Chapter 224 Aviation Machine Gun Fire

Pilot Scott, who was in charge of teaching Li Changheng to fly the P51 and was also responsible for inspecting the establishment and operation of the base, had contact with Li Changheng for a week.

Not only was he overwhelmed with envy by his super memory and comprehension ability, but also couldn't be more satisfied with the $10,000 that had already entered his pocket.

The National Guard, which Zizton failed to join, easily accepted Li Changheng, and under the recommendation and affirmation of Scott who was in charge of the investigation, he became a lieutenant pilot.

But to put it bluntly, this lieutenant is a rookie for fighter pilots.

The military ranks of fighter pilots in various countries generally pass the examination. After becoming an official pilot, they start as a lieutenant, and some particularly powerful entry-level captains directly.

No one cares about Li Changheng who drives a P51 propeller fighter jet and is a lieutenant in the National Guard, and no one will bother him.

Of course, the bigger reason is the availability of money.

Not only Li Changheng knew that the Vietnam War was about to end, but many people in the army also knew it.

Before this wave of retirement, not only the internal morale of the Mi Army was low and management was chaotic, but it was also easier to collect money and even leave it alone.

After all, in order to clean up the inventory of those military industrial groups, if they don't manage up and down, countless ammunition and equipment will have to rot in their own hands.

Under such circumstances, it only cost Li Changheng a thousand dollars to manage a lieutenant colonel in charge of reviewing military ranks.

Then find the person in charge of equipment logistics and pull out a car of 12.7mm airborne machine gun bullets from the warehouse, which only cost 1,200 US dollars.

And the other party is also responsible for delivery.

Of course, if you want to use the bullets that this car has brought for training, you must get the consent of Lieutenant Colonel Edmund at the Sono Air Patrol Base, and you have to write a training application to him.

After obtaining permission, the aircraft can be loaded with live ammunition and take off.

After checking his parachute, and then checking all the control equipment of the plane, Li Changheng gave a thumbs up to Scott who was more than ten meters away and would follow him into the sky.

Then he said to the flying helmet on his head, "Tower, tower, this is Sono 1, please take off, please take off."

Lieutenant Colonel Edmund, wearing earphones, stood in the tower and gave a thumbs up, "It can take off, good luck."

The exterior of Li Changheng's driver was bright silver, and a puff of black smoke suddenly came out from the exhaust port of the brand new P51 engine inside.

The propeller rotated rapidly, pushing the plane to move and slide slowly for 100 meters, then the plane left the ground with a slight shock, and lifted up to the sky little by little.

Li Changheng has flown propeller planes many times, even when he was learning how to pilot a plane in a small town in Ohio, he had already flown a P51 with all combat parts removed and converted into a trainer plane.

At this time, flying is not to say that it is easy to fly, at least there will be no operational accidents.

Unlike the P51 that has been used in civilian use, the P51D retains all the functions of a fighter jet. Not only does it fly at a top speed of 709 degrees per hour, but the six 12.7mm machine guns are all real.

And since it is qualified to train pilots, although it is difficult to apply for live ammunition shooting, it is not impossible.

The only thing to remember is that you must never fly the plane out of the restricted area.

Otherwise, he would be warned by the radar monitoring point soon, or even jet fighters from other places would come over.

However, this is a restriction on military aircraft,

In the United States, which has never experienced the crash of the Twin Towers, the control of civil aviation is not only not as strict as imagined, but even lax.

According to the scheduled flight route, it flew directly to the canyon more than 20 kilometers away from Sono Town, and then flew 110 kilometers west along the canyon several kilometers long, arriving at the border with California and starting to make a U-turn.

Returning to the canyon area of ​​Sono Town again, it finally came to the moment of live ammunition shooting.

Listening to Scott's notes on live ammunition, Li Changheng held the joystick and shook it slightly from side to side.

The plane swayed left and right twice, took a deep breath, pushed the control stick forward, and the nose immediately rushed down at 60 degrees.

Seeing the canyon in the sight getting closer, Li Changheng pressed the machine gun fire button on the joystick with his index finger.

"Da da da, da da da, da da da."

Three consecutive bursts, dozens of rounds of 12.7 mm airborne machine gun bullets, roared and hit several huge rocks in the canyon.

Li Changheng, whose heart was beating violently with excitement, pulled the joystick, and the plane began to raise its head at a distance of more than 400 meters, and rose into the sky again.

He won't do too dangerous flying maneuvers.

He went back and forth six times in a row at 60 degrees instead of the most dangerous dive within 30 degrees, and fired all the 300 rounds of machine gun bullets on board before he flew back to the sky.

Form a flying formation with Scott, lower the altitude and fly straight along the border line to the border with New Mexico, turn around and fly back.

The morning patrol is complete.

Moreover, the next flight has to wait until three days later, or receive a notice from above, before taking off again with a fighter jet with a machine gun.

If you want to fly every day, you can customize a P51 without any weapon system.

As long as you apply to the aviation management department, you can fly however you want.

When flying over the border checkpoint dozens of kilometers away from the town of Sono, dozens of U.S. border patrol officers who were notified also took off their hats and cheered at the two planes.

In this era when helicopters have not been popularized in large numbers, it is a great help for ground personnel like them to have fighter jets that can maintain a flying speed of 220 hours per hour.

Li Changheng, who was flying the plane for the purpose of arresting 'reading' and preventing smuggling, suddenly felt that what he was doing seemed quite meaningful for a moment.

With a sigh in my heart, it’s okay to be hostile to the entire United States, but you can’t be hostile to any upright and heroic investigator.

Following Scott's plane turning and flying to Sono Town Airport, I accidentally saw two large trucks with closed compartments heading towards the town.

Seeing a truck with an unfamiliar logo printed on the compartment, Li Changheng turned on the communication switch and said, "Scott, there are two trucks below."

Not long after, Scott, who watched with a telescope for a while, replied, "Don't worry about them, it should be a truck transporting beef cattle."

Hearing this, Li Changheng, who knew nothing about the cattle industry, didn't pay much attention to the thought that animals would eat violently in autumn.

The plane landed safely in the crude base.

When Li Changheng jumped off the plane, he heard Scott who came over say, "Boss, my mission is almost over, you'd better recruit some residents of small towns for flight training.

In case someone above makes trouble. "

"No problem." Li Changheng nodded with a smile, "I will buy a piece of land in the small town to raise cattle. When the time comes, let the cowboys come over to play from time to time, and there will be training personnel."

After finishing speaking, Li Changheng smiled and hugged Scott, "Let's go, buddy, let's go to the tavern in the town and have a drink, and I'll see you off."