Chapter 14 Helicopters and Trainers
The team worked together to open the door of the hangar, and the helicopter parked in the middle of the hangar was able to see the light of day. He Yujie circled around the five or six meter-long little guy twice, and quickly recognized its identity, SA341 made in France
342 Gazelle helicopter. The whole body is painted in sky blue, and there is a logo of the Lingyun Aero Club on the fuselage. The cockpit frame of the light alloy welded structure is mounted on an ordinary semi-monocoque bottom mechanism to be composed of light alloy honeycomb sandwich panels and longitudinal boxes. Although the all-glass cockpit has a better view, its ability to resist strikes is relatively weak. Most of them are sandwich plate structure airframes, steel tube skid landing gear. Under the command of He Yujie, everyone pulled the helicopter out of the hangar, ignoring the dust on the seats, and the female pilot began to check the fuel level of the instrument as soon as she sat on it. At the back of the helicopter, Zhan Huade, who was in charge of overhauling the aircraft this time, opened the shell of the engine. Zhan Huade, 35 years old this year, is a native of Hualien County, Taiwan, and has worked as a senior technician in a Taiwan-funded factory in Dongguan for five or six years. After coming to this new world, he has been quietly working as an ordinary laborer on the construction site. This time, it was the Human Resources Department that checked the personnel information of the original security zone and discovered him. A paper order to conscript him into the army can be regarded as allowing others to do their best to return to their old jobs.
The engine of the Gazelle is an "Astendore" XVM turboshaft engine with a power of 640 kW. The engine is driven by a 4 kW DC generator that also comes with one and 40 amps
Hour battery to power the machine's 28 volt DC system. However, Zhan Huade saw the most in the army is the American-made UH-1 Huey utility helicopter. However, the two still have a certain amount in common, which will not leave him at a loss. After checking the engine, air intake, and tail slurry, he made a "everything OK" gesture to He Yujie in the driver's seat.
He Yujie put on the headphones, and then turned on the high-frequency radio station, in-flight intercom system, homing station, radio compass, radio altimeter, VHF omnidirectional beacon and other switches on the dashboard. The helicopter's propellers slowly spun and spun faster and faster, and the noise of the engines drowned out all the sound around them. Seeing the temporary ground crew member give two thumbs up, He Yujie nodded slightly, and then slowly pulled up the joystick. The helicopter's landing gear jumped lightly twice, then slowly left the deck, staggering higher and higher, and finally hovered steadily at a height of 15 meters from the deck.
Zhan Huade asked over the radio, "How do you feel?" ”
"Everything works." He Yujie's voice revealed a hint of excitement.
"Try a few maneuvers!" Nanren took the intercom and ordered He Yujie. The early formation of combat effectiveness by helicopters can also add a weight to the balance of victory.
"Understood." He Yujie replied neatly, and then flew towards the front of the plane. I saw that he first flew for a while, and then tried to turn, sideways, turn around on the spot, etc., and flew close to the surface of the river for a while.
The helicopter hovered in the sky for twenty minutes, and He Yujie had fully adapted to the performance of the little antelope, after all, he had 120 hours of flying experience. After flying for a while, she began to return home, and after landing, Zhan Huade checked the engine again and found no abnormalities.
In addition to this helicopter, the Lingyun Club also had two single-engine piston fixed-wing aircraft, which the team quickly found as well. After the identification of several aviation enthusiasts, these are two Chujiao-5 trainer aircraft, China's first self-made primary trainer aircraft, the prototype of which is the Soviet Yak-18 trainer. The Yak-18 is a two-seat primary trainer designed and produced by the Yakovlev Design Bureau of the former Soviet Union in 1946. The fuselage of the machine is welded into a skeleton by alloy steel pipes, which is a frame-type fuselage skeleton. The front section of the fuselage and the engine fairing are made of aluminum alloy skin. The rear half of the fuselage is covered with cloth skin. The wing consists of a trapezoidal outer wing and a rectangular middle wing. The middle wing is an all-metal structure, consisting of two girders, 8 ribs, etc., and two fuel tanks with a capacity of 75 liters are installed in the middle wing. The middle wing is connected to the fuselage frame. The leading edges, beams and ribs of the outer wing and tail wing are made of aluminum alloy; Cloth skin. The engine is a reliable and easy-to-use M-11FP5 cylinder air-cooled piston engine. Rear three-point landing gear, the main wheel is semi-buried into the middle wing, and the tail wheel is fixed and cannot be retracted. The tandem sealed cockpit has good visibility. The aircraft is equipped with a radio receiver and in-flight intercom equipment. The wingspan is 10.60 meters, the total length of the fuselage is 8.072 meters, the height is 3.10 meters, the normal take-off weight is 1120 kg, the empty weight is 816 kg, and the maximum level flight speed is 248 km
hours, cruising speed 160 km
hours, rate of climb (low altitude) 3.5 meters
seconds, the practical ceiling is 4000 meters, the maximum range is 1000 kilometers, the endurance time is 8.28 hours, the take-off and running distance is 205 meters, and the landing and grounding speed is 85 kilometers
hours, landing run distance 207 meters. Because it is cheap, it used to be a fist product for domestic exports.
It's a pity that none of the people present can drive, so Nanren had to contact the air force, and Wang Li heard that he had found these two good things, and he was eager to drive them back immediately. It's just that it's too late now, so I'll have to wait until the next day. Fixed-wing planes must have runways to take off and land, and Wang's plan is that tomorrow he and Li Ce will fly the two planes back to Shenzhen's Bao'an Airport, and from there they will transport the planes back to the base.
Just when He Yujie was testing the "Little Antelope", several team members went to the oil depot at the airport to check it out. The airport's oil depot is located on Chun Yu Road at the southeast corner of Chek Mullet Kok, near which is the highway, MTR and express line connecting Chek Mullet Kok to Lantau Island. Several people drove a construction truck to cautiously approach the target, but in broad daylight, the mutants did not dare to come out to move. There are a total of 12 large and small oil storage tanks in the oil depot, and several people checked it, and there are almost more than 4,000 tons of aviation fuel. Nanren was overjoyed after receiving the report, and it must be said that it was a "good start" to get so much fuel in the first operation, but how to transport the oil back had to be carefully considered. Fortunately, the oil depot is not far from the sea, and there will be a few more trips to the cargo ships carrying smuggled oil.
Today's harvest can be regarded as abundant, although I haven't found a dozen business planes that I want to find, but the airport of the new time and space has not yet been skimmed! There is no rush either. Seeing that the time is not early, Nanren is ready to lead the team back home, and before leaving, He Yujie went to An Zhixian again and asked if they had made a decision. In fact, when Nanren and the others first entered the airport, An Zhixian discovered them and kept secretly observing their situation. Suddenly a dozen unidentified militants came running, and they did not dare to make contact with them, although these people were all wearing military uniforms, but who knows if they were real pla, in this apocalyptic era, military uniforms and weapons are easy to get. And even if they were PLA before, who can guarantee that they still maintain military discipline now, if it weren't for seeing them preparing to break the lock with a gun, An Zhixian would not be ready to show up. He Yujie's identity made An Zhixian trust these people a little more, seeing that they acted quickly and well-trained, and the person in charge of the command was a woman, which made him a little suspicious. After all, it is safer for a group of people to stay together than a few people to stay together, I heard that there are more than a thousand people on the other side, and in this apocalyptic environment, most people have a herd mentality. So He Yujie asked again whether to join, and An Zhixian agreed to the above.
At this time, the collection team members found out that An Zhixian's so-called other survivors were just three delicate beauties, and judging by the expressions of the four, they must have had a super-friendly relationship in the past few months. Speaking of which, women are most likely to become dependent on men in this environment, especially strong men like An Zhixian, who are super combative and can provide them with protection. According to An Zhixian, these three beauties are all flight attendants of the airline, and they are all single like him, so they have no worries, so they did not venture into the city. After the first wave of the "cataclysm" infection, there were more than 500 survivors at the airport, but these people all went back to the city for one reason or another, and only a dozen or so people who did not care about the local area remained at the airport. In the following months, some people died at the hands of mutants, some did not feel lonely and ventured into the city and never returned, and in the end, only An Zhixian and the four of them were left, and they lived for eight or nine months on the supplies stored at the airport under the condition of being completely cut off from the outside world. If Nanren and the others don't come today, An Zhixian is still ready to continue his "**" life.
An Zhixian's behavior of "eating more and occupying more" caused great "indignation" among the material collection team members, and the fast-talking team members hugged his neck from behind and teased: "No wonder you don't want to go back with us, it turns out that you want to have three wives and four concubines here!" The others laughed, and the faces of the three flight attendants turned red.
Nam In understood the relationship between Ahn Ji-hyun and the three flight attendants, and she asked the latter about the situation around the airport. Hong Kong Airport is a big treasure trove, she is still going to search here for a few days, An Zhixian told her that the mutants at the airport are concentrated in a few hotels on the other side of the terminal, they will not come to the runway during the day, and rarely come at night, An Zhixian arranged the residence on the tower, as long as the door is closed at night, the mutants will not be able to come up, but it is very safe.
Hearing An Zhixian's introduction, Nanren dismissed his plan to stay overnight at the airport. In fact, the geographical conditions of the airport yard are still good, surrounded by the sea, there are only a few passages leading to Lantau Island, and the area is wide enough, which is much stronger than the safety zone in Shenzhen now. And there are several hotels, and the living conditions are even more different. As long as the mutants on the artificial island are cleaned up, the other passages are blocked, and only a bridge is left to communicate with the outside world, it is indeed safer than staying in the artificial lake. It's just that most of the Cape Mullet in the new time and space is in the sea, and it is a very remote place, and the transportation is even more inconvenient, and the management committee will not agree to move the base here.
It's useless to think about it, these things are still for the masters of the management committee to consider, Nanren asked An Zhixian and them to pack their luggage and leave by boat with the material collection team, and the "little antelope" was piloted back to the base by He Yujie, this kind of small plane only needs half a basketball court to park in an open space, and the base of the new time and space has already prepared a new home for it.