"But ......"

Meng Haibo scratched his head and said with an embarrassed face: "But boss, now the MK650 project team can't use so many people, we want to open a new project, so that everyone has a ...... in their hands."

Huang Wenqing nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, you can't let everyone be idle, right?"

The company has given such good treatment and working conditions to the big guys, and if they don't work, won't they get their wages for nothing? This kind of thing must not be done! This is the most simple logic of Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing.

Of course, in the current context of the fact that there are almost no military enterprises in the country that can open the pot, Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing's thoughts actually have an unspeakable crisis psychology: if the big guys don't work hard to find some work and show their value and usefulness to the boss, hehe......

Didn't you see the entire aviation industry system, the CEOs of those companies that want to cooperate with COMAC are almost about to step on the threshold of our COMAC Group?

Listening to the reasons why Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing wanted to develop turboshafts and turboprop engines based on the core engine of the MK650 turbofan engine, Chen Geng was really a little moved, he touched his chin and thought about it, and finally nodded: "I understand what you mean, huh...... Although it is not possible to use the core engine of the MK650 to develop turboshafts and turboprops now, it is not impossible to do it after the company's financial situation is stable in the future, but what ...... now?"

What he meant by this was that it certainly wouldn't work now.

Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing were not surprised by their boss's answer: Anyway, we have already told the boss that we are very serious and responsible for our work, and that is enough.

As for the boss's next words, just listen to them......

"But now that the MK650 project has entered the regular one after another, there is really a project for you to practice," Chen Geng continued: "If this project is done well, maybe it will become one of the pillar products of our COMAC Group." ”

Well?

What?!

Can it become a pillar project of COMAC?!

Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing were a little excited when they boarded - Chen Geng's legendary success in the past had cast a dazzling golden body for him, and before this golden body was broken, no one would question any of Chen Geng's decisions: Mr. Chen Geng could never be wrong, and even if he was wrong, it was my mistake - Huang Wenqing hurriedly asked, "Boss, what is the project?"

"On the whole, it's still your idea, to build a universal core machine, based on this core machine, to derive turbofans, turboshafts and turboprop engines with different power and thrust," Chen Geng said, "but it's a small one." ”

Small?

Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing glanced at each other, and Huang Wenqing asked, "What are you talking about...... How old is it?"

Since it is small, if it is a turboshaft or turboprop, according to the domestic division of aero engines, it should be that the shaft power is at the level of 500 kilowatts, but there is already an aero engine of this axle power level in China, which is the "Arye" 1C turboshaft engine on the straight 9 helicopter introduced from the French Turbomeca company in the form of licensing a few years ago, well, our domestic model is called turboshaft 8A, does the boss want to engage in the same power level?

The boss is rich, and of course it is not a problem to build such an engine, but the Southern Aviation Power Company of Zhu@zhou has to work hard with the boss?

"In terms of shaft power, the maximum output is between 100 and 200 shaft horsepower," Chen Geng said, "In the future, I hope that this power output will cover from 100 horsepower to 400 axis horsepower." ”

“......”

Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to say for a while: a turboshaft/turboprop engine with a shaft power between 100 horsepower and 400 horsepower? If you use this core machine to make a turbofan engine, it will probably only have a thrust of two or three hundred kilograms, what can you do with such a little thrust?

Compared with the positioning of the core machine proposed by their own boss, Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing are not surprised that the power coverage of this core machine can be from 100 shaft horsepower to 400 shaft horsepower. Whitney Canada's PT6A series turboprop engines are available from the 500 shaft horsepower of the early PT6A-6 to the 903 shaft horsepower of the PT6A-42 according to different user needs and tuning.

But the question is, what can you do with such a little output power?!

But despite this, the two still didn't dare to question that Chen Geng's decision was wrong, or that sentence, Chen Geng's past successful experience had cast a dazzling golden body for him, and no one dared to question Chen Geng's decision before this golden body was broken. For example, Huang Wenqing at this moment, he asked extra cautiously: "Boss, we don't know much about the international market situation of civil aero engines with small output power, so are you making this engine to target foreign markets and prepare for export?"

"Hmmm......"

Chen Geng responded, and did not explain more carefully, but asked Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing: "How much do you know about foreign piston aero engine suppliers? What I am talking about is that the maximum output power is basically between 130 horsepower and 300 horsepower, and those piston aero engine suppliers. ”

"I don't know much," Huang Wenqing was a little embarrassed: "I only know their names." ”

"It's okay, tell me what you know. ”

Since the boss let him say it, then say it!

Huang Wenqing thought for a while and said: "If we are a piston aero engine supplier with a maximum output of between 130 horsepower and 300 horsepower, as far as I know, it is mainly Lycoming, Continental and Rotex, and the piston aero engine products of these three companies occupy almost more than 95% of this market range. ”

"Very good," Chen Geng nodded approvingly: "I know it in detail, so do you know what the price of one of their engines is?"

“......”

Huang Wenqing and Meng Haibo were all stupid: how could we know this?

Although Huaxia has also introduced some aero engine technology from abroad in recent years, this definitely does not include more than 100 horsepower piston aero engines, as the main person in charge of the original Cheng Factory, Meng Haibo and Huang Wenqing can not pay attention to this price range, so in the face of Chen Geng's problem, both of them are a little confused.

Chen Geng didn't expect the two to answer their own questions: "The best light helicopter sold in the United States: Robinson R22, equipped with a piston aero engine produced by Lycoming with a maximum output of 131 horsepower, the price of the new aircraft in the United States is about 120,000 US dollars...... Guess what the price of the engine is?"

"How much?!"

Realizing a certain possibility, Huang Wenqing and Meng Haibo's eyes couldn't help but widen.

"It's in the early $30,000s!"

"What?!"

Huang Wenqing and Meng Haibo's eyes were about to burst out: a 130-horsepower aero engine dared to sell for more than 30,000 US dollars?!

Huang Wenqing couldn't help but say: "How much does the production cost of the piston-5 engine on our Y-5 transport plane be, so a 130-horsepower broken engine, they dare to sell it for more than 30,000 US dollars?!"

Meng Haibo kept nodding his head, feeling concerned: The piston-5 is also a star-shaped engine with more than 1,000 horsepower, and the cost price is less than 100,000 yuan, so such a broken engine dares to sell for more than 30,000 dollars? !

Chen Geng smiled: "Where is this, the American Beechcraft Aircraft Manufacturing Company has a product, called Beechcraft Baron G58, which is a light twin-engine fixed-wing civil aircraft with two seats and two piston aero engines with a maximum output of 300 horsepower produced by Continental Corporation.

The price of this aircraft in the U.S. market starts at $220,000, and as for the two engines, Continental sells them to Beechcraft for about $80,000 to $90,000, and if the engine is damaged and needs to be replaced, Continental sells it to individual users for $65,000 each. ”

“......”

Huang Wenqing and Meng Haibo didn't speak, and even their faces were expressionless, and the two of them had nothing to say: a broken engine dared to sell for $65,000, damn Yankees are simply robbing money!

They also understand why their boss wants to enter the aero engine market at this level: Nima sells for more than $30,000 for an aero engine with more than 100 horsepower, and $40,000 or 50,000 for a 200 or 300 horsepower engine.

Although Lycoming, Continental, and Rotex are old small aero engine manufacturing companies that play piston aero engines, and the boss wants to make turboshaft and turboprop engines, it doesn't matter, compared with piston aero engines, under the same output power, the weight of turboshaft and turboprop aero engines is much lighter, and the fuel consumption and economy are much better, so even if we sell it a little more expensive, it's no problem, not to mention that it may not need to be sold so expensive......

This business is done!

As for whether the competition with Lycomingming, Continental, and Rotex will cause the US Government to participate in and pull the strings, Huang Wenqinghe and Meng Haibo are not worried at all: How big is the scale and volume of Lycomingming, Mainland, and Rotex? How great is the impact on US national defense? They think that they are large aircraft engine suppliers related to US national strategic security, such as General Electric, Pratt Whitney, Unicredit, Allison, and Honeywell, and we are not afraid at all with the energy of the boss at the top level in the United States!