At 5:30 in the morning, Li Zhan stood at the door of the maintenance workshop with a flight helmet under his right rib and white labor protection gloves in his left hand. He looked at the dark sky and sighed slightly.
All pre-flight preparations have been completed.
But it was pouring rain outside at the moment, making him feel like he was in the rainy season in the south.
This weather is a bit abnormal. In previous years, there were no such heavy rains around the Spring Festival in central Sichuan. It is not terrible to have more rain. What is terrible is the sharp drop in visibility caused by the rain and the accompanying strong winds. The cloud map shows that the cumulonimbus clouds on the plateau have not yet left the plateau, so it should be calm.
Yes, but it was stormy.
Li Zhan refused to give up and waited in the maintenance workshop.
Waiting until 7:30, he saw that the wind stopped and the heavy rain turned into light drizzle. The most important thing was that the sky was bright and the visibility met the requirements.
He immediately said to Yu Niandong, who was guarding him, "Is it a window? I request to take off immediately."
Yu Niandong didn't say much, and immediately contacted the weather station, and then said, "Yes, half an hour at most. Are you sure you want to fly?"
"Sure." Li Zhan said without hesitation.
Yu Niandong immediately applied to the tower, and the tower had been waiting, thinking it was a window that could be used, and then decisively approved Li Zhan's takeoff request.
Li Zhan shook hands with Yu Niandong neatly and said goodbye, and quickly entered the cockpit of No. 037 J-7e along the boarding ladder. The ground power supply vehicle started the engine. Li Zhan quickly checked the status of each system to confirm that it was normal. The ground instructor issued an OK
At the signal for taxiing out, Li Zhan pushed the throttle lever to release the brakes, driving the fighter jet slowly out of the maintenance workshop.
The entire flight area was empty. The few J-10b multi-purpose medium-sized fighter jets that were to be delivered to the troops had not yet been painted. They were pulled back to the hangar early last night. The lonely low-visibility gray painted vertical tail was still there.
The No. 037 J-7egg light fighter with the Demon Head logo was taxiing quickly along the taxiway. The left red and right green navigation lights and landing gear lights were clearly visible.
"Tower, I aimed at the runway and took off directly. It's over." Li Zhan called the tower.
The tower replied, "There are three turns on the hole, you can take off directly. Please note that we have just received a request from civil aviation and a passenger plane is diverting to a first-class airport. You take off and climb to 3000 degrees to give up the airspace. Do you understand?"
"Dong Sanguai understands, take off to 30 degrees and climb to 3,000, over."
Li Zhan replied that when the throttle lever was pushed all the way and the engine speed reached the standard, he released the brakes and the fighter plane was pushed forward wildly. The acceleration performance was significantly improved compared to before.
The No. 037 J-7egg carrying three auxiliary fuel tanks roared off the ground, retracted its landing gear, turned right to a heading of 30 degrees, and then continued to climb at a large angle. The control personnel on duty at the tower were impressed by the fluidity that was more skillful and neat than the test pilots.
Marvel.
People have heard about the shadow of famous trees. Everyone has heard that there was a pilot who was very good at pulling rods at Beikuchang Station in the west. In two years, he had flown 1,200 hours. Everyone has a clear understanding of this concept, but
What is the specific level of this pilot? Only now can we have an intuitive understanding with our own eyes.
It’s really awesome!
They are all experts. They interact with the control tower and the test pilots every day. They know clearly what actions and reactions they have and what their level is. You can see everything at a glance.
The tower did not forget to call Li Zhan, "Dong Sanguai, adjust frequency xxxx.xx, contact Lan Zhi, you follow his command, over."
"Dongsanguai received it, adjust the frequency xxxx.xx, listen to Lanzhi's command, completed."
Li Zhan quickly adjusted the frequency and called Lan Zhi, "Dongsanguai, call Lan Zhi, frequency xxxx.xx, over."
"This is Lan Zhi. I'm waiting for radar recognition at the third turn of the cave. Over." Lan Zhi responded quickly. The regional ground command post has full personnel on duty 24 hours a day.
Li Zhan flew levelly in the northeast direction at an altitude of 3,000 meters, waiting for the radar recognition of Orchid Finger.
"The third turn of the cave, the radar has identified it, and the friend or foe has been identified. Keep the altitude of 15,000 on the course. Be careful, there are large cumulonimbus clouds in front of you. Over." Lan Zhi's voice was very energetic, and it didn't sound like anything at all.
To survive the night.
Li Zhan said, "Understood. Keep the altitude of 15,000 on course. There are cumulonimbus clouds ahead. It's over."
He was extremely puzzled. Isn't the large-scale cumulonimbus in the west? Why did it go to the northeast? Could it be another group of cumulonimbus? It's not surprising. This season is when the cold air continues to move southward, wave after wave.
Going south from Siberia, there are too many cumulonimbus clouds produced by hot and cold convection. The ones worthy of Lanzhi's special attention must be large-scale clouds. If they are small clouds, the pilot will visually detect them.
You can get around it if you avoid it.
There were too many impossibilities on this trip, so Li Zhan did not dare to use afterburner randomly, otherwise he would burn out all the fuel in advance and he would have to make an alternate landing. If the pilot performed irregular operations during the transfer and caused the alternate landing, the pilot would
You have to accept punishment, maybe a punishment.
Every time a dangerous situation comes down, the first thing the investigation team must rule out is whether the pilot's control actions are in compliance. It happened once in the 101st Brigade. Han Hongjun pressed the wrong button and released the parachute while flying on the edge of the third turn.
It was a very serious personal accident. If Li Zhanlibao, the man and the machine hadn't landed safely, Han Hongjun would definitely have been punished. More often than not, it was a mechanical failure. Under normal circumstances, the maintenance team would have to take the blame, no matter how good the situation was.
Received criticism that "the work is not rigorous".
Continuing to climb, without using afterburner, Li Zhan chose to climb at an appropriate angle, which would maximize the climb rate under the most fuel-efficient conditions.
Li Zhan looked at the altitude watch from time to time. The altitude climbed stubbornly from three thousand to larger numbers, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand, swinging, swinging, spinning, jumping...
"Lan Zhi! I stalled and entered a spin, the altitude is 6,000!"
At that moment, Li Zhan felt as if he was suddenly pulled out and thrown into the strong air current while he was sitting on the sightseeing cable car enjoying the beautiful scenery, and his whole body was spinning in a whirlpool.
The strong air flow came very suddenly. Li Zhan could clearly feel that it was coming from the west. It overturned the fighter plane in one breath. The wing tips stalled instantly and the fighter plane lost control and entered a tail spin. The scene was like a child's unfoldable airplane.
The good paper airplane barely flew a few meters when thrown out, then it circled and fell straight down.
Li Zhan couldn't even do the action of throwing away the auxiliary fuel tank.
The instantaneous overload reached 10 g. Unfortunately, Li Zhan was not in good condition today. The moment the report was completed, his whole body blacked out and he quickly fell into a semi-coma state, with only a trace of consciousness remaining in his mind.
"Three turns in the hole? Three turns in the hole! Can it be changed? Can it be changed out? Three turns in the hole?"
Lan Zhi kept calling Li Zhan, and the voice got louder and louder. Li Zhan finally slowly regained his full consciousness. When he looked at the height of the sea, it was only four thousand. Below was a mountain range of three thousand meters above sea level.
"Come on, come on, old man, change out, change out, follow me, come on, come on!" Li Zhan said silently in his heart, repeating the change action over and over again.
No. 037 J-7egg showed no reaction and continued to spin and jump towards the mountain.
"Throw out the auxiliary fuel tank!" Li Zhan made a decisive decision to reduce the weight.
no response.
Tried again, still no response.
Li Zhan gave up the action of throwing out the auxiliary fuel tank, and continued to repeat the change action. Even though he was a big brother of the Falcon, there was no second solution at this moment. The disposal plan was bought with the blood of his predecessors, and every action was
The most correct.
After several unsuccessful attempts, Li Zhan was ready to parachute.