Chapter 33: Athletic Team Performance
As early as the opening of the tourism festival, the "Wangjing" aviation sports team invited from the capital arrived in Qingdao.
After training early in the morning, I remembered that the next day was the first battle of the final stage, but Long Yun and Lin Feng, who had just arrived, went to Qingdao New Airport to see the king of the aviation team.
Along the way, Lin Feng, who was sitting in the back row, still didn't say much, and Yunzhi next to him also looked absent-minded. The two of them quarreled about the team before, and although Lin Feng's mood was not good, Long Yun still dragged him to watch the show, just to relax and relax.
Asking himself that he had never seen the air show of the aviation team, Long Yun felt that the opportunity was rare, and if he missed it, he would have to wait for next year.
When you come to the huge parking lot of the airport, the crowd of visitors has already crowded the place. Finally found a parking space, Long Yun and others couldn't wait to buy tickets to enter the venue, at this time the visit area was already crowded, and there was almost no place for latecomers.
Just on the other side of the bustling spectator area, less than 200 meters away, you can see four golden-red fighters neatly parked on the side of the runway, with reverse torsion delta wings, large hanging tails, and an almost square belly air intake under the sharp nose with canard wings.
Long Yun recognized it at a glance, it was the J-10 that often appeared in game videos and TV shots, and it was the first time he had seen the real thing. Unfortunately, due to safety considerations, a wide separation zone was set up between the spectators and the fighter parking area, otherwise he would really want to go forward now and take a closer look.
For the J-10, Long Yun, like every Chinese military enthusiast, is very familiar. At the end of the last century, it was the emergence of this kind of single-engine medium fighter that shortened the gap between the R&D and manufacturing level of advanced fighter planes in China and foreign countries from the original two generations to less than one generation, and in fact caught up with the existing equipment level of neighboring countries. Before the advent of more advanced fighters, the J-10 series, together with the Su-27 series fighters imported from the Soviet Union, undertook the heavy responsibility of national air defense for 15 years.
If possible, Long Yun is very much looking forward to being able to fly such a fighter plane in the sky above the arena in the near future.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the air team performance officially began. Under the anticipation of everyone at the scene, the four J-10s slowly entered the runway and took off in two groups in turn, preparing for the exhibition match of fighter aircraft confrontation.
Unlike the air show teams of many countries' air forces and air forces, the purpose of the formation of the air team is to compete, so there are almost no difficult and long-term training actions in their air shows, but they are mainly based on wonderful aerial aerobatics and simulated confrontations.
For today's performance, although the livery of the two sets of J-10s is eye-catching golden red, the patterns are still different. Simulating a real aviation competition, four fighters make complex and ornamental confrontation actions at low altitude, and the audience on the ground is amazed while constantly recording or taking pictures.
The fierce confrontation performance ended with a dense formation of four planes flying through the field. Just when everyone thought that the performance had been completed, they saw that the formation of four J-10s suddenly approached; From the audience, the fighters that were moving away were almost crowded together. Some people may not know why, but those who have watched the air show know that this is a pre-action for the salute maneuver.
Sure enough, with the rapid rise of the fighters, the four red J-10 fighters pierced the sky like a cluster of sharp swords, and the flames of the tail nozzle were blue in color, indicating that the engine had been turned on to the maximum state at this time. The thrust of the single-engine J-10 fighter itself is not very rich, and this action was chosen to be carried out at the end of the performance when the fuel consumption is about the same and the weight of the aircraft is the lightest, also in order to be able to climb as high as possible, so that the action will look good.
Sure enough, the fighters that maintained a dense formation rose straight up, pulled out a fine track in the sky, and only when the speed reached the low limit did they suddenly scatter and flatten out, blooming a gorgeous picture in the sky. Such a difficult maneuver flight, although there is no colored smoke to help the fun, but it is also quite beautiful, and the audience burst into thunderous applause.
Long Yun, who was in the audience, saw the performance of the "Wangjing" team, and he also admired the skills of these team members. The salute action of the combination of multiple fighters, although it is very good-looking, but the risk is really not small. Before completing the vertical climb, the fighter needs to accelerate and accumulate kinetic energy at low altitude, and at the same time, it also needs to closely coordinate with each aircraft to form a dense formation, otherwise the scattered actions will lack aesthetics; When climbing vertically, the pulling action needs to be uniform, and the tracks between the aircraft should be as parallel as possible to avoid collision.
However, the most difficult thing to grasp is the flip and flattening after the climb, and the timing is very difficult to grasp. The leveling is too early, the height of the climb is not enough, and it is not good-looking; If the level is changed too late, the speed of the fighter will be as low as a certain distance, and it will easily fall into a stall and fall.
Looking at the performance of the "Wangjing" team today, the cooperation between their teammates is quite skillful, and the skills are also very good, and they do have the demeanor of a strong team.
After the exhibition match, a visit to the fighter plane was also arranged, and Long Yun certainly couldn't miss this rare opportunity.
Right on the sunny airport, next to the fenced viewing area, there are already many spectators; After careful inspection by the security gate and the security personnel, Long Yun was finally able to observe the "Wangjing" team's competition fighter at close range.
Although, when he traveled back to the past, Long Yun was already very familiar with fighter planes. But after all, it is different from reality, in this world, Long Yun only flew planes on simulators and computers before, not to mention flying real planes, and he never even sat on them.
In the midst of the tourists' stops, the J-10 fighter planes painted in fiery red stand quietly behind the neatly arranged weapon display racks. Not in a hurry to study the plane, Long Yun walked around a few steps and looked at the missiles on the display rack.
These real guys, who usually load on fighter planes, now take a closer look and realize that they are so big. The PL-12 medium-range radar-guided missile, which is 200 millimeters in diameter and four meters long, and the PL-8C close-range combat missile, which is one size smaller next to it, are all so novel in Long Yun's eyes.
Reaching out and touching it a few times, he had an intuitive feeling for these things; It's the kind of thing that can fly at Mach 4 speed in the air to chase a target tens of kilometers away.
Next to the missile on display, Long Yun crouched down and carefully observed the segmented structure of the missile.
Regardless of the guidance method, the segmented structure is basically similar: the front end is supposed to be the best position for the warhead, but in order to make room for the seeker, the warhead can only be arranged behind the seeker and electronics; Behind the warhead, there is the servo and slender thrusters, and for missiles with gas rudders, there will also be a tail control section.
Of course, similar structures do not mean that the designs are similar. The PL-12 missile in front of you is very similar to the American AIM-120 in terms of design pattern, but other missiles may not be like this. After watching the display of weapons, Long Yun was about to take a closer look at the J-10 fighter in front of him, but found that there was a commotion in the surrounding crowd.
It turned out that it was the "Wangjing" team that held a press conference at the scene.