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Chapter 148 Can a behemoth like the Airbus A320, which weighs dozens of tons, also glide and fly?
That's right.

This Airbus A320 passenger plane has now been transformed into a glider.

It is currently gliding from south to north at a speed of about 570km/h.

Anyone with a little bit of common sense in physics knows that a moving object does not stop immediately after the force disappears, but there is a process of gradually slowing down.

This process is inertia.

Based on this common sense of physics, scientists have developed an aircraft that can fly in the air without power, that is, without a power device - a glider.

The flying principle of a glider is very simple, that is, after taking off, it only relies on the reaction force of the air on its lifting surface to fly freely.

Normally, gliders can fly dozens of kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers without a power unit.

So can aircraft with powered devices also be able to glide and fly? !

The answer is yes.

Because aircraft, especially manned aircraft, have passed various wind tunnel tests at the beginning of their design, their bodies must perfectly comply with the aerodynamic layout design.

An aircraft designed with an aerodynamic layout, even if it is made of metal, can glide and fly in a windless state, unlike other iron lumps that will be pulled by the earth's gravity.

Take a chestnut.

my country's first self-made transport aircraft, the Y-5 transport aircraft, is nicknamed - Air Tractor.

Why this nickname?

This is because this transport aircraft is easy to operate and highly practical.

The most critical point is that even if the engine stops, the aircraft can successfully return to the airport by gliding.

Therefore, this transport aircraft is very popular among aviation enthusiasts at home and abroad.

The Airbus A320 passenger aircraft is a behemoth weighing 80 tons.

With such a heavy weight, without sufficient power, there is no way to lift this behemoth from the ground to an altitude of 10,000 meters.

Some people may think so.

If it loses enough power, this iron lump will fall from a high altitude.

It even quickly fell into a 'death spiral'.

In fact, the score situation.

If it is at low altitude and low speed, this will happen.

However, if it is high-altitude and high-speed, the aircraft will not fall directly from high altitude and fall into a 'death spiral' unless the aircraft's body structure is damaged.

in contrast.

The aircraft will fly in a gliding mode at high altitudes like a glider.

The aircraft will not be at risk of crashing until the inertia is completely lost.

This is because the body of the Airbus A320 passenger aircraft has passed countless wind tunnel tests and conforms to the conventional aerodynamic layout design, and because the air at high altitude is thin, the air resistance is small.

Therefore, even if the Airbus A320 weighs about 80 tons, gliding in a short period of time does not pose much risk to the aircraft's own safety.

Now this Airbus A320 passenger plane can only rely on the left engine to provide power due to a right engine failure.

But if the left engine keeps running at high load, the left engine may not be able to fly to Chengdu.

So one thing Lu Qingzhou has been doing since the plane took off until now is to reduce the plane's reliance on the left engine.

Whether it was keeping the plane in a very weird flying attitude before, or whether it was just turning off the two engines and letting the passenger plane glide.

All are to reduce the aircraft's dependence on the left engine.

However, Lu Qingzhou's operation scared Xu Yichen.

Because he couldn't keep up with Lu Qingzhou's brain circuit at all.

I had no idea that an aircraft could still operate in such a showy manner after its engine failed.

Ok?
After the plane broke down, wasn't it the first time to find a way to return and make an emergency landing?

Ok!

Because Typhoon Kanu is about to land on Qiongya Island, it is impossible to return and make an emergency landing due to weather conditions, but there is no need to shut down both engines, right?
How is this different from digging your own grave? !

It's just that Lu Qingzhou's power is still there, so even if Xu Yichen is very worried, not very worried, but scared to death, he doesn't dare to question it.

He just sat in the passenger seat with a downcast face, as if he were mourning for his concubine. He stared at the dashboard nervously.

Even the slightest hint of disturbance would frighten him to death.

Chen Bingbing was also shocked when she saw Xu Yichen's expression as if he had seen a ghost.

But when she saw Lu Qingzhou still controlling the plane calmly, her uneasiness could not help but subside a little.

At the same time, a series of question marks appeared on his face.

what happened? !
Why was the little co-pilot suddenly so frightened that he looked like this?

Ugh.

I miss Captain Liang Dong so much.

If Captain Liang Dong was here, the pressure on Captain Qingzhou would probably be much less.

Captain Liang Dong would not be like this little first officer.

Not only will it have no effect, but it will only help more and more.

Another five or six minutes passed.

Xu Yichen saw that the altitude displayed by the aircraft's altimeter was getting lower and lower, and it had plummeted from 10050 meters to 7000 meters.

He saw that Lu Qingzhou still had no intention of restarting the two engines.

He couldn't help but panicked and turned to look at Lu Qingzhou, wanting to say something, but he opened his mouth and still held back the words.

However, Lu Qingzhou did not continue to 'scare' him.

When the altitude displayed on the aircraft's altimeter dropped to 6800 meters, Lu Qingzhou immediately reached out and turned on the fuel booster pump, and at the same time turned on the APU again.

After the temperature of the APU dropped, Lu Qingzhou once again reached out and held the throttle valve lever.

Press the throttle valve lever button twice at the same time to resume fuel supply.

The two engines of this Airbus A320 passenger plane immediately made a deafening roar.

A steady stream of sufficient power once again acts on the aircraft fuselage.

Pushing this behemoth weighing seventy or eighty tons to fly towards higher airspace.

Lu Qingzhou pulled the lever with his left hand to keep the plane climbing upward.

After waiting until the altitude on the altimeter returned to 10000 meters, Lu Qingzhou released the control stick and allowed the aircraft to return to level flight.

At the same time, gently lift the left wing and lower the right wing.

This Airbus A320 passenger plane once again returned to the very weird flying attitude before.

However, although the flying posture was weird, Xu Yichen's heart that had been hanging around finally returned to his stomach.

call.
He exhaled a long breath.

The expression on his face also became much more relaxed.

Don't blame the weird flying attitude, just restore the power.

If the plane keeps gliding like just now.

Who knows what terrible things will happen next.

"We are flying a civil aviation aircraft with a mature design that has been tested by the market. It is not an iron lump, so maintaining gliding flight in a short period of time will not cause any tragic consequences."

"In the near future, you will also become the captain of a civil aviation aircraft, and you may also encounter similar air accidents today, so I hope that after encountering similar air accidents, you will remember not to panic like you did today. You’re at a loss because you’re holding not just your life in your hands, but the lives of everyone on the plane.”

"If even you are at a loss and fail to respond properly, then this aircraft is really over."

"do you understand."

Just when Xu Yichen was secretly rejoicing, Lu Qingzhou's voice suddenly rang out,

Xu Yichen was stunned at first.

Then his whole face turned red with embarrassment.

It turned out that Lu Qingzhou could see all the embarrassment he had just made.

(End of this chapter)