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"What's the news? I like Lao Qi to sell Guanzi, last year Lao Qi said that the good news is that there are eleven Bac1-11 passenger planes left in Romania, what is it this time?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.

"Da Shao, there are no remaining passenger planes this time, but there is one remaining factory. Qi Lianshan extinguished the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray, leaned forward slightly and said.

"Factory, where is the factory?"

"Have you heard of the Schott Brothers Aircraft Company in Northern Ireland?" Qi Lianshan asked.

"Schott?" Liang Yuan felt that the name was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Seeing that Liang Yuan was silent, Sun Zhuolin took out a thick piece of text from the briefcase under his feet and handed it to Liang Yuan, and said, "Da Shao, this is the information that Mr. Qi brought from the UK, the three of us have just read it, and Da Shao will know it after reading it once." ”

Opening the seal of the kraft paper bag, Liang Yuan casually put the paper bag upright, and several photos slipped out of the paper bag and fell on the coffee table in front of Liang Yuan.

The thick fuselage with a vertical oval cross-section, the silvery-white all-metal structure, the nose of the speedboat, the straight upper wing with four star-shaped motives in parallel, and a circular pontoon hanging at each end of the outermost wing of the wing.

The plane in the photo is all too familiar to military fans like Liang Yuan, the most influential long-range aircraft of the British Royal Air Force during World War II, the sworn enemy of German U-boats, and the Sunderland seaplane, known as the "flying porcupine".

"I remembered that SCHOTT was the same company that produced the Sunderland seaplanes during World War II. Liang Yuan suddenly realized.

Taking out the thick information in the paper bag, Liang Yuan read it carefully.

SCHOTT Brothers was founded in 19o8 and was one of the first industrially produced aircraft manufacturers on the planet.

Since the twenties, SCHOTT has been one of the world's leading seaplane manufacturers, and during World War II, SCHOTT produced four long-range aircraft represented by flying porcupines and became famous all over the world. It is no surprise that SCHOTT is facing a difficult transition.

Since the sixties, SCHOTT Brothers began to turn to the field of cargo aircraft, due to the accumulation of rich experience in the field of military aircraft production, the effect of SCHOTT's transformation is not bad, after the introduction of short-distance transport aircraft such as ShortsNet, Shorts33O, Shorts36O, etc., Schott has planted a big heel in the military aircraft that the company has painstakingly managed.

In the early fifties of the twentieth century, the remnants of the empire, which had suffered heavy losses in World War II, were still there. After the Korean War, the two camps of the East and the West respectively formed the Warsaw Pact and NATO Cold War was in full swing, and in order to better protect the global interests of the British Empire, the British Ministry of Defense at that time issued a tender to British aviation companies to develop a new generation of Royal Air Force transport aircraft.

At that time, the British army's idea of building the army was still global projection, so in the tender article, the British Royal Air Force asked for a new generation of transport aircraft, the first batch of production models can transport all the heavy equipment of the Royal 6th Army except for the Chieftain main battle tank. Such as large-caliber artillery, anti-aircraft missile systems, helicopter gunships, etc., in the later exhibition models will be able to transport all the active equipment of the Royal 6th Army.

After some competition, SCHOTT's codenamed SC5 project won the bid for the Royal Air Force's new generation of transport aircraft, which was the last large transport aircraft with strategic pedigree developed by the Empire - Belfast.

The Belfast project was officially established in the late fifties, and the prototype flew in 1964. The second prototype was also successfully put into flight after half a year, and the RAF purchased five of them, and the first batch of production models was named Belfast by the RAF; Belfast C1 is equipped with four Rolls-Royce RTy-12 turboprop engines, which can carry more than 150 heavily armed soldiers, and the aircraft can carry 20 tons of cargo to fly 5ooo kilometers.

It is a pity that the international situation in the fifties was unpredictable, with the birth of the Suez Canal crisis in 1956. The last piece of the empire's pants was sinisterly torn off by the United States, the anti-colonial national independence movement swept the world, the British Empire's painstakingly maintained imperial rule for 200 years fell apart in an instant, and the Belfast transport plane, which was dedicated to global delivery, was suddenly pushed to the forefront.

In the face of an avalanche of history, SCHOTT struggled, not only successively launched two modifications of SC5-1O and SC5-13, but also integrated the Belfast C1 transport aircraft with an automatic 6 system. The air refueling system, military radio and navigation equipment were canceled and turned into a large civilian cargo aircraft with the code 1OA.

The performance of the modified Belfast transport aircraft has been significantly improved, and the maximum take-off weight of the aircraft has increased from ninety-eight tons to one hundred and thirteen tons. With a load of ten tonnes, Belfast has a range of a staggering 8ooo kilometres.

After completing two facelifts based on turboprop motors as the powertrain, SCHOTT has gone further on the road to technological breakthroughs, with the latest generation of modifications of SCHOTT targeting the C-141 strategic transport aircraft in the United States.

SCHOTT intends to use a newly designed wing to form a combination with the latest Spey modified RB183 turbofan engine under development by Rolls-Royce, and to adopt a T-shaped vertical tail similar to that of the American C141 strategic transport aircraft, with a maximum take-off weight of 190 tons, a maximum load of 54 tons for military models, and a maximum commercial load of more than 60 tons for civilian models.

In the face of the fact that the British military defense in the future is basically only left in the British Isles, the British pragmatically chose the American C13O tactical transport aircraft as the next generation of transport for the Royal Air Force.

In the end, the Belfast heavy transport plane, which was born at the wrong time, was only symbolically purchased by the British side for ten planes, and Schott lost so much that it even sold its underwear, and since then it has been in a state of decline and hovering on the verge of bankruptcy until the eighties.

After Margaret Thatcher came to power, large industrial enterprises such as Rawls Royce, which had been nationalized, were sold to private individuals, and Schott Brothers, which had long become a big financial burden for the British government, was also put on the privatization agenda.

However, due to the irreparable damage to SCHOTT's Belfast project, SCHOTT's cumulative losses have exceeded $800 million since the 70s.

At the end of the information about SCHOTT brought back by Qi Lianshan, a new piece of information aroused Liang Yuan's great interest, and in view of the difficulties of SCHOTT, the British government intends to forgive all the debts accumulated by SCHOTT at one time and inject a certain amount of funds for corporate restructuring.