Chapter 325: The Glory of Chinese Industry!
"B1437, confirm your current intentions?"
Before Xu Cang and Richard finished their conversation, the controller came over to ask. Just now, their flight path was rather strange, and they actually flew back, which made the Munich area control who had been monitoring them feel a little confused.
Moreover, judging from the radar, the aircraft's altitude was abnormal and its speed did not seem normal either. I was afraid that it had encountered some problems.
Richard glanced at Xu Cang while operating the plane. This kind of distraction operation was not difficult for him, and he even had enough energy to reply to the controller: "The air flow behind the no-fly zone was too strong just now, so we had to turn back. Now we are circling here and dealing with some instrument failures."
"Got it." The Munich regional control breathed a sigh of relief: "Do you need help?"
“Please help us contact the Munich Airport Control Tower and ask them to upload the latest satellite images of the Alps to our data terminal.”
The Munich Control obviously paused for a moment, apparently taking notes, and then quickly followed up with, "Anything else?"
"without……"
Before Richard finished speaking, Xu Cang interrupted him and said, "Please contact AVIC for me and tell them that Xu Cang will contact Lin Ming by satellite phone soon and ask him to be prepared."
"AVIC?" The Munich control was visibly stunned. "Is it the AVIC in China?"
"Yes, it's the AVIC you think it is."
"Then Lin Ming is..."
Before yesterday, no one in Munich Control knew who Xu Cang was, but after the British Airways 531 incident, the name Xu Cang was no longer a strange word in the Munich Control circle. In comparison, no one knew the name Lin Ming.
Xu Cang said in a deep voice: "You don't need to know who this is. Just pass this message to AVIC, and they will know what to do."
This is also thanks to the development of communication technology today. If it had been decades ago, how could such cross-ocean communication have been so easy?
Munich Control responded with a half-comprehending sound: "Oh, I see."
"Please hurry up, we don't have much time." Xu Cang added.
"Received. Please remain in place and inform us in time if you need further action." Now that Xu Cang and his team have left the no-fly zone, they need to comply with the regulations appropriately, even though there are no planes around.
"B1437 received."
As soon as the conversation with the controller ended, Richard immediately asked, "What do you want to do with AVIC?"
Xu Cang did not hide it: "The fuselage structure of this aircraft was made by AVIC."
"so what?"
Xu Cang's left fingertips tapped the top of the side stick faster and faster: "If you want to know the limits of the aircraft's fuselage structure, you must ask the manufacturer."
"The limit of the fuselage structure strength?" Richard's mouth twitched: "Why are you asking this?"
Xu Cang did not laugh this time, but said in a very serious tone: "Didn't I say that I was going to do something extremely exciting?"
As a result, within less than a minute, a voice rang out on the control frequency again, but it was not the voice of the controller as before, but a middle-aged man's voice: "Mr. Chairman, we have directly transferred the audio signal from Munich Airport. You can talk to them directly."
Richard reacted for a moment and gradually recognized the man's voice: "Mr. Heinlein, thank you very much."
"You're welcome."
Richard whispered, "This is the person in charge of the Munich Regional Air Traffic Control Center."
Xu Cang didn't care who this person was. Soon, some noises were heard on the original regional control frequency, followed by the voice of the Bombardier representative: "Xu Cang?"
Previously, the Bombardier representative had been waiting at the control tower of Munich Airport, but this time he spoke first.
"I'm here!" Xu Cang pressed the button to speak: "Is the satellite cloud map data being uploaded?"
"We're still compressing. The way we upload data via satellite is not efficient enough. We need to compress it first, otherwise it will exceed the satellite's transmission limit."
In this era, the mainstream of the public still uses K to calculate the amount of data, and the ability to transmit data is far less than that of later generations. Moreover, satellites are not operated by Bombardier alone. They just borrow satellite transmission and can only passively accept some transmission limit issues.
"Then you guys hurry up and compress it." Xu Cang's words were a little impolite. He didn't know what the point of talking on the phone was at this time. And the most important thing was that the person he wanted to talk to was not from Bombardier.
The following operation will be quite dangerous, and Xu Cang's mentality will be affected to some extent.
The Bombardier representative didn't care much about it. The information just fed back from Munich Control indicated that Xu Cang and his team had encountered problems. It was understandable that Xu Cang was under tremendous pressure.
"Can't you break through the outer airflow now?"
"Are there any latest reports on the strength of the outer air currents? The control just reported that there were weather balloons nearby. The meteorological department should have been paying attention."
"Yes, the meteorological department just sent us a new one." The Bombardier representative said quickly, "The cyclone has continued to increase in intensity since last night, and now the maximum wind speed in the outer periphery has exceeded 530 kilometers per hour."
"Five hundred and thirty kilometers per hour." Richard's mouth twitched. The rapids outside the cyclone were like a wind wall, which was impossible to break through.
Even though he had expected it, Xu Cang still felt overwhelmed when he heard that the wind speed outside the cyclone really exceeded 500 kilometers per hour.
The outer airflow is not only strong but also very chaotic. If you are not careful, the plane will be destroyed and people will die.
At this time, the Bombardier representative asked a crucial question: "Xu Cang, can you get through?"
For a moment, the cockpit fell into deathly silence.
However, this silence did not last long, and was soon broken by Xu Cang: "It can't get through. The impact of the airflow on the aircraft has exceeded the limit of the aircraft's control performance."
Richard looked at Xu Cang in surprise. He didn't expect him to admit it so bluntly.
"Then..." The Bombardier representative was probably also stunned: "Did this operation...fail?"
Just as the Bombardier representative finished speaking, a ding-dong reminder sounded in the cockpit. Richard looked down at the CDU draft board and said, "The data has been transmitted."
"Untie it."
Richard nodded and clicked on the data packet, which contained an English prompt that this data could not be displayed and printed. There was also an unlock option on the right button.
This English prompt does not really mean that the data packet cannot be displayed. To be precise, it cannot be displayed in text form because this is an image information.
Richard quickly pressed the unlock button. About ten seconds later, the original weather display on the navigation pages on both sides was covered and a new weather graphic was displayed.
This is the latest satellite cloud image.
In fact, the weather radar on the plane is also relatively accurate, but due to the influence of certain echoes and angles, it is impossible to intuitively feel the overall picture of the weather system, so satellite observations should be relied upon.
Previously, Xu Cang had used longitude and latitude to type in the location of the Manor Airport, and the uploaded data packet would not cover this information. Once the satellite cloud map information was unlocked and compared with the location point of the Manor Airport typed by Xu Cang, the location relationship between the two became clear at a glance.
“Damn it!”
However, when Xu Cang saw the picture displayed on the navigation page, his expression became extremely ugly. At this moment, Manor Airport was about to cut into the inner circle of the cyclone, which meant that the window period was about to begin.
Xu Cang pursed his lips, his expression extremely serious.
The cyclone was moving faster than he had expected, which meant that they had less time and had to make a decision.
Richard also noticed this problem, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he looked at Xu Cang silently, waiting for Xu Cang to make a decision.
It can be seen from the satellite cloud map that there is no way to kill time. Five minutes at most, they only have five minutes at most to make a decision.
"Xu Cang, what are you going to do?" The Bombardier representative sounded anxious over the radio. He could sense that this operation was already halfway to failure: "Is there really no other way?"
Richard saw that Xu Cang was thinking about something, so he replied on behalf of Xu Cang: "The airflow intensity outside the cyclone is now far beyond expectations, and the degree of ice accumulation is more serious than previously expected. Our data detection is estimated to have been blocked by ice accumulation. Now the airspeed and altitude are showing abnormalities ."
"Then why are you still flying?" the Bombardier representative shouted, "Go back, this is a mission that is doomed to fail."
The air currents were too strong and the ice accumulation was extremely severe. Either problem could lead to mission failure, let alone a combination of the two.
You know, these two are not all the problems. Success does not come just by solving them. There are still the issues of implementation.
There are so many difficulties and problems that people feel desperate.
"No!" Xu Cang suddenly said, "There is another way!"
"What?" Richard was stunned and looked down at Xu Cang, only to see that Xu Cang had already called up the SAT satellite phone page on the CDU and entered a long string of numbers. Richard recognized that one of the numbers had a Chinese area code.
That's a completely Chinese number!
Soon, Xu Cang pressed the dial button, and then Xu Cang switched the transmitter to the second one: "Give me two minutes."
Richard was stunned and thought of something. He should call Lin Ming from AVIC to verify some things.
I don’t know if it was because the Munich area control was very efficient, or because Lin Ming was holding a mobile phone, but the call sounded once, and soon there was a man’s voice, Lin Ming’s voice.
"Xu Cang?"
"It's me!" Xu Cang licked his lips. "I'm on the CS300 aircraft now and I've encountered some problems. You are the supplier of the fuselage of the CS300 aircraft. I want to get some information from you."
Lin Ming obviously didn't understand the current situation: "What?"
Xu Cang paused for a moment and said, "I just want to know whether the CS300 aircraft can maintain the integrity of its fuselage when its indicated speed is 450 knots?"
"Four hundred and fifty sections!?" Richard was shocked: "Xu Cang, what are you going to do!"
The maximum speed of most aircraft is only about 300 knots, and the CS300 is no exception. But Xu Cang wanted to exceed the maximum speed by more than 100 knots, which was simply... too crazy.
The integrity of the fuselage?
What a horrific description this is?
Because on the other hand, that would mean the plane disintegrated.
Richard had been pressing the speak button because he was too nervous, so the conversation between Xu Cang and Lin Ming was heard by the Bombardier representative.
As a decision-maker at Bombardier, he could understand Chinese. However, precisely because he could understand Chinese, he could better appreciate the horror in Xu Cang's words.
In the first VHF broadcast, the Bombardier representative roared angrily: "Xu Cang, the indicated speed limit of the CS300 is 340 knots. If it exceeds 400 knots, the aircraft will disintegrate."
However, Xu Cang ignored the Bombardier representative and just calmly asked Lin Ming: "Is it OK? Can the CS300 aircraft withstand a speed of 450 knots?"
"Damn it, Xu Cang!" The Bombardier representative found that Xu Cang didn't listen to him at all, and became even angrier: "We are an aircraft manufacturer, and our words are the standard for everything."
"You are not, AVIC is." Xu Cang said calmly: "I know that the maximum speed of CS300 is 340 knots. It is in the manual. You don't need to tell me. And that's not what I'm asking about."
At this moment, Lin Ming's voice slowly sounded: "Xu Cang, what do you want to do?"
Xu Cang pursed his lips and said, "There is a huge cyclone in front of me now. I want to get to the center of the cyclone. But the airflow intensity outside the cyclone is too high, and we can't break through."
Lin Ming was so smart that after hearing Xu Cang's words, he almost immediately asked in an unimaginable voice: "So... you want to go down from above?"
"What?" Richard, sitting on the right seat, was startled. "What do you mean by getting off from above?"
Richard reacted for a moment and said, "That's impossible. Large passenger planes have extremely strong pitch stability. Even if all the engines are turned off, the plane can't go straight up or down. As long as the plane wants to glide, it won't be able to reach the airport in the end."
Richard's meaning is probably understandable. If you can't get out of the outer edge of the cyclone, then just increase the altitude, fly over the outer edge of the cyclone, and dive directly from the center of the cyclone.
However, fixed-wing aircraft have a natural disadvantage in going straight up and down. Otherwise, there would not be a huge investment of manpower and material resources in the vertical take-off and landing of fixed-wing aircraft.
The center area of the cyclone is not large. Unless the aircraft descends in a straight up or nearly straight up manner, it is impossible for the aircraft to reach the predetermined position for approach.
"No, you can!" Xu Cang said firmly.
"Is it possible?" Richard was stunned. What Xu Cang said was beyond his comprehension. "How can it be possible?"
The ideas in Richard's mind were colliding violently, but no matter what he did, he couldn't come up with any spark that was even a little bit reasonable.
"Are you going to spiral downward?" This was the only possible action Richard could think of.
"No!" Xu Cang shook his head: "In the core area of such a strong cyclone, due to the violent airflow, a large amount of air in the central area will be pulled to the periphery. It's like the water in a wooden barrel is rotating and stirring, and a deep hole-like cavity will be formed in the middle of the vortex. Water and air are both fluids, so the properties of the two are basically the same, which means that a part will appear in the center of the cyclone core area..."
Richard's face turned pale instantly: "Really... a vacuum?"
"Or it can't be said to be a complete vacuum, because there will be air coming in from other places, but it is similar to a vacuum."
Richard took a deep breath, but then he thought of a huge problem: "If it is a vacuum or something like a vacuum, then once the plane enters, won't the engine shut down?"
The engine needs both fuel and air to run, otherwise the combustion chamber cannot continue to burn. If there is a vacuum or the air content is extremely low outside, the engine cannot continue to run and will definitely stall.
This is why rocket engines going into outer space need to carry combustion aids, but obviously the CS300 does not have such a configuration.
What is a spiral descent? That's just nonsense. The plane will stall once it enters there. What's the point of a spiral descent?
"There is another problem. The circling radius of this CS300 is still too large. As long as it circles and descends, the aircraft will inevitably enter the outside of the cyclone. What we need to do is to stay in the core area as much as possible, just like a tornado. The core area is actually much more stable."
"But if you don't want to spiral down, you want to dive down?" Richard shouted. "You know how much speed this will generate."
"I know!" Xu Cang said calmly, "So, I want to know if the CS300 can withstand a speed of 450 knots. I will do everything in my power to control the speed at 450 knots. This is my limit, but I don't know if it is the strength limit of the CS300."
"Mad man, mad man, you are indeed a mad man!" Representative Bombardier felt his heart tremble with fear. This time, he finally understood deeply what kind of person Xu Cang was.
Xu Cang remained calm from beginning to end: "Give me an answer!"
Lin Ming was silent on the satellite phone. He knew what his answer would mean. However, he did not answer immediately, but asked another question: "Xu Cang, if you can go down, can you land?"
"Okay!" Xu Cang didn't say much, just these two words!
"Okay!" Lin Ming took a deep breath. His heavy breathing could be heard even on the satellite phone, which showed the tremendous pressure he was under.
"Xu Cang, the CS300 can withstand a speed of 450 knots." Lin Ming said firmly: "This is my answer."
"Lin Ming!" The Bombardier representative roared angrily over the radio: "You are sending him to his death!"
"If he dies, as the instigator of all this, I will go down to accompany him." Once Lin Ming made up his mind, he would never give up: "But now my answer will not change. Xu Cang, I guarantee you with my life that the fuselage strength of CS300 can withstand a speed of 450 knots."
"Okay, okay, okay!" Xu Cang laughed the loudest: "If I can survive, today I will let the world see what China's industrial strength is!"
The glory of AVIC begins today!
