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The Third Empire - Chapter 1657

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:23:49 AM


Chapter 1657: 1657

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In the propeller age, fighters take off and land on aircraft carriers, which is no different from taking off and landing on land. It all depends on the pilots' own superb flight skills.

When taking off, just open the accelerator and rush forward. The aircraft carrier will also turn against the wind and move forward at full speed, making the take-off of carrier aircraft smoother. Some aircraft with good performance can be pulled up without even reaching the end of the deck.

The same is true for landing. Relying on the pilot's own technology, they accurately slide onto the aircraft carrier for landing. Therefore, most Navy pilots look down on the army or air force pilots. They think their technology is more superb.

After entering the jet era, it is completely impossible to rely on their own technology, because the takeoff and landing speed of jets is faster and the narrow aircraft carrier deck can no longer meet the requirements.

At this time, innovation is needed.

According to the corresponding technology, Shrek has long put forward guiding opinions. For example, when landing, the light box at the tail is used to determine whether its glide line is correct, which has been installed on the previous aircraft carrier, which greatly improves the pilot's landing safety, especially at night.

In the past, it was almost impossible to land at night, but with this equipment, it was very easy to land at night.

As for take-off, it depends on catapults.

Catapults have always been available in this era. In addition to aircraft carriers, other warships also need to carry seaplanes. There is no space for these planes to take off, and they eject the aircraft completely by catapults.

However, because it is a seaplane, the required take-off speed is very low. It only needs a low-performance hydraulic catapult, and the ejection jet must be an advanced steam catapult with full power.

In history, many arduous explorations have been made to get jets on board. Even the British navy has tried to use belly landing to make the deck as flexible as rubber. Unfortunately, it has no practical value.

With Chirac's guidance, German jets don't have to take these detours on board, just follow the technical route determined by Chirac and make steady progress.

The wind and waves in the North Sea are not very big, and the wave height is only half a meter. On the sea, an aircraft carrier is smoking black smoke and driving full horsepower against the wind.

Whether taking off or recovering fighters, the aircraft carrier needs full speed headwind. Taking off can increase the speed, and landing can reduce the relative speed to facilitate taking off and landing.

Although they are all called Zeppelin Earl class, when the last one was developed, the designers enlarged the aircraft carrier in order to operate the jet effectively.

The standard displacement is enlarged to 40000 tons and the full load displacement is about 55000 tons. In this way, the first advantage is to greatly increase the area of the flight deck and facilitate dispatching, taking off and landing.

In the design of the previous aircraft carrier, full consideration was given to the on-board operation of jet aircraft. At the same time, there was not much experience in the previous time. After years of continuous operation and accumulated rich experience, we can continue to build this large aircraft carrier.

The deck has a total length of nearly 300 meters and a width of more than 50 meters, which is one third larger than the previous deck area. In this way, the take-off and landing of Shipborne aircraft is safer, and the deck transfer operation is also convenient and effective.

At the same time, the increase of displacement also greatly increases the fuel carried by aircraft carriers. Compared with propeller aircraft, jet aircraft consumes more fuel.

Therefore, although for the confusion of the intelligence system, this aircraft carrier is still called the Zeppelin Earl class. In fact, it can be regarded as a new class. Therefore, internally, it is often referred to as the Moscow class.

Now, the aircraft carrier is in the sea trial state. In addition to some navy officials, more and more are shipyard employees, as well as a large number of technicians and engineers.

The test flight was also completed by Wolfgang spett, a test pilot of messeschmidt aircraft company.

As an excellent test pilot, Wolfgang has been testing jet aircraft since me262. He has several years of flying experience. When storm bird was made, Wolfgang was completely obsessed with this kind of aircraft.

Flying like a swallow, this plane has done it. Compared with the previous propeller aircraft, the jet makes him feel what is carefree and dripping!

He has tested many subjects, including stall spin, which is very dangerous. Now, he is also responsible for the take-off and landing test flight of Shipborne aircraft.

How dangerous is it for a jet to get on board? It can be explained from a set of data that in 1949, the US Navy began to try to put jets on aircraft carriers. As a result, nearly 1000 pilots died in two years because of the poor low-altitude and low-speed maneuverability of jets and frequent accidents - in 1953, the US Navy lost more than 700 aircraft and 423 pilots died; In 1954, the US military lost another 776 aircraft and 535 shipborne aircraft pilots.

It was not until 1988 that the accident rate of the US Navy was reduced to the same level as that of the air force.

The greater the landing speed means that the operation adjustment time left to the pilot is shorter. Every wrong operation will have a disastrous impact.

"Moscow, Moscow, birds request simulated landing." In the cockpit of the fighter, Wolfgang shouted on the radio.

The first landing must be steady. Before the real landing, several simulated landings should be carried out to see whether the glide line of the aircraft is appropriate and whether it is possible to land successfully.

"Copy that. You can simulate landing. Please be careful."

"I see."

Wolfgang turned and looked at the wings on both sides.

In order to improve the low-speed performance of the aircraft, the latest aircraft is equipped with automatic slats at the leading edge of the wing. Slats are fully automatic controlled and open or close according to the aerodynamic force received. When the slat slides forward and opens, it can accelerate the air velocity flowing through the upper surface of the wing, increase the lift and reduce the stall speed. At high speed, it can close and reduce the resistance.

Now, the automatic slats on both sides are open, and everything is normal. Wolfgang has more confidence in his heart. He drives this flexible fighter towards the aircraft carrier in the distance. At this time, the aircraft carrier is like a leaf on the sea.

As he approached slowly, the aircraft carrier became bigger and bigger. Whether he could successfully land the ship was determined from the glide line in the distance.

If you want to enter the slide line correctly, just look at the light box at the end. This idea is really unique!

Wolfgang's plane, landing along the right glide line, landing.




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