Chapter 230: Power delta wing
"Army officers above the rank of major?" Alex Goodrich nodded without thinking, "My cousin is now serving in the Army, Lieutenant Colonel." ”
Chen Geng: "......"
I have a saying that MMP doesn't know whether to say or not, a mayor's cousin turned out to be an active lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army...... Well, it's not hard to accept.
It was Alex Goodrich who asked Chen Geng curiously: "Sir, are you going to sell something to the army?" With all due respect, this is difficult, very difficult, there are too many relationships that need to be opened, not to mention that my cousin is a lieutenant colonel, even if he is a colonel, this violates the interests of other people......"
"What if the thing we are going to sell to the Army does not infringe on the interests of others, but does have something that the US Army needs?" interrupted Alex Goodrich, Chen Geng asked with a smile.
"Uh...... That's ......."
Alex Goodrich was a little incredulous, the equipment needed by the army, including the supply of daily vegetables to the army, had already been divided into "spheres of influence", and the boss actually said that he had a product in his hand that would not infringe on anyone's interests, that is, he had a product that the army needed, but no one was involved in this area now...... But is it possible?
Knowing who this matter is on anyone's disbelief, Chen Geng doesn't sell it: "Do you know the power delta wing?"
"Trike?" Alex Goodrich looked confused, "What is this?"
Alex Goodrich doesn't know about the power delta wing, which is nothing to be surprised about, and people who don't know about this thing after thirty or forty years are not the same as grasping a lot of things? Chen Geng said again: "You don't know about the delta wing?"
Alex Goodrich shook his head again, looking confused.
Chen Geng thought for a while and said to him: "You can think of this thing as an ultra-light small aircraft that can be quickly folded and deployed, with very low requirements for the take-off site, as long as there is a flat grass field, it can get up, and the noise of the flight is very low, which is very suitable for special forces to perform some special tasks, and most importantly, the cost is very low......"
Alex Goodrich didn't care too much about what Chen Geng said before, but when he heard that this thing was suitable for special forces to perform special missions, and the cost was very low, Alex Goodrich suddenly cheered up and immediately asked, "Very low? How low?"
"If the engine of the Japanese male upgrade motorcycle is used as the power, two soldiers can be carried, and they can also be allowed to carry some supplies and equipment, the overall manufacturing cost should not exceed 12,000 US dollars, and if it can be produced on a large scale in the future, the cost should be controlled to about 7,000 US dollars. ”
Alex Goodrich was instantly shocked: "It's not as expensive as a better car?"
In his mind, if you don't sell a flying machine suitable for special forces to perform special missions, don't you be embarrassed? Even the units that use this equipment feel ashamed.
Chen Geng is embarrassed to say that I am actually exaggerating, if the CBX1000 engine that has been authorized by Honda is used as the power, the actual production cost can be easily controlled at 5,000 US dollars, and when the large-scale industrial production is carried out in the future...... Hmph, if it costs more than $3,000, count me as a loser!
He nodded modestly: "Almost." ”
"I really can't imagine how such a flight that can carry two heavily armed soldiers could be so cheap, but...... How much are you going to sell for such a flying machine?"
Alex Goodrich really couldn't imagine how an airplane could be so cheap, and the price of buying an airplane was equivalent to buying a car? But his intuition told him that he really hadn't heard of this thing called a "power delta wing", and if he could really sell this thing to the military, wouldn't he make a fortune?
He has a "$" symbol flashing in his eyes!
"About $20,000. Chen Geng thought for a moment and asked.
The actual cost of 5,000 US dollars is sold for 20,000 yuan, Chen Geng feels that his heart is already black and can be used as charcoal, but Alex Goodrich proved to Chen Geng: What kind of black heart are you? You don't even count the average profit, right?
"Only $20,000?!"
Alex Goodrich immediately frowned and shook his head repeatedly: "No, it's too cheap." ”
Too cheap?!
The cost is 5,000 ...... Okay, just think it's 7,000, and something that costs $7,000 sells for 20,000 yuan, and you actually say it's too cheap? Chen Geng felt that his third view was about to be subverted.
Alex Goodrich looked at Chen Geng with a straight face and said: "Sir, you must know that this is a flying machine! We don't want to say how many links we need to open up if we want to sell this thing, and how much it costs to get through these links, let's just say that with the attitude of the US military towards equipment, if our offer is too low, do you think they will buy it?"
“...... Well, what you said makes sense," Chen Geng was convinced, how could he forget that this is the most tyrant army in the world? People are fighting in Afghanistan, and they don't drink bottled water, that's why is it that the United States can spend hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending on fighting a law and order war in Afghanistan? It is the glorious tradition of others who only sell expensive and do not buy right, and he humbly asked Alex Goodrich for advice: "Alex, how much do you think is more appropriate?"
"Fifty thousand dollars," Alex Goodrich thought for a moment, "I think it's at least fifty thousand dollars." ”
Fifty thousand dollars?
Or from $50,000?!
Chen Geng swallowed his saliva: Nima!
Finally knowing why those military industrial giants and arms giants in the United States are so keen to push the US military to fight wars outside, is this really "a cannon sounds, gold is ten thousand taels"? Compared with the little cost that needs to be spent to promote a war, can it only successfully promote a war, and that cost can be counted as money?
It's drizzling!
Alex Goodrich didn't notice Chen Geng's expression, and continued: "I think it will cost at least $50,000, but I need to ask my cousin what kind of price to set, we need to make this thing as soon as possible, and then we will listen to his opinion...... Boss, in order to make my cousin do his best in this matter, I think you can consider giving him a stake. ”
This is simply a disguised question of how many shares he will give Alex Goodrich in this project, Chen Geng smiled: "Your cousin's shares are counted, but he can be regarded as the sales manager in charge of the military side of our company, and he will directly get the commission, as for the proportion of the commission, we will calculate it after the final selling price is determined, but no matter what, every time he sells a power delta wing to the military, the commission will not be less than 2,000 US dollars." ”
“OK。 Hearing that every one of these trikes sold to the military netted $2,000, Alex Goodrichton had no objection.
Chen Geng continued: "As for the shares of the two of us, I am six and you are four, if the company needs to add new shareholders in the future, how about diluting them according to the proportion of shareholdings?"
What do you think?
Of course, there is no opinion at all, Alex Goodrich's biggest hope before is to be able to get two or three percent of the shares, I heard that the boss is willing to give him forty percent, and Le's mouth can't close.
Chen Geng, however, remembered a little more: "By the way, the power delta wing is actually used for a wide range of purposes, such as aerial photography, agricultural and resource exploration, and pesticide spraying...... It's all right, as long as it's a job that a normal airplane can do, it's all about it, so ......"
"I see. Before Chen Geng finished speaking, Alex Goodrich's face turned red with excitement.
It's also the mayor anyway, I just didn't expect so much just now, and now that Chen Geng has been reminded so much, Alex Goodrich's mind instantly thought of the application scenario of seventeen or eighteen power delta wings: With such a big power in his hands, how can he not make good use of it?
..............................
Just do it!
In this era, the power delta wing movement has not yet risen, and there is no engine suitable for the power delta wing, but it is only for demonstration, and there is no need to fly too high, the maximum power of 95 horsepower CBX1000 in-line six-cylinder engine although it is a little heavier, but it can also make do with it.
As for the delta wing that provides lift, it is simpler, the unpowered gliding delta wing has been popular for many years, just find a club to play delta wing, give the parameters of the power car and load below on your side, they can help you customize a large size delta wing, and even the aluminum tube and connection structure will help you do a good job.
The real difficulty lies in the propellers that provide the thrust.
Because the power delta wing movement and the power parawing movement have not yet emerged, both Europe and North America can not find a supplier that can provide this kind of small-size lightweight propeller, this problem once made Alex Goodrich, who came to see the progress, extremely headache, to the propeller manufacturer to propose to customize a pair of propellers, but the other party's offer almost scared Alex Goodrich to death: a propeller with a diameter of 1.7 meters, the other party quoted 80,000 US dollars!
No discount, no more, the delivery time is at least two months later, a look like you love to be happy or not, anyway, I'm like this.
Chen Geng was furious: "Isn't it just a pair of small-sized propellers, let's do it ourselves!"
"Do it yourself?" Alex Goodrich was a little confused.
"Do it yourself! Find a college professor who knows this stuff and ask him to help us design a set of propellers...... Or just take the existing pulp information to us, give us the processing data, let's just use wood to make it!" "Isn't it just a pair of propellers, Nima is also installed with Lao Tzu?"