New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

() Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing took off first, followed by Ron and Bong.Contrary to previous expectations, Vorozheikin and Allelyuqin did not drive the p-39 they had been driving before, but replaced the plane with an f6f.Obviously, this is a trick played by the Soviets targeting xing.

One of the purposes of the previous series of joint training was to find out the details of the opponent. The Soviets were not fools, of course they understood this, and they also hoped to understand their opponents in this way.

Since they did not come with Soviet-produced aircraft, they had to use American fighter jets.If they switch to other unfamiliar fighters, they will definitely suffer in the confrontation match, but fortunately, they are quite familiar with two of the American fighters, one is the p-39, and the other is the f6f.This fighter, which was defeated in the naval competition, later became the new favorite of the Soviets. The Soviet pilots who flew over it were impressed by its sturdy body, powerful firepower, excellent hovering, and the rare range of Soviet aircraft. .

This kind of fighter was quickly delivered to the most elite flying teams by the Soviets, and many pilots who were flying p-39 were replaced by f6f.But in the previous training, they deliberately avoided this kind of aircraft, always flying the p-39 to play with the Americans.The purpose is to give the Yankees a surprise at this time.

Ron had actually thought about this situation.But he was not too worried, because firstly, American pilots were familiar with this kind of fighter, and secondly, in his opinion, the f6f fighter was really a fighter with obvious defects.And that flaw is its speed.

Among the three fighter jets in the United States that use twin Hornet engines, the F6F has spent the least amount of thought on its aerodynamic shape.It's almost directly an upscaled version of f4f.There are many advantages to doing this, such as less difficulty in development, faster research progress, less difficulty in changing equipment, and saving money, etc.But it also brings a common problem from the f4f design era, which is to emphasize hovering and despise issues such as maximum speed and climb.

作为一款使用真正的2000马力级别发动机的飞机，f6f的最大速度才勉勉强强的超过了600公里，而同样使用双黄蜂的f4u能飞到651公里，而p-47更是能飞到680公里的速度。而且后面两种战斗机的速度还有很大的通过改进提升的空间。

Secondly, the climb of f6f is also a problem.The sturdy body is extremely heavy, which makes its climb quite laborious.Of course the climbs of the f4u and p-47 are not great either.

Moreover, it is not only the Soviets who can use this trick, but also the Americans, and they have more choices. <>In the hangar of the "Inverse Cross", there are several improved p-51s using the British "Merlin" engine.Ron shamelessly drove them into the sky.

Compared with the f6f, the improved version of the p-51 is faster, climbs better, and has much better maneuverability at high speeds.If it is a low-altitude large-scale battle, Ron can't guarantee that the p-51 will definitely have the upper hand, because the f6f is obviously stronger, which allows them to take advantage of group fights with more shooting opportunities.However, in the confrontation of the small fleet, Ron felt that using p-51, whether it was against f6f or p-39, could be regarded as bullying.

Two more "fearless" reconnaissance planes took off from the airport.This aircraft is a modified version of the "Dreadnought" dive bomber, now, its rear machine gun has been removed and replaced with a video camera.In each of these two planes, an American and Soviet pilot served as a referee to judge whether the plane in the exercise was shot down.

After reaching the predetermined height of 1000 meters, with the order of the director department, the confrontation drill officially started.

At the beginning of the battle, Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing planned to use a head-on hedge to give the Yankees a blow.Although I don't know about the p-51, in general, aircraft with air-cooled engines are always stronger than those with liquid-cooled engines. For she, f6f probably won't suffer.

Because of this, of course Ron and Bong would never choose such a combat method. When they were still far away, they pulled up the plane, and then swooped to the right, which gave the Soviets an inside bite. Live their 6 o'clock chance.Of course, the Soviets would not let go of such an opportunity. They also pulled up slightly first, and then followed Ron to dive over.And firmly bit the back of Ron and Bong.Both Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing felt that the situation was good. Their f6f turned at a much smaller angle than Ron and the others, so the speed lost during the turn was relatively smaller.That makes them faster than those two Yankees now.With both an angle advantage and a speed advantage, Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing even felt that they might be able to win immediately.

But this situation didn't particularly make Ron nervous.Because the two f6fs of the Soviets are still far away from me, and I am still out of range of its 20mm guns, and their speed is not much faster than me.The distance between the two sides has not narrowed so fast.Moreover, the speed of his fighter plane has exceeded 550 now. Of course, with the acceleration of the dive, the Soviets' f6f is still faster than him, but Ron knows that at such a high speed, the p-51 has better capabilities than the f6f. The maneuverability of the P-51 will lose much less energy when turning at such a speed.In other words, as long as they take them to make a continuous turn, the slightly higher speed of the Soviets will soon decrease.

So Ron exited the shallow dive and began to make a high-speed turn. The angular velocity of this turn was not high, but during the entire turn, Ron and Bong maintained a high speed.Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing also continued to follow, but they soon realized that something was wrong—the speed of their fighter plane slowed down rapidly, and under normal circumstances, it would be difficult to catch up with the Yankees.

However, as the trump cards of the Soviet Union, Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing were not given in vain.They responded immediately.One by one, they pushed the nose of the plane and began to turn and dive.

"Damn it, these two idiots, don't you want to play low-down?" Low-down is an advanced tactical move. When the chasing fighter can't keep up with the enemy plane while circling, he can take a dive first. , Gain speed, and then pull up and cut the opponent's inside line.

And there is no way to deal with this trick. Just change to hovering and flying in a straight line to ensure that others can't catch up.

But Ron didn't completely recover from the hovering, but changed the horizontal hovering into a hovering upward.A simple recovery can only increase a safe distance, but the spiral climb is different. It is a very aggressive tactical move. Once the altitude advantage is obtained, a dive attack will follow.But this action must carefully judge the energy status of the person, otherwise, if the person jumps up and really bites the tail, it will be over.

Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing pulled up the plane again, jumped up, and followed up again.However, it is still a bit far from the effective range.And they also understand that climbing is not f6f's strong point.Besides, spiral climbing is also a trick they are very familiar with.Those German guys driving bf-109 are best at this kind of tricks. Climbing along will only make their speed slower and slower, and finally they are on the verge of stalling, unable to move, and they are beaten to death.

So Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing simply stopped following Ron and Bong, but took the initiative to turn around and distance themselves from the Yankees.The opponent has climbed higher, and it is of course disadvantageous to have an energy advantage.But whether the opponent can make good use of this energy advantage is still hard to say.Dive down from a high place to attack, due to the influence of gravity, the speed will become faster and faster.As the speed increases, the more low-speed air boundary layer will accumulate on the wing, which will make the efficiency of the wing drop rapidly. This is called wing compression.

This phenomenon will make many fighters that are quite flexible in the low-speed section, as soon as they enter the high-speed section, they will immediately become clumsy like a flying slate.In this way, as long as Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing maintain an appropriate speed, they can ensure that their aircraft is not affected by the compression of the wing surface and can make flexible movements.If the opponent wants to raid himself at a speed much higher than his own, then his aircraft will definitely have a serious wing surface compression effect, and his aircraft will become quite clumsy.I only need a slight side slip to make his attack fail.And once the opponent attacks him with a speed that is only slightly higher than his own, then relying on f6f's excellent hovering performance, as long as the opponent is a little careless, he will be severely bitten back.

Since Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing no longer follow the climb, this means that they automatically gave up their altitude advantage.Ron and Bong naturally wanted to take advantage of the high altitude and launched an attack.So they swooped down from a height and rushed towards the Soviets.

Vorozheikin and Allelyuqing did not know the performance of the P-51. Although they saw the Americans approaching them with an astonishing rate of approach, they could tell that the speed of the opponent's aircraft must be very high at this time, and the wing surface was compressed. The effects must have been quite severe.But how serious this effect is, and whether it is enough to turn the roaring P-51 into a "flying slate", the Soviets are not sure.

So the Soviets made a big move to dodge, while carefully observing the actions of the Americans.

As expected, the Yankee's plane looked very clumsy, and the evasive action they made easily avoided the American attack.

Of course, the Americans were too fast, so they didn't get a chance to fight back.Vorozheikin watched the American plane turn and climb, assessing its performance at high speeds.

"The jump is very good, but the influence of the airfoil compression effect is also obvious. The maneuverability at high speed is generally similar to that of the bf-109g. Maybe it is slightly better."

The next two attacks of p-51 also seemed to confirm his conjecture.Several attacks by the Americans were also easily dodged.However, the Americans have a good grasp of energy, and the Soviets never got the chance to fight back.So the Soviets decided to gradually reduce the range of evasion movements, so as to reduce the energy loss during evasion, and to win more opportunities for themselves to fight back.

But all of this was within Ron's expectations.

"The Soviets are used to seeing German fighter planes that become extremely clumsy due to the wing surface compression effect at high speeds. They must have never imagined that our p-51 can have such a cao response at high speeds. Therefore, once we have the opportunity to fly at high speeds To attack them, let's not use the full performance of the p-51, we have to fly it like the German bf-109, until the Soviets really regard them as bf-109, we will..."

"Be patient and keep attacking!" Ron said to Bong on the radio. "Be patient" is actually a code word, it really means: this time for real!