According to the navigation information, while slowing down and approaching the halfway turnback, James was quite skillful in maneuvering.

At this moment, on the large indoor display screen at the Sacramento Air Base, everyone in the hall can see the live action of this race, only to see that the leading F-15C, after yaw adjustment, has drawn an almost circular arc track at Mach 1.2 flight speed; The system automatically measured the hovering radius of the fighter is about 3,500 meters, and the turning overload is just pulled to the upper limit of about 5G of the old airframe, which is already a good example for the supersonic F-15.

With the completion of the turning and turning action, the arc track drawn by the "eagle" on the screen was comparable to crossing the sky above the switchback point, and the flight altitude of the fighter plane hardly changed, and the minimum projection distance between the track and the switchback point was less than 200 meters.

"Wow, well done!"

Seeing that James skillfully completed the halfway turn, at this time, the "flanker", which was already ahead of "Uranus", was close to 20 kilometers, and the members of "MATRIX" who were watching the battle broke out into a burst of cheers; Many of the people who bet on the "Eagle" also echoed the words, feeling that the large lead at the halfway point of the game had already laid the foundation for the victory of the whole contest. Looking at the fighter fuel storage on the big screen, James's "Eagle" still has about three tons of fuel, deducting the high loss of afterburner take-off, it is conceivable that he will fly faster in the second half than in the first half.

With such a good vision, just as the spectators focused on the F-15C, which had just entered the return journey and turned on the afterburner again, it flew over a distance of 20 kilometers, and the Su-27SK piloted by Long Yun was also unconsciously approaching the turnaround point. The time difference between the two fighters to the switchback point was about a minute.

Just now when piloting a fighter plane to approach the switchback point. On the way, I saw the F-15C, which had begun to return home, staggered over the side of its own route. Long Yun roughly estimated that James's return altitude was about 8,000 meters, and the flight speed was still relatively fast, and then the faint diffuse sonic boom confirmed his speculation.

This guy, who is still flying at afterburner supersonic speeds, is he planning to accumulate enough lead to give up his efforts to catch up?

Thinking of this, looking at the fuel gauge reading on the dashboard, a calm smile appeared on Long Yun's face.

The gray "flanker" in the sky was still flying steadily, and in the crowd of people sitting on the ground watching the battle, Shangguan Li on the folding chair in the hall was a little anxious.

Look at the huge display screen hanging from the wall of the hall. The girl who looked a little nervous was unconsciously clenching her fists, and she could see that she was a complete layman in aviation competition, and the game at this time was not optimistic, and the plane piloted by Long Yun was already one minute behind the opponent!

Seeing that the backward "flanker" was also approaching the halfway point at this time, he naturally had to turn around, what would happen to his watch?

At this moment, over the interior of Nevada, Long Yun had approached the turnaround point along the predetermined flight route according to his previous estimates.

However, unlike the previous James, the Su-27SK flight line he controlled was not directly facing the navigation point, so it did not need to enter yaw correction first like the over-speed F-15C; Now he almost went straight into the hovering U-turn. What needs to be grasped now is the hovering slope, which is very important to maintain a steady flight attitude.

If possible, of course. He will also try to keep the U-turn route close to the turnaround point, so as to save a little unnecessary flight distance.

When he nervously watched the navigation information prompt and confirmed that he was about to enter the circling route, he immediately pulled the lever to the right side in advance, and completely offset the inherent delay of the Su-27SK's lateral mechanical stabilization control with the help of decisive pre-operation.

With Long Yun's precise control, like a fluttering frightening, and like a goshawk strolling in the courtyard, the Su-27SK painted in gray air drew a clean arc-shaped track in the air; The lateral slope of the fighter plane was pressed just right, aerodynamic interference and turbulence were minimized, and on the live broadcast footage captured by the tracking camera, only two white fog strips caused by the turning maneuver swept across the back of the bulge with elegant lines.

The smoother the maneuver, the smaller the speed loss caused by drag, and the Su-27SK, which is huge in its body, is so calm at this moment, as if it is not the invisible thin air that lifts the fighter, but the standard inclined circular track of the racing test site.

After completing a perfect 180-degree U-turn, Long Yun's turning course was so close to the turnaround point that it was almost pressed on the green cursor representing the turnaround point; With the completion of the fighter's turnback action, the system automatically gives a hovering radius of 1,300 meters, and also measures the minimum projection distance between the track and the switchback point:

Fifteen meters.

Fifteen meters, an unbelievably small number, stunned everyone present.

"--Awesome, awesome!"

Staring at the big screen in disbelief, it was the pilots of the "Uranus" team who reacted first, and the spectators gathered in the hall also burst out in various exclamations full of shock and admiration after a short period of stunnedness.

This Chinese who drove the "Flanker", he is really a genius!

But how exactly did he do it?

At an altitude of 7,000 meters that is completely unlocalizable to the naked eye, hovering at the pressure point with the help of navigation information, the error distance from the switchback point is only equivalent to the wingspan of a "flanker"? If the average pilot can do this, it is purely an explosion of character, but the flight speed at which he enters the hovering is Mach 0.8 - he can control it so well at such a high speed, and the lateral overload is also accurately controlled in 5G, not a single point, a lot of points, it is simply not something that can be done by manpower!

Long Yun's wonderful performance not only shocked everyone on the scene, but also regained a considerable distance disadvantage in an instant.

In the U-turn flight just now, he not only flew closer to the turnaround point than James, so he flew less ineffective 400 meters in a straight line, but thanks to the Su-27SK's outstanding horizontal maneuverability and lower entry speed, the radius of the route of this turn and U-turn was also much smaller than that of the F-15.

This in and out, without spending a trace of excess fuel, he is equivalent to pulling back a gap of nearly five thousand meters at once, all the people watching the game are excited at this time, this top technology, strange Chinese, he still has a chance to turn over!

The people who saw Long Yun's perfect performance were cheering loudly, which made the viewing hall noisy for a while.

Accustomed to seeing the speed of the same kind of fighters in the previous NAARC, they had never seen a speed race so exciting before; In previous games, as long as you look at the performance parameters of the fighter, you can basically predict the outcome of the victory, but this "eagle" and "flanker" battle, which originally had no suspense, appeared so much to watch, which was really unexpected by everyone.

Under the control of that Chinese genius, perhaps the "Flanker", which emphasizes subsonic mobility and is huge, still has a chance! (To be continued......)