The thick and fine thunder is still carefully calculated and considered.

But what makes people laugh and cry is that before the race officially begins, the pilots of "Uranus" and "MATRIX" are already fighting over a trivial issue.

With a flick of the brake to let the fighter glide slowly, the Su-27SK piloted by Long Yun and the F-15C of the "MATRIX" came to the same starting marking, and the position was finely adjusted to align the take-off marking, and a heated debate on the interpretation of the competition rules began.

Originally, for a race race with a range of thousands of kilometers, this little bit of take-off position error on the ground is simply insignificant; But I don't know if it's because they are all holding back their strength in their hearts, and the pilots of the two teams are fighting for this trivial problem. The "Uranus" team believes that the front wheels of both aircraft should be aligned with the take-off line, and the "MATRIX" proposes that the nose of the Su-27SK is too long, so that its own F-15C suffers.

In response to the request of "MATRIX" to "align the noses of the two fighters with the reticle", everyone in "Uranus" shook their heads again and again:

"Anyway, on the return trip, whoever touches the ground first wins, so why should the nose be aligned?"

"That's not good, if you really count it, you should align the center of gravity of the two planes! - Your 'flankers' are going back. ”

"No, who has the time to check the full fuel center of gravity of the Su-27SK and F-15C? If you're really full, you can't just align the front wheels! ”

"W-This isn't fair!"

"What's the that's fair or unfair? ――If you want to say that it is absolutely fair, you can drag another 'eagle' out to us. Let's compare with the same type of fighter? ”

"What? Isn't that what you're going to race? How can you be a scoundrel again! ……”

In this kind of argument that borders on child's play. Both sides of the debate held their own ground and did not budge, and finally a consensus was reached: the conclusion was that neither the center of gravity nor the nose of the nose should be aligned, but the two fighters should keep the front wheels pressed against the white take-off markings on the runway, and the argument would be settled.

Seeing the personnel of both sides pointing fingers and arguing around the fighter plane, Long Yun in the cockpit thought it was very interesting, and he relaxed the brakes to cooperate with the adjustment of the position of the fighter, while feeling that his idea of this design challenge was really good.

Although it is a team that has been sold, when facing the pressure of competition. Uranus's team cohesion has still been stimulated.

Just when the two sides were arguing on the ground, Shangguan Li, who stood tall in the crowd on the sidelines and was dressed in fluttering clothes, stared at the scene in front of her with a pair of apricot eyes and curiosity, this young girl who had just known Long Yun for less than a day was completely amateur to the fighter, and she asked Zhai Qize, who looked strange next to her, curiously:

"This sister's bodyguard, otaku, what is he going to do, is he going to fight that person?"

"Oh? Yes, they're going to have a race race. -- It is to set off at the same time, and fly 1,000 kilometers of round-trip route before anyone else. Whoever lands first wins. ”

"Oh? That's right. ”

Looking at the two huge fighters with the engines roaring in the take-off area, the girl's big watery eyes blinked. "This plane he flew is so beautiful, what kind of plane is it? My sister talked about this bodyguard, he can still fly a private jet, so he should be able to win this game, right? ”

"Well...... It's hard to say, I can't say it well. ”

His gaze stayed on the sleek "Flanker" fighter for a moment, and Zhai Qize looked at the sharp-shaped "Eagle" in the distance, this big boy who grew up in the United States and believed in advanced weapons became a little complicated, and he seemed to be muttering to himself:

"If you want to say that from a technical point of view, I am still more optimistic about McDonnell Douglas's 'eagle'."

……

After the pre-race tidbits of the take-off line debate, as soon as Qiē was ready, the race entered the tense countdown stage after the competition referee sent by NAARC confirmed.

Sitting in the cockpit of the Su-27SK with the air conditioning turned on, and receiving the radio command from the airport tower to "allow takeoff, count down to ten seconds", Long Yun temporarily put all other thoughts behind him and concentrated his energy to prepare for takeoff; His eyes were fixed on the green countdown number on the head-up display, and when the number turned to "0", he immediately released the brakes, turned on the afterburner fuel supply, and pushed the throttle valve forward to the top.

With the control actions of the two players in no particular order, the roar of the fighter engine at the top of the runway rose sharply, and a speed contest between the "flanker" and the "eagle" officially began!

Witnessing the scene of the fighter plane's afterburner taking off at close range, everyone at the scene felt a great shock.

Looking from the rear of the fighter at the end of the runway, the two twin-engine heavy fighters that were originally ready to launch suddenly moved slightly, and then began to speed up with full afterburner, and the tail nozzle of the high-thrust engine burst into bright afterburner flames almost instantly; The turbulence and tearing of the air caused by the massive exhaust gas gush, accompanied by the huge roar of the engine running, spread in all directions, and the sharp whistling of the jet engine swept in all directions like a tidal wave, almost deafening to stand close to the ears of the former.

Under the surging power of the two engines, the two behemoths with a maximum take-off weight of 30 tons suddenly turned into wild horses, gliding and taking off with a horizontal acceleration of more than 1G, and embarked on a thousand-mile journey of chasing me.

From standstill to acceleration and sliding, to the surprise of many laymen, the Su-27SK piloted by Long Yun actually rushed ahead of James's F-15C!

Thanks to the good burst acceleration characteristics of the AL-31F engine, it only takes four or five seconds from the intermediate state to the full afterburner state, and the Su-27SK, which is inferior in take-off weight, surpassed the F-15C at the beginning of the acceleration run, and also pulled up the nose and took off with its head held high before the opponent.

After feeling that the main landing gear was off the ground, Long Yun almost immediately flipped the switch to put away the landing gear, which may have been a bit risky, but racing is a race against time, and no detail can be spared.

However, although Long Yun's take-off action was fast, James of "MATRIX" was not willing to be left behind, seeing that his opponent was slightly ahead, he immediately pulled the lever and raised his head when the fighter was slightly behind in the run, relying on the high thrust-to-weight ratio of the F-15C to forcibly shorten the take-off distance. As the short accelerated take-off process ended, the two roaring heavy fighters soon roared into the sky one after the other, and the entire take-off distance was actually less than three hundred and fifty meters!

With such a short acceleration run distance and a rather violent forced take-off, it seems that this improvised, speed contest was full of gunpowder from the moment of departure. (To be continued......)