Doomsday rat

Chapter 401 The backward and advanced

He was sitting in the cockpit of an airplane at this time. If he could wear a leather hat, he would feel a bit like a German pilot during World War I.

Why do I say that, because this plane is so characteristic of World War I, it is actually a single-engine biplane, and a Chinese cabbage is painted on the white fuselage, which is so simple.

I have to ask, is there still a biplane in the 21st century?Hong Tao thought about this question for a long time when he saw this plane in the hangar of Pinggu Airport, but he didn't understand it.

But after trying all the planes on the tarmac and in the hangar, none of them are suitable... To be honest, there are really not many decent planes in this small airport, and the maintenance is relatively poor. Too small, the ones of the right size can’t fly, and they can’t even be repaired.

It was really hopeless, so he tried to start the plane with the thought of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor.Fate, I checked it a little bit, added lubricating oil and hydraulic oil, and it started successfully once.

Then he tried to slide onto the runway with great anxiety, and asked Schultz to use a telescope to watch for any missing parts.In the end, there was nothing wrong with it. There was nothing wrong with this antique biplane. It flew up after only running a few hundred meters.

Up to now, Hong Tao didn't dare to rest assured. He went back and forth around the airport seven or eight times trying to find a fault, but unfortunately he didn't find a single fault. All he felt were advantages.

Its takeoff and landing distance is very short. If it is empty, if the wind direction is right, it can take off and land within 200 meters.But its stomach is quite big, and it can hold 20 people or more than a ton of goods.According to more than two hours of flight test data, it is no problem to stay in the air for 5 or 6 hours with full fuel.

Of course, its flying speed is a bit slow, and it can only fly at a speed of more than 3500 kilometers per hour at an altitude of 200 meters.If you are not in a hurry, you can fly slowly at low altitude, and it is not much faster than a car, only 170 kilometers.

But the speed depends on the timing. At this moment, being slow is really not a shortcoming. Hong Tao needs to fly slowly. It is best to leave 1 as well, leaving 70 is enough.

It's a pity that I searched every room in the airport, but I couldn't find any information about this aircraft. I only know that it is called Yun-5B on the nameplate, and it was produced by SJZ Aircraft Manufacturing Company in 1999.

Ever since he saw this nameplate, Hong Tao's uneasy mood finally calmed down completely.It's just that he looks old and not very old. This doesn't fit his temperament, it's a perfect match!

As for the disadvantages, there is also one. It cannot be equipped with a thermal imaging system removed from the armed helicopter. It is still a bit fast to scan the ground at a speed of 170 kilometers per hour. If you want to see clearly, you can only operate it by hand.

Fortunately, one or two more passengers is not a big problem for this plane, and a shelf can be welded on the side door to install the thermal imaging camera on it.When I drove my car to hunt rabbits in the ravine, I installed the searchlight on the car door, and it was not inconvenient except that I couldn't close the windows and it was a bit cold.

What really made Hong Tao make up his mind to fly this old-fashioned plane into the sky, apart from many advantages, the most important thing was actually an episode.While inspecting the aircraft's cockpit equipment, Schultz discovered a very special component.

A curved handle is fixed on the wall on the right side behind the cockpit, which looks a lot like the handle of a walk-behind tractor.But the plane has an electric ignition device, do I need to start it by hand?

After pondering for a long time, the two of them found a small hole under the handle of the crank, inserted it in for a try, and it fit perfectly!So what are you waiting for, top up the oil and shake it vigorously.As a result, after shaking it several times in turn, a puff of black smoke came out of the engine, and it was actually shaken!
What does this mean?It means that as long as the aircraft body is complete, the fuel is sufficient, and the pilot does not fall asleep, even if there is an electrical failure, there will be no air crash.

When other planes stop in the air, even if only one of the twin engines stops, it will be very troublesome to start again, and there is a high probability of death.

But this Yun-5B will not, its aerodynamic shape is very good, and it can glide if it loses power temporarily.At this time, go to the back and shake it. As long as the engine is not malfunctioning, it will restart after a few shakes. Don’t you think it’s annoying!
"Report to the captain, the lubricating oil pressure and temperature are normal, the hydraulic pressure is normal, the wind direction is southeast, and the wind force... Anyway, there is no wind, please instruct!"

As soon as the airborne radio was put down, there was a crisp shout behind him.Zhang Ke and Gou Chenzhi each wore a small brown flight suit with goggles on their heads, more like pilots than Hong Tao.

"Everyone, get ready to taxi!" Hong Tao waved his hand casually to the side, and slowly pushed the throttle.Driven by a nine-cylinder radial engine, the four metal paddles rotate faster and faster, cutting the air continuously and making crackling noises.

In fact, flying this kind of aircraft is extremely simple, you don’t need to look at any instruments, just listen to the noise from the engine and the propeller, and you can roughly know how low the engine’s speed is, how much lift it can provide, and what kind of maneuvers it can do. , there is no hidden trouble.

As the clattering sound turned into a dense chug, the fuselage moved slightly forward.Release the brake, aim at the runway... No, aim at the main road, push the throttle valve from 10% to 40% evenly within a distance of several hundred meters, and then pull the joystick lightly, it will flew up.

It is no more difficult than driving an old Jiefang car. There are no bicycles on the side of the road to compete with you, and there is no two-legged clutch and gear change procedure of stepping on, picking up, hitting, and hanging, and there is no need to check the mirror while looking at the car beside you to stop...

The taxiing distance of 200 meters starts from the entrance of Zhongshan Park, and the wheels leave the ground just after passing the flagpole of the square. When it reaches the intersection of Wangfujing, the plane has pulled up to 3 meters at a speed of 200 meters per second, and its posture is very stable.I have to say that with one more pair of wings than others, the low-altitude and low-speed performance is good!

Taking off in a big city full of tall buildings feels different from an airport.The building looks so close, it looks like a model in a sand table, a bit like playing an analog video game.

"Look, look, Grandpa Sun has set the building on fire!" The child is full of energy. Standing between the driver and the co-pilot, Zhang Ke is not at all worried about the imminent battle and the uncertainty of life and death. He is still in the mood to watch the night scene outside .

But the scene outside is really interesting. In the large urban area from Chang'an Avenue to the south, all buildings with a height of more than 30 floors have become torches, and a bunch of bonfires are lit on each of them.

This is the aviation obstruction light of Sun Jiancheng. In order to facilitate the take-off and landing of planes, the utility poles near Chang'an Avenue have been brought down, causing confusion in many lines in Nancheng, and the Ministry of Energy has no way to restore it in a short time.Let's re-stretch the temporary wires. The amount of work is too large, so Sun Jianshe came up with this simple method.

The effect...it's okay, as long as you can see the light at night and know the relative altitude.It's just that the smoke is a bit big, which slightly affects the landing.

However, Sun Jianshe also said that when he joined the army, he practiced how to build a field airport.If you don’t have beacon lights, don’t be afraid. Get more vehicles to park on both sides of Chang’an Street, one car tens of meters away. After filling the fuel tank and starting the car, turn on the lights, and there will be two rows of beacon lights.

Is Hong Tao going to take off at night?That's right, in the evening, Schultz drove the C130 out again and brought back two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

The good news is that the army of zombies has split, and the two roads on the east have penetrated into the urban area of ​​TJ at one end, and the advance speed has slowed down.The two roads on the west are still going northward without any hesitation, and the distance between them has been widened.In this way, the army of zombies that the revival alliance needs to deal with has been directly reduced by half from the million level.

The bad news is that based on the speed of the afternoon, the army of zombies from the west will probably arrive in the city at night.Night is no different for zombies, but it is a bit troublesome for humans. The shooting distance is shortened, which is not conducive to observing the battlefield situation.

In order to reduce the threat of the zombie army as much as possible, Hong Tao decided to attack in advance to see if he could find traces of the living corpses during the march and kill them.Muller and Andre have already taken off from Nanyuan Airport in a newly refitted helicopter. The reason why I procrastinated a little longer is to finally announce the general mobilization before the war. Otherwise, after flying up and coming back, the battle may have already begun. up.

(End of this chapter)