Lesson 4: One stroke to amaze the sea and sky

Lesson 4: One stroke to amaze the sea and sky

--Witness the first successful landing of China's carrier-based fighter

Cai Nianchi, Pu Haiyang

A sea area in the Bohai Sea, the sea breeze whistling, the waves surging. On the vast sea, China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, cuts the waves forward. On the main mast of the ship's island, the bright red August 1st flag is waving in the wind.

At 8:00 a.m. on November 23, 2012, the deck crew wearing different colored vests took their positions in the battle stations against the bitter cold wind. The blocking rope safety observers, holding professional tools, meticulously made a final check on the blocking rope. China's carrier-based fighter jet, which has received much attention from the outside world, entered the most critical moment for its first landing.

This is not an ordinary flight. Aircraft carrier carrier fighters on board, carrying the national dream of a strong army. The vastness of the sea can be proof that in order to make this dream come true, the ancient Chinese nation, has been waiting for nearly a century; People's Navy officers and soldiers, has been looking forward to more than half a century.

This is not an ordinary landing. This is the world's most recognized risky problem. Looking down from the high-speed flight of the carrier fighter, the aircraft carrier is like a leaf in the ocean, undulating in the sea, the aircraft each landing is facing the test of life and death. According to statistics, 80% of the accidents of carrier-based aircraft of major countries occur during the landing process. From the end of World War II to the present, a major navy has crashed more than 1,000 aircraft and killed more than 700 pilots, with the vast majority of these accidents occurring during ship landings.

The announcement in the flight tower rang out: "J-15 aircraft 552 has taken off at ×××× and is expected to be ×××× near the air!"

The landing commander calmly stepped onto the deck command platform. The "dance on the tip of the knife" is about to begin, all the people on the scene are sweating.

In the tower, the clock hands of each beat, are gripping the heart.

"The officers and men of the Liaoning ship skillfully maneuvered the aircraft carrier, leaving a wide and straight track on the transom.

×At xxxxx minutes, the low roar of the carrier aircraft was heard in the distant sky. Following the sound, the reporter saw a J-15 carrier aircraft flying towards the Liaoning in the blue canopy.

In the flight tower, a pair of bloodshot eyes are staring at the parameters and curves on the surveillance screen, closely following the carrier aircraft that is adjusting its flight attitude in the air.

The tower takeoff and landing command monitoring console, from time to time, the ship commander and the pilot's dialogue voice -

Pilot: "Please indicate the descent altitude!"

Landing commander: "You can descend to ×××× altitude!"

Landing commander: "Course xxxx, speed xxxx ......"

Pilot: "Understood!

In the intermittent, unhurried conversation between the two, the ship and the aircraft worked very well together. The roar of the engines grew louder and louder, and the ship's aircraft got closer and closer. A turn around the ship, two turns, put down the landing gear, put down the tail hook, J-15 carrier aircraft like a wave of swallows, lightly and nimbly adjust the attitude to fly to the rear of the ship above, aligned with the deck runway, to nearly perfect trajectory quickly decline.

The sound was as fast as a thousand horses, and the air rolled ten thousand mountains ^ . The thrilling scene appeared: 9:08, along with the deafening roar of jet engines, in the blink of an eye, the two main wheels of the carrier touched the deck of the aircraft carrier, and the tail hook behind the belly of the aircraft hung firmly on the second blocking cable. In a flash, the lightning-fast aircraft glided dozens of meters under the action of the blocking cable system, and then came to a steady stop.

Reporters in front of the flight deck, framed a symbol of victory, a huge "V": the two ends of the blocking cable to form a "V" on the two ends, the tail hooks hooked, is the "V" of the word bottom tip.

"Success!" Cheers, a tight heart, a sudden stretch. The warm applause from all the battle stations instantly activated everyone's tense nerves, and everyone's face burst into a smile of victory. Many people shed tears! They said, "It's so exciting!"

Shipboard fighters on board, China started from nothing, everything from scratch. An admiral of a major power once said: "We can give you the aircraft carrier, but, within ten years, you can not make the carrier aircraft on board!" For the sake of this, in the face of technological blockade, how many people have exhausted themselves and turned their hair gray; how many people have been tenacious in their attacks and fallen down in the test site; how many people have no regrets and silent dedication ...... Today, there is finally a successful outcome, can we not be excited?

"Hurry up! Hurry up!" Someone rushed toward the flight deck. The flight deck, which was empty a few minutes ago, ran at once with a large group of people.

Opening the hatch, the pilot greeted the assembled officers and said, "Everything is fine, it feels great! The J-15 was boiling in front of the aircraft, flowers reflected the pilot's smiling face, people forgot to hug the pilot tightly and vied for a photo with him...---

"Ka-chow!" "Ka-chow!" ...... With the shutter sound of the camera, the style of China's first carrier-based fighter pilot who successfully landed the ship was fixed in people's lens and engraved in the history book of the Republic.

(Our newspaper Liaoning ship November 25, electricity)