The tactics of high and low double formations, invented by Lieutenant Colonel Novotny, made its debut in the "Great Air Battle of Newfoundland" on 8 April and achieved satisfactory results.
The squadron was divided into 36 4-plane high and low double formations, and each high and low double formation specialized in one F7F.
To launch an attack, they rely on excellent high-altitude performance and speed to fly to the target to launch a dive attack, but there is no machine gun on the back of the F7F, if you want to feint, you can't fly at all at an altitude of 10,000 meters, so you are left to be beaten, and in the blink of an eye, there are seven or eight F7F that were hit by the 262T 30 machine guns and were on fire, dragging black smoke straight down.
The F7F, which reacted relatively quickly, began to dive, and as a result, it hit the muzzle of the "low group" of the 262T high and low double formation. , was beaten into a sieve by 8 K30 caliber aircraft carriers, and then fell down while spinning.
Captain Bush's luck was good for two US presidents, and he was not targeted by the 262T, but he witnessed one of his wingmen being hit into a fireball by two 262t shells that flew like lightning.
"Not an opponent at all," Captain Bush muttered to himself, gritting his teeth.
The F7F is also a very good heavy fighter, perhaps the best in its class.
But at extreme altitudes it is no match for jets, which are almost 300 kilometers an hour faster and can easily fire from a good position.
The cannon is also too vicious, and the F7F can't bear it no matter how strong it is.
Captain Bush quickly made a decision in his heart, and while reporting the ambush to his superiors through the radio, he drove the F7F to dive rapidly, trying to get rid of the pursuit of the 262T.
All the surviving F7F pilots in the sky had almost the same idea, so the encounter over 10,000 meters quickly turned into a one-sided chase.
's cannons hit, crashing with smoke in tow, or turning into fireballs in the air.
Frightened screams kept coming from the headphones that Captain Bush was wearing, and some of them were the pilots of the planes that were hit and howled in despair: This is not over the island of Newfoundland, but below is the endless North Atlantic, and the water temperature is still very low, and it is very difficult to save the pilots who fell into the water, and some are the pilots who were frightened by the death of their comrades and are shouting.
However, Captain Bush did not panic, he was a veteran of the war of attrition in the air over the Hawaiian Islands, having shot down and damaged 27 Japanese planes before and after, and had been shot down by the Japanese five times.
And at this moment, the real crisis has emerged.
Captain Bush's eyes suddenly began to darken, and his vision became very blurred, which is the so-called "black vision," a physiological phenomenon caused by the overload caused by the aircraft's acceleration and dive.
If the "black vision" is further aggravated, it is very likely to cause fainting, and then without the Germans' 262 attack, Captain Bush's plane will also crash because no one is piloting it.
Bush, who knew that he might faint, did not immediately pull up the fighter plane that was diving at high speed, because he knew that black vision and red vision were more dangerous than black vision, and this phenomenon belonged not only to American pilots, but also to German pilots.
Now it's up to whoever can't carry the plane first In addition, the F7F has excellent dive performance, the body is very strong, and there is no problem in reaching speeds of 900 km/h.
Although it can theoretically rush faster, there is a limit to the endurance of the body and the pilot.
Not stronger than the F7F.
Therefore, Captain Bush's choice was completely correct, and the expected results were achieved later, and the two 262T chasing behind his ass dived to an altitude of about 7,500 meters, then pulled up the nose and flew away, in fact, these 262T were ordered by Hirschman Jr. to support the 264 group that was about to be attacked by 47.
At an altitude of about 7,200 meters, Captain Bush, who had almost fainted, finally pulled up his F7F, and it was not a level flight, but continued to descend at a smaller angle and at a slower pace.
The trace of E262 was greatly relieved, and finally escaped death Being ambushed by 262 jet fighters above 10,000 meters should be the thing that all American pilots fear the most.
But where did they come from, near Newfoundland, where there were no German-controlled islands?
Where did these jets, which look like F7F, come from, did they take off from German aircraft carriers?
Captain Bush, who had not yet fully recovered from black vision, was thinking dizzily about the origin of these damn 262s, when he didn't know whose shout rang out in his headphones: "The enemy plane is a Fokker plane" Fokker aircraft The groggy Captain Bush was suddenly an agitator.
As a veteran of the Pacific Theater, he still doesn't know the prestige of the Fokker aircraft, the Fokker Zero, and the Americans call the Japanese Zero, also known as the Fokker aircraft, which was an ace model that could fight all over the world in the early days of the Pacific War.
And on the Atlantic theater, the Fokker 636 once again recreated the Fokker myth.
It is the king below 5000 meters, and at 50007000 meters, the Fokker 636 is still one of the best fighters.
E262 jet fighter "Captain, Fokker plane, 9 o'clock, climbing."
Sergeant Halton, Captain Bush's navigator, shouted loudly.
Captain Bush looked to the left, and sure enough, he saw four Fokker 636s climbing, about 6,000 meters away.
The Fokker 636 has good climbing performance, which is not comparable to a twin-engine heavy aircraft like the F7F.
As for coil fighting, even 51 can't deal with it, not to mention that the only weakness of the F7F is that the high-altitude performance is not particularly ideal, but Captain Bush did not know that 262 in the air had flown away.
But even if he got the report, he didn't dare to fly too high.
Those horrible jets had knocked him out of his mind.
"Captain, they're almost over our heads, they're going to dive and attack," Bush's navigator, Sergeant Halton, shouted again.
Bush, who was still a little dizzy, knew that he could not climb like his opponent, let alone dive again, because his body had not yet recovered, and second, he would not be an opponent of the Fokker plane when he rushed to a medium and low altitude.
But Bush, as an old bird, still has a way, he looked at the altimeter: 7100 meters.
This is the maximum airspace that the speed of the F7F can reach, and Bush flies the F7F of the medium and high altitude type, not the F7F of the medium and low altitude type, which is used to attack the surface fleet, so this aircraft can fly the fastest speed at an altitude of 7,400 meters.
In addition, both engines of the F7F are equipped with combustion supporters, which can obtain additional power for a short period of time by adding a mixture of water and methanol to the cylinders of the engines.
And this system of "drugging" the engine is not effective at all altitudes, the airspace of 70009000 meters is the altitude at which it functions.
Through the afterburner of the combustion device, the F7F driven by Captain Bush can achieve a top speed of nearly 760 kilometers and hours in 10 minutes, which is enough to get rid of the Fokker 636 that focuses on medium and low altitudes, and the top speed of the Fokker 636 is not slower than the F7F, but the altitude of the top speed is 6000 meters, and above 7000 meters, its engine performance has declined.
Therefore, Captain Bush immediately made the most correct choice and flew at a level level as fast as possible.
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"Nick, sit tight, we're going to race the plane" Bush turned on the afterburner system, the aircraft engine suddenly roared loudly, and the speed of the propeller also increased sharply, producing a huge forward momentum, and in the blink of an eye, he shook off the Fokker plane that was trying to bite the tail.
Although in the process, two Fokker planes that used dive acceleration chased after each other for a while, and also fired a 20-gun shot, but in the end, because the distance was too far, Bush was not injured at all.
Not all F7Fs made the right choice the first time, though, and not all of them were as lucky as Bush.
Therefore, the Fokker 636 at an altitude of 7,000 meters still achieved good results, just above 10,000 meters was beaten by 262, the F7F group was hit hard again, in just ten minutes, there were seventy or eighty F7F were beaten all over the smoke, these Fokker aircraft, even more than the previous 262 And more than 100 262s that robbed and killed the F7F group, at this time, they encountered 47D, which was preparing to attack the 264 group.
Although the high-altitude performance of 47D is much stronger than that of F7F, it is still not enough to encounter jets above 10,000 meters. 47D, who was originally going to act as a hunter, suddenly became a prey, and he no longer had the heart to attack 264.
At the same time, more than 300 264s, which were originally flying at an altitude of 7,500 meters, suddenly began to dive at an angle of 45 degrees and rushed down to a medium and low altitude below 5,000 meters. t1706231537: