Xia Ruofei thought about it for a while and happily accepted the invitation — as friends who had experienced life and death together, Xia Ruofei was also very willing to share this happy moment with Captain Brooke. In addition, the incident of the forced landing had long been known to everyone. Qantas was even preparing to make a movie. Xia Ruofei's exposure during that time was also extremely high, so he did not need to keep a low profile at this time.
So, Xia Ruofei followed Captain Brooke and Molly to the welcoming crowd.
Tony, the senior vice president of Qantas, also came to participate in this event in person. In addition, the head of the public relations department of Qantas and the head of the A350 fleet, etc. When they found that the person who had been watching from afar was actually Xia Ruofei, they were very surprised.
When Xia Ruofei was dealing with the accident, he had basically interacted with these people. With his extraordinary retentive memory, it was naturally impossible for him to forget. He could even skillfully call out each person's name, which made everyone feel closer to him.
Xia Ruofei naturally stood with Tony and others, while Brooke walked to the side and faced the media with a smile.
There were two pilots flying together with Captain Brook. One of them was the co-pilot, while the other was an inspector with a very high rank. The inspector was responsible for the assessment of the captain. When the co-pilot was promoted to captain or the captain regained his flight qualifications, the inspector was responsible for the assessment flight.
The inspector said with a smile, "Captain Brooke's performance in this assessment flight was perfect. I am very honored to announce that he will be reinstated as the captain of the Airbus A350 from today onwards!"
Although Brooke had completed two segments of the flight, strictly speaking, his flight this time was an assessment flight. Only by passing the assessment could he regain the qualification to fly the Airbus A350. In other words, until the moment the inspector announced, Captain Brooke was truly considered to have completed his physical and psychological recovery and returned to his flight post.
As soon as the inspector finished speaking, there was a warm applause at the scene. Tony and other executives also stepped forward to congratulate him. Captain Brooke kept expressing his gratitude with a smile on his face.
The media reporters extended their microphones to Captain Brooke and asked him how he felt at the moment.
As the one who experienced the most thrilling forced landing in the history of Qantas, Captain Brooke had always been highly scrutinized by the media. Qantas also notified the major media reporters in advance to come to the tarmac for an interview.
Brook chuckled as he pulled Xia Ruofei over and said, "Before I answer your questions, I want you to meet someone first!"
"Wow!"
"God! Am I seeing things? "
"It's Mr. Xia!"
The media reporters exclaimed in surprise.
To be fair, Australia's public opinion wasn't particularly friendly to Huaxia. The arrogance and prejudice of some Westerners was especially obvious here. These local media often made misleading reports about Huaxia.
But Xia Ruofei was definitely an exception. Almost all Australians had a very good impression of Xia Ruofei. In the Western society that advocated individual heroism, few people would have a bad impression of such a heroic figure. Even those Australian athletes who were extremely malicious to Huaxia, when talking about Xia Ruofei, could only suppress their displeasure and flatly praise him.
There was no doubt that Xia Ruofei was also the darling of the media in Australia, even more so than Captain Brooke. This was because people with discerning eyes knew that although the epic forced landing couldn't be separated from Captain Brooke's technical guidance, Xia Ruofei took at least 80% of the credit.
After that incident, there were also experts who conducted countless reviews, and some people even found volunteers to conduct experiments.
The method of the experiment was very simple. Didn't Xia Ruofei claim that he had received simple helicopter flight training? Therefore, they found a helicopter pilot student who had just started flying solo and had never been exposed to fixed-wing aircraft knowledge to simulate Xia Ruofei's role. Then, they found a senior A350 captain whose theoretical knowledge was no less than Captain Brooke's and inputted the flight parameters into the simulator. This senior captain did not participate in the flight control throughout the whole process and only provided technical guidance. The helicopter pilot student was the one operating the whole process.
The results of the experiment were very cruel. After 20 or 30 attempts, the helicopter pilot student landed successfully zero times.
There was only one time when the plane landed crookedly on the taxiway next to the runway, and when it landed, the landing gear was directly broken. If it was in the real world on that day, even if there were no other planes on the taxiway, such a landing was likely to directly disintegrate the plane.
What's more, in reality, the wind was howling in the plane, and such an environment was simply impossible to simulate.
After the results of the experiment were announced, it further highlighted how great and incredible Xia Ruofei's feat of forcing the plane to land was.
Captain Brooke said with a smile, "Everyone, I also want to tell you that considering that Mr. Xia is thousands of miles away, I didn't inform him of this test flight. Today, our two planes landed in Sydney at almost the same time. It's a complete coincidence, so I say … all of this is God's arrangement. "
"It's unbelievable!" A reporter exclaimed, and then he asked, "Mr. Xia, is what Captain Brooke said true?"
Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "I didn't receive any notice in advance. But I'd rather use a phrase that we Huaxia people often say to describe this coincidence — it's fate that brought us here together! "
The reporters' cameras kept flashing, and another reporter asked loudly, "Mr. Xia, today is a special moment for Captain Brooke. Do you have anything to say to him?"
Xia Ruofei was already very comfortable with this kind of media pursuit. He said with assurance, "I just congratulated Captain Brooke. I also want to say that Captain Brooke is an amazing person to be able to recover from that degree of psychological and physical trauma! I congratulate him again for regaining his flight qualifications! I'm also very willing to take the flight he flies! Of course, I'm afraid my flight won't bring any profit to Qantas, after all, I'm an 'honorary passenger' of Qantas! "
Xia Ruofei's words made everyone smile kindly, and Captain Brooke couldn't help but grin after hearing it.
Tony, the senior vice president of Qantas, who was standing on the side, said with a smile, "No matter when, we sincerely welcome Mr. Xia to take a Qantas flight! In fact, Mr. Xia is the first 'lifetime honorary passenger' of Qantas, and the number of times he has taken a Qantas flight can be counted on one hand. We want to express our respect for him, but we don't have a chance! "
A reporter pointed to the Haven parked not far away and said, "I think Mr. Xia may not have many opportunities to take a Qantas flight in the future."
Everyone couldn't help but laugh.
Today's protagonist was still Captain Brooke. After asking Xia Ruofei a few questions, the media focused on Brooke.
After regaining his flight qualifications, Captain Brooke was in a very good mood, and he answered the media's questions one by one. Xia Ruofei stood aside and waited with a smile.
After the media interview, the staff of Qantas pushed out the cake that had already been prepared.
Captain Brooke invited Xia Ruofei to cut the cake with him.
After sharing the big cake with everyone, Xia Ruofei said goodbye to the people of Qantas and prepared to go through the immigration procedures.
Qantas also prepared a small cold dinner party for Brooke. Tony and the Brooke family both invited Xia Ruofei to attend, but Xia Ruofei had already informed Liang Qizhao, who was in charge of Fairyland Farm, to pick him up. He had already been delayed for a while, so he didn't want to stay here for too long, so he politely declined.
Xia Ruofei told Brooke that his stay in Australia this time was relatively short, and he still had some things to do. The next time he came to Australia, he would take the initiative to meet with him.
Tony personally arranged for the staff of Qantas to assist Xia Ruofei and Liu Kuan in going through the immigration procedures.
As for Liu An and his crew, they had to stay behind to do some finishing work – the traffic at the airport was very busy, and the Haven still had to be transferred to a distant plane, in addition to necessary inspections, refueling and other operations.
After the crew finished their work, they would find a hotel near the airport to check in. Tomorrow, they would continue to fly to Huaxia.
Xia Ruofei and Liu Kuan successfully went through the immigration procedures in the VIP channel.
When Xia Ruofei first came to Australia, he personally experienced the difficulties of the customs officers when he entered the country. This time, the immigration treatment was completely different. The staff of Qantas personally accompanied him, and the customs officers obviously still remembered Xia Ruofei, a well-known hero in Australia. Their attitude was quite enthusiastic, and they quickly processed the immigration procedures for Xia Ruofei and Liu Kuan.
After walking out of the airport, Xia Ruofei saw Liang Qichao anxiously waiting at a glance.
"Brother Liang!" Xia Ruofei smiled and waved at him.
Liang Qichao and Daphra, who had accompanied him to the airport, turned their heads at the same time. When they saw Xia Ruofei, they immediately walked up to him.
"Ruofei, what took you so long?" Liang Qichao said. "I thought you had some trouble when you entered the country!"
Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "I just met a few old friends, and we chatted for a while! Sorry to keep you waiting! "
"It's okay to wait for a while!" Liang Qichao said. "As long as you didn't encounter any trouble!"
Xia Ruofei said, "By the way, let me introduce you. This is Liu Kuan, Uncle Liu. He came with me this time. Uncle Liu, his name is Liang Qichao, and he is the person in charge of Fairyland Farm. "
"Hello, Uncle Liu!"
"Hello, Mr. Liang!"
The two exchanged a few simple greetings, and the group walked toward the parking lot.
Xia Ruofei touched Liang Qichao's arm, then pouted at Daphra and said with a smile, "Looks like you've already got it?"
Liang Qichao smiled and said, "What do you think? I still have some skills, don't I? "
"It's okay!" Xia Ruofei curled his lips and said, "It's been two years, and you have the advantage of being in a favorable position. If you can't even get it, you can go eat sh * t!"
"Can you not say such disgusting things?" Liang Qichao said with a look of disgust. "You are Australia's national hero, and your net worth is at least a few billion, right? Be civilized! "
"This is already very civilized!" Xia Ruofei blinked and said, "Otherwise … I wouldn't have said sh * t, but directly …"
"Stop! Stop! "Liang Qichao said quickly." Weren't you talking about Daphra? How did we end up talking about something so disgusting? "
Xia Ruofei couldn't help but laugh. He patted Liang Qichao's shoulder and said, "Oh yeah, I haven't asked you yet! The matter between you and Daphra … Have you passed your father's test? "
Liang Qichao suddenly looked bitter and said, "It's not like you don't know my dad, he's old-fashioned! How would I dare to tell him? "
"Do you want me to give you some advice?" Xia Ruofei said with a smile.
"Say it! Say it! "Liang Qichao said quickly," I know you have the most wicked ideas! "
"It's simple! Both of you work harder, and try to make a person as soon as possible! "Xia Ruofei said with a smile.
"What kind of lousy idea is this?" Liang Qichao couldn't help but shout, "If my dad finds out, he'll skin me alive!"
"You don't understand, right?" Xia Ruofei said with a smile, "Although Uncle Liang is against you finding a foreign woman, he doesn't have any substantial evidence, right? Plus, you're far away from the emperor, he can't possibly come here and monitor you every day, right? "
"That's true, but what does this have to do with having a child?" Liang Qichao asked.
"What I'm saying is, you have so many advantages, but you don't know how to make use of them. Aren't you stupid?" Xia Ruofei said, "There's an unbreakable truth, you have to remember, and that's the generation gap! Don't be fooled by your dad's harsh words, if you and Daphra really give birth to a fat grandson for him, do you think he'll be happy? Plus, a mixed-race child is handsome, your dad will definitely be smiling from ear to ear, and can't wait to hold his grandson every day! Do you believe it? "
"It does seem to make sense!" Liang Qichao muttered.
"Listen to me!" Xia Ruofei said, "The girls in Australia shouldn't be so traditional, insisting on getting a marriage certificate before having a child, right?"
"It's normal for people here to fall in love and have children. Some people only get married when their children are quite old!" Liang Qichao said.
"Then isn't it settled?" Xia Ruofei said, "You can discuss this with Daphra, as long as she agrees, then it'll be easy!"
The two chatted as they walked, and soon they arrived at the parking lot.
Liang Qichao drove the farm's black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and he drove personally. Daphra sat in the front passenger seat, while Xia Ruofei and Liu Kuan sat in the back.
After the car started, it quickly drove out of the airport, and sped in the direction of Hunter Valley.
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