Chapter 173: A Visit from the British Pilot (53/100)
When the door was opened, a young pilot, seeing Nathan through the crack in the door, immediately became excited: "Major Nathan, you are my idol, sign me first, sign the name of Ma Huali." ”
It's been a long time since the filming of the film, but the film will not get old, and will only continue to add more tomcat fans, and now Clive is an absolute tomcat fan.
"Did you come to me to sign your name?" Nathan asked.
"No, it's just a small personal request from me." Clive said: "I also brought a request from our navy, to visit our navy at your convenience, this is an invitation. ”
Clive was at the door, handing over the invitation to the Navy.
At this moment, a smiling woman suddenly appeared in the back, this woman put her arm around Nathan's waist and looked at the invitation together: "Great, we have decided to go to Europe after the end of our trip here, and now, it is just time to go to England for a vacation!" ”
When he saw this woman, Clive was stunned: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that, why don't I come back another day?" ”
Clive was embarrassed.
Nathan ignored him, turned to Emily and said, "Emily, don't make trouble, I'm done here, it's time for me to go back to the aircraft carrier, I haven't been trained for so long, and my skills are going to be rusty." ”
Hearing this, Emily immediately pursed her lips: "Sure enough, you men don't have good things, and you promised me, but as a result, I told you the secret, and you regretted it." ”
Emily had already told Nathan about Andre, and now that Nathan was going back on his word, she was angry too.
"Well, Major Nathan, we know that you are a person who loves to fly, but if you go to our UK, there are aircraft carriers to fly, and we can invite you to test drive our fighters, especially our VTOL fighters, you certainly haven't flown them."
To be honest, Nathan didn't fly, but that doesn't mean he's interested, in fact, he's not interested in sea harriers.
Touting VTOL as a technology is amazing, in fact, this completely violates the law of technological development, needless to say that now, even in later generations, the F-35 has made a common use of the three services, and the bloated figure that comes out makes people laugh off their big teeth, and the VTOL model is constantly facing various problems.
The perverted engine of later generations will not work, let alone now.
However, Nathan was embarrassed to refuse, especially since people were so earnest, and Emily, he had just snapped, and then he was going to be ruthless?
So, Nathan could only nod.
"Okay, then I'll go for a trip, by the way, come in and talk."
You can't let this guest stay at the door all the time, can you?
Nathan let in, the two sat down, Emily went to make coffee like a hostess, and the two began to talk.
"How did you end up here?" Nathan asked.
"When we learned that we had acquired a MiG-25, many people in our country were itching, and a few engineers from the airline and a few pilots from the Air Force and Navy came here to study." Clive said, "I'm here to make soy sauce. ”
The United States agreed to send someone from the British, but only one of the most experienced pilots was allowed to take the test flight, so Clive didn't have much to do here, but it was a lifetime honor to be able to come and meet Nathan.
Although he didn't know that Nathan had just blinded a Soviet pilot with his headlights, he at least knew that Nathan was very powerful in the confrontation in the Far East some time ago, and the Tomcat also shined brightly in the confrontation.
Now, Ensign Clive looked at Nathan with admiration, and it was entirely the eye of the hero he admired.
"What kind of aircraft are you flying now?" As a pilot, of course, you have to talk about your own plane, if it is to change to another country, it involves leaks, but, for British pilots, it doesn't matter.
"I'm flying a goblin right now." Second Lieutenant Clive said, "Our own ghosts. ”
Britain and the United States are good enough to wear a pair of pants, so when Britain found that it lacked advanced fighters, it immediately brought in American fighters.
However, the British were not satisfied with the J-79 engine used by the Ghost, believing that its performance was too low, so the British imported the Ghost and replaced it with its own Spey engine.
Although this has caused the British Phantom rear fuselage to become wider and the maximum speed has decreased, the performance improvement brought by the turbofan to the turbojet is still quite obvious.
It can be said that the ghosts of Britain are the most successful ghosts.
If there is no Spey engine, it is impossible for the British ghost to get on the ship, after all, the British aircraft carrier is short, and the catapult performance is not enough, only the strong performance given by the Spey engine can make it take off from the narrow deck of the aircraft carrier.
When he heard this from Second Lieutenant Clive, Nathan found that a thought in his heart began to rise again.
Heart disease in a tomcat.
The TF30 engine used by the Tomcat fighter must be carefully served, and it will surge if it is not suitable, and the engine that replaced it has not appeared for a long time, according to the progress of history, I am afraid that it will be ten years later, and Nathan does not want to wait so long.
And this time I went to the UK, can I take a look at the Spey engine, the latest modification, if it is reequipped to the Tomcat fighter, it will bring an improvement to the performance of the entire fighter!
Well, it was just a perfunctory trip to the UK, but now, it seems that the goal has been found, and the trip to the UK has become imperative.
"It's a good plane with Spey's ghost, but it's a pity." Nathan said: "The retirement of the Eagle is really regrettable. ”
If there is a government that does not like its own army and has to weaken its own army, it is definitely one of them.
Britain had not many operational fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft, and although the Eagle aircraft carrier was built during World War II, it was still in good condition, but as a result, it was forced to retire in 72 because the Labour government wanted to destroy all aircraft carriers in its own country.
This aircraft carrier, which was supposed to be in its prime and in much better condition than the Ark Royal, was unfortunately sent to a dead end by short-sighted politicians, and in two years it should be sold and demolished.
As for the Ark Royal, it escaped the catastrophe and is still in service, starting to operate advanced Goblin fighters, but if you look at the course of history, the death of Ark Royal is approaching.
It's embarrassing, only a strong country can have a strong navy.