"......'Defeated'?"

didn't react for a while, Maxim first muttered in surprise, and then remembered that James and their "MATRIX" were also selling retired F-15s on the spot of the NAARC games, and couldn't help but look slightly sunk:

"What do you mean, young man? I don't understand a little bit. ”

……

Half an hour has passed since the previous conversation.

At the huge Sarakmento Air Base, next to a wide runway on the opposite side of the apron, a large number of tourists have gathered to stop and watch, including many people in the aviation arena who have received the news and come to watch.

In the take-off preparation area adjacent to the runway, the pilots of the "Uranus" team were busy beside a huge fighter plane.

The Su-27SK, dressed in gray air superiority livery, was ready to take off at this time, and the weapon pylons under the wings had been disassembled, and even the missile launch slides on the wingtips were not left.

Although the pilot of the "Uranus" team also reminded him that the wingtip missile launch slide of the Su-27SK doubles as the tip counterweight of the wing, and if it is removed, it may cause wing tremor during high-speed flight and affect flight safety, but Long Yun, who is already familiar with the Su-27, is not worried about this, his idea is to reduce the weight of the fighter as much as possible, of course, within the scope of the rules.

Talking easily with Lei Qiang, who was standing on the sidelines, he tilted his head and looked at a silver-gray F-15C from the "MATRIX" team not far away, which was also nervously preparing for battle, and the wings were also dismantled and empty. It seems that they are also taking this competition seriously. We have also made sufficient preparations.

"Brother Long." MATRIX's F-15C, have they been decommissioned? ”

"Oh, I just heard about it, too. This batch of F-15Cs has been produced for 30 years, and it is claimed that the body life is 6,000 hours, but in fact, it is just like that. ”

Feeling the gaze of many onlookers, Long Yun was very relaxed as if nothing had happened, and he was quite sure of this contest.

When it comes to the duel between the "Flanker" and the "Eagle", this kind of scene actually happens very often, but it is an air battle in the aviation arena. It's really rare to see a race for speed like this.

Seeing that the two huge fighters at the end of the runway were ready and ready to go, and were being towed by the tractor to the take-off mark of the runway, attracted by the previous NAARC competition center competition information broadcast, the onlookers gathered from all directions all stretched their necks to watch, and at the same time they were talking about it:

"What, one-on-one again? ――Why is the model different? How does this compare! ”

"Wow! Look, is that a single-seat 'flanker' brought by the Chinese? But what is he going to do, compare the speed with the 'eagle'? ”

"What's going on, -- has anyone bought 'Flanker' to win? No? You guys are so lacking in entertainment. I'll buy a hundred-knife 'flanker', haha! ”

"The Chinese. - Oh? Could it be the previous PRSFT champion, am I mistaken? ”

"Can you recognize it? I don't think Oriental people all look the same. - No, I'm still going to buy the 'Eagle', even if it's 0.1 to 0.1......"

In the noise of a large number of onlookers, Long Yun, who had changed into a flight suit, approached the huge fighter plane whose engine had been kept in a slow state, put his helmet under his armpit and put on his flight gloves, and then waved to the crowd on the runway; Less than thirty meters away from where he was standing, with the help of the pilots to finally confirm the readiness of the F-15C in front of him, the diminutive James was wearing a bulging flight suit and a smug smile on his face, as if he was not participating in a race race, but preparing for a celebration party after victory.

But isn't it, the Chinese who came out of nowhere actually wanted to drive the "Flanker" and himself in a thousand-kilometer round-trip race; Did this guy take the wrong medicine and dare to use the second-rate colors of the Russians to compare the flight speed with the "Eagle" of the "MATRIX"?

If he really drove the fighter plane into the air and went head-to-head, he James might not dare to say anything, but now compared to the speed, this kind of competition is simply no suspense!

'Hey, Chinese friend!' Friendship first, win second', I'll meet you at the finish line! ”

"Oh, really?"

Hearing James's lame rhetoric, Long Yun was not interested in correcting his translation error of that proverb, "Then you'd better look clearly before landing, if you find an airport to land halfway, I don't have time to wait for you!" ”

After a two-word battle with James behind him, and Lei Qiang and the pilots beside him, Long Yun climbed the boarding ladder and jumped into the familiar Su-27SK cockpit, closing the hatch to block the noise of the scene and the roar of the engine. Connect the pipeline connection between the flight suit and the cockpit interface, and confirm that the fighter self-test is in good condition, although this fighter that has been out of the factory for almost 30 years is no longer suitable for fierce air combat, but if you want to say a thousand-mile rush to compete for speed, there is still no problem.

It was just now that the truth about the sale of the obsolete F-15C by "MATRIX" was revealed in a few words, and Long Yun did not make much effort to convince Maxim that he was a daredevil, who had miscalculated and planned to use the Su-27SK and F-15C for a speed race. After hearing the conditions offered by the collector, Long Yun knew that he had taken the bait:

"Young man, if your 'Flanker' wins, I can bid three million for this fighter. ――How? ”

"Okay. If I lose, the cost of the game will be mine. Deal! ”

Before speaking, he thought of Maxim's old calculations, knowing that he would most likely not give up this rare opportunity to take the opportunity to advertise the old F-15s that were frequently and violently used by his team and whose body strength was severely damaged.

The two agreed to fly the Su-27SK and F-15C in a standard air combat state, and prepared to refuel without any plug-in and with the same fuel load coefficient (the ratio of the fighter's fuel load to take-off weight) to refuel the 1,000-kilometer turnaround route of the race, and whoever flies back to the base in the shortest possible time will be considered a winner.

So now, in the midst of a large crowd of onlookers, the Su-27SK filled with 7.6 tons of low-grade aviation kerosene and the F-15C, which has a full internal fuel tank and a fuel carrying capacity of 6.1 tons, have all stopped behind the take-off line, ready for a relatively fair speed contest.

Seeing that Long Yun was going to race with James from "MATRIX", especially to challenge the F-15C with the Su-27SK, the onlookers were using mobile phones and tablets to place bets, and they felt that the Chinese in front of them were a little too conceited, or a little unscrupulous.

Naturally, fighter jets are meant to fight, not to fly faster than anyone else; But many of you here know that if you simply evaluate the flight speed, the F-15 does have a certain range advantage.

As the third-generation air superiority fighter of the U.S. Air Force, the F-15, which emphasizes high-speed flight characteristics and has long-range combat capabilities, adopts a relatively conservative and concise aerodynamic design shape, with a double delta wing with a sweeping angle of 45 degrees on the leading edge and a pneumatic configuration that focuses on net stability, so that it has good acceleration characteristics and maximum speed: with the F100 series engine with abundant thrust, the F-15C can reach Mach 2.5 at high altitude when it is unloaded.

On the other hand, the Su-27, although it also has a powerful AL-31F engine with thrust, and the afterburner thrust of a single 12.5 tons is higher than that of the F-15C F100 series, but the design focuses on the maneuverability of the subsonic range, and the Su-27 with a trapezoidal wing with a leading edge sweep angle of 42 degrees and a lifting body configuration is not completely suitable for high-speed flight: in the case of no load, the maximum level flight speed of the Su-27SK at high altitude is Mach 2.35, which is better than many third-generation fighters, But compared to the F-15C, it is still a cut off.

The reason for such a gap is that, after all, the Su-27's body size and empty weight are much larger than those of the F-15, relatively speaking, the power is slightly insufficient, and the course stability when flying at high speed is not ideal.

After such a comparison, the insiders who stopped at the scene all came to their own conclusions: the Chinese in front of him, even if he is a good air combat hand, I am afraid that he is overconfident. You must know that racing is not about fighting, only about speed, even if you are good at air combat skills, can you still push the plane by yourself?

Of course, at the same time, there are some people who are not so pessimistic, such as Lei Qiang and others on the side of the runway, whose analysis is more rigorous.

Simply considering the flight distance of 1,000 kilometers and the amount of fuel carried by the fighters, Lei Qiang knew that this fuel alone was not enough for the two fighters to continuously turn on the afterburner and maintain supersonic flight; Therefore, both sides of the competition need to carefully develop a full flight strategy, and complete the entire journey in a way that is carried out at intervals between subsonic cruise and supersonic sprint, and perhaps Long Yun still has a certain chance to win.

But having said that, he was a little apprehensive when he looked at the NAARC official website and saw that the Su-27 class was much slower than the F-15 best in the 1,000-kilometer switchback race.

What professional speed competitors can't do, can the "Chenlong" brother, who focuses on air combat, really do it? (To be continued......)