Chapter 30 How about making a movie
With a slope, maintaining the angle of attack of the slide, and at the same time, with a slight throttle lever, ready to pull up and take off again at any time, Nathan's descent action was extremely fluent, in one go, when the main landing gear landed, everyone present applauded.
Nathan's flight shows his superb flying skills, and it can be said that Nathan is enough to meet the standards of test pilots!
Only test pilots can take off after a brief understanding, and at the same time can land smoothly, for the Tomcat fighter with variable sweep wing, landing is not so easy, because in the case of the smallest wing sweep angle, it also means that the aerodynamic effect of the rudder surface is low, and the rod must be increased.
Under many lenses in later generations, it can be seen that almost every landing of the Tomcat fighter is swaying, which is the reason.
Now, after Nathan landed, he won everyone's approval, and all the people present were flight veterans, and they admired Nathan quite a lot.
"General, it's time to eat." Just after Nathan and the instructors came down, the base commander, Brigadier General James Watkins, said.
Now, it's noon.
A group of people came to the pilot's cafeteria to prepare for lunch, which was also a welcome to Nathan's crew.
For any country, pilots have separate canteens, their recipes are the most complete, pilots have to have high-energy food, but not too much fat, here, there are delicious seafood, and a variety of vegetables.
If you don't have a flight mission, you can also drink, it's a welcome banquet, a welcome to Nathan's crew, and a welcome to the arrival of the old general.
The old general liked Nathan and pulled him to sit beside him.
"Nathan, I look at your resume, and the flight time is not long." The old general said to Nathan.
"Yes, after graduating from aviation school and going to the aircraft carrier, it was less than two years." Nathan said that in the flying career, age is also very important, too young, inexperienced, old, physical fitness can not keep up, twenty-five to thirty-five years old, is the most golden age, like Nathan just in his early twenties, absolutely has a bright future.
"By the way, how did you get into the Navy?" The old general asked while eating with a fork.
"It's the army's recruitment poster, so I signed up." Nathan said.
Nathan replied softly, after all, it was a difficult topic to talk about.
When the anti-war sentiment intensified, Nathan, as a college student, actually ran to join the army, which at that time, aroused the disgust of his classmates, and Nathan became the enemy of almost everyone in the school - college students - his classmates - seniors and juniors and sisters marched in tandem against this war, but Nathan actually took the initiative to participate in this unjust war!
No one knows what Nathan is suffering, and for Nathan, he is an orphan who grew up in an orphanage.
During the Vietnam War, all kinds of public spending in the United States were decreasing, and Nathan had to find a way to make money if he wanted to continue his education, and he joined the army to get free bursaries, and at the same time, to repay the director of the orphanage, Cole Sr.
When the elder Cole picked up Nathan, who was still a baby, on the steps of the orphanage, and gradually raised the child as an adult, as a U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft pilot who participated in World War II, the old man loved the U.S. military as much as his life.
Now, the old general's questioning made Nathan can't help but think of these again, fusing the memories of the two lives, making Nathan can't help but feel emotional.
"It's a pity that it's very difficult for us to recruit now, and almost no students want to join our army." Brigadier General James sighed: "Nathan, you made the right choice, you are the pride of our naval aviation." ”
Now, the Vietnam War has come to an end, but the country still looks at the army differently, and those soldiers who shed blood and died on the battlefield have returned to the country, but they are discriminated against everywhere.
This phenomenon made everyone infinitely emotional, the army actually fell to this point!
In recent years, it has not been easy to recruit soldiers, and there are even fewer young men with high enough physical fitness, and it seems that the US Navy will face a situation of no one.
"Nathan, what do you want?" The old general asked Nathan.
Nathan took his thoughts out of his memories, he knew that they had just sighed, and the atmosphere on the table was starting to become cold, and in an instant, something popped into Nathan's mind.
"General, I have an idea about conscription." Nathan said: "How about we make an air combat movie about Tomcats? ”
In this era, it is true that no one wants to be a soldier, they all feel that the United States is waging an unjust war, and to be a soldier is to do evil.
So, how can young people be encouraged to join the military? Then we must give them the most chic side, let them know that as carrier-based aircraft pilots of the US Navy, how heroic and handsome they are, as long as they are ambitious young people, they are willing to come to the army to find the value of their own survival!
It's like during World War II, in order to encourage young people to join the army, Hitler personally designed a set of the most handsome military uniforms, when excellent Germanic men wore it, handsome, free and easy, for this military uniform, it was worth dying!
Men like to pursue the sky and pursue their dreams, and who wouldn't like to outline a wonderful eagle in the sky for them?
Nathan's words instantly made the eyes of those present light up, yes, Nathan is not only good at flying, but also quite good at other aspects, why didn't he think of it?
"Go on." The old general said.
"The title of the film is Top Gun, which tells the story of a U.S. Navy pilot who idolizes his old pilot father, and after several downfalls, finally rises up, pilots the Silver Eagle, crosses the blue sky, and finally becomes an excellent pilot, how about it?" Nathan said: "The protagonist of the film, must fly our Tomcat fighter, so that it is magnificent enough, I dare to say, as long as the whole country has seen our movie, they will definitely fall in love with our Tomcat fighter, in order to control our Tomcat, there must be countless young people to sign up for naval aviation!" ”
In later generations, this film is a propaganda masterpiece of the US Navy, which has successfully attracted young people around the world who love flying, and even Nathan in his previous life has watched it more than a dozen times and is deeply impressed.