Twenty kilometers east of Maifei's Burbank factory is the flight test base specially built by Maifei's factory.
Aircraft manufacturers fly test planes around their own airports before handing them over to airlines for their maiden flights. The number of test flights ranges from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands of times.
At eleven o'clock in the morning, a brand new McFly F475neo parked in the first stand of the test flight base. In the tower, the designers of Maifei Lab, Johnny Berkeley, director of Maifei's public relations department, Thor Reiner, the current chief designer of Maifei, and Zhuo Huan, the former chief designer, stood in front of the 360° surround glass , Looking at the plane shining in the sun from a distance.
Five minutes later, it moved.
The blue and white plane slowly reversed from the parking stand, drove out, and finally stopped at the beginning of the take-off runway.
The bright sunshine in May shone on the streamlined body, reflecting the cold and sexy steel color. The strong light intensity contrast makes the cockpit of the aircraft produce an obvious black hole effect. Looking down from the tower, the windshield in front of the cockpit is almost substantially black.
Knowing that it was impossible to see anything, Zhuo Huan kept his head down, staring at the windshield in front of the captain's seat.
At the same time, in the cockpit shrouded in boundless silence, Fucheng finished all the pre-take-off preparations, and he also raised his head and looked towards the control tower.
With a distance of hundreds of meters, Fucheng could only see towers illuminated by the sun, dazzling like a mirror reflecting light. However, in this silence, as if he felt the gaze of that person, he also looked back at him quietly.
Fucheng supported the headset: "Test aircraft F475neo, it is ready, please take off."
The next moment, Zhuo Huan's voice sounded from the earphone: "Allowed to take off."
On the airport with only one runway, Fu Cheng held the accelerator lever with one hand and looked ahead.
Like every ordinary and steady takeoff, the white plane began to accelerate on the runway. The engine roared deafeningly, and the skin of the aircraft vibrated slightly under the explosive acceleration. Only in the cockpit, the young man on the captain's seat, was calm and calm, looking ahead quietly without any fluctuations.
There are only 1000 meters, 500 meters, 300 meters left to the hillside at the end of the runway...
Like gently tiptoeing and jumping from the ground. The huge McFly F475neo raised its nose suddenly, and the tires were off the ground without any bumps. It leaps into the blue sky.
In an instant, it disappeared into the white clouds.
…
After steadily climbing to an altitude of 10,000 feet, Fucheng contacted the control tower again.
Zhuo Huan's order came from the earphone: "It is allowed to climb another 5,000 feet. Captain Fu Cheng, I need you to do more flight tests today. It is safer to work at heights."
Fu Cheng was taken aback for a moment, and his voice was calm: "Yes."
Maifei Airport, ground control tower.
The public relations director Johnny looked at Zhuo Huan strangely, and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Patrick, we never said before that we need to do more flight tests. What do you want to do more of these actions?"
Zhuo Huan said indifferently: "Look at the plane's lift change, pressure distribution and boundary laminar flow..." He stopped his voice, and provocatively said with a half-smile: "Do you understand?"
The smile on Johnny's face froze, but soon he laughed again: "After all, I am an employee of Mai Fei, Mr. Patrick, I still know what you just said."
Zhuohuan: "Oh."
After throwing a word casually, I didn't even intend to say it again.
Johnny was extremely embarrassed, but he didn't feel embarrassed because he was being satirized by Zhuo Huan. As a public relations officer, he has seen too many storms and waves. When he worked for a securities company, he was even splashed in the face by a client with sewage. At that time, his first reaction was "it's not sulfuric acid", and his second reaction was "that's nothing". Now Zhuo Huan said a few words, he is completely indifferent.
What he is more concerned about is whether Zhuo Huan will steal Mai Fei's business secrets if he suddenly does more things.
Johnny winked at a laboratory designer he was familiar with, and the latter understood what he meant, and said bravely: "In the previous test flight, we have tried all the necessary test maneuvers and procedures. Mr. Patrick, I I think... maybe there is no need to do some extra movements."
Zhuo Huan looked at the designer wearing glasses, he paused for two seconds, and called out his name: "Robertson Marquez?"
Robertson suddenly felt flattered: "Do you remember me? Mr. Patrick."
Zhuo Huan didn't answer his question, but said: "You major in telex system... Tsk, what are you doing here today?"
Robertson's eyes widened suddenly, speechless.
Johnny had nothing to say. Robertson was brought here from the laboratory specially by him. Johnny himself is not a professional. If he encounters any professional problems, he wants Robertson to help him answer them from the sidelines, so that he will not be unable to keep up with the rhythm of Zhuo Huan and others, so as to ignore any key information.
By this time, everyone understood what Johnny meant.
As a non-professional, the reason why he appeared here today is to prevent UAAG from stealing the commercial secrets of Mai Fei's new model.
"It's ridiculous!" Thor Reiner had a mocking and arrogant smile on his face. He looked at his student and asked him: "You have seen neo, can you see where it has changed?"
Zhuo Huan was silent for a moment, then asked him back: "What do you think?"
Thor Reiner is a serious person, but he has lived for more than sixty years, and occasionally he is amused by some extremely ridiculous things. He sneered and said: "If someone can observe the uniqueness of a new aircraft by relying on the naked eye and a few special test flight actions... Hehe, then why does he still want to be an aircraft designer? Why doesn't he become an aircraft designer?" Where is God?"
There was a dead silence in the tower.
Zhuo Huan glanced at these people indifferently, then looked back at the sky. He didn't speak, but the corners of his mouth sarcastically revealed what he was thinking in his heart at the moment.
But there are some things that don't need to be said to these people.
Zhuo Huan felt bored, took out his cell phone, and sent a message to Fu Cheng's cell phone. After sending it out, he remembered that Fucheng had left his mobile phone in the airway building and didn't bring it on the plane.
… so fucking boring!
Fucheng didn't know what happened in the control tower. After he climbed to an altitude of 15,000 feet, he reported to Zhuo Huan: "Maifei F475neo is currently at an altitude of 15,000 feet. Please issue an order."
Zhuo Huan: "Fly horizontally for 30 seconds, then do a rapid dive."
Fu Cheng: "Yes."
One keeps issuing instructions, and the other executes them in an orderly manner.
It seems that they have practiced countless times, and they have a perfect understanding. Every movement Zhuo Huan wants, Fu Cheng can quickly realize. At the same time, Mai Fei's staff also received some basic data from the plane. They used computer calculations and inferences to simulate a virtual airplane on the computer screen. In the sky, whenever the Maifei F475 driven by Fucheng does something, the virtual plane will repeat it three seconds later.
All necessary basic data are public.
Tor Reiner never thought that someone could use these data to make a little light, even under his nose, even if this person was his favorite student, it was absolutely impossible. Because he can't. He was relieved.
After the seven basic flight movements, the eighth special flight movement. Zhuo Huan turned on the communicator, looked at the plane flying through the clouds in the sky, and issued the first special action command—
"Turn 270° to the right, fly horizontally for 10 seconds, then turn sharply."
After a pause, he added: "Can it be done, Fucheng."
In the cockpit, the young man stared ahead, smiled slightly, and said in a steady voice, "Well, it can be done."
It can be done, not only with a civilian aircraft, but also with the difficult movements of a military fighter. Instead, while Mai Fei was confused by these difficult movements, he wrote down all the data that Zhuo Huan needed on the instrument!
What Zhuo Huan gave was just simple action instructions, but as early as the night before these actions, he had already designed each data in detail. Including the altitude when performing the action, including when encountering different wind forces and different wind directions, Fucheng needs to make calculations immediately and adjust the corresponding flight data...
He has already memorized all the formulas and data, and he can also convert according to the actual situation within a minute.
Can it be done
can do it.
The one-hour test flight is over.
With a straight face, Mr. Rainer watched the plane in the sky gradually approaching the airport. Because he didn't have any special reaction, although Johnny was very worried that Zhuo Huan would steal Mai Fei's business secrets, Mr. Rainer didn't think it was a problem, he could only choose his own chief designer.
However, in fact, Johnny had already saved a hand. He put a camera in the cockpit of this test plane!
When Fucheng got off the plane, he would secretly take the camera and watch the records inside. He will never let Fucheng do anything special.
Mr. Rainer sneered and said, "Have you got any useful data now?"
Zhuo Huan glanced at him, and said calmly: "We still have to analyze it slowly."
Everyone was waiting for the plane to land.
A designer said: "We specially installed the landing gear of Maifei F485 on this test plane. Its safety has been greatly improved. According to the calculations in the laboratory, there should be no landing gear failure this time. It's just that The landing gear of the F485 is too heavy and too big, and the cost is too high. Unlike the F485, the F475 is a medium-sized airliner. We redesigned it to reduce the cost. So it is impossible to replace it with the landing gear of the F485. This is just Special measures to ensure safety during the flight test."
Zhuo Huan did not expect this, he breathed a sigh of relief, raised his eyebrows and said, "F485's landing gear is 1.8 times more pressure-resistant than F475."
"Yes, so Mr. Patrick, this test flight is safe."
The plane flew closer and closer, from a small black dot in the distant sky, it gradually turned into a huge monster with wings spread more than 60 meters long. It broke through the hot air and fell to the ground. However, at the moment when the plane was about to land on the ground, dazzling sparks exploded at the point where the ground touched the landing gear.
Zhuo Huan took a step forward, and everyone else was also surprised.
The next moment, Zhuo Huan turned around and left, leaving a sentence in a very cold tone: "Let the ambulance waiting next to the airport go over immediately!"
The author has something to say:
Zhuo Anxi:? ? ? It was agreed to change the landing gear.
Fu Chengcheng: [Calm face] Don't be afraid, I'm the protagonist.