Chapter 413: "Fighting Turkey" Over the Atlantic! (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
"Quick, send a telegram to the Kaga, let's just say we've found ...... in the area of engagement Dozens of American Airlines ...... By the way, what is that? Aircraft carrier or carrier sampan? β
"Squadron Leader, even if it's a carrier sampan...... It's easier to understand. β
"Good, good, it's an aviation sampan! Hurry, send a telegram! β
"Yes!"
Over the Atlantic Ocean, watching the small American plane below take off from the small sampan, Feng Mingshan's first thought was to report to the top - this is a major discovery!
Although the Ming side has long known that the British and Americans also have aircraft that can be used for air combat, and they also know that both countries are stepping up the construction of aircraft-carrying battleships and aircraft-carrying armored cruisers, but the incredible thing of the aircraft-carrying sampan, even if there is a spy report, will be regarded as a joke by the people in the naval intelligence department.
Therefore, all the pilots of the Hainan Airlines, including Fengmingshan, were not told that the enemy had a small sampan for the aircraft, which was an eye-opener!
And when the co-pilot began to send a telegram, Feng Mingshan began to think about how to deal with these planes that took off from the small sampan. Because it was known for a long time that British and American imperialism would sooner or later build planes that could be used in air combat, the Ming naval aviation began to contact the ability to fight planes in the air very early. There are two main training methods for them: one is to drive an airplane to tow a target in the sky - that is, an airplane drags a glider as a target to go up to the sky for other planes to hit; The second is to practice turning in circles and chasing tails, because there is generally no machine gun on the "machine butt", so spanking is the safest.
Except for target shooting and rear-end chasing, the pilots of the Daming Naval Aviation have never practiced anything else, and as for the fleet tactics such as "two-plane coordination" and "four-plane cooperation", they have never practiced it. And the reason why these synergies are not carried out is because the current airborne radio station is too stretched. At present, only the Ssangyong aircraft are equipped with relatively reliable radio stations -- each carrier-based aircraft squadron generally has two Ssangyong, which are personally piloted by the squadron leader and deputy squadron leader, and they usually have to make guest appearances as reconnaissance planes and fly overtime everywhere.
The other Flying Dragons single-seat fighters have only one ore radio with very poor performance, which cannot send reports and broadcasts, can only be broadcast, and often cannot be received, pointing to these ore radios for command is very difficult, and the reason why it is necessary to install them on the aircraft is mainly to be able to use the high-power radio on the carrier aircraft warship to play music to navigate the returning Flying Dragons.
Although the radio communication is unreliable, Feng Mingshan still has a way to command. His co-pilot carried two small red and black flags, waving the red flag was to prepare for bombing, and waving the black flag was to throw away the bomb and prepare for air battle...... However, it is impossible to pick up a bomb that is casually thrown away, and a plane without a bomb will not be able to attack!
Therefore, after the ace pilot visually measured the speed of the small planes that took off from the sampan of the carrier aircraft and flew towards his side, he immediately had a way......
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Second Lieutenant Davis, a "American" from Ireland, was slowly climbing high in his beloved Kelly F1 "Sampan Carrying Water Fighter" at this time, and shouted excitedly: "Damn yellow-skinned monkeys, get out of here, America is our Americans!" β
He had become an "American" two weeks earlier, and before he became an "American" he was an Irishman under the British Empire, a sharecropper who was supposed to grow potatoes in Ireland for the rest of his life. But he was lucky, caught up with the Royal Navy's recruitment of "man-powered gliding bombs" bomb operators, and finally got rid of the fate of eating potatoes every day and became a glorious bomb operator.
However, before he could complete his bomb training, the Royal Navy abandoned the "bomb project" and invested in real aircraft. Davis's training bombardiers were lucky enough to become the first generation of pilots in the Royal Navy. However, compared to bombardiers, pilots are both windy and less dangerous, and some of them are adventurous children of rich English families who want to do it...... Therefore, these pilots upgraded from Irish bombardiers were very eye-catching in the eyes of the Royal Navy's top brass, so they were packaged and sent to the United States at the suggestion of Sir Hardy, the First Sea Lord.
And these Irish have found a sense of "home" on the side of US President Jackson! The United States needs pilots too much...... Moreover, the Irish who believe in Catholicism are at least second-class citizens in the United States, and there are also "Latin whites", "Slavic whites", "various half-breed whites", "black uncles", and Indian anfis.
So President Jackson warmly met with these Irish pilots at the White House, and awarded them the rank of second lieutenant, U.S. citizenship, $1,000 settling-in payment, and 160 acres of land each!
Now all the Irish pilots immediately identified themselves as Americans, and of course with President Jackson's idea that America is Americana for Americans! It's not the land of the yellow race of East Asians, not the black Africans, not the Indians, but the white-skinned, God-believing Americans!
With faith in God and an endorsement of the idea that "America is the America of the Americans," Davis and his comrades-in-arms were extremely excited when they first took to the skies β especially when they discovered that the East Asian planes in the sky were fleeing timidly.
They must have been scared of the Kelly F1...... It was a very powerful aircraft, with an 80 hp rotary engine that powered the aircraft, and an air-cooled Vickers machine gun that allowed the pilot to aim while flying the aircraft.
In order to prevent the bullets of the machine gun from damaging the propeller of the aircraft, the engineers of the Kelly F1 aircraft also geniusly invented the "bulletproof wedge-shaped steel sheet for the propeller...... It is to attach a piece of steel to the inside of the propeller that can bounce the bullet that hits it to the sides.
With this genius design, the Kelly F1 is sure to put on a great turkey show over the Atlantic!
The problem now is that the Kelly F1 seems to be flying too slow and can't catch up with the enemy plane. So Davis pushed the push lever that controlled the throttle to the end, and drove his plane to chase after Ssangyong and Haifeilong who fled in the sky.
"Squadron Leader...... The American seaplanes are catching up, and they are chasing farther and farther! β
Feng Mingshan, who was concentrating on flying the plane away, almost amused his co-pilot with a great sense of humor. He looked back, and he was really chasing farther and farther! Although the American seaplanes can take off from a sampan very magically, they are very slow after flying, and the speed may only be 100-120 kilometers per hour, and they cannot catch up with Ssangyong and Haifeilong at all. But the pilots were quite brave and rushed to their deaths.
"Let's kill them later," Feng Mingshan said, "find a United States-class ship and drop the bomb first, and then go and hit their 'machine ass'!" β
"Well, I'll look for ...... right away I found it, and at 9 o'clock in the lower left, there was a United States-class ship bombarding the Bolivar, the flagship of the Mexicans! Wow, a straddle shot, the BolΓvar is hanging! β
Feng Mingshan stretched out his short neck and looked down, the Bolivar was indeed hanging, and at least 3 United States-class ships were beating it with 12-inch cannons!
"Okay, wave the red flag! Get ready to drop the bomb! β
"Yes, Squadron Leader!" The co-pilot listened to Feng Mingshan's order, and immediately took out a red flag and raised it and waved it again and again, "Wave it, it's good!" β
Feng Mingshan said: "Sit tight, it's time to dive!" β
As soon as he said that, he pushed the joystick, and his plane lowered its head and dived down at an angle of about 40 degrees towards the United States-class ship below. And the 18 sea dragons that followed behind Fengming Mountain also followed suit, and they all began to "plant" one after another. And their "planting" can stunned Davis and others who are trying to catch up behind.
What's going on? Why did you "crash" before you hit it?
Thinking about the wrong Davis, he quickly poked his head out and looked around, and knew that it was not good at a glance. Because he saw 19 biplanes, one after the other, swooping down from an altitude of nearly 2,000 meters towards a United States-class battleship in the sea below.
Is this to "hit a warship"? Are these yellows crazy?
As soon as he thought of this, the first plane that had been "planted" had already been pulled up reluctantly, and at the same time, a huge water mass suddenly exploded more than ten meters away from the starboard side of the United States-class battleship, which was frantically firing into the sky!
Not to hit a warship, but to throw bombs!
Davis is even more nervous, there are still a dozen planes to throw! And he is too far away from these planes now, and the Kelly F1 can't dive like that, and it won't fall apart, so he can only watch from a distance and pray for the warships below!
"God bless ......"
"Boom!"
Davis's "God forbid" just came out, and he hasn't said anything about "blessing" yet? The United States class down there has already been a bomb...... At the same time, the small planes that had already dropped their bombs were rapidly pulling up and rushing towards the back of the F1 plane piloted by Davis!
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