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Chapter 1522 A sudden whim (second update, please subscribe)

Facing the low-hanging sunset, Ye Xinlin drove the bullet-ridden plane to the sky above the airport. He taxied the plane to the tarmac and shut down the engine.

After an hour of fighting, Ye Xinlin felt so exhausted that he couldn't move, and he didn't even have the strength to climb out of the cockpit.The air battle scene just now came to mind again.

It was as if he saw the enemy plane that was hit by him and fell on fire, and the plane of his comrades crashed into the ground with a long smoke...

"Li Hao..."

As soon as the voice fell, Ye Xinlin stopped talking. Li Hao was his machine gunner, who died in the air before, and he failed to protect him. Thinking of this, Ye Xinlin's heart became heavier and heavier. When we were inside, the ground crew had already run over.

"My God, why are there so many bullet holes in the back seat?"

Xie Chengde looked at the body in surprise and asked.

"Li Hao, he..."

"died!"

He slammed the parachute lock with his hand, and after the seat belt disengaged, he jumped out of the cockpit.

Xie Chengde stood nearby, ready to reach out to take him off the wing.

"Officer Ye, it's good to be able to fly back, it's good to be able to fly back, those damn Yankees, like monkeys, always follow our ass to learn, but we are still better at it, this time, Chief Ye shot down a few... ..."

American pilots, like the young American Air Force, are learning like monkeys. This is the consensus of all imperial pilots. They are growing rapidly. In fact, air combat in this era is extremely cruel, because aircraft piloting is relatively simple, so The time to train pilots is short.Training a pilot only needs 18 hours of glider training, and then the pilot has 1 hours of flight training ([-]) before he can "put into battle".

The battlefield is the classroom of war, of course, this classroom is to use blood to teach people air combat - its loss rate is astonishingly high, sometimes the monthly loss rate of US military aircraft is as high as 66%!
Although the high loss rate of the U.S. Air Force has led to the emergence of a group of ace pilots in the Imperial Air Force, the air combat skills of U.S. pilots are also improving rapidly. After all, that class is at the cost of blood.

Seeing Li Hao's body being taken out from the ground crew cabin, sitting on the grass, staring at his plane full of bullet holes, Ye Xinlin said.

"This is simply not the way!"

"what?"

"I mean the Heavy."

Ye Xinlin frowned and said.

"When I was fighting the Americans in the air, I was flying the plane, and the machine gunner was in charge of shooting. We were two brains. The opportunity for air combat shooting was fleeting. Maybe I saw the opportunity, but he didn't see it. He saw it. At that time, I turned and rolled, so I missed the opportunity..."

Staring at the fuselage covered in bullet holes and the blood stains on the fuselage, Ye Xinlin frowned.

"It won't work like this. I definitely can't go on like this. Two people, two brains, how can it work?"

"Then be alone."

Xie Chengde took a puff of cigarette, stared at the plane and said.

"What? Alone, but..."

Ye Xinlin's eyes lit up, staring at Xie Chengde and asking nervously.

"Sergeant Major, you are a mechanic, can you let me control the machine gun..."

Staring at the plane for a while, Xie Chengde said.

"It's not impossible, but if you are the only one controlling the machine gun, you can't shoot 360 degrees like the machine gunner. I'm afraid..."

After thinking about it, Xie Chengde said.

"The machine gun has to be fixed and can only shoot forward."

"Shoot forward..."

Staring at the plane for a while, Ye Xinlin said.

"That's no problem. After all, I don't have eyes in the back of my head. Besides, I have to fly a plane, so I don't have the time to stare at the front, back, left, and right..."

"Indeed it is."

Xie Chengde nodded, then he stared at the plane and said.

"If we're going to do it, we have to think about where to put the machine gun. It's definitely not right in front of you. It's easier to aim that way, but the bullet will break the propeller."

"That's true. The reason why the machine gun seat has to be raised is to avoid the propeller blades. Well... where the machine gun is placed is a problem."

The more he talked, the more Xie Chengde felt that this matter was not as simple as he imagined

"It's still a big problem. Not only should the position be considered, but also how to fire it. If it can't be fired, it's just a decoration."

"Actually, the key is to avoid the propeller blades."

"is not that right."

The two walked and chatted, and they gestured to the position of the machine gun, imagining where the machine gun should be placed.

"What about putting it on the wing?"

Suddenly, Xie Chengde said.

"What put it on the wing?"

"Yeah, we have pylons on the wings, we put the machine gun in a box and put it in there,"

"Oh, I see, it's a solution, but..."

After thinking about it, Ye Xinlin said.

"In this way, the plane will not be able to drop bombs, which will definitely affect the combat effectiveness."

In fact, when he said these words, another thought popped up in Ye Xinlin's mind—airplanes are for fighting.In other words, as the U.S. air force becomes stronger and stronger, they must need aircraft dedicated to combat.

It is fighter jets. As for bombing, it will definitely be carried out by dedicated aircraft in the future.Of course, this was just an idea, but Ye Xinlin believed in his own judgment.

"This is also..."

Nodding his head, Xie Chengde said.

"In this case, we can only put the machine gun on the upper wing!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the upper wing of a plane.

"When you attack head-on, the gunner's machine gun sits on the upper wing...well, maybe on the back, where the gunner sits, so we don't even have to modify the ammo box, Just hold the machine gun in there and connect the trigger with a joystick...yes, that's it, no..."

Xie Chengde suddenly said excitedly as if he had figured something out.

"The big drum should not be kept, so we fixed it on the upper wing and canceled the seats on the back of the plane, so that the body of the plane is more fluid. I estimate that its speed may even exceed 200 kilometers per hour... "

With reduced drag, naturally speed increases and maneuverability improves.The speed has increased and the maneuverability has increased, then this aircraft will definitely become the king of the air.

Ten minutes later, in the office of the captain of the regiment, Ding Haodong, after hearing their report, rubbed his forehead with his fingers and remained silent for a long time.After a long time, he said happily: "This is great! That is to say, in this way, we will very likely create a new way of air combat! However, it must be tested first. In this way... Sergeant Xie, you can use a plane to test it, um, Second Lieutenant Ye, just use your plane, the machine gunner will not be equipped for you for the time being..."

Sometimes, it has to be admitted that a whimsy really changes everything, and in the course of humanity, many things are recommended by the occasional whimsy.

A sudden inspiration can sometimes really change everything, but when it happens, no one can predict it.

(End of this chapter)