Chapter 664: The cost of composite materials is low enough
With this mentality, when Professor Ali Khan came to the factory of Ascendas Group's Ascendas Aviation Aircraft Factory in Xiping, his old swarthy face was as heavy as the bottom of a pot, and when he looked at the huge factory, what flashed in his mind was not the European Airbus aircraft assembly plant in Lyon, France, or the large production plant of Boeing in Seattle, USA.
Compared with these two giants, the Xiping factory, which is considered to be a good hardware facility in China, is a little insufficient.
Professor Ali Khan shook his head at his two aides and commented: "I don't think we can produce the kind of high-performance light transport aircraft that General Zarif said we would be able to do here." ”
Professor Ali Khan's voice was not deliberately lowered, plus his position was relatively high, and Zhuang Jianye, Lin Guanghua and others did not know foreign languages, so as soon as these words came out, they immediately made the two sides seem a little unnatural.
It's just that this time Professor Ali Khan fired the map cannon for no reason, neither Rahman nor Zarif heard it, let alone stopped it, and there was not even the slightest embarrassment on his face.
It's like a parent watching their naughty bear child toss all kinds of things, not only will they not stop it, but they may also boast to death that their bear child is smart and powerful.
In fact, it is true that internally, the Pakistani military can not care about Professor Ali Khan, but externally, especially in highly professional aviation manufacturing like Tengfei Group, Professor Ali Khan is their best blade.
Otherwise, how can they bargain, bargain, and lower prices with each other?
Chop hands to chop hands, but how to chop, how to chop, or pay attention to strategy!
And Professor Ali Khan is an important part of their chopping strategy, and if it weren't, who would want to bring such a stinky, hard nerd over?
To put it bluntly, just as they did when they were Chenggong Aviation and Hongtong Aircraft Factory, they embarrassed these domestic aircraft manufacturers and dealt with them more carefully, so as to take the initiative in the later visits and possible preliminary exchanges.
After all, the country is very polite to these high-level foreign military delegations who are interested in purchasing equipment, and their own side will take advantage of the situation to raise the door higher, take a tougher attitude, and the already cost-effective products will be further improved, which is definitely not a bad thing for the Pakistani military.
After all, no one's money is blown by the wind, even if it is with domestic iron, but it is better to understand this account.
It's just that their invincible routines in other aviation manufacturers are basically like burning a piano and boiling a crane on the Tengfei Group, playing the piano to a cow, and it is useless at all.
Because the guy named Zhuang Jianye is typical of a black heart, ruthless, and thick-skinned, oh~~ By the way, he is a little cautious.
This little scene is still a matter in the eyes of Mr. Zhuang?
"Professor Ali Khan!" After shaking hands with Rahman, Zarif and others, Zhuang Jianye shook hands with the serious old man with a white beard, who looked like a Shar Pei, and had a big wrinkled face, and said with a smile: "Listen to General Zarif and say that you worked as a technical engineer in Airbus and Boeing in your early years, how about it? Are you interested in joining our Tengfei Group?"
Zhuang Jianye's words were also not deliberately suppressed, and the people who heard the Pakistani military delegation were surprised, what is the situation, this is starting to dig the wall and knock on it?
Professor Ali Khan also didn't expect that his previous undisguised questioning not only made the head of the Tengfei Group in front of him angry, but warmly invited himself to join, and he was a little stunned for a while, but the next moment he reacted, and then shook his head very resolutely:" I'm sorry, Mr. Zhuang, if I want a better life, Airbus and Boeing will give me the most generous annual salary, and I can live a life without worrying about food and clothing, but I hope to return to my homeland and cultivate our country's own aviation industry and talent team than these things outside my body. ”
As soon as these words came out, both Pakistanis and domestic entourages present were in awe of Professor Ali Khan, as the so-called science has no borders, but scientists have nationality, similar to Professor Ali Khan, a scientific and technological talent who gave up his high salary abroad and resolutely chose to return to the motherland to build the country, will be respected wherever he goes.
However, those people who are clear-minded in respecting and can't help but have some slander at Professor Ali Khan's words, opening their mouths for Airbus and closing their mouths for Boeing, but they don't even have a word about Tengfei Group, and they just don't take Tengfei Group in their eyes.
In fact, not to mention the Tengfei Group, China's domestic successful aviation, Hongtong aircraft factory and other aviation manufacturing enterprises, Professor Ali Khan has not looked at any of them.
It is no wonder that although Professor Ali Khan's home country is Pakistan, he studied in the United States in his early years, obtained a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later received a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from Stanford University, and then joined Lockheed and participated in the improvement of the P-3C anti-submarine patrol aircraft and the development of the L-1011 wide-body passenger aircraft.
Later, in order to meet market expectations, Lockheed withdrew from the field of civil aircraft, and Professor Ali Khan, as a member of the company's civil aircraft manufacturing business team, was ruthlessly laid off by Lockheed.
At this time, Airbus on the other side of the Atlantic began to rise, and Professor Ali Khan joined Airbus and participated in the pre-research work of the A330 passenger aircraft, and then resigned again due to disagreement with the concept, and then joined Boeing, participated in the development of the Boeing 757 and became the technical director of the project in the later stage.
Until he resigned from Boeing at the end of the eighties and returned to Pakistan as a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Karachi University of Technology, Professor Ali Khan was in the world's top aviation giants, and what he saw, experienced, and participated in was the world's most cutting-edge existence.
Whether it is vision, realm or perception, it has reached a point that normal people can't imagine.
It's like a high-class person who has been in Sanlitun in Beijing or the Bund of the Huangpu River in Shanghai for half his life, and suddenly comes to a Middle Eastern refugee camp full of mosquitoes, different networks, and even toilets.
Professor Ali Khan looks at China's aviation industry like a nobleman who is accustomed to eating French food and drinking coffee and milkshakes.
Although Zhuang Jianye didn't know much about the details of Professor Ali Khan, he still knew about the general experience, otherwise it would not have been possible to send out an invitation like this, but they clearly refused, and Zhuang Jianye didn't need to get on the pole and stutter, smiled and didn't speak, so he shook hands with the next person and went to greet him.
When they shook hands with the Pakistani military delegation, they led the Pakistani party into the No. 8 production workshop not far away, at this time Lin Guanghua had already begun to introduce: "The Y-15 series light transport aircraft, in our group's engineering code name is Haidongqing A aircraft, its biggest feature is that the model applies a large number of composite materials, its weight is about 4 tons, accounting for 23% of the total weight of the whole structure. ”
"Engineer Lin, wait a minute, I remember that your quotation for Yun 15 and Yun 15 PLUS was 7 million US dollars and 11 million US dollars, according to your application of more than 20% of the composite materials, is this price a bit non-heritage?"
Just when Lin Guanghua enthusiastically introduced the basic situation, Professor Ali Khan suddenly interrupted and interjected such a sentence, and the other members of the Pakistani military delegation all looked at Lin Guanghua with interest, and occasionally glanced at Zhuang Jianye, knowing that composite materials are expensive, but Tengfei Group's quotation is about the same as ordinary light transport aircraft or even lower, which cannot help but make people a little suspicious.
Lin Guanghua was indifferent to this, smiled at Professor Ali Khan, and asked, "What if the cost of the composite materials we use is low enough?"