A self-taught aircraft engineer hoped to gain Ma Lin's sponsorship.
Ma Lin couldn't quite grasp the intricacies but thought the engineer seemed decent, so he referred him to an aircraft manufacturing factory on Jingzhou Island.
Someone remarked that building airplanes isn't much harder than building cars.
When driven by the extraordinary, there's no worry about safety issues.
Ma Lin often took test flights himself. If the plane was about to crash to the ground, he could lift it back up.
Though the airplane's appearance currently looked plain, it could indeed fly.
A chemical plant in Zhongyizhou was facing complaints from local residents because it frequently emitted foul-smelling gases that endangered public health. A month ago, a chemical plant in Nanyizhou leaked, resulting in over two hundred people falling ill and hospitalized, more than twenty fatalities, and over forty others suffering varying degrees of permanent damage.