Great Power Long Sky

Currently, both aircraft are turning left and descending, but Li Lu is performing continuous barrel rolls, while Zhang Fei is in a normal flight state.

Zhang Fei was certain that Li Lu's continuous barrel rolling would eventually end, and it would end soon. What he needed to seize was the moment when Li Lu leveled off, press the firing button, shoot the camera, and the confrontation training would be over.

However, Zhang Fei could not have imagined it, Deputy Division Commander Feng in the control tower could not have imagined it, and even Xu Hailiang and Zhao Chaoyang on the JJ-6 trainer who had just arrived could not have imagined that Li Lu would maintain a continuous barrel roll!

A typical barrel rolling exercise involves just a few rolls and can be completed in a few seconds.

But Li Lu maintained it like a madman!

It looks just like an acrobatic performer doing consecutive side somersaults!

"What is he doing? What is he trying to do?" Deputy Division Commander Feng shouted, grabbing the microphone and calling Li Lu, "Hey! Watch your posture! Watch your posture!"

Li Lu replied, "Report, my posture is good, I feel great, all done."

The tone was steady and relaxed.

Judging from his words and tone, who would have guessed that he was performing continuous barrel rolling?

A barrel roll is a flight pattern in which the aircraft rotates 360 degrees continuously around its longitudinal axis while flying forward. The overall flight trajectory resembles a forward spiral, and it is called a barrel roll because it looks like rolling inside an invisible cylinder.

The barrel roll is one of the most classic and commonly used aerobatic maneuvers.

When being tailed by an enemy aircraft, maneuvering the aircraft to perform a barrel roll can disrupt the enemy's pursuit rhythm and evade enemy machine gun fire.

This maneuver can also be used to quickly change the aircraft's nose direction and adjust the attack angle when tail-chasing.

At this moment, Li Lu was doing a barrel roll that was hard to describe—he kept turning left and descending at a high height without stopping.

From Deputy Division Commander Feng's perspective, the combination of these two factors resembled a sudden, precipitous fall.

This was just the aircraft's movement; the overload was not significant, and the movement did not exceed the envelope.

However, when performing a barrel roll, the pilot needs to precisely control the throttle, ailerons, and elevator to prevent stalling or excessive altitude loss. Continuous barrel rolls mean that Li Lu has to repeat this set of actions constantly, and his body rolls along with the aircraft; in short, he's spinning in a spiral.

One very important part of the physical training for pilots is "circling," which is usually done using equipment such as spiral staircases and fixed rollers.

For example, a fixed roller, where a person stands inside with their feet stuck and their hands gripping firmly, and then it starts to roll. When Li Lu and his classmates were in flight school, they were required to roll 38 times in both directions to pass.

Generally speaking, you'd be embarrassed to say you want to fly a fighter jet if you haven't rolled it more than fifty times.

After a barrel roll, how do some pilots determine whether the sky or the ground is above them? One way is by feeling; if their eyes and head feel swollen and they feel top-heavy, then the ground is above them. The other way is by memory; they remember their control actions and the attitude the aircraft should have after completing a set of maneuvers.

During air shows, some pilots, after completing a set of aerobatic maneuvers, suddenly plummet straight to the ground. This is because their spatial awareness is confused, causing them to hallucinate, mistaking the ground for the sky, or the sky for the ground.

The continuous barrel rolls that Li Lu is doing now, repeatedly performing the same set of movements in such a short period of time, regardless of changes in the aircraft's altitude and speed, have a tremendous impact on his body and consciousness.

In short—Li Lu is probably completely disoriented.

Deputy Division Commander Feng didn't know Li Lu's score in this subject, but Xu Hailiang did, so he was relatively at ease.

However, what made Xu Hailiang's heart tighten was that after the continuous barrel rolling, Li Lu suddenly did something that almost made Deputy Division Commander Feng, Xu Hailiang and others' hearts stop beating.

Li Lu stopped the barrel roll and took a left turn. He then pulled the control stick to the left, increasing the leftward tilt of the aircraft. At this moment, he pulled the stick sharply, and the nose of the aircraft suddenly rose more than 60 degrees, with the bottom of the wings facing the wind, meaning the left wing was pointing upwards and the right wing was pointing downwards.

Pulling the nose up at a large angle and using the main wing to catch the wind to slow down is undoubtedly the best and fastest way to decelerate.

This change was very sudden.

Caught off guard, Zhang Fei flew over in an instant.

This "flying over" refers to Zhang Fei piloting J-6 No. 102 to Li Lu's front hemisphere in three-dimensional space.

Anyone who has driven knows that when you see the brake lights of the car in front of you turn on before you brake, there is at least a two-second reaction time. For a car traveling at 120 kilometers per hour, two seconds can cover more than 60 meters.

The distance from a car traveling at 120 km/h to a complete stop is about 45 meters, so the following distance on highways should be maintained at more than 100 meters.

In general, this regulation is made to ensure safety.

At this point, Zhang Fei and Li Lu were already at different altitudes, and their aircraft were not pointing in the same direction, so he could confidently accelerate and turn to pursue them.

Similarly, if Zhang Fei saw Li Lu suddenly slow down, even if he reacted by slowing down at top speed, he would still rush to Li Lu's front half.

Even if he adopts a deceleration maneuver like Li Lu.

The problem is that Zhang Fei couldn't do the deceleration maneuver that Li Lu performed; he had never done it before. Not to mention him, there are probably very few pilots in the world who can do this maneuver.

If an aircraft turns left and descends without leveling off, pulling up the nose and using the main wing to face the wind is almost suicidal.

The risk of stalling is extremely high!

Conversely, the greater the risk, the better the effect.

Since his master Chen Hai sacrificed himself, Li Lu has felt a sense of becoming one with the plane every time he flies. As the number of flights increases, this feeling becomes stronger and stronger, much like the "man and sword as one" described in martial arts novels. In Li Lu's case, it is man and machine as one.

This feeling was most pronounced when the USS Kitty Hawk encountered sudden severe weather on its return voyage.

Instead of attempting an emergency landing at the Dachang depot, he directly requested permission from the East Command to make an emergency landing. This decision stemmed from an incredibly strong feeling, rather than from the numbers on the fuel gauge.

When he strongly felt that he couldn't fly to the Dachang airfield by taking a detour, and that he wouldn't have enough fuel after crossing the thunderstorm area, and didn't even need to calculate the relationship between fuel remaining and distance, finding a suitable place to make an emergency landing was the only option.

Subsequent investigation revealed that when Li Lu made an emergency landing on the unfinished runway at Hudong Airport, even the fuel in his fuel line had burned out.

In other words, if he had followed the normal procedure, he would most likely have had to abandon the plane and parachute out.

After this emergency landing, Li Lu felt even more confident in his amazing fighter jet integration.

He dared to make a sudden maneuver with an angle of attack exceeding 60 degrees in the current state, and the aircraft's speed suddenly decreased from more than 700 kilometers per hour to less than 300 kilometers per hour.

Zhang Fei charged too far ahead!