There was no way to think about it, Chen Geng sighed, and asked McDonald Jr.: "What is McDonnell Douglas's largest annual production capacity of modifications now? You know, I'm not talking about those 40 planes." ”

Since Chen Gengdu said so, McDonald Jr. said honestly: "52, there is no way to more." ”

52 is actually not a few, Chen Geng nodded, and asked again: "What about the supplier? What is the maximum annual supply of the flat-tail and vertical-tail suppliers, and how many engines can they refurbish and modify each year?"

"That's the problem," McDonald Jr. frowned at this, and sighed to himself: "They can only provide us with a maximum of 52 airframe components a year now, and as for Pratt Whitney and General Electric, they can go faster, but they can only refurbish and upgrade 80 engines a year without affecting their orders." ”

Each has 80 engines, and theoretically two are 160, which is just enough to modify 80 DC-10s, but there is still a big gap between this and his imagination, Chen Geng couldn't help but sigh when he heard it.

In many people's imagination, aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus should produce their own fuselage, wings and other fuselage components, and then buy engines from Pratt Whitney, General Electric and Rolls-Royce, avionics systems from Rockwell Collins and other companies, and then assemble them into a complete aircraft, but in fact this is not the case, in 1993, aircraft manufacturers basically only produce fuselage...... Yes, that's right, it's the round fuselage for passengers...... And the nose, such as wings, vertical tail, flat tail, landing gear, electronic systems, hydraulic systems, engines, nose radar fairings and other systems, are all purchased and sent to the factory for assembly, in general, in fact, it is similar to the work done by Foxconn.

Even in a few years, the main engine factory will no longer even produce the fuselage, and all the fuselage components will be handed over to the OEM for production, and then the produced fuselage components will be shipped back to the final assembly plant for final assembly - at this point, it will be more like Foxconn.

For example, the famous Boeing 737, do you think that the fuselage of the Boeing 737 is produced by Boeing itself?

Wrong!

The 737 fuselage for Boeing is produced by an airline called Sprite, which produces about 70% of the Boeing 737 fuselage, but also produces the Boeing 747, Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 fuselage, as of 2012, Sprite has produced a total of 10,000 Boeing 737 fuselage, which is terrifying!

Of course, the fact that Sprite spun off from Boeing in 2005 is another story.

In order to cut costs, in addition to the fuselage and nose assembly, such as engine nacelles, engine hangers, vertical tails, horizontal tails, flaps, fairings between the wing and the fuselage, etc., all have many years of cooperation with OEMs to help produce, including a number of companies from Huaxia, for example, since last year, Shen Fei began to OEM the MD-80 horizontal tail for McDonnell Douglas, and Xifei began to OEM the MD-80 vertical tail for McDonnell Douglas......

Hey?

Thinking of Xifei and Shen Fei, Chen Geng's heart moved, and he asked McDonald Jr.: "Mike, if Huaxia's Xifei and Shen Fei are asked to OEM the fuselage components of DC-10 and MD-11 for you, is there any problem on the part of the US government?"

Asking Huaxia to manufacture the fuselage components of the DC-10 and MD-11 for McDonnell Douglas? McDonald Jr. hesitated for a moment, did not answer this question directly, but his heart moved, and said: "This...... I can't say it, as you said, the quality of the vertical tail and flat tail of the MD-80 manufactured by Xifei and Shen Fei for us is very good, and the vertical tail and flat tail of the DC-10 are manufactured for us, which should not be a big problem from a technical point of view, but you also know that after all, there is a military version of DC-10, that is, the KC-10 air tanker, I am a little worried about the attitude of the military, and I am more worried that Boeing may interfere with it. ”

In Chen Geng's view, this is simply certain, and there is no other reason, even if it is to make trouble for McDonnell Douglas, they will definitely do it.

As for the reason? The military version of the DC-10 is the US military KC-10 air tanker, if Huaxia is allowed to come into contact with the vertical tail and flat-tail components of the DC-10, it is possible for Huaxia to understand the core military secrets of the US military, is this reason enough?

Although McDonnell Douglas asked Huaxia to manufacture the flat-tail and vertical-tail components of the improved twin-engine version of the DC-10, for the military, a "possible leak of military secrets" was enough to stop the matter.

All of this sounds very reasonable, right? But Chen Gengcai is not in the hands of little MacDonald!

Boeing and the military have a good relationship, so are you McDonnell Douglas and the military two parallel lines? If the military wants to sell Boeing a face, won't it sell your face?

Chen Geng knows very well that the reason why McDonald Jr. said this is nothing more than that after realizing that he wanted to hand over some of the fuselage components of the DC-10 and MD-11 to Huaxia enterprises, he hoped that he would go to the military side and not want to waste his favors.

But this situation can be seen through and not broken, since you are not in a hurry about your own affairs, then I am in a hurry?

Pretending not to understand the hint in Little McDonald's words, Chen Geng said with a smile: "That's it, then forget it, it's really not okay to take your time." ”

Take it easy?

How does this work?!

Little McDonnell was a little anxious, he was about to speak, but he couldn't help but look at Chen Geng's smiling face again, and immediately reacted: This bastard is looking at his own jokes.

The old face turned red instantly.

Since Chen Geng was not fooled, Little MacDonald immediately took out the second set of rhetoric he had prepared, he frowned and sighed: "In this way, I'm afraid to go to the Pentagon to inquire about the situation first, if the military's attitude on this matter is not very resolute, then try to operate it, but Fernandez, even if Huaxia can provide enough modifications in half a year, our side will not be able to complete the corresponding modifications......"

This is a problem, Chen Geng thought for a while, and said: "Let your people send me a list of the hardware needed to modify the DC-10, and I'll see if Fokker can take over some of the modification work." ”

If Fokker has hardware that can meet the needs of the DC-10 and MDC-11 modifications, Fokker should be able to get this job up soon with decades of experience in producing and manufacturing aircraft, as long as it has undergone the appropriate training.

Hey?

Listening to Chen Geng's words, little McDonald patted his head: Yes, why didn't I think that I could ask Fokker to help with some of the modification work?

Different from Shenfei and Xifei in China, Fokker is a Dutch enterprise, although it is not "its own person" for the United States, but it is also a "cousin", and as Chen Geng said, Fokker has many years of experience in the production of aircraft, as long as they are trained in accordance with the relevant modification rules, for those skilled technical workers of Fokker Company, there is really no technical difficulty in completing such a modification - After all, the DC-10 is a large guy with a length of 55.5 meters, a wingspan of 47.3/50.4 meters, and a height of 17.7 meters, while Fokker's plant is designed according to the standard of meeting the standards of Fokker F100, a quasi-trunk aircraft that is smaller than the Boeing 737.

But no matter what, there is no problem with which information to show to Fakker first, and McDonald Jr. immediately nodded: "Okay, I'll arrange for someone to send you a copy of the information when I go back." ”

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Little McDonald left, and Chen Geng immediately dialed Anthony Folk's phone: "Anthony, the size of our production workshop, can you allow DC-10 to drive in?"

He believes that Anthony Fokker, as the CEO of Fokker, should know everything about the DC-10's fuselage size data, as well as the data from his own factory.

"DC-10?" Sure enough, as Chen Geng thought, although Anthony Fokker didn't understand why his boss drove the DC-10 into Fokker's factory, he knew the DC-10's fuselage data and Fokker's production workshop data well, and immediately said: "The space inside our workshop can meet the requirements of parking DC-10, but the opening of the gate is not enough, only 38 meters." ”

"Just enough space inside," with Anthony Fock's words, Chen Geng had the bottom in his heart, and he immediately said: "Anthony, I took over a job for our company to modify the DC-10, and you can arrange it when you go back, change the door to be wider." ”

"Retrofitting DC-10?" Thinking of the recent uproar in the aviation industry, the DC-10 and MD-11 were changed from three to two engines, Anthony Falkden shuddered and hurriedly asked, "Boss, you mean, give us some of the work of modifying the McDonnell Douglas DC-10?"

"Of course, is there any problem? You should know that this project was invested by me, since this project is invested by me, is there any problem with me taking some work for my own company? Or do you think you can't take this job?" Chen Geng asked strangely.

"I didn't ...... Nope!"

Chen Geng's words made Anthony Folk's confidence immediately sufficient: Yes, DC-10 and MD-11 are changed from three to two projects, but their own boss invested, since it is a project he invested, is there any problem with making some meat for his company?

As for the question of whether Fokker can take on this job......

"Boss, our Fokker company can independently design, produce, and manufacture Boeing 737 aircraft, this modification of DC-10, to put it bluntly, is just a new set of vertical tail and flat tail, there is no technical content at all, how difficult do you think this kind of work is for us?"

Anthony Falk screamed for himself.