Chapter 952 The Butterfly Effect
But if the break of the wing control hinge of the A10 attack aircraft wing control causes the aircraft to lose control, the old "warthog" with hydraulic power can also use the pilot's experience to try to activate the manual control device to see if she can return to the airport to land.
It is not that simple if the B1B sweep-wing tactical bomber fails.
If each A10 attack aircraft costing $9.5 million is a bargain for durability, the B1B tactical bomber was not in service in the 1990s and had never participated in the war. It was not until the Gulf War in 1998 that it began to participate in the war. What impressed the Chinese people the most was that this fighter jet participated in the Kosovo War, bombed the Confederate Yugoslavia and also bombed the Chinese Embassy in the Confederate Yugoslavia!
This first-generation stealth bomber has a unit price of 200 million US dollars! In addition, it has been discontinued and not manufactured, so the high R&D costs are calculated to the current dozens of B1Bs, resulting in a unit price of 2 billion US dollars per unit!
The US military's attitude of spending money can be seen!
B1B is fully electronically controlled...
When the high-angle wing should have swept back and turned into acute-angle wings during supersonic cruise flight, a B1B feels something is wrong, and some sensing components feedback alarms!
Advanced things are indeed good, but once there is a problem, repair and solving problems are much more complicated than old-fashioned principles. This is the most obvious manifestation in the automotive industry. What about fighter jets? When there is a problem, they are in the air. They cannot be repaired by simply stopping by the side. The first thing is to control the flight status and maintain a stable landing!
Tactical bombers are weapons that can only be controlled by the most elite fighter pilot wing in the United States, so the quality of the pilot is still a little higher than that of the A10. What’s more important is that there are 4 crew members on the B1B, so they can do some negotiation and remediation.
So while communicating with the tower, I tried my best to control myself and try to land at the airport.
The A10 also wants to land, and the A10 after the mechanical transmission is out of control is obviously stronger in control, and the pilot is more confident, shouting and demanding to land quickly.
This is what is called "the roof leaks and rains all night long". Fortunately, the air base in Karta is extremely large, and the tower quickly ordered the two aircraft to operate and enter the venue at different angles.
But just as everyone was nervously watching the two small black dots in the air approaching from different angles, two or three aircraft successively raised the problem of their own control!
Almost subconsciously, all tower personnel would not think that this was an accidental incident. On the other hand, someone quickly followed the base command center, the internal crime investigation department, the logistics support department, including the CIA liaison report.
Here we have already started to summon all fighter jets back, preparing to stop all training subjects and comprehensively inspect the fighter jets...
Just as this command was transmitted to the pilot's ears in the phone, the B1B, which was the first to land, fell!
It is very simple. A large fighter that claims to be able to pass through at a low altitude and high speed of 40 meters has abnormal control capabilities. The lower the altitude and lower the speed, the worse the air bearing capacity. When the angle has been corrected and dropped to more than 60 meters, the problem on the swept wings may cause the angle of the wings on both sides to be different, and it will be unbalanced at once!
When Boss Qi started, he randomly chose the wing orientation. Where can he balance the two sides?
At a height of tens of meters, there was no time to react and hit the ground! A huge fireball bloomed on the continuous houses in the suburbs of Beda!
It has not been consumed to take off the air with full fuel, and there is not even time to evacuate the fuel compartment. B1B must land immediately, which shows how urgent it is.
Instead, the A10 staggered and emptied the fuel compartment in the desert before landing barely. With the fear of the air force controllers on the tower, they finally glided on the runway!
Just now, I was surprised to see the burning explosion scene on the other side with incredible surprise. There was a lot of joy on the tower!
Success!
God bless the United States!
Just like in countless Hollywood blockbusters, it was finally successful without any danger. As long as one person successfully landed like this, it seemed that the United States would not lose hope, and the universe would push the wheels of history forward. The spirit of applauding and embracing each other made everyone feel very accomplished!
But at this moment!
Suddenly, the A10 was a dog chewing on the mud!
The front landing gear is folded!
When the rear wheel first landed, the front wheels fell to the runway, and the tire shaft broke!
The black tires rolled away on their own...
The landing gear slid hard on the ground, dragging it out with sparks, and inserted into the runway ground like a blade.
The attack plane that was galloping at high speed only heard the pilot cursing Shet, and even the ejection compartment was too late to open, because the front landing gear was tripped, and the entire fighter rolled up under the drive of inertia!
The rolling of military aircraft is much more tragic than that of cars. There is nothing that is not thin in the nose, wings, and tail. It disintegrates and explodes in an instant. Fortunately, the oil is almost empty, and the explosion is not that big...
But it still shocked the people inside the tower!
It also shocked the pilots in the air...
The crash of two fighter planes can be observed more clearly in the air than on the ground, which is even more tragic!
Of course, two four thousand meters long parallel high-level combat readiness runways will not reduce the take-off and landing space just because of the debris of an A10. The dazed tower controllers began to direct and arrange landings under the anxious call of several aircraft...
The fire squadron at the air force base had sounded an alarm and rushed towards the B1B crash site outside the base. However, unlike the past when all the staff dispatched more than a dozen fire trucks, two went to the crash site of the A10, and the rest were still parked on the side of the runway and flicked the sirens, but did not leave. Who knows if the fighter planes would crash later?
This is almost a day that can be recorded in the history of the US aviation force!
Americans like to describe their behavior in this very historical tone. Today is indeed a very ironic page in history.
The commander of the Air Force Base had immediately arrived at the tower, and the central command of another base also broadcast live simultaneously. Almost all the American soldiers who received the news stood in front of the screens of various monitors and TVs to watch the scene. Many soldiers stood directly on the side of the wire outside the runway, looking up at the more than ten fighter jets, seven A10s, and six B1Bs, which were the fighter jets left in the air, and everyone raised their hearts to their throats.
A B1B has begun to enter the field. There was a problem with the main wing of the plane, which was also swept back. After discussing at the tower, several aviation divisions asked them to change the landing method. Do not change the current wings to maintain symmetry, and then keep a high speed to slide down. They are ready to pull up the nose and take off again. This is a bit similar to the self-rescue method of unsuccessful landing of the aircraft carrier.
The fighter received it and started entering the field with a huge roar. Then the situation that everyone was most afraid of was still happening, and the landing gear was still tampered with. And this time it was the rear wheel, the right rear wheel, and the thick hydraulic shock absorber arm had just hit the ground, and one end was broken!
As the fuselage was tilted, B1B, as a strategic bomber, was easily dragged to the ground with its long figure and wings, bringing out a heart-pounding spark!
If you slide down as before, you might have made a landing landing, but all the pilot's attention is to pull the head of the plane at any time. At this time, you can only hear the tower exclaiming that there is something wrong with the landing gear, so you quickly want to pull it up...
The rear of the entire rear half almost hit the ground obliquely...
This is like the famous cobra action made by the Russian Su-27 fighter, but it is controlled by others, and it is caused by a wreck!
Just in front of almost everyone, the B1B suddenly raised its head, really like a cobra, and then it rolled without any surprises!
Turned into another big fireball...
The air pilot is about to collapse!
The base commander made a quick decision: "A10 tried to land and land on the belly of the plane, and B1B tried to land for a forced landing... If it really doesn't work, abandon the plane on the sea and eject it!" Because no one knew and could not tell whether the aerodynamic components of those aircraft were tampered with by others!
These are two types of fighter jets with great differences. The A10 attack aircraft is to slowly pass by the battlefield at a low altitude, so the lower half of the body nicknamed Warthog is like a solid metal cast bathtub. Originally, landing on the belly is also an extreme subject, but the delicate and expensive B1B is not suitable for doing such a reckless thing!
This air force base, which was originally built on the desert, is surrounded by a long yellow sand Gobi Desert...
A large number of rescue convoys and firefighting convoys surged out...
This is indeed the most worth recording day in the history of the US aviation force!
In the end, five A10s were successfully landed successfully, and the pilot survived. Two of them either had mechanical failure or lost control during the process, and one of the pilots was successfully ejected.
Only one B1B was successfully landed successfully, three aircraft were abandoned at sea, and one failed to land.
In the end, a total of nine fighter jets were lost. The total value was so distressed that even Americans wanted to cry. This did not include those aircraft that were damaged after emergency landings and basically had to be fully repaired.
The Americans really never dreamed that after the rescue incident against Khalid broke out at this Karta base, there would be sabotage against US fighter jets, which is completely difficult to connect on two levels.
But it did happen!
Many people have witnessed such a series of air explosions in the capital of Carta. After all, watching the flying of US fighter jets was originally one of the city's tourism projects.
The US military cannot even cover it up, both internationally and domestically, making a noise!
Most countries in the world should have a gloating mentality, and whether this incident should be linked to a series of recent tickling attacks on US military bases has become the main topic of military commentators from various countries.
There is a lot of grief in the United States!
How could the US military, which is known as the top and most technologically intensive, suffer such a significant loss?
During World War II, the US Air Force rarely suffered such a large proportion of injuries, right?
What made American soldiers so unpreparedly demonstrated in front of evil forces and be destroyed unscrupulously?
The evil Qi Tianlin lay in Annie's bedroom, staring at the crash scenes shot with his mobile phone and handheld DV in a daze. He really didn't expect such a great result!
According to his understanding, at most one or two planes went to heaven, and then something happened. The Americans were wary of sealing all fighter planes and not allowed to go to heaven. After checking...
So some things can be explained by the butterfly effect!
Chapter completed!