Her Majesty personally intervened!

Her Majesty the Queen has personally communicated with Mr. Fernandez Chan and decided to ask KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to purchase 24 Fokker F70 aircraft over the next two years in exchange for Fernandez Chan not to lay off employees, and at the same time, Mr. Chan has promised that after two years he will bring a new model to the company, and at the same time increase sales, and ensure that there will be no layoffs after two years......

As soon as the news came out, the workers involved in the strike were boiling, and the cries of "Long live Her Majesty!" rang out at the gate of the town hall, and all those involved in the strike were grateful for Queen Beatrix's intervention!

As for Chen Geng's promise, it was ignored by everyone, intentionally or unintentionally: if it weren't for Her Majesty the Queen herself, the damned capitalist would have made such a promise?

So, everything today is a credit to Her Majesty.

Raylani Taylor was indignant at the result: "Boss, it's not fair to you! The Dutch media didn't say much about the concessions and sacrifices you made when they advertised it, they only highlighted Queen Beatrix's contribution, in fact, if not ......"

Before Raylani Taylor could finish speaking, Chen Geng waved her hand to signal that she didn't need to say anything, and said with a smile: "There is nothing fair or unfair, for me, it is better to create a harsh image among the workers than to make them think I am amiable." ”

"A gentleman can deceive him", foreigners also understand, Leilani Taylor blinked, and immediately understood what Chen Geng meant, thinking about it carefully, she also felt that the current result was not very fast for her own boss, but even so, she was still a little unwilling, muttering: "But this is not fair to you." ”

"There is nothing fair or unfair, how can there be so much fairness in this world?" Chen Geng was very open: "The most important thing now is to quickly complete the acquisition of Fokker shares, and then a series of plans can be launched, as for other things, now we have to make way for this matter." ”

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Chen Geng's acquisition of Fokker did not cause much reaction in the European and American worlds, although the media also reported it, but the general reaction of the people was "Oh, this is ......", and then there was no more.

It is also understandable that in terms of volume and manufacturing capacity, Fokker has no way to compare with Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Airbus, and Lockheed, which can manufacture large wide-body passenger aircraft, especially in the eyes of Americans, Fokker is no different from "a small country workshop", and it was acquired when it was acquired, not to mention that the acquisition of Fokker is a representative of the "American dream", is there anything bad about this?

However, Chen Geng's acquisition of Fokker still attracted the attention of some people......

Located at the Lockheed headquarters in Bethesda City, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, a meeting chaired by Lockheed CEO Malcolm Hughes is underway, since it is a regular meeting, the atmosphere of the meeting is naturally very relaxed, for example, at this moment, Bruce Evans, executive vice president of aviation, suddenly said to Malcolm Hughes: "Mr. Hughes, have you heard the news of Fernandez Chen's acquisition of Holland Fokker Company?"

"I heard," Malcolm Hughes nodded, a little curious as to why Bruce Evans suddenly mentioned it, "What?"

The implication is that even though it's just a regular meeting every Monday, why are you idle to mention this?

"Oh, I just thought of one thing," Bruce Evans said, "Mr. Hughes, and gentlemen, although we have decided to give up the civil aircraft business, the acquisition of Fokker by Fernandez Chen has given me some inspiration, can we sell our civil aircraft business to Fernandez Chen?"

Well...... Well?!

As early as World War II, Lockheed came up with the L-049 "Constellation" airliner, which can carry 49 guests in 13 hours from New York to London, England, which was simply a very good cross-oceanic flight capability at the time, so as soon as World War II ended, orders from major airlines in the United States and Europe flocked to L-049 "Constellation" It quickly seized the market opportunity, while competitors Douglas DC-6 and Boeing 377 were introduced more than a year later than the L-049 Constellation.

Lockheed has made a lot of money in the civil aircraft market.

With the advent of Douglas DC-6 and Boeing 377, Lockheed has launched an improved version of L-049 "Constellation": L-1049 "Super Constellation", according to the needs of different routes, L-1048 "Constellation" can accommodate up to 105 passengers, this performance is really bull B bomb.

Before the advent of jetliners such as the Boeing 707 and DC-8, the L-1049 "Super Constellation" represented the crowning achievement of a piston aviation-powered civil airliner.

Relying on the "Constellation" and "Super Constellation" series, Lockheed was unique in the fifties after World War II, but the good times did not last long, when the civil airliner entered the jet power era, Lockheed seemed to suddenly find no direction, go back to the word, out of an aircraft to lose money, out of an aircraft to lose money, such as the first turboprop-powered civil aircraft L-188 "Electra" Officially put into service in January 1959, by 1961 due to a number of aviation accidents had to be discontinued, the L-188 "Electra" alone this aircraft cost Lockheed $57 million, plus $55 million in compensation to passengers for aviation accidents, which is equivalent to this aircraft made Lockheed lose more than $112 million.

That's $112 million in the early '60s, and even the deep-pocketed Lockheed is bleeding profusely because of it.

Fortunately, the east is not bright and the west is bright, although the L-188 "Electra" in the civil aircraft market has made Lockheed lose blood, but it is still mixed well in the military aircraft market, and Lockheed has developed the P-3 "Orion" maritime patrol aircraft for the US Navy on the basis of the L-188 "Electra", which has been a great success, and has entered the US Navy since 1962 and has been in service for more than 40 years.

In addition, the P-3 aircraft should be very familiar to our domestic military fans, not only because the P-3 "Orion" is an excellent maritime patrol aircraft, but because the United States modified the electronic warfare version of the P-3 "Orion": EP-3 electronic reconnaissance in the South China Sea in 2001 made us lose an excellent naval aviation pilot - the rest is not easy to develop.

But here, Lockheed's bad luck is not over, Lockheed on the L-188 "Electra" hit a bag again, after two years of market research, they launched a new generation of large wide-body jet research and development program, that is, Lockheed's only large wide-body jet airliner, similar to McDonnell Douglas DC-10 L-1011 "Samsung" three-engine wide-body airliner.

The overall performance of the L-1011 "Samsung" is very good, applying a large number of military aircraft technologies such as lift control systems, the maximum flight altitude can reach 13,000 meters, and the maximum flight speed can also reach Mach 0.95, which means that as long as there is a little relative air flow in the air, this guy can theoretically be supersonic.

But as we said, Lockheed's bad luck is not over, because it was launched to the market a year later than DC-10, L-1011 "Samsung" is once again sad: in the face of the squeeze of competitors such as Airbus A300, Boeing 747, McDonnell Douglas DC-10, by 1983, after producing more than 230 aircraft, it had to stop production, and Lockheed reported a loss of 2.5 billion US dollars!

The continuous losses made Lockheed finally give up its mind to make a difference in the civil aircraft market and put all its attention on the military aircraft business.

But after all, there are decades of technology accumulation, it would be a pity to give up like this, Lockheed is ready to sell the civil aircraft business in a package, sell at a good price, and want to make the last money in the civil aircraft market, but unfortunately, in the previous contact with Boeing, Boeing does not look down on Lockheed's civil aircraft technology at all, and McDonnell Douglas is neither money nor interest, just when Lockheed was depressed and felt that there was a chance that he would smash his own hands, Chen Geng's acquisition of Fokker shares gave Bruce Evans inspiration......

Bruce Evans' words not only caught the eyes of CEO Malcolm Hughes, but also the other group executives in the room who attended the regular meeting: Huh, this wide, this wide......

First of all, Fernandez Chen has money! This is the most important thing, theoretically as long as he wants to buy it, he can afford it, if Fernandez Chen doesn't have a total of two money in his pocket, then don't say anything;

Secondly, Fernandez Chen has the desire to enter the aviation industry, not only did he acquire the Dutch Falkland-United Aviation Technology Company, but he also established a joint venture company with the Chinese people: Huaxia Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Industry Group;

Again, although Fernández Chen has been in the aviation industry for a long time, his technical level is limited, even if he acquires the Dutch Fokker company now, he can only manufacture aircraft like Fokker F100, and the manufacturing technology of 300-seat large wide-body passenger aircraft is beyond his reach, so ......

Uh-huh......

Thinking of the good thing that they can finally get rid of the big burden of the civil aircraft business and exchange it for a large sum of money at the same time, some executives can't help but start how much money they can get from Chen Geng.

Malcolm Hughes immediately slapped the table: "Let's find a way to contact Fernandez Chen first and test what the other party means......" Speaking of this, Malcolm Hughes's eyes fell on Bruce Evans: "Bruce, this matter will be handed over to you, is there a problem." ”

Bruce Evans was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly said, "No problem. ”