If he were a bystander, Boileau would probably have already scolded, but he didn't dare to be a powerful man from Iraq, he was still waiting to sign an arms sales order, Dassault's Phantom 2000, the first order, was signed by him Boileau himself, what a historic moment it would be.

However, the other party said that he wanted to see the actual aircraft flight show, which is not something he can decide, the current Mirage 2000, only a few prototypes have been built, all of which are under intense testing, and there is no arrangement for the flight show.

"Wait, your Excellency Qusay, I have to ask for instructions from above." Boileau said.

Out of the conference room, Boileau dialed Marcel Dassault's phone, the old man heard that someone wanted to see the air show, and couldn't help but feel that the other party was really interesting, but this shows that the other party is very sincere, he immediately asked Boileau to agree to the other party's request, after lunch in the company, in the afternoon to visit the flight show at the Istel Dassau flight test center near Marseille.

Marseille is France's second largest city and largest seaport, surrounded on three sides by limestone hills, with beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea in the southeast, and there is a large area of airspace above it that can be used for supersonic flight, making it an ideal location for test flights. Therefore, Dassault has established a large flight test center here, and almost all the aircraft are tested here.

An aircraft, from the prototype to the successful finalization, requires thousands of hours of test flights, flight surnames, flight envelopes, whether the aerodynamic layout is reasonable, etc., must go through repeated test flights.

When Zhang Feng heard that he was going to visit the Dassault Test Flight Center, he immediately happily agreed. Because he knows that the Mirage 4000 is now also being tested in the flight test center.

After a hearty lunch at Dassault headquarters, two helicopters took them straight to the flight test center.

At the Dassault Flight Test Center, Zhang Feng was on the helicopter, looking at the gradually approaching buildings below, looking forward to it.

Zhang Feng knew that the flight test center can be said to be the cradle of new fighters, countless fighters, some of them grew up in the flight test center, and finally soared above the blue sky, and some unfortunately died halfway, and the only prototype left behind was also placed in the museum as an exhibit for people to enjoy.

And test pilots are a legendary profession, they, dancing with death, in the test flights of military aircraft in various countries, for various reasons, have fallen over the plane, test pilots will always have their lives in danger, but they are not afraid. The domestic J-10 of later generations created a miracle, in the long test flight process, until the prototype body life was reached, there was no crash of the aircraft.

Suddenly, a small business jet flew next to the helicopter, but the difference was that the head of the small business jet was in a pointed shape, somewhat similar to the head of a fighter jet.

"This is the radar of our Mirage 2000 fighter, which is being tested." Boileau explained.

Zhang Feng knew that the electronic equipment on the fighter was not tested on the fighter, but another special aircraft, which was stuffed with various electronic equipment to test the radar and other systems.

In the small cockpit, Joseph Rato was working at his post, but his expression was not very good.

"Hey, Joseph, what's wrong with you?" An engineer who was very close to him asked: "You have been looking like this since you came back from the Soviet Union, do you like the girl from the Soviet Union?" ”

Joseph ignored him, he was still working on his own work, this radar in the anti-air mode, there was a big flaw, it may be that there was a mistake in the process of program writing, no matter how he tested, he could not complete the match with the Matra 530 missile.

"Hey, Joseph, don't work so crazy, let's go to the bar at the base for a couple of drinks when we get off the plane!" Another engineer said.

Joseph still did not answer, and only by fully immersing himself in his work could he make him forget everything he had encountered in the Soviet Union.

Bill Kayever, dressed in a flight suit and an anti-load suit, was ready next to the Mirage 2000, and he was given an order from above to perform a test flight show this afternoon.

He graduated from the French Test Pilot School in 1977 and served in the Naval Aviation for two years before joining the Test Flight Center.

As a test pilot at Dassault, you need to fly an average of 140 to 160 hours per year, including 100 hours of test flights, and the rest are pilots who perform, retrain, deliver and train customers. Bill's annual flight time has reached more than 200 hours, and sometimes he can fly five or six hours a day in a test flight subject.

The most complex fly-by-wire system of the Mirage 2000 was the one he used to test fly the most risky of them, PIO, that is, pilot-induced concussion, and the side effect of this fly-by-wire system has led to the crashes and crashes of other fly-by-wire aircraft.

In addition to test flights, it is also the responsibility of each test pilot to promote the sales of various Dassault products. It is also an art and skill to show the surname of a combat aircraft, and this kind of performance is essential to build the image of the company and the aircraft, they said.

They perform air shows for potential customers so that they can see from the flight whether this type of aircraft can meet their own requirements. However, this is only for customers with the most likely purchase intentions, and this is the first time that this kind of flight performance of the Mirage 2000 has been carried out so far.

Next to him was the fifth prototype of the Mirage 2000. This prototype is mainly used for structural tests and various overload experiments under sub- and supersonic speeds, without plug-ins and with 4 air-to-air missiles, that is to say, this aircraft is mainly used to fly various maneuvers, and it is also very exciting to fly.

Zhang Feng sat in the temporary stand of the test flight center with great interest, and someone had already handed him a military telescope with a large magnification.

On the runway, the Mirage 2000 fighter had slowly slid up and aimed at the center line of the gun track.

Bill looked at the stands in the distance, calmed down, and turned on the afterburner.

Suddenly, the M53-2 engine behind him, there was a sound of full work, and the tail flame from the lilac afterburner came out, and then, he released the brakes, and suddenly, the Phantom 2000 was like a wild horse, and began to run wildly on the runway, and a huge push back feeling came, and Bill pulled up the mast without hesitation.

The Mirage 2000, like the one on the promotional video, took off at a high angle of attack.

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