The Liaoning aircraft carrier is equipped with advanced jet trainer aircraft.
The Liaoning aircraft carrier also serves as a training carrier.
Currently, all personnel on China's domestic aircraft carriers are trained on the Liaoning aircraft carrier before being assigned to various ships.
As an active aircraft carrier ready to be converted to combat status at any time, the USS Fujian does not carry trainer aircraft, since every inch of space on an aircraft carrier is extremely limited.
If it can carry one more carrier-based aircraft, it will be arranged to carry one more.
"Have you memorized all the information?"
At this moment, in the hangar, Captain Liu Minhua asked Yuan Yi a question.
"Reporting to the captain, I've got it all."
Liu Minhua nodded; he knew Yuan Yi wouldn't lie.
I've already tested this ability before, and if I say I remember it, then I really mean it.
"Come with me to the sky today, and I'll be in charge of takeoff."
"Once I'm up there, I'll hand over the control stick permissions. You can try it out then."
"Yes, Captain."
After the two agreed, the fighter jet began to slowly rise towards the deck.
The crowd waiting on the deck now understood why a twin-engine, two-seat fighter jet had suddenly arrived the day before.
When everyone present learned that Yuan Yi was going to be taken onto the plane for a flight mission.
All the pilots and ground personnel were stunned.
Pilots are not children; they simply cannot understand how someone who has only studied for a few days could be taken into the air for instruction.
I don't understand why the higher-ups would agree to this.
Yuan Yi and the others knew perfectly well that he was just an arts and culture soldier from the General Political Department.
They've been together for about half a month now, and they know everything they need to know.
He had only been in the army for a little over six months, and he was specially recruited.
I had never heard of any flight training before, no matter how talented one was.
How could we possibly get the higher-ups to agree to these demands so easily?
By the way, they also heard that Yuan Yi had been in the aircraft carrier's cockpit learning how to pilot it a few days ago.
Looking at Liu Minhua and Yuan Yi, who were walking towards them in flight suits.
The eyes of both the pilots and the ground deck crew were filled with doubt and incomprehension.
However, soldiers are duty-bound to obey orders, and while they may question orders, they must carry them out.
Are you sure you can do it?
Just before boarding the plane, Liu Minhua asked Yuan Yi again to confirm.
"Don't worry, Captain, I guarantee it will work."
Liu Minhua looked at Yuan Yi with a firm gaze and nodded without saying anything.
"Get on the computer."
"Yes, Captain."
Yuan Yi was the first to climb into the front seat of the carrier-based aircraft's cockpit.
Instructors for two-seat carrier-based aircraft typically sit in the back.
In two-seat fighter jets, the front seat is usually the pilot's position, while the rear seat has different configurations depending on the aircraft type and mission.
In some fighter jets, such as the heavy two-seat carrier-based aircraft that are now in service, the rear seat is the position for the radar operator.
In a teaching organization, the back seat is usually the instructor's seat, and the front seat is the students' seat.
Liu Minhua had just put on her helmet and was about to board the aircraft when she was pulled aside by a group of carrier-based pilots.
"Captain, what's going on?"
"You're really taking him to the skies?! He's only been learning the basics for a few days!"
"Did he memorize the information from those airplanes?"
"Yes, Captain, what exactly happened?"
"The plane isn't important, but why are you taking this risk with him?"
Although China has now passed the stage where airplanes are more valuable than people, a fighter jet still costs hundreds of millions of RMB.
Moreover, Liu Minhua is currently the ace among their naval carrier-based aircraft; otherwise, how could he have become the squadron leader at the age of thirty-three with the rank of lieutenant colonel?
The squadron commanders on other aircraft carriers are all colonels.
Liu Minhua looked up at Yuan Yi, who was already sitting in the carrier-based aircraft, and a strange expression flashed across her face.
Basic information was no challenge for Yuan Yi, who was now eager to see if his reputation as a genius with a photographic memory was truly deserved.
Anyway, he can oversee the two-seater carrier-based aircraft from the back, and if anything goes wrong, he can take over the operating authority in time so there won't be any major problems.
"Alright, I understand."
After saying that, Liu Minhua put on her helmet and went up the ladder to the back seat of the cockpit.
"I'll fly up there, and then you'll have a chance to operate it, understand?"
"Understood, Captain."
After a quick exchange, Liu Minhua gave a thumbs-up to the deck crew.
The carrier-based aircraft began to taxi onto the catapult.
A catapult is a device on an aircraft carrier that propels carrier-based aircraft to increase takeoff speed and shorten takeoff distance; its full name is carrier-based aircraft takeoff catapult.
A catapult typically consists of a power system, a reciprocating vehicle, and guide rails.
During catapult takeoff, the pilot releases the brakes, causing the reciprocating vehicle to pull the tow cable attached to the aircraft, accelerating along the guide rail. After a run of 50 to 95 meters, the aircraft reaches takeoff speed.
As the aircraft lifts off the deck, the tow cable detaches from the trolley and the aircraft, landing in the recovery net at the front of the flight deck.
Then the reset system tows the reciprocating car back to its original position, ready for another ejection.
As the two-seat, twin-engine carrier-based aircraft began operation, Liu Minhua, sitting in the cockpit, spoke to Yuan Yi.
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