In China, the main fighters, J-5, J-6, J-7, are all small aircraft, take the J-7 fighter as an example, the length is 14 meters, and the length of the Tomcat fighter is close to 20 meters!

If you put the J-7 fighter next to it and compare it together, the visual shock will be greater, and if you use the image metaphor, it will be compared with a small sports car and a huge off-road vehicle.

In terms of weight, the gap is even greater, the empty weight of the Tomcat fighter is 18 tons, the maximum take-off weight is 33 tons, and the fuel weight in the plane is more than 7 tons.

And what about J-7?

The empty weight is more than 5 tons, the maximum take-off weight is 8 tons, and the fuel inside the plane is two tons.

Compared with the two, the gap is huge, even if you put the Mirage 2000 here, it is also the role of a little brother, in addition to the big, another feature is that the Tomcat fighter is very wide!

The length of the J-7 is 14 meters, and the wingspan is seven meters, while the length of the Tomcat fighter is twenty meters, and the wingspan is also close to twenty meters!

From the front, you can find that this is a fairly wide fighter, the air intake is so majestic, this binary oblique adjustable air intake, enough for a person to easily climb in, people can't help but open their mouths, before this, everyone has never seen such a monster.

The wing box is as powerful as the front edge of an eagle's wings, and if you look at it from behind, the two huge engines, about a meter apart, are even more visually striking.

Twin engines and double hanging tails, in the past, no one had ever seen such a large fighter, now it seems, can only be described as spectacular.

"Come, let's take a group photo in front of the fighter plane first." Grumman's hospitality is quite thoughtful, and at the same time, it is also for publicity, and there is a photographer to take a group photo for everyone.

So, on the side of a fighter plane that had almost completed the final assembly task, everyone stood together, becoming a row, dozens of people, on the side of the plane, actually stood in a row, at this time, you can also see the height of the fuselage, and the position above the head is not yet the middle of the fuselage.

"Click, click." The photographer took several photos in a row, and then everyone dispersed.

"Can I see the cockpit?" Qin Feng asked, as a pilot, what I hope most is to look at the cockpit.

Pelehaq raised his hand magnificently: "Everyone look at it!" ”

Everyone is invited to come here, originally to see this fighter, and the cockpit is of course included.

The location where Qin Feng took pictures was near the cockpit, and the cockpit canopy of the two people was quite wide, and it seemed that the interior must be quite spacious.

But how to get up?

Generally speaking, fighters must have a gangway for boarding, and if the design of the fighter is suitable, the pilot can also climb up along the wings, but now, this fuselage is too wide, if Qin Feng climbs up, it is estimated that he will have to grab the wings and do a pull-up to go up.

It's not easy either! When Qin Feng tentatively raised his hand, he found that his hand could only touch the missile pylons under the wing box, and he had to jump to be able to touch the upper part.

"Where's the gangway?" Qin Feng finally asked this question, do you have any sincerity, since you let me see it, why don't you put a gangway?

Pelehack smiled, bent down, and pressed a button on the belly position under the cockpit.

Then, in Qin Feng's surprised eyes, he saw the skin in this position, and suddenly began to flip outward, the skin turned outward, revealing two steps for boarding, and then, the frame below could also be pulled down, forming a four-step step!

People actually directly put the boarding ladder to the side of the plane, so that even in field conditions, without the help of ground crew, the pilot can go up and down freely, otherwise, the pilot will not even dare to jump.

It's so creative!

The next four steps are still not enough, only enough to climb to half of the fuselage, this step is in the middle of the cockpit, and then, there will be two steps on the left and right, only one level, which is enough for the pilot to step on, and go to the front cabin and the rear cabin respectively.

This is only this kind of heavy fighter can do this, because the light fighter is small in size, the space is limited, and there is no need, you can use both hands and feet, you can go up directly, this kind of aircraft, you must have outside help.

Qin Feng sighed, followed the steps, and climbed up.

Domestic fighters are almost all single-seater, and the Mirage 2000 that flies is a two-seater, but the layout of the front and rear cabins of the Mirage 2000 is basically the same, but this aircraft is different.

The front compartment houses the pilot, and the rear compartment houses the weapons operations officer.

In later generations, some people once lamented that two-seaters are actually useless, and single-seat pilots are enough, anyway, it is a matter of pressing the button, in fact, of course, this is not the case.

For a fighter equipped with a powerful weapon system, many times, not a pilot can do it, take the current Tomcat fighter as an example, the AWG-9 radar in front has several working modes, some modes are used to illuminate the road, some modes are used to attack, and the radar mode needs to be constantly adjusted, and at the same time, if you want to launch a missile, you also need to go through cumbersome operation steps, which is definitely not the locking seen in the TV series, and the attack is so simple.

So, it has to be two people working together.

Needless to say, in this era, in more than ten years, the Su-27 will be a single-seater, but to have a strong attack capability, the improved Su-30 is still a two-seater, and one person's hand cannot be finished.

This is like in World War II, a torpedo machine needs three operators, one of whom is responsible for binding data for torpedoes, and if the data is wrong, the torpedo will not be able to hit the target.

Qin Feng first looked at the back seat, the back seat has no operating lever, two display screens, occupy the main field of vision of the back seat, next to the display screen, densely arranged with various buttons, Qin Feng knows that if you want to operate the huge AWG-9 radar, you need a special radar officer.

In China, there is no such equipment yet, and it is necessary to wait until the J-7 is put into service before there will be a way for the two crew members to cooperate.

After a few glances, Qin Feng felt that he couldn't understand it, so he could only come to the front cabin, he didn't have any restraints, he just sat in, if he couldn't let himself fly, it was also a good choice to feel it inside.

Domestic fighter planes, the cockpit is quite narrow, very restrained in it, and it takes repeated training to adapt, and the cockpit of the current Tomcat fighter is quite wide, and such an aircraft must be very easy to fly.