Chapter 46: Take You Home
At the same time that Steve exclaimed, the nose of this huge fighter began to turn involuntarily, and the entire plane was in the horizontal plane, as if it were a propeller, which was the most terrifying horizontal tail spin of all aircraft!
If, in normal times, you just drive carefully, you can avoid this situation, as long as you don't touch the flight envelope, you will be fine.
But now, the Tomcat fighter has broken its wings, and Nathan has retracted the wings to avoid flipping, and at the same time turned on the afterburner, wanting to increase the speed of the aircraft and bring more lift, it will be easier to deal with.
But what he didn't expect was that it would instead bring a terrible horizontal tailspin!
Once the tailspin accelerated, it was difficult to change it, and at the same time that Steve exclaimed, Nathan was already pushing the lever quickly and moving the rudder in the opposite direction!
It didn't work, the plane was still deflecting to the right, so Nathan could only free one hand and turn off the afterburner of the left engine.
Pushed by the engine on the right, the nose of the aircraft was slowly, slowly returning to the center, and finally stopped the terrible spin!
Steve felt his back soaking wet, and just now, his hand was on the ejection handle, but he knew that he couldn't move without Nathan's order, he had to trust Nathan, trust him unconditionally!
Sure enough, Nathan succeeded in changing it out! Turn off the right afterburner, and if it burns for a long time, the fuel will be consumed at an alarming rate, and Nathan pushed the lever to aim it in the direction of the shoreline.
"Now, let's go home." Nathan said it lightly.
In fact, Nathan's palms were already sweating, he had never thought of parachuting, he just wanted to drive the fighter back!
With the experience just now, it was much easier for Nathan to fly again, because the right wing was missing, causing the plane to always want to deviate to the right, so he had to keep the control stick to the left to be able to offset the yaw torque, and the Tomcat fighter was flying in the direction of Mirama Air Station.
When he was about to fly to the shoreline, on Nathan's right, a Tomcat fighter plane flew lightly to the side, and Nathan turned his head to look at his former instructor, Lyman.
Today, Lyman is a flying veteran to fight against the novice, and after getting Nathan's accident, he flew over immediately, and when he saw Nathan's plane, he was also extremely emotional.
The wing on the right was broken in half, and the wing swept back, and in this case, Nathan actually flew more than a hundred kilometers!
Only a genius like Nathan would dare to drive it back!
"Eagle Eagle, don't worry, I'll take you home." Lyman shouted over the radio.
The two planes flew towards the east, and finally, the runway of the Mirama Air Station in the distance could be seen.
"I can't slow down, I can only land at high speed." Nathan shouted over the radio, "Please prepare a blocking rope for me!" ”
When the carrier-based aircraft lands on the aircraft carrier, it is definitely not to slow down, but to accelerate and collide with it, once it does not successfully land, it must immediately return to flight, if the speed is not large enough, then it will fall into the sea.
Therefore, carrier-based aircraft are equipped with a ship's hook at the tail to hook one of the three blocking cables, and the blocking cables are forced to stop and complete a landing.
However, the arresting cable is not unique to aircraft carriers, and many land airfields are also equipped with arresting cables.
In the event of a breakdown of a fighter plane, or a damaged runway that has to land on a short runway, the arrestor cable can play a huge role.
At the same time, it is not only carrier-based aircraft that can use the arresting cable, but also the aircraft of the Air Force, such as the F-16, which has a tail hook to hook the arresting cable when needed, but it is not a fixed rod like the carrier-based aircraft, but a soft rope.
The Mirama Air Station was originally for the Navy, and of course it was equipped with a blocking cable, and after receiving Nathan's request, it only took a few tens of seconds for a well-trained ground crew to densely arrange six blocking cables on the runway.
The ground crew are all looking at this plane with broken wings wide open, and it is simply a miracle that it can fly back!
"Steve, we're going to land, it's going to be a bump." Nathan said to his companion in the back cabin.
At this time, the speed of the aircraft is up to 500 kilometers per hour.
The Tomcat fighter is a variable sweep wing, and when it lands normally, it will spread its wings, which can greatly reduce the landing speed, and it can land below 300 kilometers per hour, but now, once the wings are deployed, it is impossible to maintain balance, and in the case of wing sweep, Nathan must maintain a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
A must land first! Nathan didn't have the ability to make a double turn and come back for a second landing, so he didn't know how much of a circle he had to turn.
This is the same as the landing of a carrier-based aircraft in normal times, although there is no guidance from the Fresnel lens in the tail, Nathan still lands on the correct glide line, at this time, his hand repeatedly adjusts the operating stick, adjusts the rudder, although the outside is not visible, in fact, his rudder surface is adjusted at a speed of more than a dozen times per minute, and the attitude of the aircraft can remain stable.
With a sharp roar, the Tomcat fighter shrank its wings and rushed down to the runway at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
The tires gently touched the runway, and the thick and powerful landing gear was violently reversed for nearly half a meter at this moment, and then, there were two banging sounds, and the tubeless wheels that rushed to nitrogen were actually blown up!
If only one wheel exploded, the Tomcat fighter would definitely turn over, and the terrible phenomenon of taking the big top occurred, and now, it happened that the wheels on both sides exploded at the same time, so that the plane was at least horizontal.
The wheels of the plane exploded, still rolling, and fell off after a few turns, and the alloy wheels rubbed against the ground, and on the runway, two frictional sparks appeared, and as the plane slid forward, the sparks were also flying.
At this moment, everyone held their breath and opened their mouths wide, as if their heartbeats had stopped, and everyone's retinas were frozen on the runway on the fighter plane that was forcibly landing.
Its front wheel touched the ground.
At this time, the speed of the plane has been reduced, and the front wheels are double wheels, so when the two wheels touch the ground, there is no explosion, the tires are still running forward, and the whole plane continues to rush forward, rushing through the blocking cable, and the tail hook behind the aircraft magically hooks the first blocking cable.
It was simply a perfect landing!
The Tomcat fighter that hooked the blocking cable continued to rush forward, and the blocking cable was quickly pulled into a triangle, and at the same time, the plane was also strongly pulled, and the two people inside were strangled by the seat belt, and there was a feeling of being dizzy.
The plane stopped.