"What? Lockheed is also investigating Boeing?" Hearing the news, Chen Geng's mouth almost erupted from the dragon well before Ming, and he looked at Joterson in shock: "What is Lockheed investigating Boeing?"

As for why Joterson knew about this kind of thing, Chen Geng was not surprised at all: he didn't even have this news channel, so what kind of broker was he doing?

Joterson gloated with a face: "Didn't McDonnell Douglas take their more than 30 employees to court at once, which also involved Boeing, Lockheed felt that Boeing may have played a disgraceful role in the All Nippon Airways incident that year, and you also know that if it weren't for the All Nippon Airways incident that year, Lockheed's civil aircraft business would not be as miserable as it is now......

Chen Geng listened and nodded again and again.

Yes, if it weren't for the ANA incident, Lockheed's civil aircraft would not be so miserable, in fact, between the ANA incident, Lockheed's L-1011 "Samsung" airliner sold relatively well, if it developed according to the momentum at that time, as long as it was sold for another decade or so, L-1011 "Samsung" would almost be able to return to its original cost, if it could be improved all the way to MD-11 like McDonnell Douglas and then sold to this day, and then counting the profits from the after-sales service, Lockheed can still come fromThe "Samsung" airliner made quite a lot of money.

But the problem is that there is no "if" regret medicine in this world, and the fact is that Lockheed lost money on the L-1011 "Samsung" passenger aircraft project, and it lost quite badly, losing billions of dollars at once, and even directly lost Lockheed's morale in the civil aircraft business.

From this point of view, if the ANA incident back then was really a ghost behind the scenes by Boeing, such a reversal would mean that Lockheed was cheated by Boeing by at least 5 billion, and Lockheed would be in a hurry to see what hell of it.

Chen Geng could even imagine what kind of reaction Lockheed would have had if he really found out that Boeing had played a disgraceful role in the ANA incident: Yes, that's right, we paid bribes back then, but could it be that every transaction of your Boeing is so glorious and magnificent? You'd better not let me find out what your Boeing had to do with the ANA incident back then, otherwise, hum hum ......

"Old Joe, does the ANA incident have anything to do with Boeing?" asked Chen Geng with his eyes shining to Jotson.

"Who knows," Joterson shrugged: "Anyway, I personally think that Boeing has nothing to do with this matter at all, I don't believe it, but even if Boeing really has something to do with it, it is estimated that they have already cleaned up the relevant evidence and stains over the years."

As for Lockheed, even if they can prove through some indirect evidence that the ANA incident was related to Boeing, in the absence of direct and strong evidence, I don't think they dare to take strong retaliatory actions against Boeing. ”

This is the truth, whether it is Boeing or Lockheed, they are behemoths in the US industrial and military fields, and they are the face of the consortium where they are located, unless there is strong evidence, even if Lockheed wants to retaliate fiercely, the consortium behind Lockheed will definitely hold them down.

"Then we'll sit here and see how this next play will be played. After listening to this gossip, Chen Geng was satisfied, raised the teacup, and gestured to Jotson.

Joterson immediately held up his orange juice in motion.

The two of them laughed at the same time: You two must tear it off, this level of gossip is not so easy to see.

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In the following days, Chen Geng moved a small Mazha and waited to eat melons with great interest.

The series of evidence provided by McDonnell Douglas to the prosecution was too sufficient, and there was no strong institutional support behind the employees who were prosecuted by McDonnell Douglas, and it took less than three months for the court to pronounce a verdict, and those employees were sentenced to three to ten years in prison on different charges such as dereliction of duty, commercial bribery, and selling company secrets.

One day after the court made a verdict, looking at the little McDonald who came to visit him, Chen Geng asked with great interest: "How is the effect? Are those guys from Douglas who originally disobeyed you honest now?"

Speaking of this, little McDonald smiled all over his face: "Yes, very good, now those guys are much more honest." ”

Chen Geng nodded slightly.

Also, when the first bird is beaten, the birds behind know what to do as long as they are not stupid.

"But brother, there's something you need to help me with. ”

"What?"

"You know, the airworthiness certification of the twin versions of the MD-11 and DC-10 will be over in three months. ”

Chen Geng nodded and said, "Yes, I know." ”

As for why the airworthiness certification of MD-11 and DC-10 is so fast, it is because these two aircraft cannot be regarded as a brand-new aircraft, but a facelifted model, and the airworthiness certification of this model is very fast, because many of the projects that have been flown before do not need to fly again, basically the entire airworthiness process can be completed in about half a year.

"Now we have more and more orders in our hands," McDonald Jr.'s face slowly filled with happy troubles: "But you also know that DC-10 doesn't have a very good reputation, and everyone wants to be able to complete the modification work as soon as possible......"

Without waiting for McDonald Jr. to finish speaking, Chen Geng already understood what he meant: MD-11 is just that, after all, it is a new aircraft that has just been delivered for a few years, and it has also made targeted improvements to some problems in DC-10, although some of the fatal problems on DC-10 have not been eradicated, but it has been corrected a lot, and there have been no life-threatening failures in the past two years, but DC-10 is different, "cursed aircraft" It's not in vain, which airline can stand the crash of a plane and a fatality accident?

To put it more figuratively, those airlines that are still using DC-10 now are like drawing lots with their eyes closed every year, praying that this year's DC-10 accident will not be their turn - although DC-10 does not have an accident every year that kills a plane and kills people, but basically DC-10 has several large and small accidents every year, these accidents are not necessarily fatal, but scary:

When you are about to land, suddenly find that the landing gear or flaps can not be put down, are you afraid? Of course, you are afraid to death, when the airport sprays a whole runway fire bubbles, your eyes are closed, resigned to fate and ready to land forcibly, suddenly find that the landing gear can be put down, the flaps are normal, the feeling of the whole crew, the feeling of the airline to which the crew belongs, tsk......;

When you just stopped on the runway, the passengers began to disembark, and the captain and co-pilot began to carry out the final check and inspection, there was a sudden accident of power failure of the whole plane, are you afraid? Are you glad or not - if Nima's power outage had happened 10 minutes earlier, wouldn't it be another plane crash and death?!

You say that there are a few more accidents like this, who can stand it? The shareholders of the airlines feel that their souls are about to fly (the above two examples are real examples, and there are many more outrageous failures about the DC-10), so naturally, after hearing that McDonnell Douglas launched the modification business of changing the three-engine version of the DC-10 to the double-engine, the airlines that continue to use the DC-10 are the most active, and they all hope that they can complete the modification as soon as possible- The concept of transshipment is not only in China, but is actually more popular in European and American countries.

It's just that this matter makes Chen Geng very tricky: "I understand what you mean, but how can you ask me to help you? It is impossible for the US government to agree to us to complete the modification of DC-10 in Huaxia, let alone how long it will take to fight with Washington." ”

"Then I don't care," McDonald Jr. was ready to play directly: "Fernandez, DC-10 and MD-11's triple to twin engine is the money you provided, and now many airlines have said that if they can be modified first, they are willing to pay more." ”

"Is this a question of whether there is money or not?" Chen Geng said depressedly: "Is there no suitable place for modification, not to mention anything else, how long will it take for technical training alone?"

Don't look at the appearance of just the tail of the engine and the vertical tail, flat tail dismantling, and then replace with a new set of vertical tail and flat tail components, but in fact the work that needs to be done is far more complicated than these, not to mention the upgrade and improvement of the on-board computer control system, just to say that the oil circuit system and fuel distribution system should be readjusted, right? Some cables in the tail also have to be rearranged, the whole project is actually quite troublesome and complicated, and the construction can only begin after professional training.

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PS: Sorry brothers, please wait a few minutes.

It's just that this matter makes Chen Geng very tricky: "I understand what you mean, but how can you ask me to help you? It is impossible for the US government to agree to us to complete the modification of DC-10 in Huaxia, let alone how long it will take to fight with Washington." ”

"Then I don't care," McDonald Jr. was ready to play directly: "Fernandez, DC-10 and MD-11's triple to twin engine is the money you provided, and now many airlines have said that if they can be modified first, they are willing to pay more." ”

Don't look at the appearance of just the tail of the engine and the vertical tail, flat tail dismantling, and then replace with a new set of vertical tail and flat tail components, but in fact the work that needs to be done is far more complicated than these, not to mention the upgrade and improvement of the on-board computer control system, just to say that the oil circuit system and fuel distribution system should be readjusted, right? Some cables in the tail also have to be rearranged, the whole project is actually quite troublesome and complicated, and the construction can only begin after professional training.