Great Power Fighting Falcon

Gaoqi Airport is the nearest airport. As one of the important international airports in the southeast region, it has up to 380 flights taking off and landing every day, making it a very busy regional aviation hub.

Li Zhan would not be willing to make an alternate landing at such an airport if he had the second option, because it would have a great impact on the normal production and life of the place.

A more critical issue is that it was already past five in the morning, and Gaoqi Airport, which has many international flights, had already started flight preparations for a new day two hours ago. The latest forecast from the meteorological station shows that "Sana" is turning north 300 kilometers away. Most of the flights that were originally prepared for cancellation can take off normally. The number of flights taking off and landing today will not be much less than usual, which means that it will be around 5 a.m. Gaoqi Airport is already busy.

Fu Zhi reported the situation to the military duty room, which immediately launched a first-level response and the relevant military and local mechanisms began to operate. Five minutes after Li Zhan issued the request, Gaoqi Airport received an instruction from the Southeast Air Traffic Control Center, requiring the airport to stop all flight operations and provide emergency support for military aircraft to land.

The military representatives stationed at Gaoqi Airport acted quickly. A group of people in military uniforms suddenly appeared at various positions to act as "people giving orders." This surprised many staff at the airport, and many of them did not even know what to do. I know there are soldiers stationed at the airport.

Railway stations, airports, ports, and even some major stations have representatives from the military transportation department, usually called military transportation representatives. Military transportation is not the Military Games. Their main responsibility is to coordinate the use of local transportation for troop transport and other tasks. , extremely powerful. They are usually so low-key that others don't know of their existence, and may not even coordinate a single shipment throughout the year. However, once they receive an order, they appear as if out of thin air, and use a quick and decisive style to coordinate according to the requirements of the troops in the shortest possible time. Transportation work.

The standards of the Military Transport Representative Office in a regional aviation hub such as Gaoqi Airport are very high. At the deputy division level, the deputy division resident representative has the power to directly take over the airport under certain circumstances, which is awesome. In any specific situation, such as when superiors order the requisition of the airport, the Military Transport Representative Office is the advance team responsible for taking over. They must immediately station themselves at key positions to control the airport.

This mechanism is somewhat like a military control plan. In the event of a war, the army will use the airport. In this case, the airport must be taken over by a professional unit of the army, and it must be completed in the shortest possible time. Therefore, the Military Transport Representative Office can be regarded as a backup team for airport operations, a backup team with only basic staffing and attached to the army.

It should be noted that these are not within the scope of national defense mobilization, but are content in the military's operational strategic plan. Maybe it won't be used for ten or eight years, but once it is used, it must play its due role.

After receiving the order, the Gaoqi Military Transportation Office called back all shift personnel except those on duty, and everyone devoted themselves to the preparation work with high enthusiasm. In normal times, there are only drills. There are too few opportunities to support the troops with real swords and guns, even less than one-tenth of the railway military transport representative office. So when they heard that some fighter jets from the army were going to land at the bustling, world-famous Gaoqi Airport, the officers and soldiers of the Military Transport Representative Office were all excited and worked hard to fight a good battle and perform well. Bundle!

The Southeast District Management Center immediately called the backup aircraft, "Military Aviation Yaoliu, I am the Southeast District Controller, heading 270, the front is clear, you can fly at any altitude and at any speed, over."

"Southeast District Manager, heading 270, Military Aviation Yaoliu understands!" Li Zhan quickly confirmed the position. Just after he finished speaking, he suddenly found that the tail rudder was moving. He pushed a few times harder, and the tail rudder wing surface ’s activities actually returned to normal.

Li Zhan was overjoyed, "Old Chen, the tail rudder is back to normal, and the ice has probably melted. Good news!"

"But we have been leaking oil. I have calculated that based on the current situation, we can only fly to a position ten kilometers away from the airport. Should we consider gliding and landing at a high altitude?" Chen Fei has not been idle. He based on the speed of the fuel leakage The distance data to the alternate airport was used to calculate the farthest the plane could fly. It turned out that it could only fly to a place ten kilometers east of Gaoqi Airport, which happened to be the coastline. Chen Fei even knew that there was a national Everyone knows the beautiful beaches.

Li Zhan adjusted all the airfoils to normal conditions and increased the thrust of the right engine to the same as that of the left engine. Without the influence of other anisotropic forces, the speed of the fighter slowly increased, and soon returned to three hundred and fifty. An airspeed of ten kilometers per hour. After leaving the cloud wall area, the fighter plane could no longer take advantage of the wind to fly. The airspeed had dropped to 280 kilometers per hour just now.

The J-16 can take off at a speed of 240 kilometers per hour when empty. At this time, the No. 1616 J-16 is lighter than the empty load, so speed is not the biggest problem. Now that the speed has increased, Li Zhan took advantage of every opportunity to gently lift the nose of the aircraft and climb as much as possible to gain as much altitude as possible.

Li Zhan said, "Understood, prepare to glide and land."

"There are navigation points 30 kilometers away. Gaoqi Airport is at one o'clock. You have to get down to the navigation point, otherwise you will miss the airport." Chen Fei said.

Li Zhan nodded slightly, "Understood, thirty kilometers navigation point."

If Li Zhan could see the appearance of the fighter plane at this time, he would not be as relaxed as he is now. There was slight leakage of fuel from the fuselage where the belly fuel tank was located. During the flight, it quickly vaporized and produced a stream of smoke. Many skins of the fuselage had signs of tears, and some serious places even had paint peeling off.

J-16 No. 1616 was like being fished out of a blender. Its good-looking light gray low-visibility paint had changed its appearance, and it looked miserable.

The most terrible thing is that the location of the fuel leakage is in front of the engine nozzle, and the sparks flashing from time to time under the engine compartment pose a huge safety hazard. Once the belly fuel tank is ignited, the fighter plane may not be saved. But Li Zhan had no way of knowing these symptoms unless he could see what was going on under the engine compartment.

Several international flights at Gaoqi Airport were delayed in boarding passengers. Passengers on these flights were notified that the departure time of the flight was to be determined due to weather conditions. This explanation is easy for passengers to accept, because everyone knows that there is a typhoon hundreds of kilometers away in the sea. Everything outside the airport terminal is wet. Just a few hours ago, there was a strong wind and heavy rain. baptism.

In this case, passengers might be worried about taking off on time.

Gaoqi Airport, which seemed to have pressed the pause button, was nervously making emergency rescue preparations. The public security, fire and rescue teams were all in place, so they had to rush in to nip all threats in the bud as soon as the backup military aircraft landed. . Comrades at the airport police station received orders to be ready to carry out confidentiality work at any time. All preparations are completed within a few minutes, and the response speed is extremely fast.

The commanders on the tower looked solemn. The military transport representatives communicated in low voices with the responsible comrades at the airport from time to time, and then new instructions continued to come. The relevant departments quickly adjusted their deployment and improved preparations according to the new instructions. The duty director of the Southeast District Management Center has moved all civilian aircraft in the relevant airspace away and cleared a clean airspace for Military Aircraft 16. The Second Division scrambled two J-10B fighters from Jiayingchang Station, and under the command of Fu Zhi, rushed to the south side of Gaoqi Airport to prepare for the response. They could provide observation support and guidance for J-16 No. 1616 from the air at any time.

Coincidentally, the pilots of the two J-10Bs were students trained by Li Zhan, and the lead pilot was Dai Mengming.

"Experiment Yaoliu, I am Raptor No. 1. I am at your ten o'clock direction, twenty kilometers away. Pay attention, I am going over. It's over." Dai Mengming called Li Zhan.

Li Zhan saw two red dots speeding towards him from the radar. The airborne radar was very advanced and analyzed the aircraft model based on the characteristics of the target's reflected wave. There was brief information displayed on the small red dots: target signal, altitude, speed. ,course.

"Raptor One, I see you. You're here just in time. My fuel leakage is accelerating. Please help me see what's happening on the outside. Over." Li Zhan said.

Dai Mengming immediately replied, "Raptor 1 received it! It will arrive in one minute! Over."

He reached supersonic speed, and his wingman followed closely five kilometers behind him. The roar produced by the two Taihang engines' afterburner operation bombarded the ground, and then the even greater sound produced after the fighter jets broke through the sound barrier continued to bombard the ground. It only took fifty seconds to fly to the position five kilometers away from the No. 1616 J-16.

Li Zhan turned to look and could see the navigation lights of two J-10Bs through the low-light night vision device. He said, "Raptor 1, I see you. Drive over boldly. My flying attitude remains unchanged. It's over." "

"Understood." Dai Mengming naturally knew that the person driving the J-16 No. 1616 was Teacher Li. He was highly nervous, just like a student who was selected by the teacher for a temporary test.

Dai Mengming slowly approached J-16 No. 1616. He didn't need to use low-light night vision goggles to clearly see a tongue of flame extending backward from where the belly of the aircraft connected to the engine compartment. He thought it was a navigation light, but after getting closer to 200 meters, he finally confirmed that it was fire!

"Test Yaoliu! The leaked fuel caught fire! It's just under the engine compartment!" Dai Mengmin was shocked and reported quickly.

Li Zhan and Chen Fei were both shocked. At this time, they were still twenty kilometers away from Gaoqi Airport and ten kilometers away from the coastline. The location of the fire is the fuel tank. If the fire burns into the fuel tank, it may cause the entire belly fuel tank to explode! Let alone twenty kilometers, I'm afraid I won't be able to fly even two kilometers!

Even if you are allowed to risk a successful landing, the aircraft will be basically useless, and at least the two engines will not be saved.

Li Zhan must make a decision within three seconds.

But is there any way to extinguish the open flames outside the fuselage in the air?

PS: It’s not clear what standard units are used in civil aviation regulations. It seems that some international flights use imperial units.