Episode 132 Vultures

Wider wings, a stronger structure, a more well-defined fuselage, and two landing gears with greater air resistance all make the Stuka more stable and easier to control speed than the Osprey during the dive.

After the three Stukas returned to the airport, Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately drove there with his group. The convoy drove more than a thousand meters, entered the airport runway, and stopped in front of three Stukas.

The three big guys were parked side by side on the lawn next to the runway, and the pilots had just come out of it, and the ground crew was checking around them. Although it is a single-engine aircraft, it still gives Xiang Xiaoqiang a strong impression: wide.

I don't feel the magnanimity of this kind of plane in the sky, but now when I stop in front of me and everyone looks around them, I feel it too. These people are all experts in aircraft, and they usually see a lot of single-engine aircraft, but most of them are fighters, trainers, reconnaissance planes, and the like. Of course, dive bombers have also been seen, but mainly dive bombers used by aircraft carriers such as Ospreys.

Although the Osprey is also a dive bomber, it is completely different from the Stuka in two styles. The size of the Osprey is what everyone considers to be "normal proportions", and it is not very different from ordinary fighters. But Stuka in front of him is different. The fuselage is slim, but the wings are unusually wide. It feels like the weight of the whole plane is on those two wings.

Compared to Stuka, the "normal proportions" of the Osprey are clearly "thick fuselage and small wings".

Moreover, the Stuka bomber is visually cool, with a rather slender waist behind its wide wings, like a thin-waisted wasp. Whether it is a wing or a tail, the wing end is not a traditional arc, but a one-size-fits-all flat straight line, which is visually very powerful. The roots of the huge wings are bent downward, and a pair of wings appear to be in the shape of a "" when viewed from the front, which is also not found in Osprey aircraft.

This type of wing was popular among later dive bombers and carrier-based aircraft. The lower two points of the "" type are where the landing gear is installed. This way, the landing gear itself does not need to be very long, so that there is enough space under the belly of the aircraft to allow a safe distance between the bombs below and the ground. As for why the wings should be bent and shaped, instead of simply making the landing gear longer, the main reason is that for dive bombers and carrier-based aircraft, once the landing gear is too long, it will be difficult to meet the demanding solid and solid requirements. In particular, carrier-based aircraft are difficult to compare with land-based airfields in the maintenance and maintenance of aircraft carriers, and there is less hope of being rescued in the event of an accident at sea, so it must be reliable and how to come.

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The experts brought to Xiaoqiang stepped forward and observed and studied the three Stukas at close range. There were also a few German pilots who came with them, although this was a plane from their country, but there were just a few prototypes in Germany, and they had never seen them. But these German pilots didn't know at the moment that the strange plane in front of them was from Germany. Now the three Stukas are painted with the marks of the Ming army, and they still think that this is a new model made by the Ming Dynasty.

Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that a few German pilots were already eager to try and couldn't bear it, so he agreed to let them climb on a Stuka and try their senses. The two German boys immediately took the flight suits and changed into them, and climbed into the cockpit.

Stuka has a double cockpit, and the German pilots brought by Xiang Xiaoqiang this time are exactly four, multiples of two. Because in his heart, he really wanted to let a few German pilots fly in the sky in Stuka this time. But he didn't know if there was a problem with this new type of plane, allowing pilots who had never flown him before. And he knew that the few people who had just come out of the cockpit were all special test pilots of the nine-colored deer. They are all elites of the elite, who specialize in eating this bowl of rice, and are not comparable to ordinary pilots.

But now Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that the two German pilots in the cockpit seemed to be very adaptable, moving left and right inside, very eager to try, and wanted to fly the plane to try it out. Xiang Xiaoqiang's head was hot, and he walked quickly to the side of the plane with a guard, and whispered to them:

"How, how does it feel? All right? ”

The guards immediately translated. The two German lads immediately nodded excitedly, and said together:

"Yikes! Yikes! Yikes! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang also grinned, patted the cockpit glass, and then retreated.

Then the engine of the Stuka suddenly roared, and the propeller spun rapidly, pinching the wind. The people around the plane were startled and immediately jumped away.

A large circle of people, including the experts brought to Xiaoqiang, as well as the experts and representatives of the nine-colored deer, they were first surprised, and then probably thought that the two people in the cockpit were just testing the feeling of the engine, and they were quickly relieved.

But something unexpected happened to them......

The plane's huge wheels began to press the grass and move forward, and the whole plane roared and rode the wind to the runway.

At this time, except for Xiang Xiaoqiang, everyone was shocked. Especially the people of the nine-colored deer, they were all frightened, ran to both sides of the plane, waved their hands, shouted loudly, and stopped. Even Xiang Xiaoqiang was a little sober at this time, knowing that this was too reckless. Now there are only three prototypes!

But the whole process only lasted about ten seconds, and before the conning tower could give the signal of "no takeoff", the Stuka was speeding down the runway and leaving the ground very steadily.

Everyone's heads were up, their eyes glued to the plane, and they prayed that nothing would happen.

Xiang Xiaoqiang also looked shocked, and kept saying in pain:

"Oops...... Why did you fly...... I'm just going to let them sit in it and feel it...... This...... How is this a good ......?"

But I kept thinking in my heart: I bring the best pilots...... They have no problem at all......

Looking up at the plane in the sky, it quickly became smaller, and finally it became a small black dot, and immediately even the small black dot could not be seen. This was the first time Xiang Xiaoqiang and his team of experts had seen Stuka take off. All have a strong feeling:

This plane is climbing so fast!

The wider the wing, the greater the lift. Several old experts can see that although this is a monoplane, it feels faster than a biplane climbing.

After waiting in horror for a while, the small black dot appeared from another direction. Still like just now, getting bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger, straight to this side and stabbing down.

This time, everyone could see that the two young men wanted to dive at a big angle. Everyone sweated in their hearts, and Xiang Xiaoqiang was no exception. Everyone knows that diving at a high angle is the most difficult and dangerous job, and if you don't get it right, you will get into trouble. Xiang Xiaoqiang is completely devoid of the hot-headed excitement just now at the moment. He knew that if the plane was destroyed and people died this time, it would be a big trouble. …… It would be too much to be caught by someone by the braid and take away the power to upgrade the equipment of the Ming army from his hands.

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Stuka's characteristic whistling sound has been heard. But it didn't spit out tongues of fire on the wings, as it had just done. Although they all knew that the wings were filled with empty bombs, it is estimated that the two German pilots were still not sure and did not dare to take risks.

Just as the people on the ground were tilting their heads and waiting for Stuka to pounce down as they had just done, the dive bombers overhead had been pulled up again. At this time, the plane was still a few hundred meters away from the ground. Everyone's hearts went back to their stomachs. The two German pilots were still cautious. They probably knew that they couldn't compare with the test pilots, so they didn't risk rushing to the bottom.

After a while, the Stuka taxied back down the runway and stopped.

As soon as the cockpit was opened, the two German boys were almost "dragged" out by several guards of Xiang Xiaoqiang, almost smashing them down. But Xiang Xiaoqiang pretended to stop them, and then took the guard who had just translated to them, asking them how they felt in the sky and how the plane was maneuvering.

Although the two pilots are excellent pilots, neither of them is the hardcore test pilot. Their feelings should be more objective.

Both were fighter pilots and had not flown such single-engine bombers. The first thing they said was to complain that the plane was too bulky, too slow, too inflexible, and that it was a target in the sky. As a monoplane, they say, it is unforgivable to be so bulky. But then, they praised the plane's ability to climb and dive.

According to them, the plane's wide wings were like vultures, and it was always felt that there was an invisible hand under the fuselage, lifting the plane up. If you are flying a fighter jet in the sky, it is not easy to maintain a stable altitude, you always have to keep staring at the instruments, constantly adjusting the speed and nose angle, in short, you have to spend a lot of energy on maintaining the altitude. And this plane, with its smoothness in the air, is simply "like an airship".

Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that the lift of a big-winged aircraft like Stuka was huge, but ...... Like an airship, that's too exaggerated, isn't it......

The two German lads were foaming at the mouth, grabbing each other's words, and continuing excitedly, especially the dive. They say that the dive was very smooth, "like an owl in the night sky, aiming at the vole below, spreading its wide wings, and swooping down so smoothly, silently, and very quickly, with great precision......

After listening to their literary descriptions, Xiang Xiaoqiang satisfiedly ordered the two guards to "escort" them back to the car and wait, and then go back to deal with them.

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Several executives of the Nine Colored Deer Company present also seemed very satisfied, as if the reckless behavior of these two people had not happened just now. Xiang Xiaoqiang also smiled, and everyone was happy. But he secretly exhaled: These two foreigners won't cooperate...... I said everything good in front of the seller. It's not easy to bargain in the back......

An executive of the nine-colored deer came up with a smile and asked Xiaoqiang to give the plane a Chinese name.

Xiang Xiaoqiang had already thought about it when he came. Coupled with the feeling described by the two pilots just now, the feeling of spreading the wings and steadily ascending, and rapidly diving from a high altitude......

"Let's call it 'Vulture'."

He said. This represents not only the appearance, but also the battle for fame of this aircraft. Stuka relied on the "Vulture Legion" in the Spanish Civil War to shock the world in one fell swoop.