Standing behind Chen Geng, looking at the back of her boss, Kelly Hicks was still full of incredulity: How can we have such a good relationship with a giant like Boeing, but we just went to a dinner party held by Boeing, and they actually sent a plane directly to pick up their boss? According to the convention, shouldn't our own boss take a private plane to Boeing's headquarters in Chicago?

I don't understand it, Boeing just sent Fabrice Black, the president of its own Boeing Votor Helicopter Company, to come in person, and I can only say that the charm of its own boss is too great for Boeing to stop.

Just when Kelly Hicks was thinking about it, there was a sound of "whirring ......" unique to the rotors of a helicopter stirring the air flow in the distance.

She hurriedly looked up in the direction where the voice came from, and a faint little white dot was rapidly approaching this way.

Although the speed is a little slower than that of a fixed-wing aircraft, no matter how slow it is, it is also a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, and soon, the small white dot in the sky has become a faintly recognizable appearance, looking at the helicopter in the sky with an increasingly obvious outline, Kelly Hicks's mouth can't help but open slightly: this helicopter doesn't seem to be the same as the helicopters that the boss used to take before.

It's not the same!

As the white-painted helicopter slowly descended in the sky, Kelly Hicks could already clearly see the shape of the plane: this helicopter has an aerodynamic layout that is very different from the rotor and tail rotor of a conventional helicopter, but adopts an aerodynamic layout with two rotors in front and one in the rear, and two rotors one high and one low, which is ...... Boeing's housekeeping signboard: front and rear tandem twin rotors?

This is too exaggerated, isn't it? Boeing actually sent a heavy helicopter to pick up its boss?!

Kelly Hicks has been running with Chen Geng for a long time, and her understanding of helicopters has evolved from being completely ignorant to now pointing to a helicopter casually and can say one, two, three, four, because Chen Geng received an invitation from Boeing before, Kelly Hicks is now watching Boeing's three helicopters: the CH-47 "Sea Knight" medium tandem twin-rotor helicopter used by the Marine Corps, the CH-47 "Chinook" heavy tandem twin-rotor helicopter and AH- The 64 "Apache" helicopter gunships have done their homework, and at a glance you can see at a glance the difference between this slowly descending heavy "Chinook" and the medium "Sea Knight", but ......

Boeing sent a military helicopter to pick up its boss?!

Kelly Hicks thinks that Boeing has done something, and what billionaire chooses to fly in a comfortable and quiet luxury civilian business plane, but who would choose a noisy and turbulent military plane? Also, why is this "Chinook" not a regular military green livery, but a white livery?

Chen Gengke didn't know that his secretary had so much careful thinking in his heart at this time, he put his hand on the pergola and tried his best to avoid the impact of the air flow on his eyes, and at the same time looked at the "Chinook" in the sky with great interest, a helicopter with a length of more than 30 meters including rotors and a length of 15 meters just the fuselage slowly descended from the sky, the momentum is indeed quite amazing, even if you know that it will not fall, but you are still a little worried: if this thing "snaps" fell down and happened to fall on Lao Tzu's head, didn't it directly turn Lao Tzu into a meatloaf?

Kelly Hicks stood behind Chen Geng, desperately covering her head to keep her hairstyle, but it didn't help, just a few seconds, the strong downward air flow blew her hair away, and the long blonde hair flew all over the sky.

Finally, the four non-retractable landing gears of the Boeing 234 slowly touched the ground, the hatch on the right side of the fuselage opened, and Fabrice Black, CEO of Boeing Votor Helicopter Company, walked quickly to Chen Geng: "Mr. Fernandez, it is a great honor to meet you. ”

The current Boeing Vator Helicopter Company is a product of Boeing's acquisition of Vottor Helicopter Company, which is a holding subsidiary of Boeing, and will officially become Boeing's helicopter division in a few years.

Chen Geng shook hands with Fabrice Blake, and said half-jokingly and half-jokingly: "Mr. Fabrice, you Boeing is really wealthy, and you have arranged such a large plane for you at such a short distance?"

From Chicago to Detroit, where Boeing's headquarters are located, the straight-line distance is less than 500 kilometers, and any light helicopter can be reached smoothly.

Fabrice Black hurriedly waved his hand: "Mr. Fernandez, you have misunderstood, this plane is not our company. ”

"Oh?"

Chen Geng raised his eyebrows, waiting for Fabrice Black's explanation.

"This plane is one of the six helicopters that British Airways gave us all in 1979," Fabrice Blake said, "This is one of the last two." ”

I see!

Chen Geng nodded to show that he understood, but at the same time, he was a little puzzled, pointing to the helicopter whose engine had not yet been turned off and the rotors were still whirring and whirring, and asked, "Then ......what is this plane?"

Fabrice Black shrugged: "You know, before the aircraft is officially delivered to the customer, in the spirit of being responsible for the customer, we have to carry out some necessary tests, and the actual flight test is an essential part. ”

it!

Chen Geng admires the shameless Americans a little, how can he have such an upright reason for using someone else's plane?

Fabrice Black continued to say to Chen Geng: "And you know, we sold this aircraft very well, not only sold six to British Airways Helicopters, just last year, Norwegian Helicopter Services also ordered three planes, in just three years we sold eight, in addition to many interested customers interested in our helicopter." ”

"So ......"

"So," Fabrice Black did not sell, "Mr. Fernandez, do you think we have a chance to sell the 'Chinook' to the Chinese?"

I see!

However, it was not surprising to Chen Geng, in the past time and space, after watching Sikorsky sell 24 civilian versions of the "Black Hawk" helicopters to Huaxia, Boeing was very greedy, and also once sold their civilian version to Huaxia: Chinook, in order to curry favor with the Chinese government, they even sent a Boeing Model 234 painted by Huaxia Civil Aviation to Huaxia for flight and performance demonstration.

"It's difficult!" Chen Geng shook his head and gave the answer almost without thinking.

"Why?"

Fabrice Black was obviously not satisfied with Chen Geng's answer.

Without answering directly, Chen Geng asked rhetorically: "What is the price of this civilian 'Chinook'?"

It's no secret, Fabrice Black immediately said: "Between $15 million and $17 million." ”

There is a considerable amount of customization in the aircraft thing, so it is normal for the price of the same aircraft to be high and low, and the price difference of 2 million US dollars is also very understandable, Chen Geng nodded: "The problem is here, it is too expensive." ”

Too expensive?!

Fabrice Black obviously does not agree with this reason, in order to sell the civilian "Chinook" to Huaxia, Boeing has also put a lot of effort into doing his homework: "Mr. Fernandez, with all due respect, the Huaxia government is very interested in this kind of heavy helicopter with a maximum lifting weight of about 10 tons, and compared with Sikorsky's S-64 "Stallion", the price of our model 234 is already very cheap. ”

"What you say makes sense," Chen Geng shrugged, and did not deny Fabrice Black's statement: "But Huaxia does not have a large demand for heavy helicopters, and as far as I know, the Pentagon is ready to further reduce the price of the 12 'Tahe's that are decommissioned and mothballed, with the aim of selling all 12 'Tahe's to Huaxia."

For Huaxia, having 12 'Tahe' basically meets their demand for heavy-duty helicopters, and they now prefer to get the 'Black Hawk', a 10-ton medium-sized helicopter with a maximum load of about 3 tons...... Maybe you can try to sell the CH-46 Sea Knight to Huaxia for a civilian version, if you have a civilian version, but only if the price is not more expensive than the Black Hawk. ”

Regarding Fabrice Black's "cheap" statement, Chen Geng scoffed: cheap?

A civilian version of the "Black Hawk" only costs 6 million US dollars, while a civilian version of the "Chinook" costs 16.85 million US dollars, and the system structure is more complex, the maintenance is more cumbersome, and the maintenance cost is higher, for Huaxia to buy a "Chinook" money can almost buy three "Black Hawk", for the Chinese government in this era, every cent of foreign exchange must be carefully calculated, again and again, in the case that the "Black Hawk" helicopter can fully meet its own needs, spend three times the money to buy the "Chinook", purely have a head.

“……”

Fabrice Black's expression was a little unpleasant, he didn't expect Fernandez Chen to tell him so definitely that Huaxia would not be able to buy his own Chinook - he was counting on this business to be completed, so that he could successfully enter the management of the head office with this achievement.

But Fabrice Black didn't dare to do anything to Chen Geng after all, compared to the plan of the group headquarters, his little abacus was nothing at all, and if he delayed the company's major events, it would be fatal.