Looking at Harada Akihisa who was standing in front of him, no longer as angry as he was when he was first captured, Gao Hongming asked: "Harada Akihisa, I heard from Ihara Heihachi that you are willing to join the Japanese National Defense Army and agree to serve for us.
Effectiveness, is that right?”
"Hi..." Harada Akihisa bowed heavily, "I would like to serve you, sir."
"good!"
Gao Hongming nodded, "I called you here today to tell you something. I am planning to form a flying force and I plan to let you serve as an instructor. Are you willing?"
Harada Akihisa raised his head and looked at Gao Hongming in surprise, "Sir, do you want to form a flying force?"
Seeing Gao Hongming nodding, he hurriedly said: "Sir, with all due respect, setting up a flying force is not like setting up infantry, where each person can go to the battlefield with a gun and a box of ammunition. It involves a lot of things.
, and it is also very cumbersome. Besides, I am just an ordinary pilot, so I am afraid it will be difficult for me to be qualified for the task you have assigned me."
"idiot!"
Before Gao Hongming could speak, Heihachi Ihara was unhappy at first and immediately scolded him: "What nonsense are you talking about, you bastard who can only sit on a plane and drop bombs? You just do whatever the adults tell you to do. How dare you mention it?"
difficulty."
Murata Shuzo's face didn't look good either. Harada Akihisa's words were like firing a map cannon, which made him, an officer with an infantry background, very unhappy. However, Gao Hongming made him hold back and say nothing.
Gao Hongming asked back: "Harada Akihisa, I know what you mean. Just tell me what is needed to train pilots?"
Harada Akihisa thought for a moment, "Take me for example. When I was learning to fly in a flight school, I first learned theoretical knowledge for one year, then I started flying on a trainer aircraft in the second year, and it wasn't until my third year that I was assigned to various aviation teams.
Not only that, you also need to build a complete airport, coupled with a large number of logistics support personnel as well as training aircraft, fighter jets, fuel depots, ammunition depots, aircraft accessories and other tedious things. It can be said that training a
The money spent on a student is at least the same weight in gold as a student, so sir, are you sure you want to train a pilot?"
Hearing this, not only Ihara Heihachi turned pale, but even Murata Shuzo frowned.
Coming from infantry backgrounds, they really don't understand how time and money it takes to train a pilot.
"Harada Akihisa, don't worry about the material issues. I will take care of it. Now I just want to ask you, if I solve the logistics problem, how long will it take you to train a qualified pilot?"
"Three...no...two years..." Seeing Gao Hongming with a sullen expression, Harada Akihisa finally changed the time to two years.
"No... I will only give you half a year." Gao Hongming stared at him fiercely, "In half a year, as long as you can train a qualified pilot, I will reward you with a hundred yuan, and ten will be a thousand yuan.
If you can train a hundred people... Congratulations... After the war is over, you can return to Japan and become a rich man.
But if you can’t train at least twenty qualified pilots within six months, I will shoot you, do you understand?”
When Harada Akihisa heard this, cold sweat immediately flowed from his forehead, "Sir, half a year is not enough in any case! One year, you must give me at least one year."
Gao Hongming was unmoved, "Six months, this time will not change. If you can do it, do it. If you can't, I will shoot you. There is no room for bargaining. This is an order!"
Seeing Gao Hongming's determined expression, Harada Akihisa knew that no matter how much he said, it would be useless, so he could only agree with a sad face.
Perhaps Harada Akihisa thought Gao Hongming was fooling around, but Gao Hongming also had his own considerations.
Of course he knows that training a pilot takes a lot of time, but the problem now is that what he lacks is time.
If it takes three years to train the first batch of pilots in a step-by-step manner, the day lily will be cold, and special measures can only be taken in extraordinary times.
And this is not without precedent. Take the American ace pilot Gabreski from another historical time and space as an example. He began to participate in basic flight training in August 1940 and advanced flight training in November; he was appointed as a pilot in March 1941.
Second Lieutenant Flying Officer, it took a total of seven months.
The first batch of female pilots in New China also graduated in seven months. After the outbreak of the Korean War, the average flight time of our first batch of pilots was more than 30 hours, and they went head-to-head with the United States, which was known as the number one in the world at the time.
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From Gao Hongming's point of view, although six months is a bit urgent, it should still be no problem to train a group of pilots with basic combat skills.
Gao Hongming also acted very quickly. Half a month later, on a wasteland less than thirty miles away from Liantai County, an airstrip was finally built with the day and night efforts of the engineering company.
"Shi Feng, have you dug out all the people I asked you to dig?"
In the regiment office, Shi Feng, the director of the investigation department who usually seems to be in a hurry, stood respectfully in front of Gao Hongming.
"There are a total of 32 people in the group. They are all ground staff of the Central Air Force. They were all recruited. Now they are all settled at the airport. But none of the pilots you asked me to recruit have come, and the Air Force has no control over them.
It looks so deadly that it’s hard to start.”
"If you haven't come over, then you haven't come over."
Gao Hongming sighed softly. Since the July 7 Incident, China's only more than 300 aircraft have been almost all used up. Most of the pilots have also died in battle. The remaining pilots have also been treasured by the Air Force. It is difficult to recruit them.
One can imagine.
Fortunately, what he wants to poach this time is just some ground staff. As long as a small amount of money is in place, poaching people is not too difficult.
Although he had long been mentally prepared for the difficulty of establishing an air force, it was only when he actually started to do it that Gao Hongming realized the degree of suffering. The selection, recruitment and training of personnel were completely different from those of the army.
He was shocked just to see the selection conditions given by Harada Akihisa. First of all, the age should be no less than 17 years old and no more than 20 years old. Height, weight, sitting height, arm length, body shape, vision, and color vision were also required.
, external eyes, ears, nose, throat and other organs are inspected. If any one of them fails, it will not be accepted.
This alone eliminates more than 90% of the people, followed by a political review to ensure that there is at least no criminal history in the family, and finally a psychological test. Only those who pass all the above can become a student pilot.
Let's put it this way, in this half month, Gao Hongming picked and selected for so long and only selected more than 30 people.
That was all. The two AT-6 Texan trainer aircraft and a series of airport supplies including fuel, spare parts, and various auxiliary tools cost him tens of thousands.
In other words, the items in the weapons store are only one-tenth of the actual price, otherwise he would have to go bankrupt.