Intelligent Industrial Empire

For Mason Hand, Ma Fengshan is very familiar.When he was in the United States, he had the most exchanges with Mason Hand, the deputy chief designer of McDonnell Douglas, and the two often argued with a blushing neck.

Many of Ma Fengshan's aircraft test solutions and design inspirations were derived from arguing with this old American man who was about his age.

People have national boundaries and races, but academics have no national boundaries.

At least, this guy Mason Hand is like that.

Perhaps he was fired by McDonnell Douglas because he revealed too much core technology to the Chinese.Otherwise, with the old man Hand’s experience in the aircraft design industry and his contributions, even if McDonnell Douglas was acquired by Boeing in bankruptcy, this aircraft designer who loves aircraft design to the point of distortion should also become an aircraft designer at Boeing instead of entering Pratt & Whitney is just working on aircraft propulsion systems...

Then Catherine's words confirmed Ma Fengshan's conjecture.

"Mr. Hande left McDonnell Douglas for some reason after the high bypass ratio exchange meeting, and joined Pratt & Whitney to become a project lead engineer..." Catherine didn't know much about these things.

Because when Hande entered Pratt & Whitney, she was just an ordinary middle management of Pratt & Whitney.

Along the way, Ma Fengshan and Catherine were very engaged in chatting. As Catherine who specializes in receiving Yunfei and his group, she did not neglect Yunfei and others, and set up some topics from time to time to bring Yunfei and others into the discussion topics. , So that Yun Fei and others did not feel left out.

This woman can become the vice president of business of a huge high-tech company like Pratt & Whitney in her forties. This is definitely not on her body.At least, along the way, she and Ma Fengshan exchanged a lot of professional and technical things.

And these things are not those dead parameters.

The 40-minute drive passed quickly under the exchange between Catherine and Ma Fengshan.

Yun Fei wanted to inquire about the relationship between Ma Fengshan and the hand that Catherine said, but Ma Fengshan didn't pay attention to him at all, making him feel like a cat scratching in his heart, and there was nothing to do except in a hurry.

Pratt & Whitney was founded in the early twentieth century and should be the earliest professional aircraft engine design and production company in the entire world.The door of their company is not as majestic as some Chinese companies. The huge factory area is also very simple and old. From the outside, this company is not like a multi-billion dollar annual turnover. high tech company.

When the team just arrived at Pratt & Whitney's administration building, Pratt & Whitney's President Blacker was leading several employees at the door waiting for Yun Fei and his party.

Before Catherine was introduced, one of the waiting people was gray-haired, and the short old man yelled exaggeratedly, and then rushed towards Ma Fengshan.And Ma Fengshan, who had always been more serious, also gave an exaggerated laugh, and stepped forward to hug the old white man who was about the same size as him.

When Yun Fei saw this scene, he felt that there was only one word that could describe this-passionate!

It seems that this old man is what Catherine called Mason Hand, an airplane designer who has a passion for Ma Fengshan.

After some introduction, Blacker took Yunfei and his party into the conference room that had been arranged a long time ago.

This allowed everyone to see the efficiency of the Americans. After asking Yun Fei and his party if they needed to enter the hotel to take a break, they got a negative answer, and they were going straight to the topic.After all, they are not dealing with the heads of the state-owned units and government departments in China that have a strong sports style. The second thing to talk about is the guys whose main purpose is to travel and shopping.

Private enterprises are all about efficiency.

Profit is their goal.

For them, time is money.

"Everyone, we currently need a low-noise, low-fuel consumption, and high-efficiency environmentally friendly engine with a thrust between 17,500 pounds and 22,500 pounds. At present, we are mainly developing new regional airliners with 90 to 110 seats. Hundreds of orders for the new regional airliner. For you, this is really not a big order..." Ma Fengshan directly indicated their intention.

In the large aircraft, the engine is the core component, but also the most important part.

This is basically the most expensive part.

Although the ARJ-21 is a small regional airliner, the final market price is estimated to be around US$30 million, but the price of two engines is between US$4 million and US$6 million.

The budget for an engine, Ma Fengshan and others, is basically between 2 million and 3 million US dollars. If it is impossible to negotiate, the price of more than 3 million US dollars is acceptable.After all, the market price of one of those large mainline engines exceeds 10 million U.S. dollars.

Eastern Airlines once purchased 20 Airbus A330-300 passenger planes from Airbus, using the British Rolls-Royce Ruida 700 engine, with a thrust of 67,500 pounds-71,100 pounds, and the total price was 400 million. Fifty million dollars.This is just the price of the engine.

As the most core component of an aircraft, the price of an engine accounts for almost one-seventh to one-fifth of the total cost of an aircraft.If you can't produce the engine yourself, it is inevitable to be slaughtered.

According to tradition, such a quantity of purchase can even introduce production technology to produce on its own...

Unfortunately, China has always been a despised target in these markets.

One hundred regional passenger planes. This is the number of regional planes that Yunfei plans to purchase in the next ten years. Many passenger planes are not the main thing. Freight is the fat he sees.Facing their e-commerce development, the domestic air express business will show explosive growth in China in the next few years.

For two hundred engines, the total contract price is only between 400 million and 600 million US dollars. Although this amount exceeds one-fifth of Pratt & Whitney's annual sales, the contract time is very long...

"For your company's needs, our Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 engine is fully suitable, with a thrust of 18,500-21,700 pounds. Most of the MD-80 aircraft produced by McDonnell Douglas use this engine. There is absolutely no problem with frequent takeoffs between short-range cities. Moreover, this is the most environmentally friendly and highly reliable regional passenger jet engine in the entire world." As soon as Catherine heard Ma Fengshan report their request, she quickly reported JT8D-200 This engine is about to be eliminated by the aviation market.

"Moreover, the price of this engine is less than 2.5 million US dollars per unit. For Chinese users, it is definitely an excellent engine with high cost performance."

"Ms. Catherine, I think you did not understand our demands. What we need is an advanced engine to help our aircraft fly in the sky, not an engine that will be eliminated by the aviation market. In addition, according to our As you know, the price of each JT8D-200 engine purchased by McDonnell Douglas in Pratt & Whitney is not less than 2.5 million US dollars as you said, but 1.46 million US dollars. If it needs to cost such a high price We might as well use the bass engine that we introduced from Rolls-Royce in the 1970s to purchase an engine that is about to be outdated at a price that is as low as …" Ma Fengshan suddenly laughed when he heard Catherine’s words.

These guys really treat them as being taken advantage of.

"Mr. Ma, the price we sell to McDonnell Douglas is so low. I think you should know better than us that the aircraft produced by the American and European aircraft companies do not require us to tackle key problems with the government. At the same time, they do not need our help to obtain them. The US airworthiness permit, the extra nearly one million dollars, is basically the cost of research..." After Ma Fengshan knew their reserve price, Catherine was not embarrassed.

It is very difficult for the Chinese to purchase aircraft engines from the United States.

The former Soviet Union has been disintegrated, and the old Russians have always been eating the money left by the former Soviet Union. They have not made much achievements in aircraft engine technology.Moreover, not much research funds are invested in the development of military engines.

In order to avoid the red empire from challenging the authority of the United States again, and in order that the whole world no longer confronts tensely due to different ideologies, it is inevitable that the United States will suppress China, the largest socialist country on the earth. The bourgeoisie, what about eliminating the exploitation system?Don’t you know that most of the developed countries in the world are capitalist countries?

China clearly wants to eliminate these countries that serve the capitalists.

Therefore, it is necessary to suppress China.

Moreover, the United States needs a powerful object to suppress to keep their European brothers firmly united by their side.The polar bears were dragged down by their space war plan. These years, European countries have begun to move away from the United States and suppress China. This is necessary.

The theory of yellow peril threat is basically made up by the Americans.

"Ms. Catherine, maybe you don’t know that the order for this kind of regional airliner in our hands was placed by our boss's September 1st Airline. The whole world knows that our boss only likes to earn money from our own people, and to export to him There is no interest. So, what we need is to obtain an airworthiness license issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China..." Jiang Jianxing only understands some simple communication in English, so he said this in Chinese.

Just kidding, if you want to export regional airliners, for the European and American markets, this is simply not possible.

The competition between Boeing and Airbus is fierce.

Companies like them without the slightest foundation participate in the competition between the two parties. What is it that they are not looking for disability by themselves?