Chapter 140: Buying a plane
Gulfstream Aerospace, the world's leading manufacturer of luxury large business jets, was acquired by Passive Power in 99 and is headquartered in Savannah, a coastal port city in southern Georgia.
"It's so warm," although it was mid-November, the temperature in Savannah was still above 25 degrees, Huang Jingping took off her cashmere sweater and tied it around her waist, and she didn't know whether to protect her stomach or hide her stomach.
"Why are these houses so dilapidated? slums, don't they look like they?" she said, looking out of the car.
Feng Yiping is also a little confused, the environment of the city is very good, the road is wide and magnificent, and the intersection is a beautiful street park, but the houses on both sides of the road are really unsightly.
Many of them were made of red bricks, and many of the walls were blackened, as if they had been overburned, and there was moss on them, but the shops in these dilapidated houses looked very exquisite.
And the style of these buildings seems to have the elegance of English old-fashioned.
On both sides of the street, the branches of the trees are covered with silky Spanish moss, and the sunlight shines through them and scatters on the ground, adding a touch of romance.
However, this bit of romance faded quickly, for they soon discovered that there was a place they thought was a park, and it was not a park, but a large cemetery.
What kind of strange city is this, with such a large-scale cemetery in the center of the city?
"This may be an ancient city with a story," Feng Yiping guessed.
The booked hotel, the Westin Hotel, is the tallest building nearby, located on the Savannah River, with excellent scenery, but Huang Jingping is more picky and disgusted. "This river is so dirty?"
Yes, from a distance, it is true that the sea water is not as beautiful as the one you see at home.
In the afternoon, they took their first horse-drawn carriage sightseeing, only to have the discovery of the morning, the trees on both sides of the street. Now it looks like it's a little spooky too.
It wasn't until they bought a book in a bookstore that the doubts were solved.
It is a city built during the British colonial period, so it is also a city older than the Declaration of Independence, having survived the American Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and various natural and man-made disasters such as plagues, tropical storms, and fires.
Although many of the buildings have been preserved in some respect, but. The catastrophe took away the lives of many people, which is the origin of the many cemeteries in this city, and the local government, ingeniously used this as a gimmick to publicize, many restaurants, hotels, are said to be rebuilt from the legendary haunted houses.
Beautiful scenery, plus this gimmick. It really attracts a lot of people to visit and hunt for curiosities.
Still, this gimmick. They really didn't like it.
Visit the haunted house, I'm sick!
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The production of airplanes is naturally inseparable from the runway, so when the taxi took them to their destination, Feng Yiping found it impressively. Originally, he thought that this area, which was also an airport building, was where the Gulfstream company was located.
On the first working day after the Thanksgiving holiday, Martin, the customer service manager of Gulfstream Company, who had taken a four-day break, felt a little sleepy after work and watched the two young men swagger in. He was a little strange, these two Asians, they weren't lost or in the wrong place, we weren't selling cheap things like tens of thousands of dollars in cars.
It can't be said that what he thought was wrong, Feng Yiping and the two of them came to buy a plane in a taxi, just like a young man who rode a 28-bar to the sales office of Tomson Yipin, who would think that you came to buy a house?
Where did he think that Feng Yiping was used to being thrifty and did not rent a car at the airport, because he thought that as long as the plane order was completed today, then his transportation, accommodation and meals in the city would definitely be provided by Gulfstream.
Martin looked at it twice, and felt that these two young Asian people seemed to have a bit of bearing, not like the kind of people who had nothing to do and came here to wander around, and that young boy, why did he look a little familiar?
After comprehensive consideration, Martin still said hello, "Hello two, what do you need help with?"
"I want to order a plane, is this just to talk to you?" Feng Yiping asked.
Looking at the young man in front of him, who was not much older than his own child, and said lightly that he wanted to buy a plane, Martin didn't believe it very much, this was not a prank of two Orientals.
"If you need a large business jet that is luxurious and comfortable, you've come to the right place," he said.
"Yes, is there a model that can achieve intercontinental flight?" Feng Yiping asked.
Martin's look and words, he didn't fail to see the meaning, but is it possible that now he wants to show off his wealth in front of an account manager?
"Do you have any product samples?" Feng Yiping asked.
"Yes, you two here, please," he let Feng Yiping and them into a conference room.
Due to the bad economic situation from last year to this year, many upstarts have become poor, if it weren't for the 911, let some people who pay attention to their own safety pay attention to flight safety, this year, how can they receive so many orders? Now idle is idle, just chat with them.
He brought over several samples, "Look, this is our series of products,"
Feng Yiping roughly flipped through it, and immediately said, "You bring me the information of the latest model,"
In fact, he had already made up his mind, and when it came to buying an airplane, it was natural to buy the new rather than the old.
"This is our latest Gulfstream V, which received the FAA type certificate in '97, and the market response is very good, and at the same time, it is also the world's first ultra-long-range business jet, with a full tank range of more than 12,000 kilometers, just enough to meet your intercontinental flight requirements,"
The later Gulfstream G500 was replaced with Arabic numerals, which were actually based on the V-shape?
"If I make a decision today, can I go offline by October next year?"
This guy, why doesn't it look like he's joking?"What do you call Mr.?" Martin asked Feng Yiping's name for the first time.
"Just call me Feng," Feng Yiping handed over a business card with only a mobile phone number.
Martin's idea of understanding him from the sensitive film was in vain, but he struggled a little hard to spell the following phonetics, this name, it seems to be a little familiar?
"In principle, there is no problem, it's just that, as you know, private jets, many aspects need to be customized, and if the requirements are more special, the production time will definitely be extended,"
Feng Yiping glanced at Huang Jingping, "We won't have too special requirements,"
Owning a private jet is a very high-spec thing, so why not show your difference in too many details?
"There's a lot of work to follow, so can we sign a basic contract now?" When asking this question, Martin is actually still a little vain, you are indeed here to buy our latest and most luxurious private jet?
"No problem," Feng Yiping readily agreed to his request, saying that it was to sign the contract, mainly to let himself pay a deposit.
Holding the signed contract and a check that had just been written, Martin felt a little more dizzy, it was so easy, two young men in their early twenties, took a taxi over, chatted with him for less than an hour, and booked the best plane?
"I want to take the liberty of asking, are you Korean?" Feng Yiping's surname is only one character, which excludes the possibility that he is Japanese.
"Chinese," Feng Yiping said, a little coldly.
"Oh, I'm sorry, China has been growing rapidly in recent years, and there are more and more companies that need such business jets," Martin remedied.
Feng Yiping was noncommittal, and continued to flip through those samples with Huang Jingping, as for what Martin was going to do, he could probably guess it and verify the check!
After a while, Martin walked in with high spirits, "Please, our design team, we need to know more about the specific requirements of the two of you for this aircraft,"
This time, it was replaced by a more upscale conference room, in which a whole team was sitting, from the cabin layout, to the exterior and interior, and asked Feng Yiping for their opinions in great detail.
Feng Yiping still adheres to that principle, simple and comfortable, and does not need a lot of decorations to highlight his identity, having a private jet can already highlight his identity very well.
However, things are not so simple, the appearance is easy to say, on both sides of the plane, one side in Chinese, one in English, just write a big "Jiasheng Group", simple and generous and trouble-free.
However, the layout of the cabin, such as the seating arrangement, the location of the dining bar and restrooms, the color and style of the interior, these issues really need to be carefully considered and considered.
"It's not a trivial matter, it's not too hasty, why don't you go back and discuss it first?" Martin suggested.
Therefore, when Martin sent them back to the hotel, both of them carried a large bag, not a gift, which was full of various documents.
Fortunately, Huang Jingping was very concerned about this matter, and with the assistance of the Gulfstream team, it took three days to finally implement everything and quickly made renderings.
Converted into RMB, a large object of more than 200 million, Feng Yiping is also very cautious, he sent the final renderings back to China, let Jiasheng design studio carefully consider it again, and make sure that there is no problem, so he can sign the additional contract with confidence. (To be continued.) )