Looking at the hidden smile on the corner of Liang Yuan's mouth, Sun Zhuolin thought that Liang Yuan completely understood the meaning of McDonnell Dool's initiative to come to the door, and continued with a chuckle: "The so-called fairy fight, the little ghost suffers, in the early eighties, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas fought in full swing, and in the global aviation industry, they used their own means to combine vertical and horizontal, and even the republic that had not been reopened for a long time was almost unlucky. ”

"How do you say that?" "When he rarely heard the ancient gossip of large-scale companies such as Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, Liang Yuan was naturally curious.

That would be just in time for the republic-produced MD82 airliner to apply for FAA airworthiness approval, and as McDonnell Douglas's long-time rival, Boeing naturally knows McDonnell Douglas ......very well. Sun Zhuolin has served in Boeing's senior management for many years, and he knows all kinds of insider information about Boeing at his fingertips.

At that time, Boeing spread rumors in the American public opinion circles, saying that McDonnell Douglas's production line was transferred to China and the cost reduction trip was a complete failure, and the radar fairing, passenger plane tailgate and other parts made for McDonnell Douglas by the Wusong factory of the Republic were all lost in the discarded parts warehouse in Long Beach.

Since China can't even make qualified parts, Boeing's implication is that the MD82 passenger plane submitted for review is of American origin at all, and McDonnell Douglas colluded with China to counterfeit it for the sake of stock market interests.

After all, once McDonnell Douglas's cost reduction plan showed the light of day, it would definitely be a huge positive news for McDonnell Donnell Douglas, which was weak at the time, and it was unknown whether McDonnell Dalwells would turn around.

"Boeing's cooperation with the Republic of China Xifei failed, of course, we do not want McDonnell Douglas to take advantage of the Chinese market, as long as the products produced in China cannot pass the guòFAA certification, McDonnell Douglas's ten-year plan will naturally be in vain. In order to crack down on McDonnell Douglas, Boeing used its influence to reset the FAA's airworthiness certification, and in the end, it was Yue Kunbo, then president of McDonnell Douglas China, who went to President Reagan through the senior adviser of the White House, and the Chinese-made MD82 was able to successfully pass the FAA's airworthiness certification. ”

"Da Shao, this time McDonnell Douglas took the initiative to contact us, and the McDonnell Dalwells representative who came to the door was Yue Kunbo. ”

Before Liang Yuan could answer, Liang Haiping suddenly asked, "Mr. Sun, do you think this Yue Kunbo can dig up Shang Fei?"

"Haiping has a really keen eye, since the seventies. Yue Kunbo has been working in Asia for a long time. Not to mention that he is well aware of all the operating airlines in Asia, McDonnell Douglas in the Republic of China is also a joint effort by this person, if we can really say that he can work in COMAC, whether it is domestic or foreign will be a great help for us. Sun Zhuolin nodded and said.

"Dashao should know. Although it has been nearly ten years since the domestic reopening. However, due to the impact of the Cold War for many years, many fields still pay attention to politics. There are many stumbling blocks in foreign contacts, especially high-end large-scale international cooperation projects such as passenger aircraft, and the cooperation between McDonnell Douglas and the Republic of China is not fully coordinated by Yue Kunbo in the middle of the period. Whether it can develop to the point where it is today is still uncertain. ”

"Listening to Lao Sun say this, this person is still nostalgic, as long as the hoe is good, this corner is worth shaving. Liang Yuan said with a smile.

In the 80s, most of the overseas Chinese could be divided into two categories: neutrality and hatred, and those who really had a friendly attitude went back to build New China decades ago, and even if they missed it at that time, it was only a minority.

Although Yue Kunbo's actions were a win-win situation based on McDonnell Douglas's position, he was already very good among overseas Chinese at that time, and in later generations, even classmates like Li could be regarded as patriotic, and Yue Kunbo could be called an example.

CMB Aerospace can now be called a Federal Republic of Germany enterprise, and with us as a buffer in the middle, McDonnell Douglas can openly make a similar kind of mention to the past, as long as it can seduce the Germans successfully, there is no need to consider Britain and France stirring up trouble in it. Liang Yuan said with a deep groan.

"CMB Aerospace we invested 600 million US dollars, MBB invested 600 million US dollars, the Federal Republic of Germany government loan is at least 600 million, MBB and British SCHOTT talks are in full swing, once MBB acquires SCHOTT successfully, the British government will inject at least 600 million US dollars into SCHOTT Aviation, so MBB can affect the control of at least 2.4 billion US dollars in a short period of time. Liang Yuan gently tapped his fingers on the armrest of the sofa beside him.

"If you squeeze the British and German governments again, it is not difficult to raise three billion US dollars, and there are not many rich people in the hands of the global aviation industry at any time to come up with such an amount, no wonder Lao Zhou said that we are McDonnell Douglas's lifesaver. ”

"Da Shao really got through a little bit. Zhou Yuanhang stretched out his thumb and shook it.

"Some time ago, the article in the "International Aviation Industry", McDonnell Douglas's newly developed MD11 three-engine wide-body passenger aircraft after the first flight of troubles, although it will not affect the date of delivery, but McDonnell Douglas is currently released 1,000 km/seat fuel consumption is not optimistic, Boeing is promoting ETOPS terms reform, in order to make the twin-engine structure of large passenger aircraft qualified to fly across the ocean. ”

"While McDonnell Douglas is doing everything in its power to stop this, it will be extremely bad news for MD1......1 as the ETOPS terms change will be passed by next year at the latest, as the aero-engine technology advances and major airlines push for it. Seeing that Liang Haiping was still a little confused, Zhou Yuanhang carefully explained the true intention of McDonnell Douglas's visit.

ETOPS stands for Twin-Engine Aircraft Extended Range Operation, which refers to the flight of more than 60 minutes or more than 180 minutes from any point on the aircraft's operating route to a suitable alternate airport.

When determining the route, it is assumed that the aircraft flies safely for 60 minutes at the cruising speed when one engine is working under standard conditions, which means that the aircraft has passed the ETOPS60 verification, in other words, the flight distance from the nearest alternate airport at any point on the route operated by this type of aircraft cannot exceed 60 minutes.

In actual flight, the stronger the ETOPS's capabilities, the more routes the aircraft can adapt to, after all, limited by geographical conditions, there are very few airports that the aircraft can use for alternate landings when flying across oceans.

In foreign countries, ETOPS is also jokingly called "EnginesTurnorPassengersSwim" in the aviation industry, that is: the engine must turn, otherwise passengers will have to swim.

The purpose of the establishment of ETOPS clauses is to protect the safety of air passengers, before the great development of aero engine technology, most of the transoceanic flights were four-engine passenger aircraft, in addition to the reason that the thrust of aero engines was limited at that time, the advantages of multiple engines in safety backup were also important factors.

With the progress of technology and the higher and higher economic requirements of airlines, the large passenger aircraft flying across the ocean has slowly changed from four to three, although McDonnell Dalwellall is far smarter than the Germans in the design of ultra-long-range large passenger aircraft, and did not drill into the big hole of four engines, but McDonnell Dalwellall still miscalculated the speed of aero engine technology progress, and when the MD11 wide-body passenger aircraft that is vital to McDonnell Douglas survival was established in eight or five years, McDonnell Douglas mistakenly chose three engines, and the result was a thought. (To be continued......)