"Mr. Fernandez, what a few words?" After the visit, Anthony Falk leaned over to Chen Geng's side and whispered.

"Oh?"

Looking at Anthony Falk, Chen Geng was a little surprised: "Mr. Faulk, what do you want to say?"

Anthony Fokker did not answer immediately, but motioned to the other personnel of Fokker to help him and Chen Geng separate a separate small space, and then said in a low voice: "Mr. Fernandez, you said before that you want to develop a 3+3 seat F100, are you serious?"

Chen Geng raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you finally reject this cooperation proposal?"

Previously, when Chen Geng and Fokker Aircraft talked about cooperation, they proposed two F100 improvement schemes, one is based on the F100's fuselage cross-section remains unchanged, but the wing is enlarged, and the fuselage is extended in front and behind the wing, that is, F150, and the other is to develop a new "3+3" seat fuselage on the premise of ensuring the universality of spare parts as much as possible.

In the end, after several board discussions, Falkland-United Aviation Technologies finally rejected the proposal to develop a "3+3" airframe, and only agreed to help COMAC develop the F150 with an extended fuselage.

Anthony Falk suddenly brought up this matter again at this time, which made Chen Geng sensitively aware of something.

"If you veto, you can re-discuss it," Anthony Falk didn't look embarrassed at all, and said with a smile: "Mr. Fernandez, do you really think that the '3+3' seat model is more suitable for the future?"

"This ......"

Although he hasn't figured out what the hell Anthony Folk is up to, this is not a bad thing, Chen Geng thought about it and nodded: "For a single-aisle narrow-body trunk aircraft, the same fuselage length, the fuselage diameter only needs to be increased by about 44 cm, which is equivalent to an extra row of seats out of thin air, have you considered the temptation for airlines?"

In addition, if you want to increase the passenger capacity on the same model, the only way is to lengthen the fuselage, but the 3+2 mode is more lengthened than the 3+3 mode, which is also a big test in terms of the safety structure of the fuselage, not to mention the resulting increase in the weight of wires and other components. ”

"I understand, I understand what you said," Anthony Falk nodded repeatedly: "But McDonnell Douglas's DC-9 and MD-80 are all 3+2 ......"

"The Boeing 737 is 3+3, and the A320 that Airbus is developing is also 3+3," Chen Geng interrupted Anthony Fock: "Mr. Fokker, instead of worrying about the market recognition of 3+3, you should be worried about whether Fokker's development of 3+3 aircraft will cause retaliation from Airbus, Boeing, and McDonnell Douglas." ”

“......”

Anthony Falk stopped talking, and he fell silent.

Yes, if the "3+2" seat layout aircraft can also be developed in the name of "large regional lines", then 3+3 is the standard configuration of proper short- and medium-range trunk aircraft, leaving aside the Soviet Union, the world's three major short- and medium-range trunk aircraft R & D manufacturers: Boeing, Airbus and McDonnell Douglas, will watch Fokker enter this market and remain indifferent?

Impossible.

If Falkland-United Aviation Technologies were serious about announcing the development of a jet aircraft with a 3+3 seating layout...... No, they don't need to announce it, Anthony Falk believes that there must be moles bought by these companies in Fokker, as long as Falkland-United Aviation Technologies does this, even if it is a secret operation, Boeing, Airbus and McDonnell Douglas will definitely know about it as soon as possible, as for the follow-up, hehe......

Needless to say.

For a moment, Anthony Falk's face was cloudy.

Anthony Falk didn't speak, and Chen Geng didn't speak, since this matter was brought up by Anthony Falk, Chen Geng didn't believe that this old guy didn't have any ideas.

Sure enough, Anthony Fokker had an idea, and after bowing his head and pondering for a moment, Anthony Fokker suddenly raised his head to look at Chen Geng, although he was surrounded by his people, but he suddenly stepped forward and became almost face-to-face with Chen Geng, and lowered his voice again: "What if, Fokker Aircraft is willing to help you do this project?"

Chen Geng raised his eyebrows: "We pay?"

"Yes. ”

"The design and the property rights are shared with you. ”

"Huh...... Of course ......"

"Don't even think about it!" Chen Geng refused without hesitation.

“......”

Anthony Falk was dumbfounded, he didn't expect Chen Geng to refuse so simply, you prefer 3+3 as I just said.

As if he understood what Anthony Fokker was thinking, Chen Geng said with a smile: "Mr. Fokker, have you forgotten, even if it is a 3+2 F150, it is enough to be compared with McDonnell Douglas's MD-80 series in terms of carrying capacity, as far as I know, it seems that McDonnell Douglas also thinks that the capacity of MD-82 has some processes, and is developing a shortened fuselage MD-80, you say, is the 150-seat F150 enough for me?"

“......”

Anthony Falk was really dumbfounded, looking at Chen Geng's face that seemed to be smiling, why didn't he understand that his little bit of caution had already been thoroughly calculated by Chen Geng?

But he doesn't feel embarrassed at all, isn't it like doing business, although doing business is a win-win situation, but a win-win situation does not mean a 50:50 rating profit for both sides, when I have an advantage, I must eat two more bites, when you have an advantage, it is completely normal for you to eat two more bites, since for Chen Geng, the 150-seat F150 has been able to fully meet their needs in the future, then Fokker can only endure the pain and eat two less bites to convince Chen Geng.

But just when Anthony Falk was thinking about what reason to use to persuade Chen Geng, Chen Geng refused to continue to play with Anthony Falk, he said with a smile: "Mr. Falk, I'm sorry, but the ones who came today are all our future customers, so ...... I'm sorry. ”

What else could Anthony Falk say? Besides, he also understood, how could this kind of thing be done so easily in a few words? Hearing this, Anthony Falk nodded: "Okay, you go and get busy first." ”

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Not to mention the F100 ride experience the next day, ...... that night To be precise, before the evening of the day, after the static experience, there was a news in the circle of the capital: considering the transportation and cost reasons, Chen Geng actually did not plan to put the final assembly plant of the Fokker F100 passenger aircraft in the ice city, he was ready to choose a convenient transportation, preferably close to the coastal provinces and cities to build a factory.

What is the capital?

The heart of China!

In order to facilitate the understanding of the latest trends in the country, not to mention the provincial-level governments and prefecture-level cities, some economically developed administrative counties, and even some township governments have set up offices and offices in the capital.

What the?!

The site of COMAC's technology assembly plant has not yet been determined?!

COMAC does not plan to set up an assembly plant for Fokker F100 passenger aircraft in Bingcheng?

The entire metropolitan area exploded in an instant!

No one dared to slack off, and they felt that they had enough weight for the local government agencies in Beijing, and they did not even have time to verify the authenticity of this news, so they immediately called back to the province and the city, and even directly bypassed the leaders of the provincial investment promotion agencies and directly sought instructions from the core leaders.

"Is the news confirmed? COMAC really doesn't plan to set up a Fokker aircraft assembly plant in Bingcheng?"

"I'm not sure, but it is said that the news came out of the F100 ground static experience event held by COMAC and Fokker in the Netherlands, and the leaders present at that time were not only the Ministry of Aviation Industry, but also the CEOs of several major airlines and the leaders of some units under the Ministry of Aviation Industry...... Leader, who dares to wait for this kind of thing to be confirmed and verified?" Faced with the question of the leader on the other side of the phone, the leaders of the organs stationed in Beijing jumped to their feet one by one: "Now the entire capital circle is crazy! Now whoever can seize the opportunity and get in touch with Chen Geng will be one step ahead; as for verifying the authenticity of the news, there will always be time, right? But what is at stake now is a large investment of tens of millions of dollars!"

That's right!

That's a lot of investment in the tens of millions of dollars!

The leader on the other end of the phone immediately reacted: compared with this project, the investment amount is still secondary, if this investment can be pulled to the province......

Aircraft factory, what a lofty existence that sounds!

How obvious is the demonstration effect?

When the time comes to go out to attract investment, we will directly bring out the Fokker F100 passenger aircraft project of the COMAC Group and tell those potential investors: "Look! If the investment conditions in our province are not very good, will the aircraft factory of the Fokker Company be settled in our province (city)?"

What is it?

This is a business card to attract investment!

Not gold-plated, but pure gold!

Realizing this, the leader on the other end of the phone was also excited: "Very good! Your work in the Beijing Office is doing very well! Comrades, in the future, you must make persistent efforts and carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of hardship, not afraid of hardship, and not afraid of death, and you must get Chen Geng's contact information, and I will immediately arrange for comrades to go to the capital to talk to Mr. Chen!"

At the same time as making this instruction, the leaders have already begun to ponder: Verification still needs to be verified, but through whom will it be verified? Well, I have a good relationship with Lao He of the Ministry of Aviation Industry, so I will call him first...... However, since the competition is so fierce, if you want to win the investment of COMAC, the price you need to spend will definitely not be small, and the traditional preferential measures for attracting investment seem to be a bit insufficient, and you need to think of something new that can impress COMAC......

............

Similar conversations and similar phone calls came and went, and in a very short period of time, COMAC and Chen Geng became the "headlines" of a certain circle.