Chapter 650: Engine Oil Leak!
Yang Jie is not too worried about Huaxia Fokker surviving in such a fiercely competitive aviation market.
With a large number of deliveries to airlines, the company's revenue will rise with the growth of the number of deliveries, and the income is very stable, as long as the aircraft produced does not have major design defects and cause major air crashes, it can basically be said that the drought and flood income.
In fact, the profits from selling aircraft hardware alone are not too high, and the profits of Boeing and Airbus are less than 10 percent, mainly relying on the business of parts and maintenance services to increase revenue.
Yang Jie desperately uses automation equipment to improve production efficiency and quality, the total investment amount for more than a year is as high as more than 20 billion, and most of the fuselage parts are subcontracted to many domestic suppliers, which greatly reduces production costs, and the profit margin can reach 20 percent, which is still very impressive.
Song Xinyang heard that the production efficiency of Huaxia Fokker Company was so high, and asked: "Your production efficiency is still very high, how is the life of the aircraft?"
"Fokker is very early in the metal gluing technology research and development, the previous aircraft a large number of metal gluing technology, metal gluing parts up to more than 4,000, more than 500 components, they in the metal gluing structure calculation analysis, testing, manufacturing and airworthiness and other aspects of the establishment of a complete set of supporting system, this technology is world-class. ”
Yang Jie said: "Previously, the design life of the F50 aircraft using metal glue technology was 60,000 flight takeoffs and landings, and the actual operation over the years has shown that the life of the components using metal glue has exceeded 90,000 flight takeoffs and landings, significantly improving the life of the aircraft structure." ”
He smiled and said: "Now Fokker metal bonding technology has begun to be used in a large number of our products, and our product quality has also been improved, and we have also obtained good economic benefits." ”
Song Xinyang said with a smile: "Your Huaxing Group Company's ability to transform technological achievements is really strong. ”
Yang Jie said with a smile: "Our company headquarters has a patent library, will be updated in a timely manner, its subsidiaries will be the first to know these situations, after the new patents come out, they will be immediately used in different product fields, foreign companies' patented technology our company will also analyze, can bypass the past, can not bypass the purchase or do not cooperate, to avoid repeated research and development caused by waste of funds." ”
Song Xinyang nodded: "This practice of yours is also something that domestic R&D institutions need to learn." ”
Yang Jie was silent.
Song Xinyang immediately asked about the airborne avionics system of Huaxia Fokker Company, and learned that in addition to most of the fuselage components of the aircraft assembled by Huaxia Fokker Company, many avionics system equipment were purchased from overseas.
"It seems that there is still a long way to go in domestic avionics equipment!"
Song Xinyang sighed.
Huaxing Group company's Yonghan Aviation Power Technology Co., Ltd.'s Kunlun turbofan engine in order to obtain the airworthiness certificate is also a lot of effort, last year Yonghan Aviation Power Technology Co., Ltd. was officially renamed Yonghan Aviation Technology Co., Ltd., but also set up a department of avionics equipment and consumables, the factory is also through the AS9100 quality certification, now the production of aircraft brake discs, electronic flight instrument systems, high-frequency communication equipment, radar systems, power systems and backup power systems.
These are the products and technologies that Huaxing Group is good at, and Yang Jie naturally has to work hard to develop the aviation market.
At present, these equipment and software have passed the DO-160 and DO-178 requirements respectively, the equipment is considered to have passed, and now STC certification is underway, although it has obtained the domestic CAAC special modification design certification, but this certification is not recognized by the United States and Europe.
In order to pass this STC certification, Yonghan Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. had to modify these devices and carry them on one of the company's Fokker F100s for test flights before they could get the certification.
Airworthiness standards are now controlled by the United States and Europe, if you want these equipment to be exported, you must follow their rules, the key is that all countries in the world recognize these two standards, if you do not obtain an airworthiness certificate, these equipment can only fly in China, can not be exported.
Previously, only one of the domestic OEMs had obtained FAA and EASA certification for export, but the output was very small, and the domestic aviation market was basically controlled by Boeing and Airbus, and these companies would not purchase these domestic avionics equipment in order to curb the domestic aviation industry, so this market could not support several avionics equipment companies at all.
In order to develop avionics equipment, no domestic company has such strong financial resources as Huaxing Group Company, and has bought its own aircraft for testing and testing these avionics equipment.
"Chief, Huaxia Fokker and COMAC can only have the right to speak in the international arena after grabbing enough cakes in the domestic and foreign markets, so as to feed these domestic avionics equipment companies, but it will take time, at least ten years of hard work. ”
Yang Jie said.
Song Xinyang nodded: "You still have a very clear understanding of this market pattern, and I also hope that you can work harder and speed up this process." ”
Yang Jie also nodded and agreed.
He used the technology mastered by Huaxing Group to enter the avionics market with the aim of reducing the production cost of Huaxia Fokker as much as possible and obtaining relatively high profits as much as possible.
No matter how small the meat on the legs of a mosquito is, it is still meat!
At the beginning of June, the World Health Organization announced that it had lifted the warning of the epidemic in Huaxia, and Huaxia also announced that it had lifted the control of the epidemic.
Less than the day after the news was released, Yang Jie received a call from Wang Yonglin.
"Yang Shao, the Kunlun turbofan engine purchased from us by Bombardier Group has an oil leak, and they may terminate their cooperation with us......"
Hearing this news, Yang Jie's heart also sank.
Yonghan Aerospace Technology provided Bombardier with more than a dozen turbofan engines this year, and it was not expected that serious quality problems would occur so quickly.
"How could there be such a problem, did the company send someone to investigate?" asked Yang Jie.
"We've already sent engineers over, and there should be news the day after tomorrow. ”
Wang Yonglin also said in a heavy tone.
Yonghan Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. is very strict in its production, and he didn't expect that there would be such a serious quality problem, and he was also very uncomfortable in his heart.
"I'll be right back. ”
Yang Jie knew that if this matter was not handled well, it would be a heavy blow to the engine of Yonghan Aviation Technology Company, so he naturally did not dare to be careless.
On the other side, in a hangar of the Bombardier Group of Companies in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada, engineers and managers scrutinize the jetliner and can see oil dripping from under the bonnet.
"Boss, I just said that Huaxiaguo's engine is not good, this reliability is too poor, and there is a quality problem before it has not flown for long. ”
"yes, if something goes wrong in the middle of a high-altitude flight, it won't destroy people, it's terrible. ”
"We can't use the engines produced by Tianfeng Technology in the future, the quality is too poor. ”
“......”
Bombardier's engineers shook their heads one by one, obviously thinking that the quality of the Kunlun turbofan engine was not good.
Hearing the words of these engineers, the fat vice president Smith also frowned, and he said: "What is the problem, we will wait for the personnel of Yonghan Aviation Technology Company to come over and disassemble it for inspection." ”
After discovering the oil leak, Yonghan Aviation Technology also asked to wait until the engineers and technicians came to work with Bombardier to disassemble and inspect it, and this side also agreed.
When preparing for the flight test, the crew found that the fuel warning light was on and the fuel consumption was abnormal, so they immediately terminated the flight.
Bombardier's technicians did not have much confidence in the Kunlun turbofan engine, but when there was such a serious problem, the first thing that came to mind was that the engine was leaking.