Chapter 470: Landing accident
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"Attention, aim for the glide line." The voice of the landing guide came through the headset.
The Fresnel optical landing assistance system uses optical principles. As long as the aircraft altitude and glide angle are correct, the pilot can see that the orange light ball is in the center of the green reference light, and maintaining this angle can accurately glide and land on the ship. If the pilot sees the yellow light ball and is above the green reference light, he should lower the altitude; if he sees the red light ball and is under the green reference light, he should raise it immediately, otherwise it will collide with the tail of the aircraft carrier The end face of the column or drop to the sea behind the tail.
Such a system greatly reduces the danger of landing, and the principle is not complicated. Therefore, not only the aircraft carriers of the United States, but also the aircraft carriers of the Soviet Union, have also installed such a landing assistance system.
However, this landing assistance system also has a premise, that is, the pilot can see these lights!
For Powell now, all he sees is the deck rocking back and forth, and it's all blurry! There was sweat in front of his eyes! The goggles have been lifted up, and the beads of sweat on his forehead are still falling down drop by drop.
His state is already in the worst state, which makes the radar operator in the rear cabin sweat, but he has no flying power, so he can only wait for the unknown fate like this, and has more than 600 ship landing experience. Powell, should be able to complete this landing, right?
Powell is also doing his best, but his arms are already stiff, his fingers can no longer operate the joystick flexibly, his brain has begun to dizzy, and even the sound in the headphones has become noisy.
"Pull up, pull up!" In the main flight control room at the rear left of the upper part of the island, a flight controller is monitoring the flight deck and the situation in the air. From his point of view, it is impossible for Powell to succeed at all. Landing! Gotta get up and go!
Pull up! This sentence is simply put. Powell in the air felt that his state was already the worst. He simply had no ability to pull up and go around again. In that case, he could only eject it and spend the taxpayer's money on the plane. The purchased plane was thrown into the sea!
Drop, drop! Powell felt that the flight had begun to frighten him, and he struggled to hold the lever, waiting for the rear wheel to hit the ship.
"Put the hook, put the hook!" Seeing that Powell was about to land hard, the guide shouted loudly, damn, this landing plane didn't even put the hook! If he can't hook the blocking cable, he has to go around!
Almost everyone noticed the unusualness of the plane, and they all stepped back for fear of being affected.
"Prop up the blocking net!" The flight controller shouted loudly, now, there is only one last resort left! What happened to this poor boy in the air?
The flight controller knew that the pilot must have no confidence to go around again, so he had to forcibly land, but now, the pilot did not put the hook, it could only rely on blocking the net!
The blocking net is the last of all landing methods. Raise the net at the front end of the landing area and let the fighter jet slam into it, so that the plane is forcibly blocked. The advantage is that the plane can stop, but the disadvantage is that the plane is blocked. Even if it stops, the damage is not light. Although it does not need to be scrapped, the overhaul is certain, and the nose may have to be replaced.
You can't use this trick unless you have to.
After hearing the order, the person in charge of blocking the net quickly raised the blocking net, but at this moment, the situation changed again.
The Tomcat that landed, just as the main landing gear hit the deck, there was a bang, a violent impact, and the tire on the right side was punctured!
This poor tomcat, with the tire puncture, suddenly changed the direction of the nose and rushed straight towards the parking area on the right.
The deck personnel on this side avoided one after another. The force of the Tomcat fighter landing at more than 300 meters per second was extremely shocking.
"Boom!" The Tomcat collided with an A-7 attack plane in the parking area. Although the A-7 was not loaded with bombs, it was full of fuel and exploded immediately. Several fighter planes were all affected, including the E-2 early warning aircraft with its wings folded, and it was not spared!
At this moment, with a bang, the Martin-Baker MK14 zero-height ejection seat showed stable reliability at this moment, and ejected the two pilots from the cockpit. This was a real zero-height ejection. !
In fact, the moment he just landed, Powell felt that he had exhausted all his strength, and he had no strength to eject manually. These were all automatically controlled.
The Tomcat fighter not only switched to the F110 engine, but also adopted a new ejection seat. This MK14 ejection seat cancels the two ejection tabs on the upper part of the headrest, and is equipped with an electronic sequencer. According to the aircraft's Seat with automatic speed and height adjustment for precise ejection.
When the collision was discovered, the ejection seat achieved automatic ejection, saving the lives of the two pilots, but the losses were extremely huge.
The aircraft carrier Independence was in chaos, and the fire continued to spread. If it was not controlled, it would burn to the lower level, not only the carrier-based aircraft, but also the ammunition and fuel will be ignited!
The wind is blowing on the sea, the fire is on the deck, and it is spreading towards the bridge at the same time!
The USS Independence is already in a mess, and the heroic American sailors are fighting tenaciously against the fire. The damage control team urgently took action to put out the fire.
It took a full hour to put out the fire, and the rear deck of the entire aircraft carrier was already in a mess.
Sitting in the command room, Captain Hilton was extremely depressed He looked at the two people who were brought up from the sea in front of him. Powell, who has always been the ace of American carrier-based aircraft pilots, actually committed a serious crime. Wrong, even the most basic landing maneuvers of carrier-based aircraft pilots can't be mastered!
"Powell, what's the matter?" Colonel Hilton asked him.
"The report, it's all my fault." Powell said. He was picked up from the sea by a rescue helicopter. He had already woken up a lot, but the huge fear still shrouded his heart.
Is it all my own fault, or is it because the Soviets are too powerful?
"It's not something you can solve by admitting your mistakes! The entire rear deck of our aircraft carrier has been burnt out, a dozen carrier-based aircraft have been lost, and the lifts at the tail have also been stuck. We need to leave the Indian Ocean and return to the shipyard for overhaul! Hilton said: "We lost combat effectiveness because of a landing accident! Powell, your report cannot be solved simply by admitting mistakes!" (To be continued.)
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