Great Power Fighting Falcon

"Dong Sanguai, what's going on?"

When Yu Chenglin grabbed the microphone and asked, Qi Hong and Fang Chenghe arrived. Once the emergency plan was activated, the two chiefs were all in place within five minutes.

"The battery is out. I can't see the meter. I turned on the backup power supply and it didn't respond. Then I started it again and it still didn't respond." Li Zhan apparently reported while operating blindly.

Blind maneuvering is a basic quality for any pilot, and it is even less of a problem for a pilot like Li Zhan who has integrated man and machine. The cockpit is dazzling to ordinary people. The position of every switch and instrument is familiar to pilots. Once you stretch out your hand, there will never be an error of more than half a centimeter. Li Zhan was even more accurate with every poke.

"There is no problem with all systems, everything is normal." Li Zhan reported again.

This is the only good news in the bad news. As long as the main aircraft systems are normal, the difficulty encountered by the pilots is simply the inability to obtain flight data from the instruments. However, at night, this is already a pretty scary situation.

"You should have brought a flashlight up. I can't be sure whether the instrument system failed or the power was simply cut off," Li Zhan said.

You can't see anything, so you can't judge. You can only feel the status of the fighter plane. At least two bars and two rudders are normal.

Qi Hong took over the command and glanced at the data handed over by the radar operator. Li Zhan's altitude was 500 meters. He said decisively, "Three turns in the hole, climb to 3,000, heading 180, cruising speed, listen to me instructions."

"Understood, climb to 3,000, heading due south, cruising speed." Li Zhan repeated the instructions.

Not being able to see anything means that you don't know your altitude, airspeed and heading, and you can only operate blindly by feeling. Fortunately, Li Zhan was well aware of the flight status the moment before the power was cut off.

Qi Hong's instructions were very appropriate.

The pilot is in the sky, surrounded by darkness, and will lose the sense of space over time. For a fighter jet with extremely fast air speed, the altitude is only 500 meters. By the time the sense of space is restored with the help of ground lights, it is almost the time of crash. .

Therefore, climbing immediately to gain more altitude is a priority.

Everyone knows that Fighter 037 is flying with full fuel tonight. It still has more than half of the fuel, so there is no need to worry about the fuel surplus. Another few hours is fine.

Li Zhan climbed based on his feeling. When he felt that he was almost three thousand meters, Qi Hong sent a timely instruction, "Turn three, the altitude is good, enter cruise, and wait for instructions."

Nodding secretly, Li Zhan gained confidence and his feeling was relatively accurate. He resumed level flight and entered cruising speed.

A minute later, Qi Hong ordered, "Turn left 90 degrees and enter circling, maintain altitude."

"No matter how I maintain my position, I can't see anything." Li Zhan suggested, and replied, "Understood, enter the circle and maintain altitude."

Undoubtedly, the current situation is that the ground obtains Li Zhan's position through radar, issues operating instructions to him, and maintains the flight attitude of the fighter plane. There is no other way.

After confirming that Li Zhan was circling in a large circle three thousand meters above the station, Qi Hong immediately ordered all fighter planes to return urgently and make backup landings in western Guangdong and eastern Guangdong, clearing the airspace and route for Li Zhan.

Cockpit disconnection is extremely rare, but experienced pilots can land with the help of ground reference objects based on their experience. Although Li Zhan is not an experienced pilot, at his level there is no problem at all.

It was so windy, rainy, thundering and lightning, and the engine was still on fire that he landed, so this really didn't matter.

However, if you add a nose gear failure, it will be a pain in the ass.

Another first-class special experience.

Thinking of this, Qi Hong couldn't help but ask, "What does the maintenance staff do for food? How do they provide security?"

The teacher got angry and everyone was extremely nervous.

Fang Chenghe, who was intensely discussing the plan with several staff members over there, raised his head and said in a deep voice, "The one who provided Li Zhan with protection was Lou Yiwang, a very experienced mechanic from the Fourth Regiment Maintenance Brigade. Logically speaking, such low-level negligence would not occur. . I think it’s probably an accident.”

After controlling his emotions, Qi Hong looked back at Fang Chenghe, who was serving as chief of staff as political commissar, and brought the microphone to his mouth, "Dong Sanguai, report the situation."

"Tower, I'm okay, I can't see anything." Li Zhan secretly thought to himself, is the division commander stupid for being a political commissar? It's just nonsense.

Qi Hong asked, "How do you feel?"

"It feels... quite enjoyable."

"...I asked you how you feel about fighter jets."

"Well, I love her very much, but she doesn't love me, and something always goes wrong."

The personnel on duty at the tower couldn't help laughing, and the solemn atmosphere relaxed a lot.

Everyone could tell that Li Zhan was not teasing Qi Hong deliberately, but that there was no way to talk about it! How can we feel without intuitive data? To put it bluntly, if the engine catches fire again, Li Zhan may not know about it.

"Tell me what you think." Qi Hong stopped hesitating and asked directly.

Even if you can't see anything, the pilot knows the situation best, no one else.

Of course Li Zhan had feelings. How could a person sitting in the cockpit not feel anything? Otherwise, how could he be sure that there were no other problems with the fighter plane except for a power outage in the cockpit and a malfunctioning landing gear.

"Forced landing." Li Zhan directly gave the plan.

Qi Hong glanced back and then said, "Keep circling and wait for instructions."

"clear."

Don't be in a hurry this time, Li Zhan has a lot of fuel. He couldn't help but calculate that if he ran out of gas and called the police before landing, he would earn at least 900 yuan in rod fees.

After careful calculation, I found that there will be more than 3,000 yuan in tie rod fees in June. In other words, the salary in June exceeded 10,000 yuan!

"Tsk, tsk."

"Dong Sanguai, what's going on?" Qi Hong heard the strange sound and asked nervously.

Only then did Li Zhan realize that he was too excited and made a sound. He looked around and saw everything was dark, and said, "It's okay, I'm just a little bored."

…

The staff on duty at the tower chuckled again. Li Zhan is absolutely unprecedented in being able to talk and laugh so relaxedly in the face of such a dangerous situation. Many years ago, the deputy commander of the Second Division also encountered the danger of being unable to lower the nose landing gear. He was very nervous at the time, but he finally got down. The nose of the fighter plane rubbed the runway and slid to the grass on one side. , everyone is fine, the fighter plane is basically scrapped and cannot be repaired.

The situation Li Zhan encountered now was obviously more complicated. Not only was it at night, but the cockpit was also powered off.

"The J-7 hasn't encountered a cockpit power outage in many years, so why not let this guy happen to it? Why do you call him the broom star?" Fang Chenghe said to Qi Hong, who was walking over, with a wry smile. .

Yu Chenglin, who was at the desk, straightened up and reported to Qi Hong, "Commander, there are two plans. The first is forced landing, which is also Li Zhan's idea. The second plan was proposed by Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei, you will talk about it. "

Zhang Wei swallowed his saliva and said nervously, "The specific operation is to arrange a pickup truck on the runway and install it with obvious light signs. While Li Zhan is landing and taxiing, the pickup truck is traveling at the fastest speed, putting Li Zhan on the runway. The relative speed of the fighter plane and the pickup truck was reduced as much as possible. Li Zhan lowered the nose of the plane according to the light instructions and placed the front landing gear in the back bucket of the pickup truck. The pickup truck then shifted into neutral to prevent the connection with the fighter plane from falling off and relied entirely on the fighter plane's control. Powerful realization stops.”

Whimsical.

The first thing that flashed through Qi Hong's mind was this idiom.

"If the pickup truck loses its balance and rolls over during the process, the loss will be even greater. How to ensure that the pickup truck maintains its balance when bearing the front landing gear of the fighter jet? This is not a movie, but a few lives." Qi Hong said in a deep voice.

Everyone was silent. Apparently they had thought about this problem but had not yet come up with a solution.