Chapter 1229 The Fateful Showdown (3) (Plus 1)

The Flying Snake fighter was never prepared for high altitude. For example, the engine used by the current Flying Snake fighter does not have a supercharger at all!

The Flying Snake fighter uses the V-1710 produced by Allison Engine Company. This engine has been developed since the 1930s, and it was even used on airships at first. It is a suitable aviation engine.

But it has a disadvantage, that is, there is no supercharger.

During development, this engine has also been equipped with a supercharger, but it is also the first-level supercharger, which makes the performance of the engine not greatly improved, and the Flying Snake fighter is originally designed to be used at medium and low altitudes , so on later models, it even dropped the supercharger directly.

This is also a prominent defect of this aircraft. It can only be used in the airspace below 5,000 meters. In the technical data, the practical ceiling of the Flying Snake fighter is only 5,810 meters. As for its engine, the effective working range is also Below 4600 meters.

In fact, even the P-51 equipped in the U.S. Army Air Corps was equipped with the same Allison liquid-cooled engine with only a first-stage supercharger in the early days, resulting in poor high-altitude performance, but the P-51 Cooling and aerodynamic efficiency are greatly improved with a more advanced air intake configuration and overall layout, and a laminar flow wing design is incorporated to further enhance high-speed performance.

It was not until the later modification of the British Merlin engine with a two-stage two-speed supercharger that its high-altitude performance improved by leaps and bounds.

The later model of the P-39 also has a ceiling of tens of thousands of meters, which is to improve the engine of the aircraft to the standard of a first-level supercharger, but it is still not a high-altitude fighter, and its performance at an altitude of 10,000 meters is equivalent. Difference.

For piston fighters, the high-altitude air is thin, and the aircraft engine must have a high-efficiency supercharger if it wants to work normally, and when the air intake is insufficient, the engine will not work.

(The hero of East China is also very strange. When World War II just broke out, it seems that the technology of American aircraft engines is not very good. It was only after using the British Merlin engine that it became taller. Sure enough, the heritage of an old capitalist country like Britain is deep.)

Somewhat different from history, in this era, due to the rapid advancement of German aircraft high-altitude technology, the United States is also constantly developing new high-altitude superchargers to allow aircraft to fly higher, including the engines equipped with flying snakes.

But this does not include the Flying Snake. As an unpopular aircraft that is about to become a specialized export aircraft, there is no need for American Bell to improve it step by step.

It's the king of mid-low altitude, that's all.

But now, Roy was in a trance, and competed with the opponent to climb, and this time, he also climbed to an altitude of 4,000 meters. At this time, the aircraft engine had begun to show its performance because it could not suck enough air. He If you climb up again, the engine should be shut down.

Roy knew that he could no longer climb, and at the same time he also knew that if he ended the climb first, the other party would definitely catch up.

The only way is to immediately turn into a dive and get out!

Roy pushed the lever, and the fighter recovered from the climb and began to dive down.

The current Roy only hopes that the other party can delay the discovery of his dive, so that if the distance is widened, no matter how he maneuvers, it will be easy to say.

Moreover, there are also fighter planes taking off in the Soviet air base now. These Germans have a small number of fighter planes. If they are interested, they should return.

At this time, on the runway of the base, Safonov's fighter jet had already taken off from the runway, the accelerator was fully open, the engine was roaring, and this stubby and cute fighter was climbing at full power.

Safonov's hand was constantly shaking the operating lever, trying to retract the landing gear of the fighter jet. It was the first Soviet fighter jet with retractable landing gear, but it was the most annoying manual operation. When retracting and retracting the landing gear, they have trained the unicorn arms, and the arms are quite powerful.

At the same time, his eyes were also looking at the sky anxiously. The American plane had just arrived, but it couldn't be shot down just like that. It was the property of the Soviets!

At this time, he also saw the two fighter jets that were climbing, and he screamed in his heart that it was not good. It seems that until now, no fighter jet can surpass the German aircraft in the climb.

Sure enough, when the two planes climbed synchronously, the Flying Snake fighter first flipped down. At this time, his heart was already in his throat.

Whoever comes down first will be the loser.

Now, it depends on the reaction of the German pilots. After all, the rearward vision of any aircraft is not as wide as the forward vision!

When designing the FW190, at the suggestion of Cyric, the cockpit was raised, so that the pilot seemed to be riding on the plane, and the field of vision was wide. After the ejected left wing, in order to protect the safety of the pilot's cervical spine, the backrest is very high and the rear view is poor.

Pilots are never alone heroes, though.

Just after Alcatel had come down and cleared his young pilot, Woodrich had realized the mistake and he was almost shot down.

He didn't want to fight, he flew high into the sky, and started to give instructions to his leader. Now, when he saw the enemy plane fall, he immediately shouted on the radio: "The enemy plane has fallen, captain, catch up! "

Alcatel received the radio prompt and immediately pushed the nose and dived.

The two sides have only been separated by two seconds. Looking at the sky, the Flying Snake fighter has just dived down, and the FW190 above it has also dived. When it dived down, the two sides are also separated. less than five hundred meters.

Alcatel wouldn't give up the opportunity, just after he dived down, saw the opponent's tail, and immediately pressed the cannon button.

"Tom tom tom." The 20mm cannon shot towards the bottom. After just a few hits, he saw the opponent's tail, and flames suddenly appeared.

hit!

For Alcatel, this was just an ordinary battle, and Woodrich's cheers came from his earphones, making him want to laugh at the group of rookies under him.

Originally, he wanted to continue to catch up and fire, but he glanced at the surrounding airspace and found that several I-16s were flying towards him, especially the leading one, which accelerated and climbed towards him.

Although Alcatel is not afraid of these backward wooden planes, but today his mission is over, he still needs a certain amount of fuel to ensure that he returns to the aircraft carrier, and find some weak chickens to let his pilots experience actual combat for the first time The purpose has been achieved, it is time to go.

Finally, looking at the fighter jet that was plummeting with smoke, Alcatel moved the lever and began to climb upwards.

During this process, the anti-aircraft artillery around the base did not fire, mainly for fear of accidental injury. When Alcatel's fighter jet shot down the Flying Snake, he had already climbed to high altitude, and the anti-aircraft artillery units fired sporadically, and there was no threat to Alcatel. .

At this time, Alcatel did not know that what he had just shot down was his teacher and friend in the United States.

Perhaps, this is fate's arrangement.