Chapter 580 Encounter

When the order to blackout Ottawa was sent to the headquarters, the commander shook his head speechlessly. "It's already dawn when the German bombers fly over, and the blackout is of no use." He also heard that the German bombers flew at an altitude of 12,000 meters, and their most advanced fighter jets were dozens of Hurricane fighter jets, which could not intercept them at all. "Let the people go into the air-raid shelters, and then ask the Americans for help."

The Canadian Prime Minister was at a loss and could only find the U.S. Ambassador for help. "Mr. Ambassador, a German bomber group is flying towards Ottawa, and we need your country's help."

The American ambassador acted very generously and immediately contacted the country. Vice President John Nance Garner, who received the news, called Henry Harry Arnold, the Army's deputy chief of staff in charge of aviation and commander of Army Aviation. "General Arnold, a group of German bombers have penetrated Canadian airspace and they are suspected to be targeting Ottawa."

Henry Harry Arnold, known as the "Father of Modern American Air Force," is a legendary figure in the American military community. In 1944 in the original time and space, Arnold, as an outstanding leader of the Army Aviation, was awarded the Army's five-star general; in 1947, the United States officially separated the Army Aviation from the Army and established the U.S. Air Force. In view of Arnold's landmark contribution to the Air Force, the U.S. government In 1949, he was awarded the title of five-star general of the Air Force.

Whether it is the Army or the Air Force, it is enough to prove one thing: Arnold has made great achievements in the military field.

Arnold had an interesting nickname called "Happy Arnold", but now he couldn't be happier when he heard the news that the German bombers had invaded Canada and were flying to Ottawa.

Ottawa is less than 100 kilometers from the U.S. border. If the Germans really come to bomb Ottawa, they will be able to enter U.S. airspace after flying for about ten minutes! !

This is no small matter. You must know that from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, the mainland of the United States has never been attacked by foreign enemies.

On May 30, 1921, a conflict broke out between blacks and whites in the Greenwood District of Oklahoma/Tulsa City. The white supremacist Ku Klux Klan gathered more than a thousand people. The black communities were attacked in two ways, by land and air. These people drove cargo transport planes, dropped soil bombs and explosive packets in the Greenwood area, and strafed community residents; this was also the first time in the history of the United States that the mainland suffered an air raid.

But now they are about to break history.

"We have to send aircraft to support Canada immediately." It is best to shoot down all the German bombers over Canada and not allow them to cross the border and enter the United States.

"But..." Seeing Arnold hesitate to speak, the Vice President of Ghana asked doubtfully. "General, if you have any difficulties, just tell me. I will try my best to satisfy you."

Arnold shook his head, feeling a little frustrated. "Our pilots have no experience in night flying." At this time, American pilots were all day pilots, and there were no training for night pilots, let alone night fighters. If these day fighters with no night flying experience are forced to take off and fly in the dark night, who knows what trouble will happen?

"Night flying experience?" The Vice President of Ghana opened his mouth, obviously he had not thought about this. "What should I do?"

Arnold said helplessly. "We can only wait until daybreak." But by daybreak, the German bomber group will fly over Ottawa. Not to mention how Ottawa was bombed, the German bomber group can easily enter U.S. airspace before its own fighter jets can intercept it. .

With nothing to do, they could only order a P-36 fighter wing to be on standby, ready to take off immediately to meet the enemy at dawn.

A few hours later, after a long flight, the German bomber group finally flew over Ottawa when the sky was dimly lit.

To everyone's surprise, the bomber group did not drop even a single bomb, but made a majestic circle over Ottawa before continuing to fly southeast.

After receiving the report, the Prime Minister couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and even gloated a little. "Haha, now the Yankees are going to suffer."

"Gentlemen, we have crossed the U.S.-Canada border and entered U.S. airspace. Below is the U.S. mainland! We will go down in history as the first flight team to bomb the U.S. mainland!" There was a burst of cheers in the bomber group communication channel. "Long live!" "This is really a moment worth recording!"

Before the cheers died down, the radar man reported. "Discovered a group of US military fighter jets, direction 11 o'clock, altitude approximately 7,000 meters."

The Americans were not very rich in radars and did not deploy radars on these US-Canada borders; it took a while before American fighter pilots visually discovered this bomber group. "All attention, one o'clock direction, the target has been found." Fighter squadron leader Thompson called while pushing the throttle lever, increasing the power of the engine to the maximum, and the fighter plane began to climb. But he soon realized something was wrong. "Damn, they were flying too high, it looked like over 11,000 meters!"

At this time, the altimeter of Thompson's P-36 fighter jet showed that it had reached 8,500 meters. The climb was becoming more and more difficult, eight thousand six, eight thousand seven, eight thousand eight...

Miller was his good friend in the deputy squadron. Seeing that Thompson was still climbing, he couldn't help but remind him. "Thompson, don't force it. Their flying altitude has exceeded our ceiling! Our fighter jets can't climb that high!" Although he was very reluctant, this was the fact before his eyes.

When the altitude reached more than 9,000 meters, Thompson felt that his plane had become a heavy brick, and the joystick seemed to be welded, and it was very difficult to pull it.

Climbing to 9,300 meters, the fighter paused in the air for a few seconds, and then fell down without warning.

"Oh, shit! Stall spin!" Miller couldn't help shouting when he saw Thompson's plane rolling down. "Quickly reduce the throttle! Push the joystick!"

In the early days of the advent of aircraft, there was a mysterious flying phenomenon that made pilots shudder. Sometimes during flight, the aircraft suddenly loses control, falls down, and flips sideways. After the control is invalid, the aircraft is destroyed and people die; this phenomenon is a stall spin. Not to mention the current propeller aircraft, even the third and fourth generation advanced fighters in later generations will encounter this phenomenon from time to time.

When someone encounters a stall spin, they will instinctively pull the joystick back to pull the aircraft up, but at this time the aircraft does not have the speed to obtain enough lift, and this operation will die faster.

And parachuting was impossible at this time. No one could climb out of such a rapidly rolling plane.

Thompson, who was dizzy from the spinning, gritted his teeth and put the throttle to zero, clamped the joystick tightly with his legs, and pushed the joystick forward with all his strength with both hands; after an unknown amount of time, he felt that the plane's attitude had stabilized slightly and some control had been restored; he stepped firmly on the rudder in the opposite direction of the rotation and tried to level the plane.

Finally, the plane finally returned to level flight and came out!

"God!" Thompson gasped heavily, his whole body already wet with sweat. The altitude shown on the altimeter was three thousand meters. If it was a few seconds later, he would have had an intimate contact with the earth and turned into a meat sauce!