It is not the first time that the fuel tank design loopholes of Boeing aircraft have been raised.
As early as 25 years ago, the TWA 800 air crash served as a lesson, which made Boeing improve its own fuel tank design. In the TWA 800 air crash, a Boeing 747 was flying. Due to airport scheduling problems, it waited for three hours under the scorching sun.
Under the scorching heat of July, the passengers were suffering in the closed and narrow case. It was impossible for the crew and pilots not to turn on the air conditioner to keep the passengers cool. So the aircraft fuel tank was also activated for three hours under the hot sun. Eventually, the gas reached its flammable point, exploded, and the plane crashed, leaving no one on board alive.
Old Joseph pondered: "This possibility is indeed not impossible. The Boeing 777 delivered by Boeing to Emirates was produced in 1997. As for the TWA 800 crash, NTSB also spent a year and did not investigate until 1997. The truth is coming out. Maybe Boeing didn’t fully improve their fuel tank design loophole on all of their planes, even though it’s an extremely coincidental loophole with a low probability of happening.”
Now that you have found something suspicious, you should make a quick decision and ask directly.
Lina immediately contacted the Boeing staff, but when asked about the fuel tank design of the Boeing 777, Boeing replied: "All aircraft delivered to Emirates have undergone technical improvements. It is guaranteed to be safe and reasonable. , to ensure the normal operation of the aircraft. More importantly, we have improved the internal materials of the fuel tank, so even if an oil and gas explosion does occur, it is impossible to blow up the fuel tank.”
Everyone was stunned.
Lovins asked in disbelief: "Are you sure, this design problem has really been improved?"
The Boeing personnel replied very confidently: "Of course."
After finally finding the entry point of the problem, it was suddenly blocked, and everything seemed to return to the original point. Fu Cheng frowned, he thought for a while, walked aside silently, took out his phone, and sent a message.
[Fucheng: Teacher Zhuo, something happened.]
Five minutes passed.
[Zhuo Huan: Huh?]
Looking at the succinct word on the phone screen, Fu Cheng fell silent and sent another message.
[Please come back quickly.]
Three minutes later, when everyone was at a loss, a male voice rang out from the door, with a slightly raised end, and when no one was seen, he rushed over with the same arrogance and arrogance as himself.
"What happened again?"
Everyone looked up and looked at him.
Su Fei curled his lips, and said: "We all understand the truth, RIP, this matter is not as mysterious as what you said, although it is not my professional field, but as soon as Fu Cheng explained it, I understood it. But you didn't expect it, did you?" , We contacted Boeing just now."
Smelling something wrong, Zhuo Huan walked into the room: "What do you mean?"
Old Joseph looked at him and sighed: "Reid, this is a very regrettable news—Boeing said that they have made improvements to the design of the Boeing 777, especially strengthening the strength of the fuel tank material. Even if an oil and gas explosion does occur, It is also impossible to affect the flight."
The voice fell, and there was a moment of silence in the office.
Zhuo Huan's face suddenly sank, and after a long time, he looked at Fu Cheng: "Boeing said that?"
Fu Cheng looked into his eyes and nodded: "Yes."
after a long time.
Zhuo Huan smiled: "Heh, Interesting. What's the original sentence? I want the exact words."
Lina: "Let me contact Boeing again for you."
Su Fei: "I remember the original words." The punk boy raised his hand, he looked at Zhuo Huan, and then began to repeat the words of the Boeing staff from beginning to end verbatim.
"...Even if there is an oil and gas explosion, it is impossible to blow up the fuel tank." Su Fei said, "There are only a few words in total, and it is very simple to remember the original words. That's what they said."
Zhuo Huan: "Cool, can you hear the main point of Boeing's words?"
Everyone was taken aback.
Zhuo Huan: "The cause of the TWA 800 air crash was extremely accidental. Boeing did not really improve the complicated fuel tank circuit system thoroughly. It is impossible for them to recall all the Boeing 747 aircraft that have been put into the market. , What a huge astronomical number that is, even I can't imagine it. Similarly, for the aircraft that have been produced halfway, or even nearly finished...they don't need to improve the line for an extremely accidental coincidence. " He looked at Lovins, "After the air accident investigation report comes out, what does the NTSB say, will the aircraft manufacturers and engine manufacturers do anything?"
Lovins smiled: "How is that possible? That's capital. Unless it is a very simple maintenance and replacement, or a major mistake, there are many air crashes based on coincidences. After the investigation team made recommendations, major aircraft manufacturers, aviation The company always gives verbal suggestions and improvements. For example, in the Air France 447 crash, the pitot tube was installed on the outside of the nose. Long before the crash, there were many abnormalities in the pitot tube. Everyone in the world knows , Airbus’s design of this pitot tube is not perfect, it can be more perfect, but things have come to this point, Airbus will not repair all Airbus aircraft in the world just for a single pitot tube.”
Old Joseph shrugged: "Yes, so for the design problem of the pitot tube, the solution given by Airbus is to add this 'Pitot tube abnormality' to the aircraft fault inspection manual as thick as a dictionary. ', and ask airlines to train pilots, remind them that the airspeed tube may be abnormal, but you don't need to worry, just wait for three minutes, it will be normal, everything is just abnormal, the plane Nothing went wrong."
Lovins: "However, Airbus did not expect that there would be an air crash. Even after the Air France 447 crash, they did not intend to replace the pitot... This is just an extremely coincidental accident. Compared with spending a terrible To replace the pitot tube, it is better to remind the pilots and let them pay attention to this accident. The cost of manpower is much lower than the cost of maintenance.”
Zhuo Huan: "So, the reason why Boeing has this confidence is not because they have really solved the problem of the fuel tank wiring of all Boeing aircraft in the world, but because they reminded the pilots not to repeat this coincidence. At the same time, they used a more robust materials... Even if it explodes, it will never damage the fuel tank."
Fu Cheng narrowed his eyes, he raised his head, and looked at Zhuo Huan: "Mr. Zhuo, what you mean is that what Boeing said is correct, Emirates Airline did not directly break the plane because of the fuel tank explosion, like the previous TWA Flight 800. Crash. It’s just that Boeing didn’t expect that in the case of a small-scale explosion inside the fuel tank, the shock wave of the explosion could shake out and break the fan blades of the engine?”
Lovins's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he said, "This point of view sounds somewhat informative."
Old Joseph touched his chin: "Well, this possibility is not impossible. I understand what Boeing means. These capitalists are too good at playing with words! What they mean is that even if there is an explosion inside the fuel tank, they can guarantee the aircraft Keep flying, ditching because they use more advanced fuel tank materials, not because there really will never be an explosion!"
Su Fei: "Ah, I understand, but the question is... Will the possibility proposed by Brother Fu exist?"
Zhuo Huan raised his chin towards Fu Cheng.
Fu Cheng was taken aback, and the two looked at each other for a moment, he reacted, took out a piece of chewing gum from the drawer behind him, and handed it to Zhuo Huan.
Peel off the foil and pop the gum in your mouth. While chewing gum, Zhuo Huan lazily said: "Why is Galileo called the father of modern physics?"
Everyone: "...???"
Wait, didn't you just talk about the Emirates 411 crash, why did you suddenly start studying physics? !
Everyone else didn't understand why this man suddenly talked about other topics, only Su Fei reacted quickly after being stunned for a while: "Because he proposed a scientific reasoning and experiment method!"
Zhuo Huan glanced at him: "Wow, Harvard graduate."
Su Fei waved his hand proudly: "Although I am not a physics major, I still have this kind of common sense."
other people:"… "
Who would suddenly think of this inexplicably when riding a horse!
Zhuo Huan looked at Fucheng: "Contact GCAA, and prepare to use the Boeing 777 provided by Emirates for the experiment." Then he said to Su Fei: "Contact Tsuna Teiichi, and ask him to help with the experiment."
Finally, he looked at Lovins: "I need help from the NTSB for something."
Lovins: "What's the matter, Patrick, just say it."
Zhuo Huan: "I hope you can bring the fragments of the engine fan blades back to the United States and go to the laboratory at the NTSB headquarters to conduct some experimental analysis. In the past 23 years, with the development of science and technology, many things have had new experimental methods. Perhaps can detect something different.”
***
April 15, 3 p.m. Tokyo time.
The video conference was connected, and Teiichi Tsuna's face appeared on the projection screen. Wearing a white lab coat, he pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said in a steady and gentle voice, "Mr. Zhuo." Then he looked at other UAAG members beside him: "Mr. Su, Mr. Fu, Joseph, Miss Lina."
Lina smiled beautifully at him.
Zhuohuan: "Have you read the information sent to you, Jinnai?"
Tsuna Teiichi: "I didn't receive the materials until after one o'clock in the afternoon. There are 287 pages in total, and I have only read less than one-third of them so far. I already understand the general situation, but this is an experiment that requires extremely small errors. Zhuo Jun, You have to know that the experimental result you want to get is that the high-strength, high-pressure-resistant aviation alloy material will be exploded due to the equivalent, which will cause the alloy surface material to separate without affecting the limit of normal use."
Zhuohuan: "Yes."
"I need a Boeing 777, at least, the fuel tank part of it."
"no problem."
Emperor Jinnai was surprised for a moment, he didn't expect Zhuo Huan to agree so readily. "Although it is not really necessary to blow up a plane, it just needs to update and monitor the relative data of a lot of real planes simultaneously, but Zhuo Jun, I am surprised by your generosity."
Su Fei bluntly complained from the side: "Cut, it's the generosity of Emirates."
Emperor Jinnai glanced at Su Fei: "So that's the case."
Zhuo Huan was not interested in paying Su Fei a glance, he asked Emperor Jinnai: "When can the experiment start?"
Tsuna Teiichi: "In three days, I need to read all the experimental data first, and then send some needed parts to you. During this period, I may often contact you, Zhuo Jun, to communicate about the experimental data. set up."
"it is good."
"keep in touch."
"keep in touch."
After the video call, Lina said with a smile: "It's a pity. Actually, after meeting in Shanghai last time, I tried to send an invitation letter to Professor Jinnai, asking him to come and work with us at UAAG. But he refused."
Fushiro thought for a while: "Although UAAG's salary is very generous, the academic environment and atmosphere of the University of Tokyo is more suitable for Professor Tsuna."
Lina: "I also thought of this. It's just a pity. I appreciate a gentleman like Professor Jinnai. If he can come to UAAG, I will be even happier."
Zhuo Huan passed by the two of them, he snorted softly: "Emperor Tsunai, gentleman?"
Lina: "Yes, Reid, don't you think he is a good man. In the entire UAAG, there is only such a good man as Fu, which is a bit rare. I think, when he comes, at least he can find a partner for Fu, isn't it? "The blonde smiled softly and kindly.
Old Joseph: "Hey, Lina, am I not a good man?"
Lina: "You've got kids, old Joseph."
Su Fei: "Then what about me!"
Lina: "Underage do not participate in the discussion, kid."
Zhuohuan raised an eyebrow: "What about me?"
Lina frowned, and after a long time, she said, "Well, I'm thinking about how to answer so as not to destroy our friendship."
Zhuohuan: "..."
Zhuo Huan: "Emperor Jinnai is considered a good man?"
Everyone looked at him in unison.
Uncle Zhuo sneered, and taunted unscrupulously: "Thirty years old, no family, single so far, either impotent or have special hobbies."
As soon as the voice fell, the entire office fell into dead silence.
a long time.
Old Joseph: "... Reid, do you think you are scolding someone."
Zhuohuan: "Huh?"
Su Fei chuckled: "I'll bet one dollar, but RIP won't!"
Lina laughed meaningfully: "Then I'll make two pieces."
Old Joseph: "Participation is the most important thing, I'll take the lead. How about you, V."
Fucheng didn't really want to participate in this topic at first, but when he was called out suddenly, he didn't dare to look at the gaze directly behind him, and said in a calm voice as much as possible: "Then I will also focus on participating, let's press a piece."
Zhuohuan: "..."
Hold.
…
Uncle Zhuo was angry for a whole day, and he didn't say a word to everyone in UAAG.
Su Fei said speechlessly: "Obviously he himself scolded Tsuna Teiichi first, and spoke ill of others behind his back, but ended up scolding himself by the way, and he was still angry! Why is RIP like this, be careful!"
Lina thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Actually, I kind of understand why Reid scolded me unconsciously."
Everyone looked at her curiously.
Lina propped her chin with one hand, and said: "Do you have that feeling? From a certain day on, your life suddenly seems to lose its meaning. You can't feel the passage of time, and you don't know the changing of the sun and the moon. For me, in my life Before entering UAAG, my life didn’t have much meaning. When I entered Yale and the United Nations, everything seemed to be taken for granted. This is my life. But what I really like is airplanes.” Speaking of this, she shared Spread your hands, "It's a pity that I was born in the Comte family. I have such a good innate advantage, but I have no talent on the plane. But now, I can cooperate with you to investigate the flight accident. I am really happy every day, every day It’s as if they have color.”
Old Joseph also said with emotion: "When I was in the U.S. Air Force, flying in the blue sky gave me the meaning of life. After retiring and entering American Airlines, every day was not a good one. I think my bad temper is also the same as that time. It was related to my mood. It wasn’t until the air crash happened and I joined NTSB that I realized that maybe what I really wanted to do was investigate the air crash.”
The white-haired old gentleman held up his coffee cup and said with a smile to the juniors: "Hey, friends, when you use your sweat and wisdom to find out the truth of the air crash and make suggestions to wake up future generations, don't you think Is this a meaningful thing? Thinking that my actions may save hundreds of people, or just save one person, I feel that my life is full of meaning."
Su Fei muttered, "Why do you all seem to have such a sense of life?"
Old Joseph: "You are still young, don't think so much, why not think about what to eat when you return to the hotel tonight."
Lina laughed: "So, maybe Reid didn't realize it, he's thirty years old. I kind of miss Reid when he was twenty-three."
Su Fei asked excitedly, "What does it look like?"
Old Joseph was also in high spirits: "Seven years ago...in 2014? I remember that Reid had just become the chief designer of Mai Fei at that time, causing a great disturbance in the industry. But I didn't know Reid at that time either." He showed a look of lingering fear, "Mai Fei's chief designer, a real big capitalist, I, an ordinary NTSB investigator, am not qualified to meet such a big man."
Lina didn't answer, instead she looked at Fucheng and smiled: "Aren't you curious, Fu."
Fucheng was holding the coffee cup all the time, looking down at the ground. He suddenly raised his head when he heard his name.
Lina: "Are you not interested in Reid at all?"
After a long time, Fucheng smiled and said, "Is there any difference from now?"
Lina took a serious look at him, and then said to everyone: "Yes, there is a difference, a big difference. First of all, I don't have such long hair, and then, like now, I am not always listless. I am very young I met Reid since then, because the Patrick family is also the major shareholder of McFly. At that time, how would you describe Reid seven years ago... "
Graduated from Yale University with a double degree in Economics and Psychology, she can speak eloquently at press conferences facing the global media, organize United Nations activities, and have ordinary conversations with leaders of various countries, but now, Lina is suddenly at a loss for words.
She racked her brains, trying desperately to think of the word.
Old Joseph and Su Fei looked at her expectantly, getting impatient.
The young man's elegant and gentle voice sounded: "There seems to be light in his eyes."
Lina snapped back to her senses: "Yes, that's right. At that time, Reid was radiant all over his body. Confident, unassuming, fearless, with only eyes on the front. It seems that you only need to follow behind him, without him There’s nothing he can’t do, and there’s nothing he can’t reach.”
Su Fei was taken aback: "Ah, isn't the current RIP the same, arrogant and domineering, defiant."
Lina smiled helplessly: "I can't tell the feeling, indeed, Reid has always been arrogant, but it's different."
Old Joseph: "Why is it different?"
Lina thought for a long time, but still couldn't describe the difference. She could only say: "It's indescribable. I follow Reid not only because he is my good friend, but also because he is worth following." Suddenly, she looked at Fu Cheng: "Really, Fu?"
After a brief moment of surprise, Fu Cheng smiled gently: "Yes."
You can't believe that there are such shining bright people in the world until you see it with your own eyes.
Like a blazing star, where fire and flames meet, everything you look at is radiant.
"Ah."
Everyone was discussing enthusiastically, and a soft hum sounded from the door. I saw a certain man walking into the office with a coffee cup, sneering, and sitting in his seat.
Putting the cup on the table, Zhuo Huan raised his eyebrows: "Is there nothing to do? Are the experimental data ready?"
Lina: "Reid, we just praised you."
Zhuo Huan: "Oh, praise me for being arrogant and domineering, are you arrogant?"
Su Fei: "..."
Su Fei: "Didn't you hear the long paragraph we praised you before?"
Zhuo Huan said bluntly, "No, I heard you scolding me when I came here." He looked at Lina: "Deduct his salary, he is late three times this month."
Su Fei: "??? You are late every day!"
Zhuohuan: "But I am your boss."
Su Fei: "..."
Listen, is this still a human language!
In the evening, everyone returned to the hotel.
Fucheng had just finished taking a shower, when he received a message from Lina, he opened it to have a look.
[Lina: At six o'clock tomorrow morning, meet downstairs at the hotel. Lina would like to remind you again that Tokyo is five hours ahead of Dubai, and we should not miss the experimental time we made an appointment with Professor Tsuna. Finally, although it is a group message, Lina loves you all.]
Fucheng replied the message.
[Fucheng: Received.]
A few seconds later, I received a reply from Lina.
[Lina: You are the first to reply, I am very happy, V.]
[Fucheng: Thank you for your hard work, go to bed early, good night.]
Fu Cheng put down his phone and continued to wipe his hair. Suddenly, the phone rang again. He thought it was a message from Lina, and when he clicked on it, he froze for a moment.
[Zhuo Huan: Come to my room.]
Staring blankly at the four short words on the phone screen, Fucheng replied.
[Fucheng: It's so late, what's the matter, Mr. Zhuo.]
[Zhuo Huan: Something is up.]
[Fucheng: What's the matter?]
After a while, no more messages were received, but the doorbell rang suddenly.
Fu Cheng was stunned for a moment, got up and walked towards the door. Seeing the person outside the door through the cat's eyes, he was silent for a while before opening the door.
"Teacher Zhuo, what's the matter?"
Zhuo Huan didn't seem to have taken a shower yet, and he was still wearing the white shirt he wore during the day, but the cuff buttons were rolled up, exposing his wrists and elbows. As soon as the door opened, he sneered, and was about to speak, when suddenly his eyes fell on the young man, and his voice stopped.
From the wet black hair, the gaze goes all the way down, following the graceful neck curve, but unfortunately, the white pajamas are tightly worn, and it is not possible to see the slightest part hidden under the clothes.
Zhuohuan: "Have you taken a bath?"
Fu Cheng: "Well, haven't you taken a shower?"
Zhuo Huan: "I told you to come here, why don't you come here?"
Fu Cheng was silent: "It's too late, I have to get up early tomorrow, if it's okay, I want to go to bed early."
"Do you think I'm going to do something to you?"
Fu Cheng raised his head and looked at him quietly.
"No."
"Heh," Zhuo Huan said casually with a chuckle, "I'm impotent, don't you know that?"
Fucheng: "..."
"I don't mean that."
Zhuo Huan was expressionless: "You pressed a piece."
Fucheng looked at him calmly: "I'll press a piece... You have a special hobby."
Zhuo Huan's expression suddenly stopped.
Fu Cheng looked up at him, and said in a calm voice, "You like men, don't you?"
Under the dim yellow light, the young man tilted his head slightly, his hair tilted because of this movement, and water droplets dripped gently along the condensed hair. Zhuo Huan's heart suddenly resounded, his eyes were completely absorbed, and he stared at the drop of water that fell on the hollow of his collarbone.
After a long time, Zhuo Huan smiled: "I'm very angry today, Fu Cheng, do you understand?"
Silence spread quietly.
The next moment, the young man raised his head slightly and kissed the man's lips.
Zhuo Huan pushed his right hand, pressed Fu Cheng's shoulder, and pushed him into the room. The door closed behind the two of them, he leaned on the wall with one hand, lifted Fucheng's chin with the other, closed his eyes, bowed his head and kissed.
The fiery breath swept wantonly in the mouth, that taste only belonged to Zhuo Huan, and the mouth became hot and numb from being licked.
After a long time, his lips parted, Fu Cheng lowered his head, panting against the wall.
"Fucheng, why are you always so obedient?"
Fucheng paused, and he raised his head: "No, you feel wrong."
Zhuohuan lifted his chin, and moved closer, almost touching his lips, but he didn't actually kiss him. "Then if I want to sleep with you in this room now... Fucheng, will you reject me?"
His eyes narrowed, his body froze, Fu Cheng looked at the man in front of him for a few seconds.
"This joke doesn't seem very funny, Mr. Zhuo."
Zhuohuan looked down at him.
The young man's expression was calm, and he had already caught his breath. Except for the slightly red and swollen lips, he didn't seem to be immersed in the ambiguous and lingering kiss just now at all, as if the person who kissed him indulgently just now was not him at all.
Zhuo Huan withdrew his hand propped on the wall: "I need you for something."
Fucheng raised his head.
"Lina can't help, old Joseph and Su Fei, I don't want to tell them. You, do me a favor tonight."
"What's busy?"
Zhuo Huan rolled up the cufflinks irritably: "The salvage company has received news that part of the wreckage of Rogge 318 has been found."
For a moment, the air seemed to be still, and Fu Cheng's eyes widened.
The author has something to say:
Zhuo Anxi: Don't you know if I'm impotent when I step on a horse
Emperor Jinnai: Do not do to others what you do not want to be done to you, Zhuo Jun. [Indifferent face]