Chapter 324 Emergency Takeoff

"Quick, quick!" Rushing out of his dormitory, Lieutenant Skarski of the 142nd Squadron started to organize his equipment while running.

An alarm is an order! Skarski has always been strict with himself, and, having a habit of waking up early, he was just up when he heard the alarm.

Others, however, were different. Some pilots got up, put on their underwear, and started running out.

what happened?

"Attention, the Germans have already attacked on the border, we will take off immediately to meet the German planes!" The voice of the officer on duty sounded inside the base.

German, have you called?

take off! Skarsky quickly ran into his fighter and packed his umbrella.

"Quick, start the engine for me!" he shouted loudly.

"Report, I haven't refueled and hung up bombs yet!" shouted the ground crew who hurried over.

It is not a state of war, and the aircraft is not in a state of combat at all.

Hearing this news, Skalski jumped out of his cockpit, and together with the ground crew, quickly stuffed the machine gun bullets into the bomb bay.

The fuel had just started to be filled, and there was a rumbling sound in the sky in the distance.

"Quick, quick, start the plane for me immediately!" Skalski knew that if he didn't take off quickly, he would be destroyed on the ground!

Now, there is no time to wait, although it has just been refueled, enough is enough!

start up!

Following his cry, the ground crew hurriedly pulled out the fuel pipe, and just after closing the lid, the ground crew in front started to turn the propeller by hand.

This is definitely a technical job.

There are various ways to start the engine of the aircraft. In the beginning, the aircraft mainly relied on the propeller by hand. In some aircraft, there is a slot in front of the propeller, which is used to jam the crank handle.

Technically speaking, it is completely possible to use electric start, but as long as you ride an electric bike, you should know how heavy the battery is. For a bomber, the weight of the battery is nothing, but for a fighter, it must be Let's count the weight!

For old Polish fighter jets, hand cranking is the most common way!

With the rotation of the propeller, black smoke came out from the nozzle of the engine, and then, the unique vibration came, and the engine started!

The Mercury VI S2's 630-horsepower engine let out a roar, pushed the throttle fully, and Skarsky shouted loudly: "Get out of the way, I'm taking off!"

Wait, how come it's only 630 hp?

Of course, this 630 horsepower is already the largest aircraft engine in Poland at this stage!

Looking at the shape of this aircraft, the upper monoplane, the seagull wing, the cockpit at the back, is still open, and the landing gear below is still not retractable. Compared with the Luftwaffe fighter, this aircraft is far away. lagging behind!

However, this is still the most advanced fighter in the Polish Air Force, the P11!

Poland's aviation industry is also autonomous. After World War I, Poland developed a series of fighter jets, among which the PZL Aviation Manufacturing Group has been making progress.

In the early 1930s, they made an improved version with a more powerful air-cooled engine on the basis of the original P.7, which is the P.11 fighter.

The engine of the aircraft, mainly from the United Kingdom, has been very advanced from the original Bristol Mercury IV S2 575 hp air-cooled engine to the current 630 hp C-type.

When the P.11c entered service in 1934, it was very advanced, but these years were also a period of rapid development of aviation technology.

Various new technologies, large engines with more than 1,000 horsepower, retractable landing gear, fully enclosed cockpit, etc., have come out one after another, but the P.11c has not been improved for a long time.

This fighter with only four 7.7mm machine guns can be said to be completely behind Germany by an era.

For example, the top speed of this P.11 fighter is only 365 kilometers per hour, which is even lower than some German bombers. In terms of maneuverability, among the German dive bombers, the maneuverability is similar to this fighter!

Although the Polish Air Force has a total of about 1,900 aircraft, there are very few front-line combat aircraft. Of the 1,900 aircraft, 650 are training aircraft, and the other 700 are various obsolete and useless aircraft.

There are 392 aircraft that can take off for combat, including 185 fighters, 114 reconnaissance fighters, 36 medium bombers and 84 reconnaissance aircraft, and the main fighters are 128 "PZL P.11" and 30 reconnaissance aircraft. "PZL P.7".

Although the performance of the Polish Air Force's fighter jets is not good, the quality of Polish pilots is absolutely powerful! In the history of later generations, the moment when the Polish Air Force exerted its power was in the air battle in Britain!

And now, at the risk of taking off in an emergency, it is the first ace pilot of the Polish Air Force in history!

The 630-horsepower engine of the P11 made a huge roar, the two-bladed propellers were turning rapidly, and the fixed landing gear was rolling and rolling on the runway.

"Pay attention to the back!" The ground crew on the ground couldn't help shouting loudly.

In the sky, a BF109 suddenly emerged from the clouds and dived quickly towards the airport! On the side of the fuselage, the black cross is so dazzling.

In the cabin, Corporal Heinz looked at his prey with cold eyes.

Heinz-Barr was born on March 21, 1913 in Sommerfeld near Leipzig. A glider enthusiast as a teenager, he started gliding training at 17, then joined secret pilot training and traveled to the Soviet Union.

In 1935, Barr officially joined the Luftwaffe and flew the Junkers 52/3m first, then changed to the BF109 and was assigned to the 51st Day Fighter Wing under the command of Moldes.

After that, he entered the Spanish battlefield. Unfortunately, it was quite unfortunate. When his squadron was rotated, it was already in the late stage of the Spanish Civil War. There were no government fighters in the sky. He was on the Spanish battlefield. The greatest joy , is to dive down, hit the car or something, so boring.

Now, the real battle is finally here! As a pilot of the 1st Squadron of the 1st Brigade, he and his squadron companions flew fighters and escorted a group of bombers to bomb the airfields in Poland.

They took off with the rest of the formation, and when they reached the border, the official declaration of war began.

Therefore, there were no obstacles along the way. The Poles hadn't completed the preparations for take-off, but when he came to the sky above the airport, he saw the take-off fighter plane on the runway and dived down immediately!

His eyesight is the best, and at the same time, he is eager to fight, this fighter jet that takes off is his prey! Like a ferocious eagle, BF109, swooped down from the sky.