() Except for speed, the newly acquired fighter jets are almost better than the me-262 in other performance. However, the gap in speed is still a shortcoming that is difficult to make up for. The fuel consumption of early jets was huge, which made its range

It is almost impossible to reach the sky over Germany. For example, the British "Meteor" can stay in the sky for only an hour.

But this is still good news for the Americans. After all, using this thing against me-262 is more reliable than using p-51 and p-47.

"Can I try this plane?" Ron asked.

"Ah, General, I can't answer this question because I am just an employee of Lockheed. My responsibility is only to take good care of these P-81 fighter jets and report relevant information back to the company."

"So," Ron turned to the squadron leader, "Harry, prepare a plane for me. I want to try flying it."

"General, this..."

"Don't you think my skills are not enough to fly it?" Ron seemed a little unhappy.

Although Ron is no longer the ace with the highest number of kills in the US military, since he participated in the construction of the "Reverse Cross", he has never had the opportunity to go to the battlefield again. So now, many pilots have surpassed him in their records. Especially

Recently, the number of kills of some pilots has increased very quickly. Just yesterday, a guy named Michel shot down 6 German planes in one sortie. If it were not for this reason,

As the ammunition was exhausted, he might be able to shoot down more. However, Ron's status in the hearts of American pilots did not decline at the same time because his position in the shooting rankings dropped. On the contrary, because he became the "Reverse Cross"

He has become the "principal" of almost all fighter pilots, resulting in his status in the hearts of American pilots being much higher than before. From this, it can be seen that being a "principal" is indeed an extremely promising thing.

If nothing else, let’s just talk about the principal of a certain military academy ranked among the top four in the world. Although he often lost battles, he was almost captured alive by the Japanese once. Later, when he fought with the TG Party, he was beaten and transferred to Japan due to his absolute advantage.

Qianli. In addition, he lived a very disorderly life and suffered from severe syphilis. If he were an ordinary general with so many problems, he would have retired long ago, but this one can still get President Roosevelt's

support, be zi

You are regarded as a hero by the world. Isn't this just because he is the principal? Of course, later Truman did not accept this trick, and the principal had only tragedy.

You’re blackmailing me again! Nai Ping: Mr. Chang, I’m wronged. I’m not really talking about you this time.)

"Well, General, you can fly it, but you can't fly it across the strait." After hesitating for a moment, squadron leader Harry agreed to Ron's request.

Ron carefully read the technical description of the aircraft in the pilot lounge and changed into a full set of flight equipment. When he walked out of the pilot lounge, two P-81s were already ready at one end of the runway.

Preparing for takeoff.

"General," just as Ron was about to get on the plane, Major Harry, the squadron leader who was also neatly dressed, came over and said to him, "I will serve as your wingman during this flight. There is also a man behind this aircraft.

Propellers, so the angle of attack when taking off and landing cannot be too large, otherwise, the propeller behind will easily hit the ground."

"Thank you for the reminder." Ron nodded to him, "Okay, get on the plane."

Sitting in the cockpit, the Lockheed technician spent nearly an hour re-explaining all the take-off, flight and landing procedures to Ron carefully, comparing them to the real thing, and asked Ron to miss every word.

to be repeated.

After all this fussing, it was already 5:30 in the afternoon. The time to go up to the sky for a walk was only a few hours at most, and then we had to land conscientiously, or we had to fly at night.

Start both engines in sequence, release the brakes, and the aircraft begins to taxi on the runway.

Ron pushed the throttle gently, and the roaring engine immediately made him feel that this aircraft was unusual. The acceleration of the aircraft was very obvious, as if there was a rocket behind it. The acceleration of a twin-engine aircraft is generally faster than that of a single-engine aircraft.

The engine is good. For example, the acceleration performance of the P-38, which has brought Ron a lot of honors, is quite good. But compared with this guy, the acceleration of the P-38 seems gentle.

The speed of the aircraft quickly increased to 260 kilometers per hour. If other fighter jets had pulled the joystick, they would have taken off. However, due to the influence of the swept wings, the aircraft needed to take off faster than the first flight.

The aircraft was much larger. It was only at this time that the P-81 fighter jet reached take-off speed.

Pulling the control lever very lightly, Ron felt the front wheels of the aircraft begin to lift off the ground. Unlike most aircraft, the P-81 uses a front three-point landing gear, which is very similar to the P-39.

After the rear wheels slid on the ground for a while, they gradually left the ground and began to climb.

The climb of this airplane is indeed incredible, it is better than any airplane Ron has flown before. (By the way, among the airplanes Ron has flown before, the only one with the best climb is the P-38.) It only takes more than 4 minutes.

At one o'clock, the plane climbed to an altitude of 5,000 meters. This climb result was worse than what Lockheed claimed. However, it was Ron's first time to fly it, so it was normal for him to be unable to exert its full strength.

Ron continued to climb to an altitude of about 7,000 meters, and then began to try some actions. Ron first made a horizontal scissor. The response of the aircraft was pretty good, and the roll was almost the same as an ordinary single-engine aircraft.

, and during rolling, the speed is exactly the same no matter left or right, and is not affected by the propeller torque at all.

However, the hovering is a bit tragic. The low-speed hovering is completely incomparable with the P-38, and at most it is at the level of the P-47. But the low-speed hovering of the P-47, this, this is really a horse's tail wearing tofu - it can't be lifted at all.

Ron originally thought that the high-speed hovering situation would be better, but it turned out that, well, it was indeed better, not worse than the P-47 (the P-47's hovering has always been a failure), and at speeds above 630 kilometers per hour, the hovering performance was even

Better than the P-38. But? Who would compete with you at such a speed?

The climb is as good as ever, and the head-up speed is also very fast, which is probably only a little worse than the P-39. This means that this aircraft can complete loops with a relatively small radius.

Soon, more than an hour passed, and Ron began the last test before landing - dive.

Roncao controlled the P-81 to dive down from an altitude of 7,000 meters, and the speed of the aircraft increased rapidly. When the speed reached 850 kilometers per hour, Ron also performed a barrel roll. The aircraft responded quickly and a little wing compression zone

There was no feeling at all. Until the speed reached 900 kilometers, there was still good control response. However, Ron was no longer afraid to continue diving at this time. He began to change out of the dive.

After completing this action, it was already 6:50 pm. The sky gradually became dark.

"General, it's time for us to return." Harry's voice came to his ears.

"Okay, return." Ron adjusted the course and started flying towards the airport.

At this moment, something appeared in Ron's field of vision.

It was a flying object spitting out long tongues of fire, flying at high speed at a height of about 600 meters above the ground. The long tongues of fire it spit out were very conspicuous against the gradually darkening background.

"Go over and take a look, what is that?" Ron said. Anyway, there is still enough fuel in the tank, so there is no need to rush back to the airport.

That thing flew very fast. At a low altitude of 600 meters, it actually flew at a high speed of about 640 kilometers. Fortunately, Ron's plane had just dived down, and the speed was ridiculously fast. So it didn't take long for Ron to catch up.

Got on that thing.

That thing looked like a small plane, but it had no cockpit. Above its tail, there was a cylindrical engine that was spitting out flames. There was also an obvious Iron Cross logo on the fuselage.

"Holy crap! V1 missile? Why did this thing appear so early?" Ron couldn't help being surprised.

The V1 missile is the world's first cruise missile. Historically, this thing only appeared in June 1944. It's only August 1943. Why did this thing appear? Isn't it because of my golden fingers?

It interfered with the historical operation of this plane, so the God of this plane couldn't bear it anymore and started to use gold fingers? Ron couldn't help but think about it.

"But it's useless to think too much. Anyway, you can't blame me for this. If you want to blame it, blame Nai Ping." Ron thought this and immediately felt mentally balanced. Then, all worries like "God is dissatisfied" were gone.

Throw it aside. What? What is a nai bottle, you ask? Sorry, I don’t understand what you are talking about, haha...

In fact, Ron didn't know that in the original history, the Nazi's V1 missile was successfully finalized at the end of 1942. According to the original plan, it should have been put into use from August to September 1943. However, during the construction of the

While on the field, they were discovered by the French resisters. After the information was passed to the Royal Air Force, the Royal Air Force immediately sent 50

More than 0 Lancaster heavy bombers went to the launch site under construction to watch. As a result, the launch site was blown to pieces, and more than 700 staff were killed. The V1 missile plan was also postponed. Since then, the British

They began to bombard the V1 missile production base. As a result, it was not until June 1944 that the first missile was launched.

But in this dimension, due to some unknown reasons, the French resisters failed to send information in time. Therefore, the v1 missiles appeared in advance.

Ron's fighter plane had no cannons in it. So he asked Harry:

"Does your plane have any cannons?"

"General, I didn't bring mine either," Harry replied. Since this flight was over a completely safe area, the ground crew did not load them with cannons.

What should we do? Do we just watch this guy fly over and bomb the Allied targets? Ron suddenly remembered that in the original history, some pilots used an unconventional move to deal with v1.

So he carefully controlled the plane to approach the V1 missile, then stretched his right wing under the wing of the V1 missile, and then made a gentle roll to the left.
Chapter completed!