Video | Reaction time of less than 1 second! Fujian ship successfully launches KJ-600, test pilot shares details

Carrier-based aircraft test flight

Often means facing a blank slate

Test pilot Yang Yong

Once encountered a major cabin decompression emergency at an altitude of 10,000 meters

Continuous cabin air leakage can easily lead to hypoxia and unconsciousness

At that time, there was a civil aviation route below, making immediate descent impossible

He endured physical discomfort

And maintained the set altitude for 13 minutes

Returning safely with complete test data

Having lost comrades, the original intention remains unchanged

Starting from scratch to tackle the new early warning aircraft

During the carrier-based aircraft flight training period

In just over twenty days

Yang Yong personally experienced the serious injury and sacrifice of comrades

No one in the unit backed down

With the arrival of the Fujian ship's electromagnetic catapult era

The test flight mission of the KJ-600 carrier-based early warning aircraft

Came one after another

With no mature experience to draw upon

Yang Yong and his comrades repeatedly refined

Reducing the control time after catapult launch

To just a few tenths of a second

Conquering one by one

Multiple test flight challenges of sea-based catapult landings

“As long as there is still a blank space

We will keep flying”

From the J-15's stunning landing on the Liaoning ship

To the Fujian ship's three types of carrier-based aircraft

Completing the full process of catapult launch and landing tests

China's aircraft carrier combat capability has achieved a leapfrog upgrade

Yang Yong has been awarded first-class merit once

Second-class merit three times, and third-class merit four times

In his eyes, test flying has no endpoint

As long as there are unknown fields

Technical blanks

Carrier-based aircraft test pilots will continue to explore deeper into the sea and sky

With each flight

Drawing a farther

And safer maritime route for the motherland