() The agreed time arrived, but the weather was not very good that day. It started to fog early in the morning, and the visibility at the airport was less than 300 meters. It was not until almost noon that the fog gradually dissipated, but the ground

The visibility nearby was still not particularly good. Moreover, there were quite a lot of clouds in the sky, and the height of the cloud base was only about 1,000 to 1,500 meters. The second confrontation began under such weather.

This time, Boynton and McGaea faced off against Valia and Skomorokhov. Valia continued to fly her P-39 this time.

"There are so many clouds in the sky, and there will be many clouds. In this way, the air battle may be interrupted or started at any time. This is more beneficial to the P-39 whose single-shot shell is too lethal." Ron thought. He

He stopped Boyington who was walking towards the plane and said to him:

"Hey, Dad, the visibility is not very good today, so be careful. In addition, the Soviet woman may use the clouds to make almost stalling movements to get a chance to fire once, and then hide in the clouds.

"

"I know, today's weather is indeed more favorable to them. But it's not that easy to defeat me." Boynton smiled at Ron.

Two American P-51s took off first, followed by two Soviet P-39s.

Ron also boarded a modified version of the Dreadnought and flew up.

When the plane rose to an altitude of about 1,000 meters, the visibility gradually improved and the air began to become clear. Looking up, the sky was as blue as a huge sapphire, and huge clouds reflected each other in the sunlight.

She shines with dazzling white color, like towering snow-capped mountains.

These cumulus clouds in the sky don't look too big from the ground, but when you fly a plane close to these clouds, you will realize how big these clouds are. Their cloud bases are often at an altitude of about 1,000 meters, but they

The top is often 2000-3000 meters high.

Since the background of the air battle was set to start at an altitude of 1,500 meters, in order to see clearly, the two Dreadnoughts serving as referees could not fly too high, so they could only fly through the clouds.

As the planes of both sides were in position and the director gave an order, the confrontation drill officially began.

At the beginning, both sides set their positions to be at the opponent's 9 o'clock direction. As soon as the battle began, Boynton and McGeagh controlled the plane to climb while turning to the opponent's 6 o'clock direction.

Under normal circumstances, their opponents should take the same approach and work hard to turn to their six points. But Valia and the others know that if compared with the P-51 in spiral climb, the P-51 will take advantage of the speed, as long as they maintain a good

distance, and then lead them to climb slowly and patiently for a while. When the altitude exceeds 5,000 meters, the engine of the P-39 without a supercharger will suffer from insufficient output due to severe altitude sickness.

However, those P-51s using Merlin engines do not have this limitation. At this altitude, its flight performance will be inferior to that of the P-39 in all aspects. So climbing with the opponent is not necessarily a good idea.

But if you don't follow, wouldn't it be equivalent to actively giving up the altitude advantage to your opponent? Yes, but after studying the performance differences between the two aircraft, Varya had to admit that due to the performance gap between the aircraft,

It is almost inevitable that the enemy will gain a high altitude advantage.

Originally, this trick was nothing special. The German BF109 also liked to do this trick. Of course, the Germans' climbing method was more aggressive. They would take you climbing at a large angle until you stalled.

If you can't keep up, then maintain your speed and try to put yourself at an angle that is difficult for the opponent to attack. So Valia and Skomorokhov just started to turn to the left, but did not follow the climb.

The hovering angular speed was better than that of the P-51. In the end, they firmly occupied the 7 o'clock position below the American P-51. And through dives and climbs from time to time, they also maintained a speed suitable for maneuvering.

In this way, when the Americans swoop down, they will have enough energy to make a dodge action, and they may even pull up and confront the swooping Americans head-on. Considering Valia's terrible hit

With its high speed and the terrible lethality of the 37mm cannon, it is really not a good choice to confront her head-on. For the Americans, the best thing is to occupy the Soviets' six o'clock direction and launch an attack, but the two Soviets have been

Firmly occupying its position below 7 o'clock. This makes the implementation of this plan very difficult.

However, as an old ace, Boyington will not be troubled by such a small problem. The numerous clouds in the sky now help him.

"Let's go for a walk in the clouds, be careful to follow me and don't get lost." Boynton said, and took MacGaea into a cloud.

As one of the referees, Ron could hear the radio conversation between Boyington and MacGeah. As soon as Boyington finished speaking, Ron understood his intention:

Getting into the cloud means that the two sides will lose visual contact, so the battle after getting out of the cloud will become a real encounter. This is not a good thing for the side with an advantage in aircraft performance. But now, the Americans have

There is an obvious altitude advantage, and the Soviets occupy a favorable angle. Obviously, when flying inside the clouds, the Soviets can neither regain the Americans' altitude advantage in a short period of time, nor can they continue

Occupying a favorable angle. In this way, the subsequent encounters became a battle in which the Americans had a clear advantage and the Soviets lost their angle advantage. At this time, the existence of clouds seemed to be beneficial to the Americans.

"Dad is a dad after all. He is really cunning and cunning in tactics."

After entering the clouds, Boynton and McGaea reduced the horizontal speed and increased the climbing angle (so that the wind noise of the aircraft would be relatively reduced) and opened the canopy of the aircraft (this made it easier to judge the position of their teammates through hearing).

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Carefully maintaining the formation, their eyes gradually began to brighten, and the edge of the cloud was approaching. Boynton and McGaea emerged from the cloud. They began to carefully search for traces of the Soviets. The sharp-eyed McGaa soon discovered

They picked up a Soviet P-39, but the other P-39 disappeared without knowing where it was. Could it be that it got separated when it got into the clouds?

This is an opportunity: the enemy has lost the support of his teammates and has become vulnerable. This may also be a trap. Maybe another enemy plane is hiding somewhere, just waiting for you to attack.

Just when Boyington and MacGeagh hesitated for a moment, the P-39 turned its head again and got into the clouds again.

This time, Boynton and McGeagh believed that they had indeed missed an opportunity. If there had been an ambush just now, the Soviets would not have turned around and returned to the clouds in a hurry. And with such an in and out, it is almost certain that

He and his partner will definitely be separated.

"They can't stay in the clouds forever. As soon as they come out, we will launch an attack immediately and try to eliminate the first one before the second one appears." Boynton explained to MacGeah over the radio as he began to surround the group.

A large cloud is climbing. Only by flying higher can we be safe. Only by flying higher can we monitor from a higher angle from a higher angle.

After a while, a plane appeared from another place - still a single plane.

"Follow carefully, wait until he is farther away from the clouds, then attack!"

The P-39 below was already far away from the clouds, and Boynton and McGeagh immediately dived down.

But the P-39 that was under attack was very difficult to deal with. Its pilot seemed to have a natural dodge talent. He could always dodge the American attacks with a small movement at the last moment, and even sometimes even

Able to use the free time between American attacks to climb up.

"Why is this guy so difficult to deal with?" Poynton muttered as he dived down again and again but always came back empty-handed. During such attacks, they were getting closer and closer to the cloud they had just left.

Boynton pulled up from a dive attack, rose to the highest point, then turned back with a sledgehammer, preparing to plunge again. At this moment, a P-39 suddenly emerged from the clouds next to him.

come out!

"Be careful! Eight o'clock!" MacGeah warned.

But the warning was too late. The P-39 quickly bit Boyington's 6-pointer, and then fired 5-6 shots.

"Dad, you were shot down." Ron made this judgment after discussing with the Soviets.

This may be a trap, but luck also plays a crucial role. If Varya's position was not so advantageous and weird, maybe Dad wouldn't have been eliminated so quickly.

Now the only Americans left were MacGaea, but at this time, the clouds were now on his side. In order to avoid the joint attack of the Soviets, MacGaea began to circle around in the clouds. In the end, everyone simply lost

After wandering around aimlessly for a long time, the director simply announced that they were going home for the holidays.

In this way, in today's simulated air battle, Varya and his teammates gained another point for the Soviets. The total score is now 1 to 1. If small points need to be counted, the reverse cross still has the upper hand.

It's just that Boyington will be laughed at by everyone. Back then, the Mao girl boasted that he could kill Boyington in only 20 seconds, but today, the time from launching the attack to being shot down by Mao girl is definitely no more than 15 seconds.

It only took "more than ten seconds" to be judged to have been shot down. After getting off the plane, Boynton's face turned red, just like a little lolita who had been bullied by a monster. Ron even laughed when he saw it.
Chapter completed!