UAAG CH92

With his hands on the new computer, Su Fei kept his promise and energetically worked overtime throughout the entire night.

Even Lina couldn’t bear to watch and said with a helpless smile, “Reid was just saying that, Fly. You just came back from Los Angeles; if you’re tired, go rest.”

Who would have expected the punk teenager’s eyes to light up? He hugged the computer, refusing to let go. “Tired? Not tired! I’m not tired at all!”

Lina: “…”

It wasn’t surprising that Su Fei was so obsessed and fanatical; the total value of this computer that Fu Cheng and Zhuo Huan bought for him exceeded three hundred thousand. As if by coincidence, the gifts from Lina and Old Joseph were also much more expensive than previous birthday gifts.

Because this was his 18th coming-of-age ceremony.

Fu Cheng looked at Su Fei’s back and smiled. “Starting today, he’s truly an adult.”

Old Joseph winked at him. “He can drink alcohol.”

Zhuo Huan sneered. “He used to drink alcohol often before too.”

Old Joseph spread his hands. “He can drink alcohol righteously now.”

Lina smiled. “My dear Joseph, would it be better if your mind could think of something other than alcohol? For example… he can get a driver’s license?”

Old Joseph said calmly, “There are only two things in my brain. First is alcohol.”

Fu Cheng asked curiously, “What about the second?”

Old Joseph sighed with emotion. “How to get better alcohol!”

Everyone laughed.

The punk teenager’s coming-of-age ceremony was just an interlude. Although everyone at UAAG remembered his birthday and gave gifts, work had been too busy recently to organize anything grand, and everyone threw themselves into new work.

Fu Cheng continued deep-sea diving with the diving team, attempting to find the other two missing black boxes. According to Zhuo Huan’s calculations, these two black boxes should be in the seabed near the plane wreckage, perhaps sunk deep into the sediment.

Zhuo Huan: “According to TSO-C51 requirements, the black box of the McFly F485 uses titanium alloy material. When subjected to half-sine wave shock vibration on three axes, the peak acceleration reaches at least 3400g, and the duration cannot be less than 6.5ms. Based on the crash location of the recovered black box, the other two black boxes should be within a three-kilometer diameter range. So…”

Lawrence Hall: “So?”

Zhuo Huan: “So, go find them.”

In the dim deep-sea environment, wanting to find two black boxes was a rather tricky task for the salvage company. However, this time, both Mr. Lawrence and his salvage team were full of confidence.

Regarding this, Fu Cheng was also quite surprised.

Lawrence smiled at him. “Dear Fu, are you surprised at why we are so optimistic? Trust me, if you had experienced a full five years of aimless searching—the first three years funded by the FAA for salvage, the latter two years coordinated by Reid and me—after experiencing all this and truly finding it, you would feel that miracles really do exist in this world. As long as you don’t give up hope and work hard for it, what you look forward to will eventually come before your eyes one day.”

The salvage company was divided into two parts.

One part continued to salvage the plane wreckage. They built a giant water tank on the seabed to salvage this massive plane intact, damaging the wreckage as little as possible.

The other part was searching for the missing black boxes.

Of course, in addition to this, Zhuo Huan, University of Tokyo physics professor Tsunai Teiichi, University of California professor Robert Gatsby, and more than 20 experts in physics, ocean dynamics, and ocean current dynamics from around the globe were also constantly calculating the specific crash location of Rogue 318.

To this day, although the plane had been found, people still didn’t know exactly where it had crashed.

Knowing its true crash location, even just a rough range, would allow them to find the weather conditions at the time of the crash.

Air crashes are always tragedies created by the collision of countless coincidences.

Since records began, the shadow of severe weather has appeared in the vast majority of air crash accidents.

In March 2022, more than twenty outstanding physicists finally jointly calculated the approximate crash site of Rogue 318. It was in the Bering Sea, Bristol Bay. The day after obtaining the accident range, the NTSB immediately contacted the meteorological bureaus of several major countries, including the United States, China, Canada, and Russia, obtaining the most accurate weather information from that time.

In the conference room, Lawrance stood in front of the screen. Pointing his finger at an image of a small white cyclone, he said seriously, “At the time of the accident, 30 nautical miles south of Bristol Bay, two air masses collided, forming a small frontal wave.”

Everyone immediately lowered their heads to flip through the materials in their hands.

Lawrance’s expression was grave. “This is specific data detected by the Russian Meteorological Bureau. As everyone knows, the manifestation of frontal waves on weather maps is not obvious. But with the development of technology, the McFly F485, being one of the most advanced civil airliners, possesses the technological capability to detect frontal waves.” After speaking, he looked at Zhuo Huan.

Zhuo Huan frowned slightly, silently and quickly scanning those meteorological figures.

A staff member from the McFly ground flight team spoke up: “Yes, the F485 is equipped with the most advanced weather detection system. It can detect these obscure frontal waves.”

After a silence, Lawrance looked at Zhuo Huan. “Reid, I think the reason why the plane suddenly turned right at the beginning has been found now.”

Everyone was waiting for Zhuo Huan to make a decision.

After a long while, Zhuo Huan turned to Levy Andrew, who was sitting in the front row on the right, and said, “The actual aircraft provided by McFly is already in the warehouse. Arrange for the NTSB’s accident simulation department to conduct actual aircraft tests.”

Levy Andrew thought for a moment, looked at him seriously, and asked, “Patrick, even you can’t be sure if the McFly F485’s cruise control system would initiate an autonomous turn setting at a distance of 30 nautical miles?”

Zhuo Huan’s gaze was calm as he said word by word, “It is intelligent. Its judgment is never my judgment.”

Currently, the world’s top three aircraft manufacturers do not create new civil airliners to perform good deeds; they do so to sell airplanes. To sell airplanes and seize market share as much as possible, they must have better selling points.

There are essentially only three selling points for civil airliners.

First, and most importantly: reduce flight costs and increase flight capacity ratio. Simply put, the lighter the airframe, the lower the basic flight cost. Being able to carry more passengers at a lower cost is naturally welcomed by all airlines.

Second, flight convenience and a better flight experience. This is the current direction of automation reform in civil aircraft. Airbus has always been a leader in the field of flight computer systems, and McFly Company has also formally claimed a share of this market with the epoch-making F485 aircraft.

Third is the low price of the aircraft itself. Cheaper planes are naturally more favored by airlines.

Of course, the McFly F485 is definitely not a cheap plane, but its flight cost can be said to be the lowest among all current wide-body airliners. Zhuo Huan led the McFly design team to compress the flight cost of this plane to a suffocating degree in incredible ways. It is said that after the successful first flight of the McFly F485, Boeing and Airbus immediately revised the cost requirements for their new airliners, mandating designers to align with the McFly F485.

Besides this, it is well known that the McFly F485 is also the plane global civil aviation pilots most want to fly, bar none.

Its power lies in that nearly omnipotent automatic flight system.

Zhuo Huan certainly knew under what circumstances the McFly F485 would react to severe weather and automatically modify flight settings. But even he dared not be certain whether this plane would make a specific change under a fixed circumstance.

He had endowed this plane with extremely high intelligence.

And this plane had never disappointed anyone.

Except for this time, the one and only time.

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