Chapter 145 Air Tanker

Author: Entertainment Cat

Chapter 145 Air Tanker

As for the combat deployment of the 29th Army in the face of the Japanese army's constant provocation of the bottom line, Zhou Wenhua had also collected the information he wanted to know from the intelligence he deployed in the 29th Route Army, which was basically similar to the original direction of time and space.

"In the battle of Marco Polo Bridge and the battle of Nanyuan, let the pilots I have trained in the past few years carry out the first battle support operation! Maybe the effect will be good! It is also the time to test the actual combat experience accumulation of these rookie pilots

!”

After reading the telegram, Zhou Wenhua also made his decision immediately.

So he immediately sent an encrypted telegram to his clone communication soldiers to send it out immediately.

soon,

At a secret airport in Qinghai,

B-17 bombers, B-29 bombers, German Me-264 bombers, Ju-390 long-range strategic bombers, British Lancaster bombers, Halifax bombers, and Soviet

The Army's IL-4 bombers are parked here, and a group of FW-190 fighter jets are also deployed for escort operations.

And there are also aerial refueling aircraft,

The number of these long-range bombers is not very large. They are all test products of Zhou Wenhua's research team. All the miscellaneous types of long-range bombers in this airport add up to only 8.

However, the FW-190 fighter jet was successfully developed and can be produced in larger quantities. However, due to Zhou Wenhua's own system settings, he cannot have more than 120 fighter jets in combat, so the number here is only

About 50 aircraft were produced.

Of course there is still stock,

Although he cannot dispatch more than 120 fighter jets at one time, he can sell them to some small countries that need these aircraft as a way for arms merchants to make money.

It can also be regarded as a hugely profitable industry and one of Zhou Wenhua's major sources of income.

Zhou Wenhua originally wanted to use JU88 bombers, but in order to avoid being recognized by the Japanese army as a German aircraft, and because he did not deploy an airport in the Peiping area, he did not use JU88 bombers.

Only long-range bombers can be used,

Of course, what Zhou Wenhua wants to comprehensively solve recently is that aircraft in the propeller era are not as fast as later fifth-generation fighter jets. So how to achieve aerial refueling?

The earliest aerial refueling was carried out between two DH-4B biplanes of the US Army over Rockwell Airport in San Diego. The tanker pilot at that time dropped the oil pipe by hand, and the tanker pilot piloted the aircraft to avoid the propeller manually.

After being connected and refueled, the two DH-4B biplanes were able to fly for almost 40 hours, thus marking the beginning of aerial refueling technology.

Also on one day in July 1921, the first aerial aerobatic refueling was organized in the United States by I. Maye, a member of the Flying Circus. The pilot Frank Hauck flew an SJ-1 biplane, and I.

Mayer stood on the upper part of the wing with a can of gasoline tied to his back. When the plane rendezvoused with the "Jenny" piloted by pilot Il Daufetti, Mayer stepped onto the "Jenny" on foot.

"Jenny" on the wing of the plane, pouring gasoline into the tank.

The first person to develop practical aerial refueling technology was the "Aerial Refueling Company" founded by the British long-range flight pioneer Sir Cobham. To this day, the Cobham Company still uses the flying anchor type (also known as "probe-cone").

"tube" type) hose is a well-known brand company in the field of aerial refueling.

In the future air raids carried out by the US military in retaliation for the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, B-25 bombers were used to take off from the aircraft carrier, perform aerial refueling over Hawaii, and then fly to the Japanese homeland for the air raids that shocked the world.

However, it was first developed by the British Army in the late 1940s. It consists of a 22-30 meter hose and a conical funnel. When refueling, the pilot only needs to insert the fuel port at the front of the receiver into the conical funnel.

Inside the funnel, aerial refueling can be achieved.

By 1949, the U.S. Air Force had modified a B-29 bomber, also known as the KB-29 aerial tanker. In the experiment, the KB-39 bomber performed aerial refueling for the B-50 strategic bomber "Lucky Lady 2", which was the first time

It flew around the world without landing, and was refueled four times by four KB-29M tankers during the journey, which was also a sensation.

After World War II, tanker development received unprecedented attention. In 1948, the United States purchased a complete set of aerial refueling technology from the United Kingdom and developed aerial tankers such as the KB29 modified from the B29 bomber and the KB50 modified from the B50 bomber.

In the mid-to-late 1950s, the United States began to develop hard-tube refueling technology, and in the late 1950s, the hard-tube refueling technology was applied to KC135.

Around this time, the United Kingdom developed heavy bombers and transformed "Lancaster", "Lincoln", "Warrior" and "Victor" tankers, and the US Air Force also developed the KB-29M, KB

-50, KC-97 and KC-135 are large-scale dedicated aerial tankers with large fuel capacity and long range. They can refuel multiple aircraft in one sortie.

British-style tankers all use hose systems, while American-style tankers use a mixture of hoses and flying-type hard rods developed by Boeing.

Therefore, at this moment, Zhou Wenhua is also preparing to develop the KC-97L jet engine in the future, because it can safely refuel the two large jet bombers, B-47 and B-52, in the air.

But now we are first preparing to transform the heavy bombers into "Lancaster", "Lincoln", "Warrior" and "Victor" tankers, as well as KB-29M, KB-50, KC-97 and KC-135

These large-scale special-purpose aerial tankers have been developed and produced for aerial refueling.

At present, it only has 13 "Lincolns" and "Victor" tankers.

So we still need to work hard.
Chapter completed!