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The service ceremony of the fourth aircraft carrier battle group was very simple. Su Dao simply delivered a congratulatory speech, and then Yang Shuming gave a short lecture, followed by the commander of the fourth aircraft carrier battle group, and then, nothing more.

Next, the fourth aircraft carrier battle group will have a week of familiarization in the port. After a week, it will try to start training at sea. Anyway, it is in the inner sea, and the whole process is within the protection range of land-based fighters, so it is not afraid of any danger.

After getting out of the pier, Su Dao drove to Air Force One Airport. There are five airports on the entire island, one in the east, one in the east, one in the south, one in the north, and one in the middle.

After several months of technical research, the design and assembly of the first domestic fighter jet has finally been completed, and the first flight test is scheduled for today. If there are no problems today, all the test flights will be completed within a month The task will be formally delivered to the factory for production one month later.

At this time, all the factories are on standby, and there is no such thing as an unoccupied production line. It can be said that as long as the specific drawings are delivered, and then a few technicians are sent to guide, the factory can immediately enter formal production.

From the appearance of the fighter jet that was tested today, it imitates the appearance of the Hellcat fighter jet to a large extent, but if you look closely, you can feel that there is a big difference. First of all, this fighter jet looks very bulky. You can tell that this guy's weight is definitely not light.

The engine equipped with the new fighter is a napier saber iiib (h 24 cylinder) engine produced in the UK, power: 3055 horsepower (2230kw) 3650rpm engine.However, this is a modified engine. It can be said that under the guidance of Su Dao's unintentional sentence, the research and development personnel developed a new engine after comparing it with several engines.

The current performance of this engine is far inferior to the original engine. First of all, the biggest change is to change the 24-cylinder engine to a 16-cylinder, and the power will naturally be reduced a lot, from the original 3055 horsepower to 2480 horsepower.

Why reduce the power of the engine?It's very simple, because the current fighter jets can't bear such a large power at all, or it seems a bit wasteful to install this engine on a fighter jet, and it can't exert its power at all.

The most important point is that this engine is a bit too fuel-intensive after it is equipped, which is ten liters more than other engines.And it also increased the weight of the fighter.Reduced range of fighter jets.

If it is developed according to the original version of the engine, then after it is equipped with the fuselage, the range of the new fighter is somewhat insufficient compared to the bf109, only about [-] kilometers away.

And now.The weight of the engine has been reduced by 30.00%.The capacity of the fuel tank and the way of fuel supply have been increased.It is said that the fuel tank is too big to be afraid of hitting, but this situation does not appear on this fighter.

Because there is a layer of steel plate protection around the fuel tank, the steel plate of the fuselage has also been thickened.It is difficult for ordinary machine gun bullets to penetrate his protection. Even a 20mm machine gun has a certain difficulty in penetrating two layers of steel plates.

And the unladen weight of this fighter is heavier than that of the Hellcat fighter, which is a full 4519kg, while the Hellcat is only 4190kg. The weight of the new fighter is mainly placed on the protection of the fighter. The armor accounts for more than half of the weight.

As for the firepower, the new fighter has also been strengthened to a certain extent. There are four 12.7mm machine guns on the wings on both sides, and two 20mm cannons on the engine of the nose. Up and down, front and rear ammunition feeding mode is to line up in a row from the back first, push forward one by one, and then arrange the ammunition feeding vertically when the machine gun is on the side, so as to avoid taking up more engine space as much as possible.

The outside of the fuselage is also equipped with an external hook, which can carry a 250kg bomb on the abdomen, and a total of four 100kg bombs can be carried under the wings.

Therefore, based on a series of data, if this engine achieves the expected effect, the combat radius of this fighter should be more than [-] kilometers, which is farther than the Hellcat fighter currently equipped, but this is only the expected effect. Specifically, it depends on the test flight of the meeting. (The author doesn't know much about fighter jets. I made up these data myself. Don't mind, it's mainly for the plot.)

Of course, if the expected effect is achieved, then the next few test flights will challenge the limit of this fighter, because if we only look at the data, the fuel tank capacity plus the weight of the fighter, coupled with the fuel consumption of the engine, this The range of this fighter should be about [-] kilometers, and if it flies at its cruising speed, its radius should reach about [-] kilometers.

This is only a theoretical distance. In fact, it is impossible to fly at the cruising speed when flying. In addition to the ammunition carried, the weight will increase a lot. When it comes to combat, the combat radius can be [-] to [-] Kilometers are pretty good.

"Well, it looks very domineering, but I don't know how it will work."

Su Dao looked around the fighter plane, looking back and forth with the theoretical data of the fighter plane in his hand, no matter how it looked, it looked like an enlarged version of the Hellcat.

"Now I am also very entangled, so I can only wait for the test flight to see the effect."

Feng Karmen took Qian Xuesen and stood behind Su Dao. Now that he has come to Huaxia, Feng Karmen has also learned to speak Chinese from these people. After all, the people under him are all Chinese, and it is more troublesome to translate back and forth. Are you engaged in scientific research? All have the energy to learn the language.

What's more, you can learn it in your life, and you don't need to spend too much time deliberately, so after two years, von Karman's Chinese level is quite good. Very good.

"Hehe, is it the first fighter? It doesn't matter whether you succeed or fail. The most important thing is that you researchers have gained valuable experience from this research and development process, so you can be more handy when developing the next fighter. Developed It is suitable for the army and is a fighter that is deeply loved by officers and soldiers."

Su Dao chuckled. In the past, he was always looking forward to the quick appearance of domestic fighters, but now that they really appeared, Su Dao was not so nervous when it was time for the test flight.

Although the technology of other countries is also developing, it is still impossible to catch up with Su Dao in a short time, but once they surpass Su Dao, it will be difficult for Su Dao to catch up with them in the future.

So what Su Dao cares about this time is not the success or failure of the fighter, but how much these researchers have learned from this research and development process.As long as the experience is there.They can research more advanced fighters at any time.

"what's your name!"

Su Dao glanced at the test pilot standing next to the fighter plane, and originally wanted to pretend to ask the young man, what is your name, but then he changed his mind.My own age may not be as old as others.It felt a bit too pretentious when the words came out.So I took back the three words young man in front of me.

"Report to Your Majesty, Zhu Dazhang, Major of the Air Force. Battalion Commander of the Third Air Division and Regiment, and Chief Test Pilot."

When Zhu Dazhang heard Su Dao asked his name, he hurriedly shouted out loudly, and even shouted out his position.

"Air Force Battalion Commander? Well, you are an experienced old pilot. I am very relieved of you, but you have to reassure me."

Su Dao nodded thoughtfully and said, Zhu Dazhang was stunned for a while, mistakenly thinking that Su Dao valued this test flight very much, and he was afraid that he would fail or something, so he hurriedly said:

"Guaranteed to complete the mission."

"..." This time it was Su Dao's turn to be speechless, but recalling what he said earlier, it seemed normal to misunderstand the meaning, Su Dao quickly changed his words:

"I don't just need to complete the task to rest assured. To be honest, I don't have much hope for the success of the first flight of the fighter plane. As long as the person is fine. You are an old pilot. You should know in case of an emergency. What to do.

So I ask you, once you encounter a problem that cannot be solved, you must immediately choose to parachute, but in order for the R&D personnel to find the problem of the fighter plane smoothly, after you take off, you have to conduct a test flight along the coast, even if it crashes Also let him fall into the sea, try to ensure the integrity of the fighter as much as possible, so that it is easy to find problems.But no matter what, your safety must be guaranteed. "

"Yes, Your Majesty, a life is more expensive than an airplane."

Zhu Dazhang nodded quickly after hearing Su Dao's explanation.

"Hmm! Test flight."

Su Dao also nodded, thinking to himself, children can be taught, as everyone knows, these grassroots officers have always taught recruits like this, that life is more expensive than airplanes, anyway, there are all kinds of versions, and here only life is the most important thing The valuable ones are just floating clouds.

After getting the order, Zhu Dazhang quickly turned on the fighter plane, and after making all preparations, Zhu Dazhang skillfully turned on the engine of the fighter plane.

Zhu Dazhang was transferred to the scientific research base as early as two months ago, and he followed the researchers when they were studying the fighter planes. Whenever the researchers solved a problem, or when assembling the fighter planes, they would explain it to Zhu Dazhang, so that he could thoroughly solve the problem. It is necessary to understand the basic principles of this fighter.

The first flight doesn't seem to mean anything to other people, but it is very important to a first-flight pilot. Before knowing the performance of the fighter, rushing into the air is tantamount to giving his life to the fighter.

Every lift-off of the Air Force may be the last moment of their lives, and the danger of landing them unsafely will not be lifted. Therefore, after two months of familiarization, Zhu Dazhang already knows this fighter plane like the back of his hand.

After a short warm-up period, the fighter plane successfully entered the runway under the guidance of the ground crew, and then the tower sent back an order, and all scientific research personnel also entered the tower, and recorded detailed test data through communication with Zhu Dazhang.

Due to the high horsepower of the fighter plane, the taxiing distance is also slightly shorter, only about two-thirds of the original fighter plane, and the fighter plane flew smoothly. At the beginning, Zhu Dazhang didn't dare to do too exaggerated movements. Just flying steadily.

Then, according to the tower's instructions, I started to make various low-difficulty movements to test the turning of the fighter plane and other data, followed by acceleration to test the flight attitude of the fighter plane at a speed of [-] kilometers and the stability of the fighter plane, of course. , the flight attitude was naturally observed by the four Hellcat fighter jets accompanying him in the test flight.

After getting the order, Zhu Dazhang quickly pushed the speed of the fighter to [-] kilometers, while the Hellcat fighter that accelerated at the same time was thrown away by Zhu Dazhang, but caught up quickly after Zhu Dazhang stopped accelerating.

After doing this, Zhu Dazhang got the order to return. After all, it was only the first flight, and they didn't dare to conduct too many tests. After returning to the ground, they went through a brief inspection. The next day, a second test flight was conducted. (To be continued..)