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The Third Empire - Chapter 1198

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:34:47 AM


Chapter 1198: 1198

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They soon got into the cabin and made preparations before takeoff in an orderly manner.

Kellogg turned the switches one by one, and then his eyes looked at the engine of the left wing.

"Buzz, buzz." A burst of black smoke came out and the engine roared.

This is not to start the engine, but to start the two-stroke engine in the "bullet" cone in the middle of the engine inlet.

The jet engine cannot start by itself. It must be driven by other power to reach a certain speed before it can be started. The current way of starting the jet is to use this special starting engine.

In the roar of starting the engine, the fuel pump began to pressurize, and the efficient aviation fuel was pumped to the six independent combustion chambers in the middle of the engine. At the same time, the 8-stage axial compressor in the engine turned, and began to continuously agitate air into the combustion chamber.

When the engine has been driven to 3000 revolutions per minute, kelleger toggles the ignition button. In an instant, fuel is sprayed from the independent combustion chamber. Under the ignition of the spark plug, it burns brightly. The high-temperature and high-pressure gas pushes the unipolar turbine behind it, and then sprays out from the tail nozzle.

The ground service stood in the distance and observed that the inner flame was orange and the outer flame became lighter, which was normal.

"The left engine is normal." The ground crew shouted on the radio.

Kleger continued to start the right engine. A few minutes later, the engine on the right also burst into flames, and both sides started normally!

After receiving the confirmation from the ground service, kleger observed that all instruments were normal again, and then pushed the throttle levers on both sides forward together.

The turbojet engine sent out a unique roar. This sound intoxicated cleger every time. He stared at the dashboard in front of him. The engines on both sides had reached the maximum speed of 9000 rpm. At this time, the thrust on both sides exceeded one ton.

The whole plane was shaking and seemed to be ready to fly at any time.

Clegg relaxed his breath and shouted on the radio, "lightning seven, request to take off."

"You can take off. I wish you a successful start."

Kelleger released the brake and pressed the four linkage buttons on one side of the operating lever together.

Under the wing outside the engine, there are two external hanging points, which are specially prepared to hang the Walter 109-500 take-off booster rocket.

As he pressed the button, the booster rocket was also ignited violently. Each booster rocket could burst out a thrust of 500 kg. With two engines, a total of four tons of thrust, it pushed an eight ton aircraft to slide and run quickly on the runway.

(explain that the unit of force should be Newton, and the ton is the unit of mass, but in many terms, we like to use the thrust of how many kilograms. In fact, we should multiply it by 9.8 to get the thrust value. It's not a layman in East China. It's what everyone calls it.)

The lightning bomber began to slide on the runway, faster and faster.

In fact, even without booster rockets, lightning bombers can fly, but that requires a longer runway. After all, jets need a great take-off speed. Adding booster rockets can effectively shorten the take-off distance, reduce fuel consumption and prolong the range of the aircraft.

In this era, the limit of piston engine makes the thrust weight ratio of the whole machine reach about 0.4, while the thrust weight ratio of ordinary propeller bombers is only about 0.2. Now, the thrust weight ratio of lightning bombers has reached 0.5 against the sky

Both felt a huge force behind them, pressing them on the seat back. At the same time, everything on the ground on both sides was retreating rapidly.

The bomber began to accelerate.

The speed of the jet is fast, which requires the pilot to have a more sensitive response. Kellogg glanced at the speedometer with the rest of his eyes. When the speed reached 250, he pulled the operating lever backward.

The front wheel was lifted up in an instant. The bomber held his head high and continued to slide forward for tens of meters on the runway. Then, the rear main landing gear also left the runway.

In history, lightning bombers have also used Keng dad's pulley to take off. Now this method has not been used. It is completely a normal landing gear.

At this time, the four booster rockets have reached the end of their work. After they continue to burn for a few seconds, the fuel runs out. Then, kleger presses the release button, the four booster rockets fall off the wing, and the parachute opens automatically. Under the action of the parachute, they fall slowly to the ground.

These booster rockets are liquid fuel. After landing, they can continue to be used after disassembly and inspection.

After recovering the landing gear, kelleger took the operating lever and continued to climb up at a small angle. From now on, in addition to considering speed, he also needs to consider fuel consumption.

Compared with the mature piston engine, the jet is quite fuel consuming. In history, the me262 can only fly near the airport. Compared with the range of hundreds of kilometers of piston fighter, it can't catch up.

But now, the progress of German jet engines is quite rapid, and the fuel consumption rate is much lower than that of engines in history. At the same time, one advantage of bombers is that they are large and can carry more fuel.

The total fuel load of the lightning bomber reaches an amazing 4200 liters. These fuel are stored in three fuselage fuel tanks. The two fuel tanks in the front and rear are self enclosed, and the fuel tank in the middle is not protected.

These fuels are enough to support lightning bombers to and from Petersburg, but they still need to be saved.

The altimeter continued to rotate. Soon, it rose to an altitude of 10000 meters. Kelleger leveled the plane, aligned the direction under the direction of his partner Janssen and flew straight to Petersburg.

Ten thousand meters high in the air, the lightning bomber became a bright spot. The hot gas from its tail rapidly diffused and cooled in the atmosphere, resulting in the condensation of some water vapor in the atmosphere and pulling out a white track in the sky.

The engine speed dropped to 7000 rpm, and the bombers flew along the route at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour. Half an hour later, they caught up with the huge fleet.

At this time, just above the Baltic Sea, below is the blue sea, overhead is the blue sky, and the escort fw190 fleet also happens to meet with its own bombers.

"Boss, at six o'clock, I found a new guy." At this time, in the fw190 fleet, a pilot exclaimed, "it has no propeller!"

Hearing the call from the radio, the brigade commander Heinz Barr said, "035, pay attention to the radio call discipline."

Needless to say, he knew that he was the most unruly Merritt in the army. While scolding, he turned his head back.




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