FUCHS couldn't help complaining that if this was disgusted by China's civil aviation, it would not affect the question of how much money, but McDonnell Douglas' development strategy for the next ten years.

With such a big responsibility, a sales director of FUCHS obviously can't afford it, so the best result is to roll up and get out.

Foss didn't care about the position, but he cared about the $2 million annual salary and tens of millions of dollars worth of equity incentives, and once he was kicked out of McDonnell Douglas, it would all have to say goodbye to him, which would be fatal to him.

You must know that in addition to having a legal wife in Chicago, two sons and a daughter, he also has a lover ~~ in New York and Los Angeles, not only with him like a normal couple, but also gave him two children each, in addition to Washington, Seattle, Atlanta and several lovers.

There are a lot of them, and he relies on Foss to raise him alone, and his little annual salary looks like a lot, but it would be good to be able to use a few family points.

So don't talk about kicking him out of McDonnell Douglas, even if you reduce the salary a little, Fox will hurt as much as cutting meat.

Because of this, after the successful forced landing, Fox just exhaled a few long breaths of joy, and a face full of freckles immediately sank like the bottom of the pot, and when the notice outside the cabin suggested that the spiral ladder had approached and the cabin could be opened, Fox immediately stood up and said coldly to several accompanying McDonnell Douglas engineers behind him, "Check the situation immediately, I want to know what is wrong as soon as possible." ”

After speaking, he coldly glanced at the other surprised assistants, put on his coat and walked towards the hatch, and followed the spiral ladder provided by the naval aviation unit to get down the plane.

The head of the navy unit in charge of coordinating and commanding saw that the plane had successfully made a forced landing and had not caused too much loss of personnel, and while breathing a sigh of relief in his heart, he naturally did not feel embarrassed, because after all, it was an aircraft that was on display and sale to the country, and it was understandable to help.

Besides, the large plane weighing more than 100 tons, including the head of the navy, was also in close contact for the first time, and he also wanted to know what went wrong that caused this behemoth to fall down in a hurry.

All in all, the good habit of Chinese people to watch the excitement and not be afraid of big things, and the head of the navy and others are not exempt from vulgarity, that is, they are afraid that the other party is a foreign friend, otherwise they all want to climb up and quietly what kind of situation they are.

Foss knew that the people around him were watching the lively mentality, and felt that the Chinese were really good, almost responding to their own needs, which calmed his nervous heart a little, thinking, even the people in the army are so good at talking, will the people of China's civil aviation be the same?

As a result, while Fox was still fantasizing, a McDonnell Douglas engineer suddenly ran over and swept his newly gushing relief into the garbage heap with a word.

"The situation is very serious, and the preliminary judgment may be that the right rudder surface of the horizontal tail may be broken and detached, causing the plane to be unbalanced, but fortunately, Hugh Wood and Beckman two pilots dealt with it in time and made an emergency landing, otherwise we are very likely to crash and die. ”

"I know this very well, and I wonder now if the plane can fly again?" Fox still cares about the plane crash and death, standing on the ground with a good posture, thinking about how to minimize the impact.

The McDonnell Douglas engineer didn't expect Fox to react like this, and was a little stunned, but he quickly understood Fox's intentions, and immediately shook his head, and said with an embarrassed face, "It's difficult, the debris caused by the breakage of the right rudder surface of the horizontal tail not only penetrates the tail and breaks the internal APU auxiliary power unit, but also because of the damage to the right rudder surface of the horizontal tail, the torque of the rudder is out of balance, and there are obvious fatigue cracks, and the above parts have to be replaced and repaired, so ......"

"Don't talk so much nonsense, you just say how long it will take for the plane to fly again into the blue sky. Foss was a little impatient.

"If it's really in the U.S., it's going to take two to three weeks. Engineer McDonnell Douglas frowned and thought about it, and gave him an approximate time.

Foss's dark brown eyebrows were raised, capturing the point of McDonnell Douglas's words: "In the United States? What about here?"

McDonnell Douglas engineer looked around at the simple to simple facilities and equipment, and showed a wry smile: "It is estimated that it will take at least two months, because we need to manufacture the large rudder, horizontal tail right rudder surface, APU auxiliary power unit and puff leather material at the tail of the fuselage in the factory in the United States, and then arrange a special cargo charter plane to transport these parts and special maintenance tools here, in addition to this, we also need more than a dozen professional engineers and skilled workers to replace and repair the parts."

Due to the conditions of this airport, our DC-10 has already made it fully loaded, and other charter planes cannot take off and land at all, so they can only use land transportation, but China's road conditions and vehicle equipment do not know whether it has the ability to carry out transshipment, and even if it can, it will take a very long time......"

"Wait!"

Without waiting for McDonnell Douglas engineer to finish speaking, Foss stretched out his hand to interrupt, there was no way to listen to a series of words that Fochs's brain hurt, the time consumed to repair the plane is secondary, the key is that the cost of chartering a plane from the United States to China to transport things is not a small number, and all of them are professional aviation parts.

Who will be responsible for this huge amount of money at that time?

What's more, even if there is no financial trouble, Fox is not ready to alarm the headquarters, the reason is very simple, if the battle is big, it will not be marketing but self-inflicted humiliation, he does not believe that Boeing and Airbus can let go of this scandal without ruthless McDonnell Douglas, and it will be difficult for him Fox not to lose his job at that time.

So he frowned and asked, "Is there any other way?" I mean, can the joint assembly plant of McDonnell Douglas and Shanghai be replaced?"

"This ......" McDonnell Douglas engineer hesitated for a moment, and then said with a strange expression, "You said, it's a final assembly plant, so it's a final assembly plant, all the parts, even a rivet is sent from the United States, they don't have the core technology, they can't make any parts except for splicing the plane like a Lego toy."

Of course, even if they have this ability, I don't believe they can meet our requirements, you must know that this time to China to show the DC-10 on the application of a large number of composite materials, the assembly plant in Shanghai in the first half of the year I have been, they can only have a certain production and processing capacity for the general aviation aluminum alloy, composite materials ......"

Saying that, the McDonnell Douglas engineer shook his head, "Many front-line engineers and skilled workers have never even heard of it, what else can they expect them to do?"

When Forss heard this, his face fell suddenly, and he was about to say something, when he suddenly heard a noisy voice with laughter not far away, and Fauston, who was already in a bad mood, was a little annoyed, and looked up, only to see a few people wearing ordinary clothes and looking very obtrusive in a crowd of military uniforms, standing at the tail of the DC-10 plane, pointing at it through the bright lights, looking strange.

Foss frowned, pulled the translator over, pointed to the crowd, and asked, "Listen, what do those people say?"

Because the distance was not far away, those few people felt that the foreigner couldn't understand Chinese and couldn't lower his voice, so the translator quickly listened to a rough idea, and hurriedly relayed "They said that the APU auxiliary power unit of the aircraft is easy to do, and it can be changed immediately, but the horizontal tail rudder surface is difficult to do, and I can't understand what material it is, if it's an aluminum-lithium alloy, it's okay, if it's a honeycomb structure component, it takes a little effort, and it is estimated that it will take some time, I'm afraid it's an aluminum matrix composite, and the most troublesome thing is this thing......"

Hearing Forth's words, the more the McDonnell Douglas engineer on the side listened, the more exciting his face became, and finally he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Did they really say that?"

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