Watching "King of the Long Sky" was an eye-opener!
What is the strength of many new Chinese fighters, including the J-20, J-16 and J-10C?
From 1950 to the present, how did Continental Airlines go from "poor and white" to "what do you want"? How did test pilots evolve from "fighting for their lives" to "being able to test fly and change aircraft"?
How do test pilots push the limits of flying? What is the truth about the provocation of naval and air by foreign enemy military aircraft? How scary are "sonic boom" attacks? How fierce are the pilots of the front-line air force in retaliating against invading enemy aircraft? What is the story behind the naval and air force exercises?
It's cool that these blood-boiling cold knowledge can find the answer in a movie.
From Air Force selection to "test pilot"
Lei Yu (Wang Yibo), a pilot who had just shot down an enemy plane on the front line and won the honor of "Golden Helmet" in the competition, was in distress and successfully broke through during a mission, and was favored by Zhang Ting (Hu Jun), the captain of the test flight group, and sent him an invitation to join the team.
But Lei Yu said that he "does not catch a cold" because he only likes the front line.
Zhang Ting can see from his surfboard that this child likes to challenge the limit and refuses to let go easily.
"Let you test fly stealth fighters, and don't go either?"
Lei Yu's eyes lit up! The stealth fighter is a fourth-generation fighter, and he is now flying a third-generation fighter. Being on the front line, of course, he knows: what the fourth-generation aircraft symbolizes - the Western fourth-generation aircraft fights the third-generation aircraft, and once set a record of 1:75 battle loss ratio. In theory, the fourth-generation aircraft plays the third-generation aircraft, just like "Tyson hits middle school students".
Every time he carried out a mission, Lei Yu deeply felt that the third-generation engine was "inadequate", so he boldly told the experts: the third-generation aircraft has a "heart disease" and must be cured quickly.
Lei Yu is not a mouth cannon, he really wants to solve this problem, so he modified the plane himself during a competition, and really let him win and take the "golden helmet".
With the desire to cure the "heart disease", Lei Yu decided to go to the test flight brigade to see...
At the beginning of the film, it hits the nail on the head to explain the two backgrounds of "the challenges facing the aviation industry of Continental and the importance of the test pilot profession".
The film "simulates" the pilots of fourth-generation aircraft piloting planes that are more advanced than our military, arrogantly provoking the territorial waters of the mainland's territorial airspace and aggressively.
In other words, we must be prepared for danger in times of peace, and there is only one solution to this problem: develop and test fly the fourth-generation aircraft as soon as possible, and only the fourth-generation aircraft on the front line is the killer app. The territorial waters and airspace of the mainland are truly safe.
When Lei Yu came to the first scene that the test flight team saw, he was shocked: a huge sandstorm struck, rolling up the sky and the earth in chaos, and a plane flew proudly from the sandstorm, like a huge divine bird, landing steadily. That's an airplane that no one has ever flown in, that's the temperament of a king who conquers the sky... Lei Yu, who saw this scene, found his mission, and he decided to become a test pilot.
The "inhuman" work of test pilots: stall tailspin, parking in the air, climbing at large elevation angles ...
The job of test pilots is to test the problems and combat effectiveness of an aircraft through test flights.
According to data, in 1950, the death rate of mainland test pilots was as high as one test pilot per week. After the 60s, aviation technology matured, but it still happened every 17 minutes.
Therefore, when Lei Yu passed the selection test and stood on the stage as one of the 7 leaders to take the oath, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart: Lei Yu... Will the future die?
Some people say that the profession of test pilot is one of the most complex, arduous, brave and labor-responsible labor tasks for mankind so far. But when a supreme honorable profession brings the challenge of life at any time, where does the courage to face this profession come from?
In fact, it is difficult enough to pass the "selection test" to join the team, and for ordinary people, it is simply an inhuman test. It is necessary to adapt to many special physical environment abnormalities such as high altitude, high speed, lack of oxygen, toxic gas, generation temperature, acceleration, black vision, etc., and maintain sanity and combat effectiveness in this environment.
But after becoming a test pilot, Lei Yu faced a more severe test.
For example, the first task he received "98 degrees large elevation angle tail rotation", according to the knowledge shown in the movie, according to the author's initial understanding, this should be to test whether the new machine can urgently brake and restart the engine after it fails and falls.
Lei Yu was not worried at first, he probably encountered this situation in actual combat before. So, he also came with a "99-degree elevation angle" (in other words, when an airplane falls down on its back to the sky, it looks scary).
Lei Yu remained sane at first, but as the restart failed again and again, when he reached a limit "low" from the ground, he chose to skydive.
This one Air Force pilot would make a reflexive choice, but now as a test pilot, the aircraft test data will disappear completely. Lao Zhang, who was on the same plane with him, continued to insist after Lei Yu parachuted in order to ask for the test data of the aircraft, and finally successfully restarted the plane at the moment of life and death.
Lao Zhang's life was "picked up" back, and the data of the plane was saved.
This test flight taught Lei Yu a crucial lesson, he did not understand how Lao Zhang was still so rational in a stalled state, Lao Zhang told him:
"As soldiers, life + mission is life, delay data, we are all sinners!"
Lei Yu finally understood: stall tailspin, air parking, sonic boom, large elevation angle climb ... Challenging the limits of life and death and fighters again and again at high altitude is the job of test pilots.
Behind the expulsion, behind the military exercises, behind the peace
In the news, we have seen news similar to "foreign enemy military aircraft provoking in airspace, our army carried out expulsion and gave warning." I foolishly thought that it was really just a simple expulsion - chasing the enemy to scare them away.
But after watching "The King of the Long Sky", I know that it is not so simple.
In the movie, Lei Yu's first mission was to encounter an invasion of external forces with "fourth-generation aircraft", and they attacked ships with sonic booms! Lei Yu, a pilot of the Air Force of the era, directly shot down two enemy aircraft.
It turns out that the "speed of life and death" has always been staged. Think about it: if you don't really "beat up", how can you drive away these arrogant external forces?
Lei Yu's last task in the film is to lead the fourth-generation aircraft combat team belonging to China to take the flight in military exercises, which is really too awe-inspiring.
Test pilots used blood and sweat to get new fighters from the laboratory to the battlefield.
"Military exercises are a powerful deterrent to external forces and territorial sovereignty. The purpose of taking the flight is to allow stealth fighters to achieve combat effectiveness as soon as possible. ”
Seeing this, I understood: It turns out that we were not born in a peaceful era, but in a peaceful country. Today's stable life is always guarded by powerful countries and brave soldiers.
While the soldiers guarded us with an iron will, they also "hidden" their heroic battles in peaceful and gentle language.
The end of "King of the Long Sky" is a real recording of a piece of cold airwaves.
"81192, parachute immediately, execute the order!"
"This is the city, and not far away is no man's land."
"No man's land has arrived... Startup failed. ”
"I can't go back, you keep going!"
"I can't go back, tell my girlfriend, I love her!"
"I can't go back, if my son is born, call him Bayi!"