After sitting in the governor's seat, Chen Geng suddenly found that being a governor in the United States is much easier than being a mayor, don't believe it, as long as you form a qualified staff team, no matter what it is, this staff team will help you do things properly, the only thing you need to do is to keep your eyes forward-looking, so as not to be stumped by some specific things, and for Chen Geng, this is what he is good at.

So when he received a call from McDonald Jr. inviting him to play golf together, Chen Geng agreed without saying a word.

It's just that what Chen Geng didn't expect was that when he saw him, little MacDonald complained to himself: "Fernandez, you can kill me." ”

"What did I do?" hugged little McDonald, Chen Geng smiled.

"It's not your Huaxia COMAC?" said McDonald Jr. smugly.

"COMAC Group?" Chen Geng raised his eyebrows, a little curious: "You know, now I have stepped down from all my positions in COMAC, and I am just an ordinary shareholder of COMAC Group waiting for dividends, so ...... What did they do to you?"

"They didn't do anything to me, but they issued an announcement that they would test the Tu-204 long-range version with a maximum range of 8,500 kilometers and 12,500 kilometers next month," McDonald Jr. looked at Chen Geng: "And according to this, Huaxia is also putting pressure on the project McDonnell Douglas, for the sake of that broken map, otherwise they will purchase a large number of Tu-204 to carry out international flights in the future, instead of purchasing Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, so ...... You know. ”

After the last call, there was a brainstorming within COMAC, and after this brainstorming, someone put forward a suggestion: since it is possible to carry more fuel and increase the range by reducing the seats, can the number of seats be further reduced to 100 seats, and then the freed up part of the weight can carry more fuel?

This suggestion was immediately taken seriously by Wang Dazhi, who immediately asked the engineers to calculate on the spot to see how much the maximum range of the aircraft could be achieved if the weight was reduced by 50 seats and converted into fuel.

The theoretical results of the calculation made everyone very excited, if the ship has 50 seats, the range of the aircraft can reach 12,500 kilometers, a proper full intercontinental flight.

Then the question is wonderful, why did the first reduction of 50 seats only increase the range by 3000 km, while the second reduction of 50 seats increases the range by 4000 km?

This problem is actually very simple, because fuel is constantly consumed, if the proportion of fuel carried by an aircraft is relatively high, then the overall weight of the aircraft is getting lighter and lighter, because the total weight of fuel is getting smaller and smaller, but the number of passengers, the number of seats and the weight of the luggage carried by passengers are impossible to decrease with the flight, you can't say that you don't fly for a long distance to drop a passenger or drop a seat from the plane.

Therefore, in the whole flight process, if the number of passengers is relatively large, then the whole journey will be more "dead weight", and the flight will be relatively short, but conversely, if in the whole flight process, passengers, seats, luggage, etc. The number is relatively small, but the fuel is consumed at any time, so in the case of the same take-off weight, it is natural that the aircraft with fewer passengers has a longer range, which is why the same is to reduce 50 seats to increase fuel, the first 50 seats can only increase the range of 3000 kilometers, and the last 50 seats can increase the range of 4000 kilometers.

Although this is a theoretical figure, Wang Dazhi knows very well that there is a big misunderstanding in this, and how much significance a plane that can fly directly to the United States without stopping is of great significance to the country, so he immediately reported to the leaders at the first time: A Tu-204 with a maximum range of 12,500 kilometers is much more important than the Tu-204 with a maximum range of only 8,500 kilometers.

Sure enough, the leader attached great importance to it and immediately instructed Wang Dazhi to complete the computer simulation as soon as possible to determine what the maximum range of the Tu-204 would be in the case of a 100-seat layout, and in addition, the two Tu-204s of Air China were all transferred back, one to 150 seats, and the other to 100 seats, and to actually test it - there are aircraft that can directly cross the Pacific Ocean, and we can make our waist pole a few points stiffer when negotiating.

After all, before this, the only long-range intercontinental aircraft in the world that could provide a maximum range of tens of thousands of kilometers across the Pacific Ocean were Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Airbus.

Although in the eyes of many people, compared with the Airbus A340, Boeing 747, McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and McDonnell Dalnot MD-12, COMAC's Tu-204 is simply a joke: it has to sacrifice passenger capacity for the sake of range? This is the 21st century!

But no matter how much others laugh at it, it has become an indisputable fact that COMAC has the ability to manufacture aircraft with a range of tens of thousands of kilometers.

And this fact also makes McDonnell Douglas and Boeing unprecedentedly uncomfortable -- yes yes, no is no, for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, if you don't have it, I can ignore your voice, anyway, you have to buy my plane sooner or later; but if Huaxia has it, this matter will be troublesome, which means that Huaxia can really not buy its own plane.

The loss of China's huge market is unacceptable for both McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.

"Yes, I know," Chen Geng nodded in the face of McDonald's complaint, indicating that he did know something, but he spread out his hands: "But so what? Also, Mike, after all, I am a shareholder of COMAC, you can't let me harm my own interests in order to ensure your interests, right?"

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PS: Sorry brothers, please wait a few minutes.

And this fact also makes McDonnell Douglas and Boeing unprecedentedly uncomfortable -- yes yes, no is no, for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, if you don't have it, I can ignore your voice, anyway, you have to buy my plane sooner or later; but if Huaxia has it, this matter will be troublesome, which means that Huaxia can really not buy its own plane.

"Yes, I know," Chen Geng nodded in the face of McDonald's complaint, indicating that he did know something, but he spread out his hands: "But so what? Also, Mike, after all, I am a shareholder of COMAC, you can't let me harm my own interests in order to ensure your interests, right?"