"Attention, aim at the glide line. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" heard the voice of the ship's pilot in the headphones.

Fresnel optical landing system, using optical principles, as long as the carrier-based aircraft altitude and glide angle are correct, the pilot can see that the orange light ball is in the center of the green reference light, maintaining this angle can accurately glide to the ship. If the pilot sees a yellow ball of light and is above the green reference light, he should lower the altitude; If you see a red ball of light and it is under the green reference light, you must immediately raise it, otherwise it will hit the end face of the tail post of the aircraft carrier or descend into the sea behind the tail.

Such a system greatly reduces the danger of landing, and the principle is not complicated, so not only the American aircraft carriers are used, but even the Soviet aircraft carriers are also equipped with such a landing assistance system.

However, this landing system also has a premise, that is, the pilot can see these lights!

For Powell now, all he sees is the deck that shakes back and forth, and it's all blurry! In front of his eyes, all sweat was there! The goggles have been lifted up, and the beads of sweat on his forehead are still falling drop by drop.

His state is already in the worst state, which makes the radar operator in the rear cabin sweat, but he has no flight power, so he can only wait for an unknown fate, Powell, who has more than 600 landing experience, should be able to complete this landing, right?

Powell was also doing his best, but his arms were stiff, his fingers were no longer able to operate the lever flexibly, his brain was already dizzy, and even the sound in his headphones became noisy.

"Pull up, pull up!" In the main flight control room at the rear of the left side of the upper part of the island, a flight controller is monitoring the situation on the flight deck and in the air, and from his point of view, Powell will not be able to successfully land the ship at all! Gotta pull up and go-around!

Pull it up! This sentence is simple, Powell, who is in the air, feels that he is already in the worst condition, and he simply does not have the ability to pull up and return to flight, in that case, he can only eject it and throw this plane bought with taxpayers' money into the sea!

Land, land! Powell felt that flying had begun to terrify him, and he struggled to hold on to the joystick, waiting for the rear wheels to strike.

"Put the hook, put the hook!" Seeing that Powell was going to land hard, the guide shouted loudly, damn it, this plane that landed didn't even put the hook! If he can't hook the blocking rope, he still has to fly back!

Almost everyone noticed the unusual nature of the plane, and they all stepped back for fear of being affected.

"Hold up the blocking net!" The flight controller shouted loudly, now, only one last resort is left! What has this poor lad been through in the air?

The flight controller knew that the pilot must not have the confidence to return to flight, so he had to force the landing, and now, the pilot did not put the ship hook, so he could only rely on the blocking net!

The blocking net is the last of all the means of landing, the net is raised at the front end of the landing area, so that the fighter plane can be forcefully rammed over, so that the plane is forcibly blocked, the advantage is that the plane can stop, the disadvantage is that even if the plane stops, the damage is not light, although there is no need to scrap, the overhaul is certain, and the nose may have to be replaced.

This trick cannot be used unless absolutely necessary.

Hearing the order, the personnel in charge of the blocking net quickly raised the blocking net, but at this moment, the situation changed again.

The landed Tomcat, the main landing gear just hit the deck, there was a bang, a violent impact, so that the right wheel punctured!

The poor tomcat, with a flat tire, suddenly changed its direction and rushed straight towards the parking area on the right.

The deck personnel on this side dodged one after another, and the Tomcat fighter plane, which landed more than 300 meters per second, was extremely shocking.

"Boom!" This Tomcat fighter crashed into an A-7 attack aircraft in the parking area, although the A-7 did not carry a bomb, it was in a state of full fuel, and suddenly there was an explosion, in the explosion, several fighters next to it were all affected, including the E-2 AWACS aircraft with folded wings, and it was not spared!

At this moment, with a bang, the Martin Baker MK14 zero-altitude ejection seat showed stable reliability at this moment, ejecting the two flight personnel from the cockpit, which is a real zero-altitude ejection!

In fact, at the moment he landed, Powell felt that he had exhausted all his strength, and he did not have the strength to eject manually at all, which was automatically controlled.

Not only did the Tomcat switch to the F110 engine, but it also adopted a new ejection seat, which eliminated the two ejection tabs on the upper part of the headrest, and was equipped with an electronic sequencer that automatically adjusts the seat according to the speed and altitude of the aircraft to achieve precise ejection.

When the collision was discovered, the ejection seat ejected automatically, saving the lives of the two pilots, but the damage caused was extremely huge.

There was chaos on the aircraft carrier Independence, the fire was spreading, and if it was not controlled, it burned to the lower levels, not only the carrier-based aircraft, but also those ammunition and fuel would be ignited!

The wind was blowing on the sea, and the fire was on the deck, and at the same time it was spreading towards the bridge!

The USS Independence was already in shambles, and the brave American sailors were fighting stubbornly against the fire, and the damage management team urgently acted to extinguish the fire.

It took a whole hour to extinguish the fire, and the entire rear deck of the aircraft carrier was already in shambles.

Sitting in the command room, the captain of the ship, Colonel Hilton, was extremely depressed, he looked at the two people who had been fished out of the sea in front of him, Powell, who has always regarded himself as the ace of the US carrier-based aircraft pilot, actually made a serious mistake, and he actually failed to master even the most basic landing maneuvers of the carrier-based aircraft pilots!

"Powell, what's going on?" Colonel Hilton asked him.

"Report, it's all my fault." Powell said that he had sobered up a lot after being fished up by a rescue helicopter in the sea, but that great fear still hung over his heart.

Is it all their own fault, or is it because the Soviets are too powerful?

"It's not something you can fix by admitting your mistakes! Our aircraft carrier, the entire aft deck was burned out, a dozen carrier-based aircraft were lost, the tail lift was also stuck, we need to leave the Indian Ocean and return to the shipyard for overhauls! Hilton said: "We lost our combat effectiveness because of a landing accident!" Powell, your report cannot be solved by simply admitting mistakes! (To be continued.) )