Chapter 364: Puhui’s sinister intentions!
"Crazy, what does that mean?" Xu Cang didn't understand the meaning of this sentence for a moment, or to be more precise, he found it difficult to accept this sudden information.
"Literally." Ma Cheng seemed quite puzzled. "After he came back, he was arranged to live in our staff community. Although his rank was not high enough, he was still given the best accommodation, which seemed to be a small villa. Everything was normal for a while, but the day before yesterday, the residents of the villa next door reported that Park Deok-gyu's house was very noisy, with constant sounds of things being thrown. Then we asked the company 's service office in the community to check out the situation, and then we knew it."
Xu Cang knew about Muhua Airlines' employee community in Yangcheng. When Spring Airlines was planning to land its planes at Yangcheng Airport, they anticipated the housing situation of foreign personnel stationed in Yangcheng and considered living in Muhua Airlines' employee community. Xu Cang even visited the site to see it.
However, since Muhua Airlines did not have many rooms left, the matter was dropped.
Xu Cang had an impression of the small villa that Ma Cheng mentioned. The two villas were not far from each other, but they were separated by a small path and green space. The noise could be heard by the residents next door, and the volume was indeed loud enough.
"Park Deok-gyu has a very bad temper. When our people entered his residence, he smashed most of the things inside. These things were all purchased by the company..." Ma Cheng said, "Actually, if he just smashed things, it wouldn't be a big problem. But I don't know what medicine he took, he beat up the employee from the service office who came to check on the situation, breaking his head. In the end, the employee called the police directly."
"He took action?" Xu Cang was stunned: "He has such a bad temper?"
"That's not the case." Ma Cheng said hurriedly: "Even if he was irritable before, he wouldn't have resorted to violence."
Xu Cang snorted: "That's not necessarily true. Some trends in the aviation industry are not very good."
Ma Cheng was choked by these words. After a long while, Ma Cheng said helplessly, "I know that some pilot instructors will beat and scold the co-pilot, but hitting and seeing blood are two different concepts. Once blood is seen, it is easy to have a criminal record. Pilots have political review, so how can they have a criminal record?"
The profession of pilot is not completely commercialized. Once you have a criminal record, you can basically say goodbye to this profession.
Anyway, judging from Park Deok-gyu's previous performance, he doesn't look like he is going to give up his career, which is very strange.
"I drank some wine."
"No, that guy is allergic to alcohol." Ma Cheng's tone was full of doubts: "I tell you, that guy hit very hard. The employee who went in to check the situation seemed to have a concussion. It's not a small matter. The police took him away and checked whether the guy was taking drugs, but he didn't. Then he was sent to the psychiatric department. The doctor said he had a serious delusion and might have been stimulated by something."
Xu Cang exclaimed: "What's the matter with this sudden spirit? Could it be you who did it?"
Ma Cheng is a complicated person, but there is one thing Xu Cang is sure of, that is, his mind is as small as the tip of a needle.
Ma Cheng and Park Deok-gyu had conflicts before. Now that Ma Cheng has become the chairman, although he is not omnipotent, it should not be a difficult task for him to take action against Park Deok-gyu who has returned.
This made Ma Cheng a little unhappy: "I am being cautious now. If I want to deal with him, I will wait until my position is stable. How can I do such a thing as losing the big picture for the small? However, I think he is also unhappy with this guy. Although I don't know why, with his mental problems, I am afraid that I will no longer have to see him in the company."
If you have mental problems, you are definitely not allowed to fly. However, in the aviation medical manual, there are some strict regulations on whether you can fly again after recovering from mental illness. However, this is a common standard internationally. In China, for the sake of safety, people like Park Deok-gyu who have a history of serious mental illness basically say goodbye to flying. Even if he meets the so-called return to flight conditions, the aviation doctor will not sign for him.
"There's really no guess at all. A person went crazy for no reason..."
"Not really." Ma Cheng's tone changed, becoming mysterious, completely inconsistent with Xu Cang's previous impression of him: "There is a saying that... Park Deok-gyu received a voice message the night before he went crazy. Tsk tsk tsk, he was reading the information about the China Airlines crash at that time, and that voice message... was a little creepy. I'm afraid he was scared crazy, right?"
In response, Xu Cang sneered: "You are a senior executive of a state-owned enterprise after all. Instead of talking about these gods and ghosts, can you be more materialistic?"
"I'll send you that voice message." Ma Cheng was immediately unhappy: "The police station found out that this voice message came from the number of one of the victims of the China Airlines crash. Who can tell the truth about this?"
"Are you kidding me?" Xu Cang snorted, "There are still survivors? There are still survivors in a plane crash that disintegrated in mid-air?"
Ma Cheng was obviously confused too: "How should I know? Just listen to it yourself. Anyway, this thing is very evil. I'll send it now, you keep it."
After that, Ma Cheng hung up the phone. Not long after, Xu Cang's phone prompted that he had received a multimedia message, and the attachment was an audio file.
Xu Cang clicked on it and found that the audio file was very short, less than a minute.
He turned the volume of the speaker to the maximum, but the first sound that came out was the whimpering of a young man. Faintly, he could also hear the sound of waves hitting the rocks.
"What?" Xu Cang thought to himself that he was not a timid person. To see a man crying with such background noise was a really weird scene.
Then, the content of the audio suddenly changed, and the man's painful and desperate cry was heard: "No... I don't want to die, I don't want to die here."
Before, Xu Cang felt very uncomfortable when he heard the man crying softly. When he heard this, his hair stood on end. He finally understood what Ma Cheng meant by "evil".
Now Xu Cang is still in broad daylight, surrounded by people, and he feels terrified in such an environment. If he listens to it alone at night in some claustrophobic environment, wouldn't he be scared to death? (The China Airlines recording is a very famous event, but I don't know how to explain it later. Does anyone know?)
However, just when Xu Cang wanted to listen further, he suddenly felt something and subconsciously raised his head. He suddenly saw a man in his thirties or forties standing not far in front of him, staring at him.
He was already nervous because of the content of the audio, and when he suddenly saw someone staring at him, he was really startled and instinctively shrank back.
The man was wearing a pilot's uniform and had a Spring Airlines boarding pass with four stripes on it. When he saw Xu Cang noticed him, he immediately walked over and said, "Mr. Xu."
"If you have something to say, don't keep silent. It will scare people to death." Xu Cang temporarily paused the audio and took back the phone: "What's wrong?"
The captain looked a little embarrassed and nervous: "Mr. Xu, there is something. Isn't our flight delayed? The dispatcher calculated the duty period, and the co-pilot's duty period is about to exceed, so we can't fly."
"Overtime?" Xu Cang raised his eyebrows: "You didn't exceed the time limit, but the co-pilot did?"
"Yes, the co-pilot exceeded his time limit. He flew one more section before these two sections. I only flew these two sections today, so he exceeded his time limit, but I didn't. Now the problem is... we can't find anyone. The dispatcher said that if we transfer someone from Erhai or Jianchuan, the next flight will be in two hours. Adding the air time, it is estimated that the delay will be more than five hours."
Regarding this point, the dispatcher was not making excuses, but really couldn't find anyone.
There is no branch base or overnight hotel in Hanjing, so this situation is very difficult to deal with and we can only transfer people from the headquarters.
In the year 2000, there were not many flights. But ten or twenty years later, there would be a flight between Jianchuan and Hanjing every half an hour or an hour, so there would definitely not be such a long interval.
Xu Cang understood what the captain and the dispatcher meant: "Are you here to ask me to...fly back?"
"Yes, um...Mr. Xu, do you have the three certificates with you?" The captain rubbed his hands, his attitude very respectful.
"I did bring it." Xu Cang scratched his head and looked down at his clothes: "But, my clothes..."
It was Xu Cang's personal habit to carry his ID with him. The ID didn't take up much space anyway. But he wouldn't carry his pilot's uniform with him, that was a bit too outrageous.
"It's okay, it's okay." The captain said quickly: "This has no impact."
Xu Cang frowned: "How can this not have an impact? If we are caught, we will be punished."
"That's much less than the loss caused by a five-hour delay." The captain seemed to have thought of an excuse before he came: "As long as the three certificates are there, it's fine. Clothing is relatively speaking not a matter of principle. The company said it doesn't matter."
"You..." Xu Cang was speechless. He felt that the operations control department of Spring Airlines and Shandong Airlines were becoming more and more similar.
Of course, not having complete documents is a matter of principle. If you are caught, it will be fatal. Relatively speaking, the impact of not wearing the right clothes is much lower. At least there will be no joint punishment. At most, you will be fined and criticized.
Spring Airlines' capacity is very tight, so the planes are fully booked. If this plane is delayed for more than five hours in Hanjing, the following flights will also be delayed and cannot be rescheduled, which will result in huge losses.
This is called choosing the lesser of two evils.
Xu Cang looked at his sneakers and said, "I have never used sneakers to step on the rudder before."
The captain heard Xu Cang's tone seemed to agree, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "We can try it later."
At this point, Xu Cang had no choice but to accept it, but he made one point clear: "If the bureau wants to fine me, the company will have to pay for it."
The captain's mouth twitched. The entire Spring Airlines belongs to you. Aren't you just transferring money from your left hand to your right hand?
Xu Cang also realized that his joke was a bit unremarkable, so he patted the captain on the shoulder and said, "Go in, call the operations control to change the mission book, and ask the agent to send the new mission book over."
If the crew is changed, a new mission book is needed, and even the release information must be changed. Because the names of the crew members are included in the release sheet, a second release is required. Spring Airlines does not have a branch base in Hanjing, but there is an agent. The operation control can fax the new mission book, and then the agent will hand deliver it.
The captain agreed repeatedly, just like a co-pilot.
In this case, Xu Cang would definitely not be able to enter with the passengers. He took out his boarding pass from his luggage and boarded the plane with the captain from the boarding gate. However, when the gate staff checked Xu Cang's boarding pass, Xu Cang saw an old figure standing next to a seat not far away from the corner of his eye. He always felt that this figure was familiar.
"Okay." The ground staff at the boarding gate quickly checked Xu Cang's ID. These words interrupted Xu Cang's thoughts. He didn't think much about it and followed the captain into the jet bridge.
As the two walked in, the captain wanted to compliment them: "Thank you for your hard work today, Mr. Xu."
"I don't really want to take this kind of flying catch."
"Why?" The captain was a little surprised. "This plane doesn't have a first-class cabin, and the passenger seats are not as comfortable as the seats in the cockpit. We have to sit there for more than three hours anyway, so we might as well fly back and gain some experience."
Xu Cang smiled and said, "Well... there is a saying that picking up someone else's banfei is likely to cause trouble. I don't know if it's true or not. Have you heard of this saying?"
Xu Cang's statement is not his current understanding, but his opinion before his rebirth. He doesn't know whether this statement exists in this era.
"That." The captain laughed dryly: "I haven't heard of it."
"That's just nonsense." Xu Cang laughed and walked towards the cabin with the captain.
…
At the test site of the Pratt & Whitney Power Plant in the United States, President Clark Lorenz was squinting at the PW8000 test machine fixed on a bracket not far away. Beside him, his secretary Carl Holstein had a solemn expression and seemed worried.
As the PW8000 testing machine started to operate, a rumbling sound was heard, one wave after another, as if the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were all vibrating along with it.
Fortunately, the two were far enough away from each other, so although there was some discomfort, it did not have much impact.
Suddenly, when the operating sound reached the loudest, which was almost the time when the PW8000 was outputting its maximum power, Clark Lorenz could feel the air wave coming towards him even from a long distance away.
"What a powerful force." Clark Lorenz exclaimed. As the head of Pratt & Whitney Power, he is not the kind of manager who only knows how to issue orders in the office, but a person who truly understands technology. Just by the air waves formed, he can roughly feel the power limit of PW8000.
Secretary Carl Holstein smiled and said: "Differentiated speed configurations can optimize the performance of the engine..."
However, as he spoke, the smile on Carl Holstein's face faded a little: "However, about two minutes after the maximum power output, the low-voltage fan blades will have some...unexpected minor problems."
"What's the problem?"
"That is... According to feedback from the technical department, it may be that the engine control system is unable to accurately control the differential speed, which makes it easy for airflow to flow back when the maximum power is output."
"Backflow!?" Clark Lorenz was stunned and immediately cursed: "Isn't that just surge vibration?"
There are many factors that cause engine surge, but the most common one is air flow backflow, which then blocks the intake duct and causes engine surge.
The low-pressure fan and high-pressure turbofan of the PW8000 engine are not connected in series with a single shaft, but a computer-controlled planetary gear variable device is used to actively adjust the speed of the low-pressure fan. This can greatly improve the performance of the engine.
However, perhaps because the control system on the low-pressure fan is still not perfect, the PW8000 has not been able to achieve perfection in terms of air intake volume. This leads to airflow congestion at the high-pressure turbine under certain conditions, causing surge.
Once surge occurs, it will easily pose a huge challenge to the structural strength of the engine.
In order to deal with the structural damage caused by surge, Pratt & Whitney uses enhanced dual-rotor technology. In layman's terms, as long as the structural strength of my engine is strong enough, I don't care whether the engine surges or not.
The problem is that although the speed change technology causes surge, it actually enhances engine performance. As engine performance increases, the harm caused by surge will also increase. The enhanced dual-rotor technology may not be able to withstand such high-intensity surge.
Karl Holstein briefly explained Engineering's concerns to Clark Lorenz.
Clark Lorenz had been focusing on PW8000 recently, and when he heard about such a big problem, he became furious.
However, Clark Lorenz had a relatively good temper and did not lose his temper immediately: "How strong can the surge be?"
"that is……"
Carl Holstein was about to say something when he heard a loud bang in the distance. Flames spewed out of the air inlet and tail nozzle of the PW8000 test aircraft fixed on the bracket at the same time. Then the originally smooth operating sound became like the panting sound of someone with thick phlegm stuck in his throat, harsh and dangerous.
Seeing this, the technicians at the test site scrambled to shut down the engine, causing chaos.
"That's basically it," Karl Holstein sighed.
Clark Lorenz covered his forehead and cursed, "Damn it!"
"Boss, under the current circumstances, we can't even get a flight test permit from the FAA, let alone allow Xu Cang to come over for a test flight."
Clark Lorenz put one hand on his waist, his face full of anxiety: "If we delay any longer, we will be left far behind by the Trent 1000. The more time comes, the more we need Xu Cang to come and conduct flight tests."
