"Mr. Fernandez, welcome to you, your presence makes the Fork Group feel vibrant. Anthony Falk held Chen Geng's hand tightly, and at the same time quickly glanced at the huge McDonnell Douglas-82 private jet behind Chen Geng, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter.

"Mr. Fokker, you are too polite," the business boasted to each other, and Chen Geng had already mastered these Chen Geng with ease: "The Fokker Group is the pride of the Dutch and even European aviation industry, and it is my honor to be able to visit the Fokker Group, and it is even more proud of me to be able to participate in the new aircraft project of the Fokker Group." ”

Yes, Chen Geng has come to the Netherlands.

Although Anthony Fokker said that he wanted to go to the United States to talk to Chen Geng in order to show his sincerity, Chen Geng refused Anthony Fock's kindness and came to the Netherlands in person out of consideration for the inspection of Fokker aircraft.

Not only did many members of the board of directors and senior executives of the group come to the airport to welcome Chen Geng, but even the Dutch government sent a deputy minister very face-saving.

No way, the Netherlands is not only tulips and window girls, their industry is also very developed, Fokker Aircraft Group and Royal Shell, Philips Group, Unilever Group and Akzo Nobel Group constitute the core of the Dutch industry, for Chen Geng, the investor, the Dutch government of course attaches great importance to it, but also needs to understand what Chen Geng's interests are- Although the Fokker Group is indeed under some pressure in terms of finance, they can also accept Chen Geng's investment, but they also need to carefully consider Chen Geng's requirements.

According to the itinerary communicated by the two sides, Chen Geng will first visit the production of Fokker Company, for example, now, Chen Geng and his entourage are visiting the production process of Fokker F27......

"The Fokker F27 is a propeller-powered regional jet with a maximum payload of 6.5 tons," Anthony Fokker introduced to Chen Geng, who was the narrator, "The latest modification of this aircraft can carry up to 60 passengers, and we have sold more than 700 of them since its first flight in 1955." ”

"More than 700?" Chen Geng cooperated with a just right amount of shock: "It's amazing." ”

"Yes, we are very proud," Europeans never knew what modesty was: "The Fokker F27 prototype first flew on November 24, 1955, and the successor, the Fokker 50, flew on December 28, 1985. The F27 was not only a highly successful civilian airliner, but was also converted into a military transport aircraft and maritime patrol aircraft, and the weapons were licensed to the American company Fairchild for production, which was one of the most successful aircraft in Europe during World War II. ”

Anthony Falk's face was full of pride.

However, Fokker Group, as an aircraft manufacturing enterprise without the support of a major country, is really proud to have achieved such results.

"It has also been converted into a military transport aircraft and a maritime patrol aircraft?" Chen Geng was a little surprised, he was also a military fan, big and small, why hadn't he heard of such a thing?

"Yes, Mr. Fernandez," said Anthony Fock, who was not the slightest impatient, wishing that Chen Geng would be more interested in his own products, "the nickname of the military model is 'troop carrier,' and the nickname of the maritime patrol aircraft is 'Sea Executor...... Customers are very satisfied with the reliability, stability, ease of maintenance and fuel consumption control of our platform.

We at Fokker Group attach great importance to international cooperation, such as the F27 you see now, the engine is the 'Dart' MK552 turboprop engine provided by Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom, the outer wing section is produced for us by the Belgian aviation manufacturing company, and the French Dassault Aircraft Company provides us with the middle and rear fuselage, and the German MBB company is responsible for providing us with dorsal fins, flaps and ailerons......"

Listening to Anthony Falk saying these seemingly useless nonsense, Chen Geng laughed secretly in his heart, he actually understood the meaning of Anthony Faulk's seemingly boring nonsense: We do not exclude cooperating with you, not at all.

As an aircraft about the size of Huaxia's Y-7 transport aircraft, the interior space of the F27 is not small, if you don't have an intuitive concept, then you can imagine it as a bus with a 2+2 seating layout, 15 rows of seats, and a body length of about 10 to 11 meters.

As for Fokker's other leading model: the use of 2+3 seat layout, the use of two Rolls-Royce "Spey" MK552 turbofan engines, the maximum passenger capacity of 87 people F28, you can even see it as a shortened fuselage McDonnell Douglas DC-9/McDonnell Douglas 80, the fuselage section and size of the two aircraft are similar, the same use of the aerodynamic layout of the tail crane engine and the 3+2 seat arrangement scheme.

But what surprised Chen Geng even more was the advanced degree of Fokker company's production line, Chen Geng subconsciously thought that Fokker Group's aircraft production line was much behind McDonnell Douglas (no way, Chen had only visited McDonnell Douglas), but he actually saw that although Fokker was indeed a little behind McDonnell Douglas, the degree of backwardness was far less than he imagined.

And perhaps because of the "small ship and good U-turn", Fokker Aircraft is obviously more flexible than McDonnell Douglas in terms of on-site management of production, which surprised Chen Geng.

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After a round of visiting, facing the expectant gaze of Anthony Fokker and dozens of pairs of eyes of Fokker Group, Chen Geng applauded lightly and said: "Very good! Very powerful! Frankly speaking, before I came, I didn't expect that Fokker Company's production efficiency was so advanced, I had a good relationship with Mr. McDonnell Jr., and I also visited McDonnell Douglas Company more than once, I didn't expect that Fokker Company and McDonnell Douglas Company were not equal in many places, and some places were even better. ”

Everyone loves to listen to good words, and when Chen Geng compared Fokker with McDonnell Douglas, one of the world's aviation manufacturing giants, a group of executives of Fokker turned red with excitement, and the tree between the A tree and the C tree in their hearts was inexplicably uprooted: Are we so powerful?

Anthony Fokker finally maintained a little basic sanity, although he was also excited to meow, but there was still a B tree in his heart, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Mr. Fernandez, you are too polite, McDonnell Douglas is the world's top aircraft manufacturing company, and their technology and achievements in the field of military and civil aircraft manufacturing are not comparable to our Fokker company, and they are an example for our Fokker aircraft to learn...... Mr. Fernandez, do you know Mr. MacDonald Jr. well?"

"Well," Chen Geng replied casually: "My plane is the team that Mr. MacDonald Jr. helped me plug in." ”

The relationship between Mr. Fernandez and Mr. MacDonald Jr. is not ordinarily good, wow!

A group of Fokker executives were in awe.

Industrial production, pay attention to a plan and precision, from the initial procurement of raw materials to production to delivery, there is a strict plan and planning, not that you want to cut the queue can cut the queue, such as Fernandez Chen's McDonnell Douglas 82 private jet parked at the airport, want to cut in line, get the plane in advance, that need to coordinate more joints, the most basic question: how to explain to the customer who was preempted by him?

And Mr. MacDonald Jr. was willing to speak specifically for Chen Geng's plane, which is enough to show that the relationship between the two is more than a simple "good" word can describe.

Some of them think more long-term, and even have been moved: since Fernandez Chen has such a good relationship with Mr. MacDonald Jr., can Fokker Aircraft introduce some technology, craftsmanship and management methods from MacDonald through Fernandez Chen?

Chen Geng changed the topic and said to Anthony Fokk: "Mr. Fokk, tell me about this new aircraft that you are preparing to develop, what kind of aircraft is this?"

Anthony Faulk's face suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "Mr. Fernandez, in fact...... Are we talking about two aircraft?"

"What?!"

Chen Geng wanted to scold: in the case of his own financial situation is not very good, it is already very risky to launch a 100-seater, turbofan-powered large branch/small trunk aircraft, and your Fokker aircraft is not risky enough, so you have to launch two models at the same time?!

With such a radical product development strategy, is this because you don't die fast enough?!

Anthony Falk also knew why Chen Geng was so shocked, and he explained to Chen Geng with a little embarrassment: "That's the case, Mr. Fernandez, we developed the updated models of the F27 and F28 - after all, the F27 and F28 were developed in the fifties, and it has been almost thirty years now, and it is time to update them."

As for the risks, of course, we have also considered them, but after analyzing the future market, we believe that although there are certain risks, we must do so.

Of course, out of prudence, and in order to reduce costs and risks as much as possible, in our previous internal discussions, many of the technical and design concepts of the new aircraft are continued from the old aircraft, and we will use the F28 as the original aircraft of our new aircraft for design, such as the fuselage structure of the new F28 replacement model is basically continued from the F28, using the same fuselage structure and 3+2 seat layout as the F28.

Of course, the new F28 will be a completely new aircraft, and although it is still in the discussion stage, we have reached an internal consensus on the specific ideas, such as the heavy use of composite materials to reduce the weight of the fuselage, such as the use of more advanced avionics and powertrains, and the noise characteristics to meet the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 36 noise requirements for Phase 3......"

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