Chapter 1787 Ted Returns

Due to refining reasons, in the fractionation tower, light oils such as kerosene and gasoline are on the top, and generally there is no moisture, while diesel is on the bottom, so there is often a mixture of moisture in the diesel.

But now, almost all the diesel in the fuel tank has turned into ice cubes, which is beyond the cognitive ability of the ground crew. It seems that their own diesel is not so bad?

This should not be a normal phenomenon, so it means that it may be man-made. In the base, there are not only their own personnel, but also some indigenous people recruited from the local area to undertake infrastructure tasks. Could it be that there is a problem among them?

After receiving the news that the generator was temporarily unable to start, Nowotny knew that this was definitely not an ordinary situation.

"Squadron 1, take off with me." Nowotny shouted, "Let's go for reinforcements."

Now, the situation is very clear. The Americans lured two of their own planes to leave, and then cut off the connection with the front through the shameless means of powering off the base. This also means that the two planes that have just taken off may have already taken off. More bad luck.

This couldn't help but make Nowotny anxious, he hurriedly carried his flying cap, ran outside, and climbed into his fighter plane.

Americans want to play tricks, they must let them know the consequences of playing tricks! Now, Nowotny starts his plane's engine, and then quickly rolls down the runway and takes off.

Behind him, the storm birds took off and flew in the direction that their own planes had just left.

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Sure enough, the other party is shamelessly trying to take advantage of the ultra-low altitude!

Ted and his lead plane have dispersed, one to the east, the other to the west, and Ted is now working hard to get the first victory of his life.

As he thought, the other party was taking advantage of the height. When his plane dived down, it was very fast. As long as it missed a hit, it had to be pulled up again.

Just like this, Ted has already attacked three times, but the opponent's pilot is very skilled and can always avoid Ted's attack at a critical time. After a few times, Ted can't hit at all.

At this time, Ted knew that the situation was not good.

The other party is prepared, and the other party is a double plane. When you attack one of the planes, the other plane will observe from a distance. When you are about to fire, you will remind to avoid them. The two sides cooperate. The tacit understanding makes it impossible to attack effectively at all.

At the same time, now that the other party is circling in circles on the sea, he has no idea where he flew to.

"Gummy call the captain, Gummy call the captain." After climbing up again, Ted shouted on the radio. He wanted to ask for instructions to withdraw from the battle. Looking at his fuel indicator, there was only half left. Tank of fuel, we must return in time.

However, there was a sound of stinging electric current coming from the earphones, but there was no response from the leader.

what happened?

In a short period of time, you have been separated from the lead plane, and then the distance is too far, causing the radio communication to be interrupted? Or for some other reason?

In the Arctic, some high-energy particles often pass through the atmosphere, forming beautiful auroras over the North Pole. At the same time, these high-energy particles also cause some interference, so sometimes the radio is interrupted.

Well, can't delay any longer, once you run out of fuel, you'll be in big trouble.

Called again, and after no response, Ted decided to set up his own plane to return home. He turned in the air, preparing to aim in the direction of his own base.

Wait, what's going on?

Your own radio compass does not coincide with the direction indicated by the magnetic compass?

A magnetic compass is a device that uses the earth's magnetic field for navigation. In short, it is a compass. You can know the other directions on the above standard by converting it.

The radio compass is a radio navigation device. The on-board radio compass receives the electromagnetic waves emitted from the ground homing station, uses the loop antenna to manually or automatically track the direction of the electromagnetic waves, and continuously measures the angle between the longitudinal axis of the aircraft and the direction of the electromagnetic waves, that is, the relative Azimuth, relative azimuth is measured clockwise and indicated by an indicator. According to the relative azimuth, the pilot guides the aircraft to fly down or back to the homing station.

Since it flew to the sea and went through some air battles, it was not easy to know exactly where one was and then determine the course. Therefore, it was necessary to use various means of navigation.

Generally speaking, the magnetic compass and the radio compass are used together to improve the accuracy, but now, the directions indicated by the two are actually different!

So, in which direction should we fly?

"Gummy calls base, Gummy calls base," Ted shouted over the radio.

The call leader didn't respond, and the call base didn't respond either. There was a stinging sound coming from the headset, so Ted decided to adjust his radio knob to switch to another frequency band and use the backup frequency band.

Just as he was spinning, he suddenly turned to a civilian radio station, he paused briefly, and heard the broadcast inside: "The frequent activities of sunspots will have a great impact on our earth, causing us The interference of the radio of the earth will also affect our earth's magnetic field and affect our production and life. In particular, the impact on the north and south poles is the most serious. Due to the rotation of the earth, the most energetic particles are located at the axis of the earth."

"Professor Torricelli, as an astronomer, you are the most knowledgeable. Can you tell us why sunspots suddenly erupt?"

"Okay, let me introduce you to..."

Sunspots, Earth's magnetic field is affected, well, that's what happened.

In this case, the magnetic compass may be inaccurate, so follow the radio compass, at least the base's radio navigation equipment will not deceive yourself.

In order to save fuel, Ted flew to an altitude of 15,000 kilometers. The higher the altitude, the thinner the air and the less resistance.

After aligning the course, Ted began to return.

At this time, Ted did not know that due to the sudden power failure of his base, all the equipment was temporarily unavailable, and this radio navigation signal was faked by the Americans.

As he flew, his deviation became larger and larger. When he saw an island in the distance, it was not Greenland, but Baffin Island in Canada.