The Chinese Navy's Blue Sky Dream is a story of challenges and struggles, which tells how China has trained a group of professional carrier-based aircraft pilots without foreign help, adding new luster to China's maritime power.
In 2012, Western navies were dismissive of China's carrier-based pilot training, mocking: "Chinese do not dare to take risks, flying movements are too gentle, and it takes at least seven or eight years to train professional carrier-based pilots!" "They don't think China has the capacity to learn Xi technology, and they don't want to provide any guidance to China.
In fact, the training of carrier-based aircraft pilots in China began at the beginning of the 21st century, but was ostracized by Western countries. Pilots from countries such as India and Brazil can go to carrier-based aircraft flight schools in Britain, France, the United States and other countries to learn Xi, but China is turned away. Western countries fear that if China masters the flight of carrier-based aircraft, it will become a formidable adversary for them.
In the face of ridicule and obstruction from the West, Zhang Yongyi, deputy commander of the Chinese Navy, was not discouraged, and he firmly believed that China would be able to train professional carrier-based pilots. He served as the commander-in-chief of the pilot training of carrier-based aircraft, and devoted himself to this difficult task, and his perseverance and determination will change the fate of the Chinese Navy.
The training of carrier-based aircraft pilots is an extremely difficult task, which requires pilots to complete take-off and landing on the deck of a maritime aircraft carrier, which requires extreme skill and courage.
The Ford-class aircraft carrier is the largest aircraft carrier in the world, but its landing runway is only more than 200 meters long, and there are only four blocking steel cables, each 12 meters apart. The tail hook of the carrier-based aircraft had to grab the steel cable in a landing space of less than 36 meters, otherwise it would crash into the sea.
If the first three landings failed, there was little hope for the fourth, and the pilots had no choice but to parachute and abandon the plane. And the size of an aircraft carrier at sea is like a small leaf, and it is not easy to safely stop the plane on it. Therefore, carrier-based aircraft pilots are called "dancers on the tip of the knife".
In the absence of foreign technical guidance, Zhang Yongyi led the Chinese carrier-based pilots through arduous training. He personally moved to the front line of sea trials, and he personally directed each flight training and constantly compared flight data.
Although there are many optoelectronic devices in the training base to record data, Zhang Yongyi still uses a pen to record data, and his data is almost the same as that of optoelectronic equipment, and he stresses that it is necessary to have accurate data, and cannot use vague words such as "approximately" or "almost".
In order to avoid the loss of aircraft, China resorted to the method of simulating a landing on land, but this also encountered a lot of difficulties and failures.
At one point, the plane grabbed the steel cable, but the steel cable was not strong enough and was pulled off, both the vertical and horizontal tail of the plane were smashed, and despite many failures, they did not give up, and finally, they succeeded!
On November 23, 2012, this is a memorable day, on this day, Captain Dai Mingmeng successfully landed on the ship with a carrier-based aircraft. Zhang Yongyi, the commander-in-chief at that time, ran to Dai Mingmeng excitedly, burst into tears, and hugged him tightly. Then, they successfully landed five times in a row, and each time it was exciting, Zhang Yongyi hugged the pilot, and this scene touched everyone.
This breakthrough has finally allowed China to achieve a zero breakthrough, and it is also a powerful riposte to the Western countries that once ridiculed China.
But this is not the end of the Chinese Navy, which has not only trained excellent carrier-based pilots, but also continuously improved its technical level to ensure that China's blue sky dream becomes stronger.
In the blue sky dream of the Chinese Navy, carrier-based aircraft pilots have emerged, injecting new vitality into China's maritime forces. This is the magnificent story of China under the blue sky, and it is also the exploration and adventure of the Chinese Navy in the blue ocean of the future.