Chapter 7 The Eagle Spreads Its Wings
The Fool left the airship base of the Crystal War Fort in the bright and warm sunshine, and kept going up. Only ten minutes later, when the airship base of the Crystal War Fort on the ground became smaller than an ant, the Fool It has already flown to an altitude of 7 kilometers from the ground, and the distance from the crystal battle castle is more than 50 kilometers.
This distance, in the Cernes war zone, has already entered the battle zone between the two sides, and it is possible to meet the Winged Demon at any time, and the crew of the entire Fool airship have also entered a fighting state.
And this altitude is almost close to the maximum suspension altitude of the Stormrage-class airship of 8 kilometers. At this altitude, you can easily see the exposed black coal mining areas and the war zone on the Cernes Plain. The human line of defense composed of continuous trenches and battle forts on the ground to the south.
The entire underground of the Cernes Plain is filled with high-quality anthracite. The Terran Allied Forces chose here as the first line of defense to snipe at the Demon Legion. In addition to the fact that the terrain here is more suitable for the deployment of human mechanized troops, the most important one is In the Cernes Plain, the logistical pressure of the Terran Legion can be reduced to a minimum.
No matter where you are, as long as you find a few people to dig underground, you can get extremely high-quality anthracite, which can provide endless power for human battle forts, tanks, various vehicles, and even airships.
Looking at the black coal mining areas on the plains like scars, Zhang Tie immediately understood the intentions of the top leaders of the Terran Allied Forces. Therefore, it makes sense to say that the height determines the field of vision.
But at this moment, Zhang Tie didn't want to point out anything here, but was making the final preparations and arrangements for his flight attack.
"After I left, the Fool airship was flying around this area..." Zhang Tie drew a circle on the aerial map of the command cabin while talking. The circle is 50 to A fan-shaped area within 100 kilometers, "If you are unable to resist the attack of the Winged Demon, I will allow you to retreat to the direction of the Crystal War Fort. If I do not come back within 48 hours, you can also withdraw to the Crystal Castle first." Battle Fort, if you don’t see me within two weeks, it means that something happened to me. You can decide your own itinerary, whether you stay or leave, it’s fine. The fool airship will be handed over to Jin Yunguo’s airship Troops continue to serve on the battlefield!"
Before the official flight, considering various unexpected factors, Zhang Tie must explain everything to the people on the airship. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. Don't talk about yourself, even if a knight-level person comes to the Cernes theater, It is not necessarily that there will be no accidents.
Listening to Zhang Tie's order as if he was giving his last words, a group of people in the command cabin glanced at each other, and finally everyone focused on the first officer of the airship. After Zhang Tie personally drove the glider out of the airship, , the chief mate acts as the captain of the airship on the airship.
The first mate looked at Zhang Tie, with admiration from the heart and solemnity in his eyes. Every crew member on the Fool knew very well what kind of risks it would take to fly a glider in the Cernes theater. Those who dared to fly a glider in the Cernes theater were almost all daredevils. Even though the airship Fool had just arrived in the theater for only one day, everyone had heard of the nickname that glider pilots had in the theater— — Air stormtroopers.
This is the profession with the highest death rate in the entire theater. Its death rate has surpassed that of the stormtroopers in the theater legion. I heard that in the airship troops in the entire theater, a lottery is required to fly a glider.
No one thought that Zhang Tie would really want to fly the airship to kill himself, so everyone's mood is a bit complicated, and some people still look like they can't believe it-flying a glider to fight with the Winged Demon, this crazy idea, I'm afraid even a lunatic wouldn't dare to think about it. But the captain of the Fool airship is about to do such a crazy thing.
Is this crazy or a fool? Nobody knows…,',
"Before taking such an adventure, I think Captain, you'd better confirm your flight area!" Under the gaze of everyone, the first mate who spoke on behalf of everyone thought about it, and in the airship designated by Zhang Tie On the periphery of the cruising area, a triangular area is drawn, "If you can fly in this area, the Fool can echo you from afar, this is the safest way
Zhang Tie smiled, "I understand what you mean, but you have to know that sometimes the best protection for a bird is the sky, not the bird's nest. I also have confidence in my own strength. Even if something happens to me, I believe that I can return to the Crystal War Castle safely. You don’t have to worry about this. The best cooperation for me is to survive, like a bird’s nest Survive tenaciously in the wind and rain, don't be blown off the tree by the strong wind, so that when I come back, I can still see you, and when I want to attack again, you can still send me to the sky! Here It's my bird's nest in the Cernes war zone, understand?"
"Understood!" The first officer of the airship took a deep breath. "Everyone on Fool will not let you down!"
"Then, wish me luck!" Zhang Tie laughed...
A few minutes later, in the glider launch cabin on the bottom of the airship, all the people on the Fool airship who could come here at the moment came. After checking it again, Zhang Tie was allowed to sit on it. Everyone watched with complicated eyes that Zhang Tie put on the flight suit, sat in the cockpit of the glider, and nodded towards the outside. Compared with a thumbs up gesture.
"Open the hatch!"
Following the order of the chief mate, several crew members in the drop-off cabin quickly opened the hatch.
Seeing that the cabin door was fully opened and a gust of strong wind gushed in, Zhang Tie didn't say much, but just nodded to those who were looking at him, and the whole glider was ejected along the sliding guide rail at once. The Airship Fool...
"Salute..." The first officer on the airship roared, and everyone saluted Zhang Tie.
When the glider fell off the airship, Zhang Tie had the feeling that the fish had returned to the sea. The glider was like a javelin thrown into the water by the airship. Like the No. 1 airship, it can reach a speed of 150 kilometers per hour in an instant.
Only a few seconds later, Zhang Tie felt that the glider was like a fish diving into the ocean current, stepped on the left pedal of the glider, and at the same time pushed down the elevator in his hand, the whole glider was like a light and agile petrel , flew out towards the left, and after flying a few hundred meters, he felt a rising thermal air flow. Zhang Tie stepped on the right pedal of the glider, raised the steering column, and the whole glider began to fly rapidly. Climbing up in the thermal air, under the shocked eyes of all the crew members on the airship, a beautiful "u" was drawn around the airship from bottom to top, and finally flew over the airbag of the airship, flying towards the north...
"How could the captain cut into the thermal air so quickly and make such a move all at once?" In the launch cabin of the airship, a crew member opened his mouth and watched Zhang Tie's glider circle the airship in a daze. Under the control of Zhang Tie, everyone in the drop cabin felt that Zhang Tie just now was like a skilled racer driving a super sports car around such a bulky big car like the Fury. The truck is flexible and elegant on the road.
"Well, it just so happens..." the person next to him muttered to himself.
The driving of the glider is extremely simple. For every crew member on the airship, it is like a sailor mastering a rubber boat. Know how to fly a glider - the stick in the cockpit of the glider controls the lift and the pedals control the direction.
Pull the control stick back, the elevator will swing up, and the nose of the glider will face up, push the control stick forward, the elevator will swing down, and the nose of the glider will face down; step on the left pedal, the rudder will swing to the left, Turn the nose to the left, step on the right pedal, the rudder will swing to the right, and the nose will turn to the right - the basic driving of the glider is as simple as that, tossing and turning is four kinds of controls, up, down, left, and right, not to mention adults, just a child, learn to learn You can learn it in about ten minutes.
But the control of the glider is extremely difficult. The most difficult thing is to judge, grasp and utilize various air currents in the air, those invisible air currents, such as terrain dynamic updraft, wave-shaped updraft, whirling updraft, thermal Updraft, etc., are the source of power for a glider to fly in the air, and it is also the only criterion for testing whether a glider pilot is good or not.
Those air currents are invisible and cannot be seen by you. You can only judge by your actual experience and feelings. Therefore, it may only take ten minutes to learn to fly a glider, but if you want to learn to use those invisible air currents, let your glider fly It may take at least ten years of practice before you can master some of the skills of driving intentions to match those airflows and make those airflows work for you.
The mastery and use of air currents is the only criterion for determining the level of a person flying a glider. Under this standard, the gap between a novice and a master is almost as large as the gap between a zero-level fighter and a tenth-level strong fighter .
In this era, people use four data to measure the level of a person flying a glider. These four data are - the longest time in the air, the farthest flight distance, the highest climb record and the average speed of the triangular route.
Under these four data, the gap between novices and masters is clear at a glance.
A novice who has just learned to fly a glider can only stay in the air for about half an hour, the farthest flight distance is within 40 kilometers, the highest climb record is below 13 meters, and the average speed of the triangular route is also below 50 kilometers per hour.
The same glider, under the same driving conditions, if it looks like a sparrow in the hands of a novice, then in the hands of a top expert, it is an iron-winged eagle that can stand proud of the sky.
The longest flight time can exceed 70 hours, the furthest flight distance can exceed 2,000 kilometers, the highest climb record can exceed 15,000 meters, and the average speed of the triangular route can exceed 220 kilometers per hour—this is the data of top glider pilots.
"The speed of the captain's glider has reached more than 3 kilometers..." Just as everyone below was still reminiscing about the beautiful U-shaped roll just now, the sound of the observation post on the airship was transmitted to the people below through the sound transmission tube. In the drop cabin, everyone in the drop cabin was dumbfounded again.
"It's too fast, how could it reach such a speed in such a short time..." the first officer of the airship murmured.
There was silence in the drop cabin, and no one could answer...
Zhang Tie didn't know what kind of impression he left on the Fool airship in just a short period of time, and he didn't feel that he had done anything too special, he was just following his own feelings Just flying.
The air flow in the air, Zhang Tie found, was the same as the ocean currents in the sea, the body of Shuiyou gave him a super sense of water flow, and at this moment, it also acted on the air flow in the air.
Zhang Tie doesn't know what the reason is, maybe it has something to do with the fact that both are fluids, or it may be caused by the induction of water vapor in the air flow, but there is no doubt that the feeling is the same
This induction does not come from the skin and body's touch, but from the natural extension of one's mental power outside one's body.
For a moment, Zhang Tie almost thought that he was not flying a glider, but that he had returned to the sea he was familiar with. Although this glider would definitely not be the same as he controlled his body in the sea, but that kind of freewheeling The feeling is the same. Flying in the sky under the action of air currents and flying under the ocean under the action of ocean currents, there are many similarities between the two. Many experiences and reasons Zhang Tie feels It is also interlinked.
For example, in the sea, the way to let your body reach the maximum speed is not to follow the ocean current all the way, but to quickly intersperse in the place where the ocean current produces gyrations and ups and downs, so that you can gain more power, or Different ocean currents use serpentine-like paths to constantly change their direction and turns, allowing themselves to quickly cut from one ocean current to another at an incredible speed.
In the sky, when flying a glider, Zhang Tie found that these principles are the same, even the shapes of many ocean currents in the ocean and the most numerous thermal air streams in the sky are similar. The thermal air in the sky is like bubbles, both of which exist and flow in a certain circular state.
Zhang Tie doesn't know how others distinguish between masters and novices, but in terms of feeling, he feels that as long as he wants, he can stay in the sky for a very, very long time, or fly far away, just like he is in the ocean. place.
Not long after leaving the Fool, Zhang Tie lowered his flying altitude and speed, controlled his altitude at about three kilometers above the ground, and his speed was about the same as that of an airship, and then flew towards the north. The burnt ruined villages on the Ernes Plain passed by his feet continuously, and sometimes the wreckage of large airships could be seen.
Only half an hour later, in the distant sky, Zhang Tie saw a few black spots, and those black spots also looked at Zhang Tie, and then flew towards Zhang Tie at once... (To be continued『 This text is provided by the dawn update group x-on:ch8296929 (Dian Dian Han Zhi). If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation)