After a long period of study and waiting, the day to fly a new fighter plane has finally come.
About two months ago, Polaris' dedicated ground team arrived here and began receiving training on the maintenance of the new fighter aircraft.
The content they needed to learn was much less than that of pilots, so the time was short. In the end, they obtained the maintenance qualification just in time before Wang Yu and the others made their first real flight.
This time, with the cooperation of some technical personnel, they completed the preparation of the two fighters.
These two fighter planes are ready to take to the blue sky.
Several members of their ground team even specially polished the canopies of fighter planes to make them extremely translucent.
Wang Yu sat in the cockpit, which was basically the same as the simulation cabin, and began to skillfully perform the cold start of the fighter jet.
Before that, he had asked Irene to assimilate with the fighter plane - when Wang Yu used the simulator before, she naturally could not assimilate into the simulator, so the previous training on the simulator was basically Wang Yu's own hard power.<
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In short, this can be regarded as Eileen's first contact with this fighter.
After the assimilation was completed, she spoke highly of this fighter jet.
She said that if the previous F-4C seemed to fly with countless loads tied to her body, then this X-02s had all the loads removed and even added rocket boost...
Regarding her evaluation as a machine girl, Wang Yu expressed that he could not understand.
But he still knew that this fighter plane was highly automated.
The cockpit of the fighter jet directly abandoned the traditional design and adopted a full LCD screen shape, which directly raised the fashion of the cockpit to a new level. The full LCD screen was divided into several areas. In the initial mode, the radio interface of the fighter jet was displayed.
, radar warning, horizontal attitude indicator, engine power, speed, fuel volume, vertical attitude display, mounting status and situation diagram, etc. The display of these LCD screens can be controlled and selected by the buttons around the LCD screen, and the LCD screen also has its own touch function
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On both sides of the cockpit are the "sticks" of the fighter aircraft, with the throttle stick on the left and the control stick on the right - this design allows the pilot's hands to be placed flat on both sides of the body, allowing for better control during high-g maneuvers.
Fighter planes are controlled.
There are also various buttons on the pole to achieve the hotas system. The layout of these buttons is similar to that of most fighters, so Wang Yu can easily keep the functions of all buttons in mind.
In addition to these, there are also some buttons or knobs for startup, self-test, power, lights, brakes, ECM, flap landing gear, oxygen supply, navigation, etc. However, there is no need to introduce these one by one, just know their existence.
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Of course, the most important change of this fighter is actually the cancellation of the HUD that is common in ordinary fighters. This information will be integrated into the pilot's helmet sighting system - as a new helmet sighting system specially developed for this fighter, it brings
The pilot's gain is far more than a HUD placed on the console.
Luo Yu's CFA-44 seems to have also canceled the HUD and switched to full helmet sighting.
Of course, if they wish, the pilot can display the so-called HUD interface on a screen in a certain area.
In the back seat of this fighter plane is a layout dedicated to the weapons control officer.
A large screen is divided into different blocks, which can control and inspect different weapon systems. Some other functions allow the weapons control officer to confirm the fighter system. According to the convention of the imperial two-seat aircraft, the weapons control officer can only
To operate ground weapons, the weapons control officer on the anti-air weapons only has activation authority but no firing authority.
This X-02s does not open up too many permissions to the back seat - on the F-15e, the back seat actually has the operating stick of the fighter. Although they are not required to learn to fly, and there is no need to control the fighter, but
They can actually control the fighter aircraft after transferring control from the front seat, and different operating levers have different functions; but on this X-02s, the designers directly canceled all the operating levers that can control the aircraft from the back seat.
Only a lever is left to allow them to control the weapon system.
This is a good thing. Anyway, the responsibility of the weapons control officer is to ensure that the weapon system is normal and to help the pilots observe the surroundings. Giving them a stick is purely unnecessary and will occupy the space of the fighter aircraft itself.
Liu Lingxin was happy to see this change anyway, and she would rather leave all the flying work to Wang Yu.
In short, everything should be prepared before takeoff.
The weather is sunny, there is a breeze but not much, and the clouds are sparse. It is considered a good flying weather.
Wang Yu and Liu Lingxin first conducted the test flight of the x-02s, and then Luo Yu flew the cfa-44 alone.
As mentioned before, this company has a small airport for testing aircraft, so it naturally has a tower.
At this time, the tower, which usually does not work, was also full of people, waiting to watch the flight of this fighter plane.
Wang Yu connected the communication with the tower.
"Tower, this is Polaris No. 1, model x-02s, requesting ground taxiing."
"Received, Polaris 1, taxiing permission, pass A31, A29 intersection and wait at the end of runway 31, wind force level 1, wind direction 210, no abnormal weather. After taxiing in place, please contact the tower to notify takeoff."
After Wang Yu received and repeated this information, he saluted the ground team at the edge of the tarmac, and then began to increase the throttle of the fighter, increasing the engine power, pushing the 16-ton fighter to start slowly.
Move forward.
"Flaps five degrees, take-off gear, canard and tail mobility check..." After starting to taxi on the taxiway, Wang Yu continued to make a series of confirmations. He looked back at the flexibly moving under his control.
After confirming that the canards and tail are correct, he continues to follow the content on the pre-takeoff checklist: "The inspection is completed, the oxygen supply is confirmed to be turned on, the pitot heating is normal, the ejection seat safety is released, the engine output is normal, and the main wing folding performance check...
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He slid a slider on the side of the control stick, and with a slight mechanical rhythm, the leading edge of the fighter's main wing suddenly unfolded, revealing a large groove, while the outer wings, which were originally in a forward-swept attitude, expanded at the same time.
Slowly folding inward, it finally "folds" into the groove of the main wing like a folding knife. After the folding of the outer wing is completed, the unfolded parts on the leading edge of the main wing quickly close up and become the original streamlined shape suitable for flight.
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Obviously, this has many benefits. This design takes into account both high-speed and low-speed performance.
At low speeds, the forward-swept wing model can provide the fighter with high lift and low-speed stability, greatly reducing the rolling distance during takeoff, and at high speeds, the wings can be folded to increase stealth performance.
Since the six wings of the entire fighter jet turn to a horizontal state at the same time, air disturbance can be perfectly reduced, allowing the fighter jet to perform even better at high speeds.
Therefore, the reason why this fighter jet can perform supersonic cruise in advance and use low-speed performance to perform super maneuvers in retreat is that in addition to the excellent engine, the near-perfect design layout is also something that cannot be ignored.
Folding the wings is a very cool scene, but after all, we are taking off now, so we need to expand the outer wings.
After Wang Yu confirmed that the retracted outer wings were in normal condition and the edges of the wings were closed correctly, he unfolded the outer wings again and prepared for takeoff.
It's a bit like the F14 needs to adjust the variable wings to the outermost side to provide sufficient lift when taking off.
At this time, Wang Yu contacted the tower and requested to take off.
He quickly obtained the permission to take off and began to control the fighter plane to taxi to the empty runway.
Wang Yu adjusted the attitude of the fighter plane, aligned it with the center line of the runway, and then throttled to make sure that the fighter's output was normal. Then he pushed the throttle to full, and the fighter plane gained high acceleration amidst the tremors and the roar of the engine.
Start accelerating on the track.
The speedometer is rising rapidly, the scenery on both sides is passing by at high speed, the hangar in the distance is also left behind at high speed, and several aircraft on the tarmac also appear to be phantoms from the cockpit... p>
Wang Yu looked at the speed of the fighter plane.
"Determine the takeoff speed and start to lift the wheels."
He gently pulled the lever, and the fighter plane raised its nose and took off into the sky.