My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1167 - 1076: The Evil Secret Door! Emergency Sea Landing?
"Not good!!"
The captain cried out in alarm.
Raising his hand, he pointed to the DUS display area on the flight control panel.
"Damn, what’s going on here?"
Tang Xiao’s eyebrows knitted together in a cold frown, her expression one of surprise.
There was no alarm! No fault light!
Neither the captain nor the co-pilot had touched the throttle levers.
And yet?
The thrust indicator had increased significantly, and the engine status, compression ratio, exhaust temperature, and other parameters had all changed dramatically.
Naturally, the remaining fuel indicator changed as well, with the fuel consumption rate visibly increased.
"Fuck! The plane is accelerating on its own!"
The co-pilot exclaimed with a cry of alarm.
Wu Jie’s brows furrowed slightly, his expression cold and detached.
When a plane flies in the sky, it mainly overcomes air resistance.
The higher the altitude, the thinner the air and the lower the flight resistance, which is also more favorable for the operation of a turbocharged engine.
Therefore, to save fuel economically, the plane maintains a steady cruise in the stratosphere above ten thousand meters, where the airflow is relatively stable.
And different planes naturally have different speed limits.
Because the faster the speed, the greater the flight resistance, exerting a strong compressive force on the plane, causing frictional heat, leading to the aircraft heating up, and the formation of shockwaves when reaching the speed of sound, causing severe trembling of the plane.
So, different planes for different purposes use different materials and designs, equipped with engines of various horsepower.
Only military fighters, which don’t care about fuel consumption and fly supersonically, would use a swept-wing design, be built with stronger materials than aluminum alloy, such as stainless steel and titanium alloy, and be equipped with powerful engines.
Some hypersonic fighters would even deliberately leave certain gaps in their airframes to accommodate thermal expansion during high-altitude, high-speed flight, and are coated with high-temperature resistant materials.
To achieve supersonic flight, one simply needs to go full throttle, increasing thrust, and easily break through the sound barrier to enter supersonic flight.
By comparison.
Civilian airliners, which do not need supersonic flight, are designed with the best aerodynamic profile within the subsonic range, with elongated fuselages, underslung wings, high aspect ratios, and made from materials that are as light as possible.
Aluminum alloys are even considered too heavy, with a preference for the extensive use of composite materials instead; and the engines are not about how much thrust they can generate, but about thrust-weight ratio, fuel efficiency, and reliability—because the lighter the civilian aircraft, the better.
As a result.
Limited by the aircraft structure, aerodynamic profile, and engine thrust.
Civilian planes have a speed limit; once the speed limit is reached, the plane can no longer accelerate further and will instead experience significant resistance, causing a sharp decline in structural lifespan.
Besides, pushing the throttle further is pointless, only needlessly burning fuel without any effect.
In short.
Military fighters and civilian planes differ in design, craftsmanship, and equipment due to their different purposes.
Just like an economical family car and an F1 race car built for competition, there are naturally big differences between them.
The family car is designed to be fuel-efficient, with as light a body as possible, powered by a small-horsepower engine, aimed at economical and stable operation below 120 km/h, with reliability and ease of driving.
But those supercars, top F1 race cars, they don’t care about fuel consumption; they care more about speed and handling, so they use more powerful engines and are designed with advanced materials and aerodynamics.
At this moment.
The large cargo plane Wu Jie and the others were on was like an economical family car.
The shape of the fuselage and the airframe structure meant that it couldn’t fly supersonic, with resistance increasing with speed.
And even if the thrust of the four turbofan engines was increased to the maximum, the large cargo plane still couldn’t go any faster.
It’s like a family car that has reached its limit; flooring the throttle is useless!
The engine only has that much horsepower; what more can it do?
Moreover, designed with a maximum speed of 180 km/h, driving at this limit speed is not only super fuel-inefficient and causes severe engine wear but is also very unsafe.
Any driver who frequently drives knows that generally, a family car is most fuel-efficient and relatively safe and controllable at a steady speed below 120 km/h. Above 120 km/h, the higher the speed, the more fuel is consumed.
Therefore.
This large cargo plane, with its engines suddenly and inexplicably increasing thrust.
Not only didn’t it cause the plane’s speed to surge, but it also made the fuel consumption skyrocket.
Moreover, it forced the large cargo plane to endure even greater flight resistance, accelerating wear and tear and structural aging of the aircraft.
So...
With not much aviation fuel remaining to begin with, it was already questionable whether it could fly to the Nanzhou Continent and land at Yongshu Airport.
Now, flying with such high fuel consumption, there was naturally no hope. It would be good enough to be able to fly over the Bihu Ocean to reach the vicinity of the Yunhai Continent strait.
This really was adding insult to injury.
Tang Xiao turned her head towards Wu Jie and said irritably:
"It must be the Star Federation behind this, using a backdoor program to remotely control the plane, forcing the engines to accelerate automatically, increasing fuel consumption, and making it impossible for us to reach Yongshu Airport!"
Wu Jie’s lips curled up slightly, and he gave a light snort of laughter.
He had long heard that the Star Federation was cunning.
Their exported high-end equipment, whether military such as warships, fighter jets, and submarines, or civilian such as planes and ship equipment, in order to prevent them from falling into enemy hands, to guard against allies turning traitor, and to secretly monitor and surveil others...
They would leave backdoors in the software, covertly obtaining data without the user’s knowledge, intervening remotely when necessary, gaining direct control without the user’s consent, or outright destroying or shutting it down.
There was once a country that bought fighter jets from the Star Federation intending to launch an airstrike against another nation, but the Star Federation did not agree. To prevent that country from acting recklessly, they directly shut down the equipment through a backdoor program.
