The light gray mz20 helicopter speeds southwest in the dim sky.

The flight route is basically along the Isthmus of Kra, across the peninsula, and then entering the Indian Ocean. The mz20 heavy helicopter has a range of 700 kilometers without installing a secondary fuel tank. If the secondary fuel tank is installed, it will reach 1,000 kilometers.

Therefore, according to Li Mai's instructions, the helicopter had to fly to the storm area to inspect on the spot, and it took about 600 kilometers to travel back and forth, which took two and a half hours.

Li Mai must go and take a look, not pretending, but very necessary. At this time, sitting next to Li Mai was a man in his forties named Zhu Guangjiu, wearing thick glasses. He was a meteorologist and a heavyweight talent that Li Mai had poached from the National Meteorological Research Center for a high salary.

Among them were Li Xian and Chen Junfei, two pilots, a mechanic. Chen Junfei brought the cameraman and assistant to take the record. There was also Li Mai's new assistant, Song Jiangao. Song Jiangao was the real assistant of Li Mai. Pei Xiaoshuai was Zhang Dongyue. After Zhang Dongyue began to be alone, he naturally needed a new assistant to fill the vacancy.

Song Jiangao is the candidate recommended by the Board Office. Li Mai chose this young man with a steady temperament and down-to-earth work from several candidates.

Teacher Zhu. Just estimate when will you log in to Ranlang and ask Li Mai.

Zhu Guangjiu raised his glasses frame and looked through the cabin window. He could already see the dark storm area in front of him that could not be distinguished from the sky and the sea from afar.

The route of Typhoon No. 1 is very strange, and the factors formed are very complex. According to the previous analysis of the movement speed, it is accelerating irregularly. It is difficult to judge its preparation time for landing, but it is certain that it must have landed on the coast of Ranang Mansion. Zhu Guangjiu's voice was a bit floating, and the words of a typical literati were silenced.

Li Mai's face darkened and said, can the approximate time be calculated?

Zhu Guangjiu lowered his head and thought for a while, saying, "It's about three hours, but I can't be sure."

Three hours mean that nearly half of the fleet's machinery could not be unloaded. Chumphon Port was originally a small port and could not accommodate so many large ships to shelter from the wind. The only way was to anchor all the ships together to resist the typhoon.

Someone previously suggested that unloading should be temporarily put on hold and use the weight to resist the typhoon. However, after thinking about it, Li Mai rejected this plan. Those construction machinery is more important than the safety of ships. To put it bluntly, Li Mai would rather lose more than a dozen giant ships than suffer the loss of this batch of construction machinery. Because it would seriously delay the start of the project.

For time, Li Mai is willing to do anything.

Although the contract was signed, in his opinion, the Kra Canal can only be truly a foregone conclusion if it is dug out as soon as possible.

After three hours, it seemed that I had suspended unloading. Li Mai said in a deep thought.

At this time, Li Xian said, the storm is very strong and safety is the first priority. I also recommend that the fleet be arranged to defend against typhoons immediately.

After looking at the time, Li Mai asked, how long does the fleet need to be ready

Song Jiangao immediately replied: According to the plan, it will take two hours for ships to prevent typhoons.

Go to the head and tail, which means that the order must be issued now. Li Mai said to himself, thinking for a while, he said, Li Xian, notify the pilot and drive forward, and I will see with my own eyes what is going on in the storm area.

Li Xian said, Brother Mai, you can't fly forward. It's too dangerous.

No problem, as long as it doesn’t pass through the storm area, mz20 can. Li Mai said.

Li Xian had to execute the orders, and he knew that no one could change Li Mai's mind.

Anyone with some common sense of aviation on the plane knows the dangers of doing this, but Zhu Guangjiu is not focused on his tablet or on the weather ahead. Li Mai invited him to establish the weather and meteorological department of the Gun Group Construction Group, which is largely for the service of the Kra Canal.

Many people don’t understand why Li Mai spent so much money to establish such a department that other companies do not have at all. There are more professional weather and meteorological countries, isn’t it better to get information from there?

But Li Mai considered more.

After all, the Kara Canal is a canal dug along the Kara Isthmus, running through more than 100 kilometers. What impact will the appearance of this canal have on the local ecological environment and how to avoid these effects as much as possible. Li Mai must consider that the Tianhou Meteorological Department is obviously not as simple as predicting the weather.

It is true that Li Mai can ignore these things at all. The Thai people's life and death to a certain extent have nothing to do with Li Mai.

But Li Mai thought about it for a long time. The more perfect the Kra Canal is, the longer it will last, and there will be more sufficient reasons for it in his own hands.

He is not like several years later, others will use the ecological environment as a killer to seize control of the Kra Canal by Fky.

The plane began to shake, and the amplitude became larger and larger. The thick raindrops slapped on the cabin window and clattered. The lightning in the storm area ahead, and the power of nature made people feel that humans were insignificant.

Zhu Guangjiu opened his eyes wide, wishing to stick his head out, carefully observe the clouds, and concentrate.

At this moment, the pilot's voice came: You can't fly forward any more

Everyone looked at Li Mai anxiously, but Li Mai looked at Zhu Guangjiu in a steady manner.

No one else dared to speak, and only Li Xian dared to speak at this time, but he asked Zhu Guangjiu: Teacher Zhu, how long will it take.

Zhu Guang hadn't spoken for a long time, as if he hadn't heard it. His eyes under his thick glasses were staring at the clouds ahead with all their attention.

The plane was shaking more and more violently, and it was still flying forward.

Suddenly, a red alarm light lit up and a drip alarm sound suddenly started.

The pilot's voice came: Mechanical failure must return

Li Mai frowned slightly. At this time, the mechanic had already heard the news and ran towards the cockpit, began to communicate with the pilot and deal with the mechanical failure.

Zhu Guangjiu finally came to his senses and said to Li Mai that it was basically the same.

After saying that, he lowered his head, recorded all the words and data in his notebook that others could not understand, and began to calculate it. The alarm sound and alarm light seemed to have no effect on him. This was an academic madman.

Li Mai ordered: Return

The huge fuselage of mz20 began to turn around, and at this time, it had reached the edge of the storm area.

Li Xian ran to the cockpit and asked loudly: Why did a mechanical failure occur?

The captain was sweating profusely and was trying hard to control the plane. His flight posture was quite normal, but the fault light still flashed.

The specific situation of the tail wing failure is unknown

What happened? Li Xian said angrily, hadn’t you done a comprehensive inspection before leaving? What’s the situation now? Can you fly back?

The captain is a senior pilot who retired from the Army Aviation Force and has a lot of experience.

mz20 I flew over and should be able to keep flying back. The captain said decisively.

Li Xian suppressed his anger and said: The boss's safety is in your hands. No matter what method you use, you must let the boss land safely and notify me immediately.

After saying that, he returned to the crew cabin.

What's going on Li Mai asked with a frown.

Li Xian took a deep breath and said in a deep voice that the tail wing is unclear and there is no big problem.

With a faint smile, Li Mai said, "The big problem is to let everyone wear life jackets and make the worst plans."

Li Xian was stunned for a moment and looked at Li Mai in unknown condition. The flying posture is still normal now, so there will be no problem.

Li Mai said in a deep voice, I know more about the helicopter than you. Let's continue to arrange it.

After saying that, Li Mai got up and walked towards the cockpit, patted the co-pilot's shoulder, and said, I'll do it.

The co-pilot got up and gave up his seat. Li Mai sat on it, quickly checked the instrument, immediately inspected the flight parameters, and said, "Down the altitude and sit down for an emergency landing."

The captain was about to say that before he reached that level, he saw the flashing tail wing fault light turning on, and the frequency of the alarm suddenly increased.

The problem was more serious than he thought.

The captain stopped saying anything, sank a sigh of relief, lowered the altitude, and tried his best to control the course. Li Mai quickly inspected the various systems to find out the cause of the fault. Only in this way can the fault be eliminated.

Li Mai is proficient in helicopters. He has driven almost every military helicopter during his service. He is very familiar with the various types of helicopters produced by the Red Aircraft Factory. He remembers that the tail system of the mz20 helicopter has a backup circuit.

The helicopter conducted a comprehensive inspection before takeoff, so it was definitely not a hardware problem. There are only two types of problems, circuits or oil circuits.

The plane shakes even more, and you can clearly feel that the tail is losing control. The tail is an important part of controlling the course of a gentle flight attitude. Once there is a problem, only one result will fall.

Except for Zhu Guangjiu, everyone in the crew cabin was so nervous that their faces changed. Even Li Xian was heartbroken. Without personal feelings, he could not experience the fear of fate being controlled by other factors, especially in the air. The so-called down-to-earth and down-to-earth.

Li Xian now only thought about one thing in his mind, no matter what, he had to ensure Brother Mai's safety. The second thing he thought about was whether this failure was sudden or artificial.

The captain couldn't hold on for long before the captain suddenly said in a deep voice.

That means a forced landing on the sea surface. Even if it is a safe landing, it cannot escape the attack of the storm. You must know that it is very close to the storm area now, and the storm area is approaching rapidly.

Suddenly, just before the plane completely lost control, Li Mai said: I found the switch backup oil path

The captain almost subconsciously made corresponding actions. After about four or five seconds, the fault light went out, the alarm stopped, and the flight attitude slowly returned to normal.

Li Mai let out a long sigh of relief. The people in the crew cabin looked around and felt that the plane no longer trembled and stabilized. The pleasure of surviving the disaster hit his heart.

Return as fast as possible. Li Mai said just this and left the cockpit.

When he arrived at the crew cabin, Li Xian was about to speak, but Li Mai's eyes were concealedly stopped.

Li Xian thought to himself, it seemed that the real storm was coming.
Chapter completed!