He Kai's remarks touched many people.

Also, Chen Geng introduced the "tay" MK650-8C engine from Rolls-Royce in order to match the Fokker F100 aircraft that will be produced in China.

That's!

Even if you take a step back, you can only achieve a localization rate of 80% or even 70% after three or five years, and some core components still need to be imported from the UK, but this is enough to ensure the supply of H6 engines and even subsequent spare parts, not to mention that this new H6 does not use a few engines in the research and development of the previous few years, from this point of view, the matter of replacing the MK650 engine for the H6 is actually very reliable.

The most important thing is that as the core person in charge of the competent department of the Huaxia aviation industry and the national major military equipment research and development department, we all know that although the current performance of the H6 is not bad, but as a medium bomber developed and equipped by the Soviet Union in the early 50s, its performance has actually lagged behind.

The balance in the hearts of many comrades has begun to tend to agree with the proposal of "combining the previous experience of developing H6I to develop a new H6 bomber based on the 'tay' MK650-8C turbofan engine of COMAC Group": since this plan is feasible and the investment is not much, then in principle, it is only a preliminary communication, and as for the official documents, it needs to be formally submitted after the project specification is formally submitted by Xifei.

As He Kai's direct leader, Guo Wenxiang pondered for a moment, and finally nodded: "In this way, Xiao He, isn't Xiao Chen coming to China soon? You go and communicate with Xiao Chen about the engine supply, if he can ensure that the engine does not fall off the chain, the ministry will carefully consider your suggestion." ”

He Kai immediately agreed, with an excited face.

He didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and the so-called "the ministry can consider your suggestions" is actually a conservative statement, in fact, it can be understood as "as long as you communicate with Chen Geng and make sure that there is no problem with the engine supply, then this matter will be fine, eight or nine will not leave ten".

However, Guo Wenxiang, after saying this, added: "As far as I know, Xiao Chen is still a military enthusiast, and he has a deep understanding of the research and development of military equipment in the United States, and you can talk to him about the research and development of the new H6 and see if you can get some inspiration." ”

As soon as Guo Wenxiang said this, not only the leaders of the Ministry of Aviation Industry, but also the leaders of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense also nodded hurriedly, and they all thought that Guo Wenxiang's words were very reasonable: Chen Geng's relationship with the US military is very deep, and the resources he has at his disposal are incomparable to ours.

As for why Chen Geng, who is now in Europe, why did he come to China?

Quite simply, because the latest F100 jetliner from the Dutch Falkland-United Aviation Technology Company is coming to China for a live air show.

Although Fokker F100 has not officially obtained the airworthiness license, but the entire process of applying for the airworthiness license has been completed, into the final review link, if nothing else, Fokker F100 will be officially obtained the airworthiness license next month, at this time, it is necessary to show their customers a wave of their own products.

Of course, He Kai wanted to find a way to interview Chen Geng, and he also wanted to use Chen Geng's relationship to ask Fokker Company to help Xifei improve Yunqi.

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Chen Geng originally planned to come to China with the Dutch, but He Kai actually said that there were some things that he hoped to communicate with him in advance, which made Chen Geng a little surprised, but Chen Geng did not hesitate, and happily promised that he could get up and come to China a week in advance, that is, after New Year's Day - this blink of an eye, it was already 1985 in the Gregorian calendar.

This year's winter is particularly cold, looking at He Kai, who is dressed like a bear, Chen Geng, who only temporarily put on a down jacket when he got off the plane, immediately smiled, and changed his hug to shake hands: "Lao He, what are you wearing...... What's going on?

"Hehehe......" Seeing Chen Geng, He Kai was happy: "Don't mention it, I don't know what's going on this year, this cold is evil, let's talk in the car." ”

"Let's get in my car," Chen Geng grabbed He Kai and dragged him to pick up his convoy at the airport: "Your car is too aggrieved." ”

Chen Geng has no love for cars, he prefers to use a large space American van converted into a commercial car, He Kai and Chen Geng are also old friends, knowing that whether it is comfort or space, the new century produced by SAIC AMC purchased at a high price by Xifei's Beijing office cannot be compared with Chen Geng's car, and he did not shirk at the moment, and followed Chen Geng into the car.

After some greetings and politeness, Chen Geng took the initiative to ask: "Lao He, let's say, what is the matter?" Well, our friendship, I will definitely help if I can help." ”

He Kai was a little moved in his heart, and he nodded: "There is indeed something I want to ask you for help with." ”

"Well, you say. ”

"We fly westward, you know the H6 plane, right?" Although Chen Geng was sure that he would definitely know about this plane, He Kai still said politely.

"I'm sure I know," Chen Geng laughed, "What's the matter with the largest take-off weight that Huaxia can produce now? Why do you want to tell me that the matter is related to the H6? It's not appropriate for you to talk to a foreigner about this, right? Aren't you afraid of violating your secrecy regulations?"

"Just chat, it's okay," He Kai explained: "That's right, Mr. Chen, how sure are you that COMAC will achieve complete localization of the MK650 engine in three years?"

Well?!

Chen Geng is also a fan of the old army, how can he not know about H6I and the legendary H8 project? Not to mention that in his previous life, he personally restarted this project with Xifei, but before he saw the official launch of this project, God played himself hard, and now He Kai brought up this matter again......

"Are you going to replace the H6 with our MK650 engine?" Chen Geng squinted at He Kai, smiling: "Old He, you are bold enough, even dare to use our engine?"

"You don't come to scare me," He Kai didn't take Chen Geng's threat seriously at all, and scoffed at his words: "The major shareholder of your COMAC Group is not you Chen Geng. ”