"No, there is something wrong with the Zero fighter's fuselage structure!"
As an experienced commander, Kosuke Fujikawa immediately realized that this new fighter aircraft had fatal flaws in the fuselage structure.
Thinking of this, he quickly issued a new order, "Everyone, please pay attention. From now on, you are not allowed to dive at high speed at any time, and the speed cannot exceed the prescribed speed limit. Otherwise, the aircraft will be in danger of disintegrating. Do you understand?"
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"Hi!"
The answers this time were particularly neat, and no one had any objections. After all, the living example is right in front of us. Just now, the plane of the two unlucky guys disintegrated in front of everyone. Now I'm afraid even the whole bodies can't be found.
Who is not afraid?
Climb...and climb again
This is what fighters from both sides are doing now. In an air battle dominated by fighting, whoever occupies the altitude will take the initiative. This is knowledge that any pilot learns when entering aviation school.
In terms of climb rate, the Zero is slightly lower than the P47. The former's climb rate is 13 meters per second, while the latter's climb rate reaches 15.9 meters per second. Therefore, although the Zero fleet climbed first, the P47 was very fast.
They caught up and the two sides started a fierce battle in the air.
In this confrontation, this aircraft, which had just been ridiculed by the pilots of the first squadron as habitually disintegrating, immediately showed its power.
The light fuselage, extremely small turning radius and astonishing climbing speed surprised the pilots of the first squadron who fought against them for the first time.
"Damn it... Captain... I'm biting you from behind!"
More than two thousand meters in the air, Huang Kebiao, who was having a fierce battle with a Zero, heard the urgent voice of his wingman Song Dachun in his headset. He turned around and saw that a Zero on the rear left was rushing towards him from the upper left.
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Huang Kebiao pushed the throttle to the maximum and pulled up the joystick desperately. The entire aircraft immediately turned its nose upwards. The Pratt & Whitney R-2800 18-cylinder turbocharged engine roared wildly. The 6-ton body was like flying off the ground.
It pierces the sky like an arrow.
The Zero fighter was not to be outdone. Its light fuselage followed closely behind like a flexible swallow. Not only that, it chased the machine guns on both sides of the wing and kept tilting the bullet rain. Huang Kebiao could even hear the fuselage occasionally firing.
There was a muffled sound, and he knew it was the sound of his car being shot.
"Damn it!"
Huang Kebiao looked back in his busy schedule and found that the number of Zero fighters chasing him had changed from one to two. Wingman Song Dachun was chasing after him desperately, but he did not dare to fire randomly for fear of accidentally injuring himself.
"It's absolutely not okay to continue like this."
Huang Kebiao immediately realized this. This car was unexpectedly flexible, which he had never seen before. Especially in circling and turning, it was much lighter and more agile than the P47 he drove. The P47 fought with them at low altitude.
Very strenuous.
Chasing and escaping all the way, the two sides soon reached an altitude of six thousand meters.
Generally speaking, fighter planes in this period rarely fought at this altitude, because the air at this altitude has begun to become relatively thin. The higher the altitude, the more oxygen the aircraft needs to consume, and the faster the power decreases.
At this time, Huang Kebiao turned his head and glanced at the two Japanese planes behind him, which were like gangrene. He was surprised to find that the two Japanese planes that were following him had begun to emit black smoke, and the distance between them was getting farther and farther.
Huang Kebiao immediately realized that this was a good opportunity. He pushed the joystick without thinking, and opened a red switch with his left hand. The switch containing the 57-liter ethanol solution tank located on the fireproof partition behind the engine immediately
Connected to the fuel supply system, after the ethanol solution is injected into the combustion chamber, the gas rapidly expands when it encounters high temperatures, and the cylinder pressure immediately increases greatly.
This operation increases the engine power by 15%, bringing the R-2800's emergency combat power to 2,300 horsepower.
The P47's engine roared, and Huang Kebiao felt like his whole body was pressed tightly against his seat. The seven-ton fighter jet suddenly rushed forward as if it had been kicked, and then
It made a 180-degree turn in the air, and this process only took less than three seconds.
The huge overload gave Huang Kebiao a black vision phenomenon. He endured the physical discomfort and shook his head vigorously.
After regaining his vision, two Japanese planes appeared in front of him, and they were almost close at hand.
He reflexively pressed the button on the joystick.
"Dong dong dong... dong dong dong..."
Accompanied by a burst of rapid and dull gunfire, the eight 12.7mm Browning large-caliber machine guns mounted on the wings fired more than two hundred rounds of ammunition in just two to three seconds.
The heated bullets with huge impact tore the leading Zero fighter into pieces. The remaining armor-piercing incendiary bombs did not stay, but continued to move forward and hit another Zero fighter not far away.
, causing the Zero to burst into flames on the spot, and finally fell rapidly towards the ground with thick black smoke.
"Damn...is this the legendary killing two birds with one stone?"
Song Dachun, who had just caught up from behind, witnessed his lead plane shooting down two Japanese planes with a single long burst of fire. He couldn't help but utter a curse word for a moment. The scene was so complete that he didn't know what to say.
After shooting down two Japanese planes, Huang Kebiao did not hesitate at all, but immediately shouted into the microphone: "Everyone, please pay attention and try to avoid fighting with the Japs at low altitudes. Their aircraft have excellent low-altitude performance. Repeat this."
Please try to avoid fighting with the little devils at low altitude!"
While he was talking, he started to curse: "Song Dachun, what the hell are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and follow me!"
The air battle continues.
Seeing our own aircraft arriving for reinforcements, the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground also began to stop. Firstly, the rapid shooting just now had caused many anti-aircraft gun barrels to overheat, and some artillery guns were busy replacing their barrels.
Secondly, there are planes everywhere in the sky now, and cannonballs don't have eyes. It would be a joke if they accidentally hit one's own plane.
As time went by, this air battle became more and more intense.
This is not only because Nakaoka Nobuhide has ordered all aircraft to join the battle, but also because reinforcements from the flying brigade are arriving one after another.
This time Gao Hongming went to the Central Air Force to recruit 50 pilots, which also brought the number of combat aircraft to 74, enough to form 6 combat squadrons, making the air combat capability of the flying group a leap forward.
The abundant military strength also allowed Huang Huaimin to calmly divide his troops and rush to rescue the two attacked airports.
At this time, the air defense forces on the airport and the pilots of the bombers and transport planes who had not had time to take off looked at the sky full of flames and the planes that occasionally emitted black smoke and fell. Everyone was desperately cheering for their own side.