For the high-level leaders of the Da Mao family headed by Vladimir, they attach great importance to this "joint operation" with the US military in Afghanistan, and look forward to the batch of Yak-130 senior instructors that Chen Geng has loaned from his own family. Light fighters and MiG-29 fighters have excellent performance in this war, but in China, even the COMAC Group, which also produces the Yak-130, does not really care much about this matter, compared with the performance of the Yak-130 and MiG-29 in Afghanistan, for Wang Dazhi and others, a very grim reality is placed in front of them......

"General Manager, due to the impact of Boeing 737-700, 737-600, 737-700 and Airbus A320, A321 and other aircraft, compared with last year, our orders for F-series passenger aircraft have decreased by 8.5%," At the meeting, Lin Guanghui, head of the sales company, reported to the group's senior management on sales and orders in the first quarter. When purchasing aircraft, leading domestic airlines such as China Eastern Airlines are now more inclined to purchase aircraft from the Boeing series and Airbus series......"

With Lin Guanghui's introduction, the atmosphere in the conference room became more and more solemn.

The F series passenger aircraft is the Fokker F series passenger aircraft, and COMAC has made a lengthened version of the F120 on the basis of the Fokker F100 in a few days, and has made a fuselage lengthened again on the basis of the F120, and the engine has been changed from the previous tail crane to the F150 of the wing crane.

To put it bluntly, the F series passenger aircraft is the backbone and pillar of the COMAC Group, and as a short- and medium-range narrow-body trunk aircraft with 150 seats under the high-density layout of all-economy class, although the range is shorter, it is comparable to Boeing's third-generation Boeing 737, that is, Boeing 737-700, in terms of carrying capacity.

But everyone is also until the gap between the F series airliner and its competitors, and the extended version of the Boeing 737-700: 737-800 and the extended version of the 737-800: 737-900, both the maximum passenger capacity and the range, there is a lot of distance, the Boeing 737-800 has a passenger capacity of 175 people under the high-density layout of the all-economy class, and the passenger capacity of the Boeing 737-900 has reached an astonishing 192 people, and compared with the 737-900, the F150 is only three-quarters of its maximum passenger capacity, not to mention the gap in range。

Compared with another competitor: Airbus, the F series has a comprehensive gap with Airbus A320 and A321 in terms of range and maximum passenger capacity.

"So, from this point of view, it's no wonder that large domestic airlines will give preference to Airbus and Boeing products," after briefly talking about the gap between their F-series airliners and competitors, although Wang Dazhi's face is not very good-looking, but at the same time, he also said: "But this also shows that in recent years, because of the support and strong support of the state, we have slack!"

It's not one person or one department that is slacking off, it's all of us, including me, who is slacking!

It's just a drop in orders now, and the situation is not very serious, but if we don't find a way to turn the situation around, the environment we face will get worse and worse!"

As Wang Dazhi's voice became louder and louder, the heads of the high-level executives in the conference room were also getting lower and lower.

Yes, everyone knows that there is no other reason why the sales of F-series airliners will decline, but one: everyone is slacking off.

Originally, everyone thought that even just relying on orders from domestic airlines was enough to feed the F series airliners, so over the years, everyone had the meaning of "horses put on Nanshan, lying on the credit book and enjoying", but the situation reported by the sales company was like a thunderbolt, which woke everyone up all of a sudden!

Wang Dazhi didn't have a strong scolding, after scolding for a while, he took a breath and said: "That's the situation, I believe everyone understands, this is just the beginning, if we don't take measures to change the situation, the market share of the F series will be lower and lower, so there is only one topic for the next meeting: how to turn the situation around." ”

"What else is there to say," Fang Zhiqiang sighed: "The biggest problem is the engine." ”

As soon as Fang Zhiqiang's voice fell, everyone sighed together: Yes, the biggest problem is the engine.

Prior to this, although the F series aircraft in the domestic market and the Boeing 737 series, Airbus A320 series played well, and can even be said to be equal, but this is not the embodiment of the real competitiveness of the COMAC F series aircraft, but the result of national policy support, of course, one of the very important reasons is: although the profit margin that COMAC F series can provide to airlines is not as good as the Airbus A320 series, Boeing 737 series, but after all, it still earns, but it makes relatively little, for example, a Boeing 737 can contribute $10 million to the net profit of airlines every year, while the F120 can only contribute $7 million.

Although it is a difference of $3 million, it is not unbearable.

But as Airbus and Boeing planes get bigger and bigger, and the price of jet fuel gets higher and higher, the profit gap is getting wider and wider: the F120 contributes $6.5 million a year to airlines, while the Boeing 737-800 has reached $12 million, almost double the difference!

That is, the F120 is significantly less competitive in the market.

Of course, airlines are willing to support domestic enterprises, even if they make less money for this, because they understand that the reason why Airbus and Boeing are willing to sell their planes at a price lower than the global price is because of the existence of COMAC, but the profit gap is real, for the procurement department and the operation department, they can't think about it so much, and performance appraisal is the focus of their consideration.

If you want to compete with Boeing 737 and Airbus A320, you must increase your passenger capacity, at least F200, a 200-seat aircraft.

The F200 was developed on the basis of the F150, which means that the length of the fuselage will be increased by almost 7 to 8 meters, and the thrust of the engines will reach 120KN with reference to the Boeing 737 and Airbus AA320. So the problem comes: COMAC does not have such a large thrust aero engine, the group so far this level of engine only 110KN "tay" MK1101, and "tay" MK1101 is also a medium bypass ratio turbine engine engine, in terms of fuel consumption, noise and other aspects are backward than the V2500 series and CFM56 series, that is to say, in terms of engine, the "tay" series is completely inferior.

So in the final analysis, if COMAC wants to come up with a model that can be fully benchmarked with Boeing and Airbus, and is competitive enough, an engine with a maximum thrust range of 120KN-140KN and excellent fuel consumption and noise is a must.

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PS: Sorry brothers, there is only this one more today, and tomorrow it will begin to resume 2 more.