The Georgetown Maritime Rescue Team arrived by plane and took the blue-nosed and swollen people from the Vladimir. They are very sympathetic to these people who have fallen into the water----- it seems that the situation is really not good just now, just look at their dejected appearances.

"What are you thinking?" Yang Meng found that Xiao Peng was frowning and thinking about it in the cockpit, looking serious.

"What about Peng Cheng?" Xiao Peng asked.

Yang Meng pointed outside: "There, they are playing iron with the hillock." ”

"Sun Pengcheng!" Xiao Peng shouted.

Sun Pengcheng ran over: "Brother Peng, you called me?"

Xiao Peng nodded: "Hey, tell me, what kind of seaplane was that Georgetown they came to rescue just now? Why do I look so familiar?"

"Familiar? Of course it's familiar, it's the Y-12. Sun Pengcheng replied.

Xiao Peng frowned: "Don't tease me, don't tease me!Is there an amphibious version of the Y-12? Besides, how can there be a Y-12 here?"

Sun Pengcheng was also stunned when he heard it: "Yes, when did our country sell to the Cayman Islands?"

The Cayman Islands is a direct colony of the United Kingdom, and it is not a country at all, and it does not have the capital to establish diplomatic relations with other countries, but due to its low tax policy, it has attracted a lot of investment.

This is because in 1978, the Cayman Islands received the 'permanent tax amnesty order' issued by the United Kingdom, where there is no direct tax at all, what personal income tax, corporate tax, inheritance tax, capital income tax, etc., what companies, trusts, funds, that are not directly taxed.

Just like the well-known M cow milk in China, in fact, it can not be regarded as a national enterprise at all, M Cow Dairy Co., Ltd. is registered in the Cayman Islands, and the company's headquarters is also on Hong Kong Island. In this way, they can make full use of Huaxia's preferential policies for foreign-funded enterprises in all aspects, and pay about one billion yuan less in taxes and fees every year, which can be used for survival, operation and publicity. It wasn't until Hualiang Group was fed up with 20% of the shares that it could be considered to be related to Huaxia, and before that, the big boss behind him should be an international institution such as Morgan Bank.

Of course, this is not unusual, what Du Niang, Sina, Li Ning, Alibaba, Anta, Qihoo 360 and other giant companies, and even the subsidiaries of China Mobile Unicom, are registered in the Cayman Islands. In particular, almost 100% of China's Internet companies are registered in the Cayman Islands.

This is also due to domestic laws and regulations of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which prohibit Internet companies with servers in China from listing abroad. In order to go public, Internet companies will register a company in Cayman now, and then use this company to achieve the listing of Stars and Stripes.

Therefore, every year in the list of China's 'Top 500 Private Enterprises', there are never any names such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent----- which are registered in the Cayman Islands.

But this also means that it is impossible for Huaxia to sell them the Y-12, especially the Y-12 seaplane, Xiao Peng, has never heard of it. If there is an amphibious version of the Y-12, then the old Yun-5 of Qianliyan can have rested a long time ago, and this plane doesn't look much more atmospheric?

Sun Pengcheng picked up the satellite phone and walked out, and after a while, he returned to the cab: "Brother Peng, ask clearly, this is not what we sold to them, it was sold to them by the people of the Stars and Stripes." ”

"Huh?" Xiao Peng was stunned: "The Y-12 is our country's aircraft, why did it become the Stars and Stripes to sell it to them?"

Sun Pengcheng explained: "Here's the thing, the Stars and Stripes National Aviation Administration has certified the land-based version of the Y-12, and the EDO pontoon branch of Seattle called Kenmore Aquatic Airport designed a special pontoon for the Y-12, turned it into a seaplane and passed the type certification of their aviation authority, and then the imported Y-12 was modified and sold out." I've heard that I've made a lot of money. ”

Xiao Peng nodded after hearing this: "It's all sold here, it seems that it is really easy to sell." ”

"Of course. Sun Pengcheng said: "Eighty percent of the seaplanes in the world are in the Stars and Stripes and Maple Leaf Countries, especially the Stars and Stripes Country, which has the largest seaplane fleet in the world, and now there are more than 35,000 pilots with seaplane licenses in the Stars and Stripes countries, and 1,500 driver's licenses will be added every year." So seaplanes are developing quite well over there. ”

But it is interesting to note that, despite the popularity of seaplanes in the Stars and Stripes, research on seaplanes was not developed. There are so many seaplanes in the Stars and Stripes now, but almost all of them were studied during World War II. For example, the famous PBY-5A 'Katarina', and the HU-16A 'Albatross' driven by Stallone in the movie "The Expendables" are all products before 1950. After 1960, they largely abandoned the study of seaplanes.

In fact, the Stars and Stripes still attached great importance to seaplanes. For example, the Hughes H-4 'Spruce Goose' transport aircraft developed by Xiao Li Zi in the movie "Aviator" is as high as a five-story building, with a wingspan longer than a football field, and much larger than Huaxia's AG600 'Kunlong', but when the aircraft flew in 1947, the plane only flew at an altitude of 21 meters for 26 seconds, so now many people think that this is not an aircraft but a WIG.

So in 1951, an even more frenzied plane appeared, that is, the F-2Y 'Sea Javelin' water jet supersonic fighter! The whole plane directly installed two water skis under the belly of the plane, and the working principle was the same as that of a surfboard, and it turned out that no matter how these two water skis were designed, they could not solve the shock problem, so they were changed to a skid, and the whole plane ejected on the sea like a splash! In the end, this kind of plane was indeed ' Hit the water drift', because of a crash during take-off and landing on the water was abandoned.

If you can't play with a water fighter, then play with a water bomber! Then the most frenzied seaplane in the entire aviation history of the Stars and Stripes appeared. That is the P6M 'Sea King'! The maximum take-off weight is 83 tons! First flight in 1955, the only four-jet water nuclear bomber in human history, the research and development cost in that era exceeded 400 million US dollars (almost 4 billion now), but because of the safety performance of water take-off and landing, the first two prototypes all crashed。。。。。。

Since then, the Stars and Stripes have never played seaplanes again. Up to now, there are only four countries in the world that can play large seaplanes: Maple Leaf Country, Bear Country, Wa Country and Huaxia。。。。。。 Although the Stars and Stripes can also be built, they are all from the forties and fifties of the last century, such as the 'Katerina' that first flew in 1932 and the 'Albatross' that made its first flight in 1947, which are now quite common in the Stars and Stripes。。。。。。。

Huaxia has only begun to pay attention to the construction of seaplanes in recent years, including the AG600 'Kunlong' completed its first flight, becoming the world's largest seaplane in service.

But there are always some 'public knowledge', seeing the 'Kunlong' in the sky is very disdainful, saying that this seaplane has long been no longer beautiful, and people in the Stars and Stripes countries have not developed seaplanes, so it is more cost-effective to import foreign products, such as the US-2 of the Japanese country, the Bombardier CL-415 of the Maple Leaf country, and the A-40 and Be-200 of the bear country.

Let's not talk about whether it can be imported (the US-1 and US-2 seaplanes of the Japanese country are not allowed to board the plane to visit, the Maple Leaf Country and the Bear Country only sell castrated aircraft, the A-40 is not for sale, and the other -200 has only more than a dozen so far,),

The Stars and Stripes did not develop seaplanes because militarily, they had many overseas bases and large aircraft carriers, all of which could take off and land fixed-fixed-wing aircraft; and for commercial flights, the old seaplanes of the World War II period were sufficient; as for fire fighting, they directly had Boeing 747 modified fire-fighting aircraft, so they had little motivation to study seaplanes.

However, the national conditions of China and the Stars and Stripes are different, and civil seaplanes are basically blank, and there are almost no large professional firefighting aircraft and rescue aircraft. Moreover, this 'Kunlong' is cheap, and it is only a fraction of the other two (Y-20 transport aircraft and C919 passenger aircraft) of the 'Three Musketeers of Large Aircraft', which has a lot of room for development.

As for the military aspect, not to mention, Huaxia does not have so many overseas bases, nor does it have so many large aircraft carriers that can take off and land fixed-fixed-wing general-purpose aircraft, and the 'Kunlong' has a long range and a heavy load, and it used to take five days to sail from Sansha City to Zengmu Dark Sands, but now it takes four hours。。。。。。

So this seaplane is a chicken rib for the Stars and Stripes, but for Huaxia, it is very important.

Could it be that the scientific research plans drawn up by so many think tank personnel in China can't catch up with one or two 'public knowledge' brain circuits? This incident once again shows that the so-called 'public knowledge' really can't do anything other than fart。。。。。。

But the stars and stripes do not develop seaplanes, their experience in transforming seaplanes is beyond the reach of others, like this Chinese Y-12 aircraft, let them buy and then converted into seaplanes to sell out, in the Caribbean such a large number of islands, but make a lot of money------- there are so many islands here, Y-12 aircraft eighteen seats capacity and good range and super high cost performance, is definitely a good thing for the development of maritime tourism transportation industry!

But now Xiao Peng's heart is as disgusting as eating a fly, it is obviously Huaxia's plane, if he wants to buy it now, he has to go to the Stars and Stripes country to buy the water version.

Let the Stars and Stripes make this money? I don't buy it!

It looks good and can be eaten as a meal! Hurry up and buy a bunch of Yun-5 and stop at Qianliyan, fly an 'S' in the sky for a while, and fly a 'B' in the sky for a while, and don't spend that unjust money!