Battle of the Third Reich

German Air Force Lieutenant Korruck Heinrich stood on a high command tower overlooking the field airfield in front of him. His reconnaissance squadron dispatched two squads today, using the single-aircraft low-altitude forcible forcible reconnaissance tactics for the first time. At present, it seems that the effect is remarkable. Seven of the eight reconnaissance aircraft have landed. If the last one can still return safely, then It can be proved by facts that the tactics formulated by the headquarters are effective. When he submits the report, he can promote it to the entire aviation army.

"Lieutenant, I still didn't contact Hansburg, but the command center sent a message that the radar showed that they had flown over the coastline, and it was 30 kilometers away from the airport. Perhaps their radio had a problem." The audience shouted loudly at the squadron commander who was on the tower.

"Let the fire trucks and ambulances stand by the runway, I hope they have no trouble." Heinrich gestured at the tower dispatcher, then turned and ran down the tower quickly.

"Lieutenant, Big Hans is an excellent pilot, and Little Hans is also a smart guy. They will be fine." The staff officer held a cigarette, holding a silver cigarette case with an open lid in his hand.

A cigarette was drawn from the cigarette case, and Heinrich took out the lighter from his pocket. "They came back too late. Hans is not a person who randomly changes his plan. According to the flight plan, he should have stood in front of me and made a flight report half an hour ago."

"Perhaps it was yaw. I heard some pilots say that when flying in the strait, sometimes the compass would turn around."

"The weather is very good today, as long as you raise the altitude. You can see the coastline visually. They are not single-seat fighters. Little Hans is a very good forest pilot, and the time is too long. Their fuel should be There is not much left." The squadron captain took a deep breath of cigarettes, took out a document from his pocket and gave it to the noncommissioned officer, and then turned to look at the runway.

"The second squadron's aircraft will be repaired as soon as possible. We have to free up the taxiway and the apron. There will be two destroyer squadrons and a fighter squadron to be stationed here at around 4 pm. It will be full of aircraft when the time comes."

"Let me see, from Norway? Hope to bring something good, the stock in the club is running out."

"Their logistic support force will arrive after three days. Perhaps longer, I hope they bring enough tents."

"Lieutenant, listen to the pilot saying that now the base on Calais is full of planes. Is it time to attack?"

"Should soon, we are reconnaissance planes, scouts, always rushing to the front line. This time maybe even I have to set up the plane in person."

This field airport is between Boulogne and Calais. Less than fifty kilometers from the coastline, crossing the hilly cliffs on the coast, here is a natural gentle platform, surrounded by lush bushes, a small river flows slowly two kilometers away, there are only a few farms around the tens of kilometers, a tight The two-lane road next to the railway line connects Boulogne and Calais. The base engineers spent a week laying an asphalt road from the five kilometers away to the airport.

Actually. To this day, the field airport has not been completely completed. Engineers are still under construction in the surrounding busy areas. From afar, large groups of large construction machinery shuttle back and forth, heavy engines spit wildly in smoke, and the engineers struggled to wield various picks, shovel hammers, and the sky was dusty.

According to the blueprint, this will be a large air force base with four runways capable of taking off large bombers, and now only two field runways have been laid, a small amount of basic living facilities and ground support factory sheds, aircraft warehouses and ammunition oil have been established At the yard, an observatory and command tower were established, pilot quarters, briefing rooms, duty lounges and canteens were set up, barbed wire and machine gun fort and anti-aircraft bunkers were set up around the airport, and an anti-aircraft battalion was arranged. To meet the needs of the Air Force for combat and life, but due to the lack of barracks, many engineers and garrison artillery units can still only live in tents near the airport. The pilot performs the task.

At this base, the lieutenant is most concerned about and is most interested in the two 350-meter-long field runways. The lieutenant has also been to many field airports in Germany that are under construction. The impression of laying a concrete runway takes at least eight months to a year. The field runway also takes more than three months and is only a simple earthy runway. Take off light fighters and small transport aircraft.

Although there are many types of aircraft that can take off as long as it is on a flat ground, it is too practicable to land on the spot, because there are often small ditches and small mounds in natural flat ground, which will change if you accidentally land. Into a forced landing.

The Luftwaffe had similar sufferings at the Polish field airport. The Polish single-wing pesticide aircraft had a slow landing speed, light body, and a solid fixed landing gear. They could fall everywhere, so they just made a row on a flat ground. The wooden house hoeed a little bit of grass, sometimes the grass was not removed, and then pressed twice with a stone roller to call it a field airport. As a result, bf109, who likes to land at high speed, performed various rolls on the Polish lawn. Who would have thought that there was a **** in the middle of the runway, there was a rabbit hole on the ground, and the plane jumped as soon as it touched the ground.

Therefore, if it is better to take off and land on a regular runway, the newly built soil runway will fly together with dust, and the plane behind will be chaotic in front of it. It must wait until the dust in front has fallen before it can continue to take off. When it rains, it gets muddy all over, and the runway water is still a small matter. When the roadbed sinks into the runway, it becomes a murder trap and it is completely useless. Therefore, an airport with a soil-based runway can only be used continuously for more than half a year. Various vehicles and airplanes can completely crush the runway. The solid grass can't grow out of the rain, and the surrounding open space can also grow lawns. It really works.

This time was completely different. The engineers did not know where to get a pile of five-meter-and-a-half-meter width, pressed into strips of prefabricated channel steel with holes. Each steel plate had reserved bolt holes on both sides. After the engineers finished leveling the ground with heavy forklifts and rollers, they connected these channels in rows, added rivets and bolts, and then laid them on the soil subgrade, and then spot welded them with electric welding. Then a steel runway composed of thousands of prefabricated steel plates appeared in front of the pilots.

When Heinrich landed on this runway for the first time, it felt almost the same as the cement runway, and the leveling and sturdiness far exceeded the ordinary field airfield. Moreover, the commander of the engineering team said that this kind of runway is fast to lay, simple to repair, and will not accumulate water. The channel steel is pressed into a concave and convex band shape with protruding edges. This is the best anti-skid structure. The aircraft does not have to worry about skidding in rain. In addition, this kind of runway is very easy to make emergency maintenance. If it is bombed by enemy aircraft, the head of the group repeatedly emphasized here that only if it is, then as long as the crater is filled with mud and gravel, then a few rows of prefabricated steel plates can be restored immediately. Drop capacity.

This base was built entirely from scratch by the Luftwaffe, and as far as the lieutenant knows, there are dozens of similar bases, all over the southern coast of France, most of which have already completed infrastructure construction like this one, and Joined the air force.

"This is the command of the command headquarters, issued by the head of state, don't ask me why, you will understand the significance of it in combat, and execute it immediately, Lieutenant." The fourth aviation division's staff said this when he transferred the order of.

"They are back!" the watchman on the tower shouted loudly waving his binoculars

"One engine stopped!"

"Let's go to the runway and let the fire truck and ambulance start." Lieutenant Heinrich threw away his cigarette **** and hurried towards the BMW tricycle parked next to the tower.

Messerschmitt began to enter the landing route, made a steep turn, and the plane stabilized after a few swings.

As a heavy-duty fighter with strong horsepower, the bf110 is fully capable of single-engine flight, but due to design problems, when the bf110 single-engine landing, it will become very dangerous. Because this aircraft has the habit of suddenly raising the nose when the **** are lowered, and originally because there is only a single-engine flight, although the power can support conventional flight, when the **** are placed in the take-off and landing positions, the resistance increases, relying on The single-engine power is difficult to pull the aircraft back up. If you encounter a sudden change in flight attitude and encounter an inexperienced pilot, it is easy to enter a stall state without defense, and at this time it is already very far from the ground Recently, the engine power is insufficient, and the angle of the body causes the airflow rate of each power surface to be uneven. It is difficult for the driver's adjustment action to be quickly responded, so it will often cause serious accidents.

This bad habit of the aircraft has caused many bf110 pilots to choose to force landing with the belly without the **** when encountering a problem with one of the engines of their aircraft, so in the original time and space, the French and Norwegian coasts You can see the bf110 on the abdomen landing everywhere.

However, the Hansburg did not choose to force the landing of the abdomen. From the position of the airport, he could already see his shadow with the naked eye, and he had put down the landing gear.

"Great Hans is familiar with the flight of this aircraft. I think he must be very sure about this, and he will be able to succeed." The sergeant of the staff drove the throttle to Heinrich toward the runway.

The nose of the bf110 was lowered toward the runway, and the **** were lowered at a height of 50 meters from the runway. The aircraft immediately raised the nose, and then the body sank down with an aura of attitude, landing at three points at the same time. Because the landing speed was too fast, the aircraft bounced a little, then fell back to the ground steadily, and after sliding for a distance, the pilot stepped on the wheel brakes, and in the blue smoke rubbed by the brake pads, Messer After Schmidt continued to taxi for more than ten meters, he slightly tapped the nose, and then stopped at the center of the runway. Fire trucks and ambulances waiting on the runway, as well as a large group of pilots and ground crews swarmed towards the plane. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and faster!