistent practice of five major and three rough, the R-15 engine of the MiG-25 only has a flight life of more than 100 hours, and after reaching the flight life, it needs to be overhauled, and the Sokolovka base cannot complete the overhaul, so it is sent to a specially established overhaul plant in Vladivostok, which is responsible for repairing the engines of the MiG-23 of the Air Force and the MiG-25 of the Air Defense Force.
"But it's been more than a week now." Belenko said: "It stands to reason that my engine should have been sent back. ”
"Vladivostok has to ask this." Kozhdub said: "Belenko, what happened to you today? ”
"Commander, we still have backup engines in our warehouse, please install backup engines on my fighters!" Belenko said.
Thinking of Anne's tears like pear blossoms before the separation, Belenko was anxious, he couldn't wait to fly the fighter plane to the opposite island country and give the MiG-25 to the West, which would be a heroic act, which would make the entire Western world accept him, and Anne's parents would accept him!
After going to the island country, he found the American intelligence agencies and asked them to rescue Anne's father and Anne from East Germany and send them to the free world in the West!
Over the past few years, Belenko has been very helpless about these bad things in the Soviet Union, and he has long been dissatisfied. At the flight academy, Belenko spent a few years in a daze, and finally after being accused of mental illness by the academy leaders at the time, Belenko finally got his wish and came to the front-line flight unit, piloting the most advanced MiG-25 fighter plane in the Soviet Union to defend the motherland.
But what did he see? It's just as dirty here as the flight academy! The commander of the base, Kozhdub, this guy is the best at using power for personal gain and seeking benefits for himself, and the logistics director is a relative of Kozhdub! Just coming from the hangar, Belenko found out that his engine, which had just been dismantled and had not yet been sent for overhaul! Now when there is a war with the Americans at any time, these guys are still hanging around all day long, anyway, with the protection of the base commander, they have nothing to do!
When Belenko's wife Lyudmila left him with his son, Belenko had no nostalgia for this place, and in his heart, the seeds of hatred had already begun to sprout slowly, and he hated the world here!
The entire flying regiment did not get along with him, and when they heard that he had been diagnosed with mental illness in his original unit, the other pilots of the 513th regiment looked at him with strange eyes, and they never drank with him.
Except for Andrey.
Thinking of this young man, Belenko still felt a little sorry, Andrei is a good young man, but it's a pity that if you stay in this filthy army, you can only be polluted, so it's better to take him with you.
This thought just flashed for a moment, Belenko didn't continue to think about it, his action this time was for Anne, even if he failed to act, he couldn't affect Anne!
"The number of backup engines is limited, and it is necessary to reserve the fighters of the excellent pilots in the base." Kozhdub said: "Belenko, as a soldier, you must know how to obey orders. ”
Reserved for the fighter of the excellent pilot! Hearing this, Belenko felt a surge of blood, he finally couldn't control his emotions, just like in the original army, Belenko began to fight back.
"To good pilots? Since I changed to flying the MiG-25, I have never had a flight accident, and I have carried out thirteen interception missions before and after, all of which have been successfully completed. Belenko said: "Commander, there are some things I didn't want to mention, but if you are so partial, it will eventually lead to a big accident!" Don't think I don't know, my engine was missed and not sent for overhaul, and don't think I don't know how Andrey's fighter entered a stall tailspin during flight training last time, it's not that Andrey's operation is faulty, but because during the last maintenance, when the fighter's hydraulic oil system was replaced, welding slag fell into it, which caused the rudder surface to jam during the control! It was Andrei's luck that was good enough, and when the hydraulic oil was flowing in reverse, he flushed the welding slag back to the oil storage tank, and Andrei was driving this fighter with a hidden danger of failure to intercept in the air, so the operation was wrong, and it would crash into the EP-3! It is precisely because of this that when the reward of the military region arrives, you will hurriedly hand over the latest fighter to Andrey, and scrap Andrei's original fighter, just for fear that the hidden danger of the accident will be exposed, which will lead to a large number of people going to military court, right? ”
Belenko said this in a hurry, in fact, it was a coincidence, when passing by the hangar that night, he heard the ground staff who was also secretly drinking industrial alcohol and water. The slightest negligence in their work will hurt the pilot.
Andrei really thinks that the new fighter is a compliment to him? There is actually a reason why Kozhdub scrapped that plane in such a hurry! If the cause of this accident is discovered by the superiors, Kozhidub will also be in trouble!
Hearing these words, Kozhdub's face was cloudy, he looked at Belenko, and said, "Belenko, what do you want to do?" ”
"I just want to give my fighter plane a backup engine, I haven't flown for more than a week, you know, for pilots, flying is their life!" Belenko said.
"Okay, since that's the case, then I'll keep the ground guys busy, and within three days, I can make No. 032 return to the blue sky." Kozhdub said: "Belenko, you are a good pilot, flying is your life. I am proud to have a pilot like you in my country. ”
"Thank you, Commander." Belenko said, turning his head and walking out, he could feel that the eyes of Kozhdub at this time could kill him.
This time, he offended Kozh Dub again, but since he was already planning to go to the other side of the sea, he would not be nostalgic here, so he was helpless to collide with Kori Dub, and he had to go to the hangar to stare at it, and let those people seriously install backup engines for themselves, but nothing could go wrong!