Chapter 1189 Terrible Engine (Plus 2)

From the ground, the view in the sky is quite spectacular.

The sound of terrifying anti-aircraft artillery continued to sound on the ground. With the sound of anti-aircraft artillery shooting, one after another shells cut through the dark night sky and flew to the plane illuminated by the searchlight.

Every plane will be attacked by dozens of artillery shells from the ground. Under this kind of attack, it can't escape at all, and I see beams of light flying towards the bomber, and then the bomber either braves the black. Smoke, roll down, or be hit and explode in the air!

One, another, in a short period of time, many bombers were shot down. The commander of the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground looked at the scene in the sky and was overjoyed.

With the help of radar, they identified the target ahead of time. As long as they started to act, they almost closed the net. This air defense operation was faster and more efficient than before.

It is said that the technicians in the rear are working hard to integrate the system and use the fire control radar and anti-aircraft artillery to link up. In this way, the effect of attacking the enemy will be better. In the future, any bombers want to attack their own positions. And the city will pay the price in blood.

In the sky, a total of twelve bombers were shot down.

The sound of fire all around disappeared, and everyone felt that it was not enough. After all, it looked very intense. In fact, the entire firing process only took less than ten seconds, and the smell of gunpowder could still be smelled in the nose, but in the sky, It was already empty.

"The targets have all disappeared," the radar operator reported.

According to the instructions of the superiors, a total of thirteen bombers came in this batch. Now we have only killed twelve of them. It seems that some fish have slipped through the net, but the radar has not found any new findings, and the lookouts have not found either, said Maybe the missed plane has long been lost, or has already returned.

In a word, this air defense operation is quite perfect. With the help of radar and the powerful shells of the proximity fuze, the invading Soviet bombers have been broken into pieces!

The entire air defense position was filled with joy.

An hour away from Berlin, the first DB-3 bombers of the Soviet Naval Air Force suffered a devastating blow, and the entire bomber force was almost wiped out.

There was only one left, this bomber, the one that crashed. The plane's nose was hit, which caused increased resistance to the aircraft. After continuing to fly with the formation for half an hour, it was finally discovered that the mission could not be carried out. After the execution, the fuel consumption was too much, and they could not fly back at all. Therefore, they could only interrupt the flight mission and return to the base, and became the only surviving bomber in the entire naval aviation.

The Air Force's Pe-8 bombers were still flying. Due to the interception, they urgently changed their altitude and heading and flew at ultra-low altitudes on the coastline. For them, the biggest threat was not the German interceptor fighters. , and not the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground. For them, the bad diesel engine of their own aircraft is their biggest headache.

"Engine number three stalled." Less than twenty minutes after entering low altitude, Lieutenant Petrie watched the instrument needle in front of him go to zero with a frustrated voice on a bomber on the side of the formation. Report to the captain.

The Pe-8 bomber is a four-engine aircraft, and it is still possible for him to complete the mission with one engine stalled.

However, after continuing to fly for ten minutes, the other side of the wing also swayed. He looked out his eyes and saw that the propeller of the No. 1 engine had also stopped turning.

Both engines failed! Lieutenant Petrie's heart was frustrated: "The No. 1 engine stopped. I already have two engines that can't work. I request to bomb other targets and then return."

In this case, he would definitely not be able to fly to Berlin, but the territory below already belonged to Germany. Finding a suitable target and dropping the bomb would be considered a disguised mission.

Mikhail's voice came through the headphones: "Yes, bomb the nearby railway or bridge."

There was one less bomber in the formation, and Mikhail felt extremely heavy. Originally, there were not many bombers, and they continued to lose bombers. Can the bombing of Berlin be carried out normally?

After take-off, they lost contact with the Navy's DB-3 bomber unit flying ahead, and did not know how their Navy colleagues were doing.

Just thinking of this, Mikhail felt his plane shake for a while, and the mechanic's voice came from the earphone: "The second engine stopped!"

Unexpectedly, it was his turn so soon, and there was an engine failure. At this time, Mikhail was completely desperate for this kind of aircraft engine.

He is the leader of the formation and the person in charge of the bombing operation. If he quits due to a malfunction of the plane, it would simply be a dereliction of duty.

At this time, they had entered the skies over Poland, and they were more than 200 kilometers away from Berlin.

Can't go wrong!

"Attention, prepare to dive, start the engine in the air." Mikhail shouted to his crew, then, pushing the lever, the huge Pe-8 bomber began to dive down.

The engine of the aircraft is on the ground and is started by the outside world. Due to the problem of self-weight, most aircraft will not use the method of starting in the air. After all, a huge battery is a waste of weight.

That is to say, in the air, it is difficult for the aircraft engine to restart, because there is no external force to turn the engine up, and at this time, it is necessary to think of other ways.

For example, in a dive, as the speed increases, the propeller will rotate under the blow of the airflow.

In the moonlight, Mikhail's plane began to dive down, and the speed was getting faster and faster. Mikhail could see the propeller under the moonlight from his direction. As the speed increased, the propeller finally Followed the turn.

There was black smoke in the exhaust pipe of the engine, and suddenly, with the increase of black smoke, suddenly, the diesel engine made that characteristic roar and restarted!

After leveling the plane, Mikhail breathed a sigh of relief that the engine could finally continue to work.

However, he hadn't had time to climb to the height just now and lead the other bombers to fly together. At this moment, the engine that had just started snorted twice and stopped moving again.

Air boot failed.

"With the rest of the engine, we're going to Berlin too!" Mikhail shouted over the radio.

In this mission, we must do everything possible to achieve success.

After going back, you must report the poor performance of this engine to your superiors, and you must never use this diesel engine again! Even Mikhail could think of the cause of the malfunction.

The temperature in the high air is low, and the diesel produced by the Soviets has a lot of moisture. At low temperatures, the moisture in the diesel will freeze, freezing the pipes, and the engine will stall.

This kind of failure cannot be ruled out at all.

They continued to fly forward with difficulty, getting closer and closer to Berlin.

"There's still half an hour." The navigator's words made everyone excited, and they went all the way around, flying along the tortuous route, overcoming the failure of the engine, and they were finally going to fly to Berlin!

In front is Poznan, as long as the heading is calibrated in Poznan, you can fly directly to Berlin!

At this point they don't know, the nightmare is coming.