Looking at the Pegas2single (Pegasus single version of the second generation) on the booth, Atletico couldn't help but have a toothache, but seeing the friendly and curious smiles thrown at him by others, he had to forcibly suppress the little irritability in his heart, and responded with a skillful warm smile on his face.

As one of only two manned vehicles at this year's CES, this solo aircraft has rightly attracted a lot of attention, and even after the show is on its third day, the number of visitors who sat in the cockpit to take selfies throughout the morning is evident.

"It's a pity that this project can't be done, at least you won't see it go public for a long time," Atletico Madrid thought a little depressed, after all, this project was pulled up by himself, but it was also stopped in his own hands.

The Pegasus project was suspended indefinitely, and the machine was placed here for static display, just to help the nearby AeroSim flight simulator build momentum and let it play its last days of light and heat.

Sighing quietly in his heart, Atletico quietly turned and left.

As soon as he stepped backstage, he was tapped on the shoulder, and then a big, old voice rang in his ears: "Hey, boy! We all know it's great, it's a coolboy, but it's not its time." ”

Atletico looked sideways at the old man who spoke, shook his head lightly and said: "OldTmy, I don't regret being sad, Abraham has convinced me with his professional knowledge, and I also agree with the decision to stop the follow-up research." I'm actually sorry for the people out there, we cheated on them, didn't I?"

"No, no, no, there is no deception, and you don't need to be sorry," the old man pressed his beer belly with his left hand and winked at Atletico with his right eye, "Have you signed a written document with these spectators? Or have you ever made any verbal promises to them before?"

Seeing Atletico Madrid shaking his head repeatedly, old Tommy patted his stomach and made a crisp "pop" sound, "There is no contract and no commitment, so we don't have any cheating, do we?"

Stared at each other in surprise for two seconds, and Atletico almost shouted in surprise: "Hey old man, I can't imagine that you have such thick eyebrows and big eyes, and you will actually change your tricks?"

What he meant was, "We show off the discontinued project, and it seems that we can't stand the fans?"

Then the old man blinked and told him, "There is no written contract, not even a verbal promise, where is the deception, everything is their own imagination to take care of our business?"

Atletico Madrid is no stranger to such a misleading trick, he is just surprised that the seemingly simple and honest old Tommy would say such a thing.

Of course, he didn't say anything in the end, after all, people cared about themselves and comforted themselves, opened their arms and hugged each other, Atletico whispered in the other party's ear: "Okay, I'm fine, thank you! By the way, we have won several awards in my country, and I am now also a young expert in small turboshaft engines, which is all your credit!"

Atletico Madrid said that "half of the credit is yours", but it is not empty words, if it were not for the old man who did not hide his selfishness, and they wanted to complete the design and production in the same time, the final product would probably be an old product with expired patents 20 years ago.

Although the small turboshaft generator led by Pony North America is actually more than ten years behind the times in terms of performance indicators, it has the effect of filling the gap in China. The meaning is naturally very different, it is Atletico Madrid and his domestic team with the help and guidance of American experts to complete the design, which also means that they basically understand the design of small turboshaft engines, on the basis of which the difficulty of designing derivative models is suddenly reduced a lot, and then they not only quickly completed the localization of manufacturing after completing the design finalization, but also designed a separate turboshaft engine unit, which is now undergoing plateau reliability testing.

Compared with ordinary diesel generators, turboshaft generators with turbo compressors are much more resistant to low temperatures and pressures, so they are more suitable for use in environments such as alpine and plateau.

If the bee has the heart, it can also use this engine as a basis to develop its own helicopter or even fixed-wing aircraft, anyway, the airport can make cars, and the car factory can of course also build airplanes.

In short, this is a very meaningful and valuable scientific research achievement, and the relevant domestic departments naturally do not hesitate to give various awards, anyway, the certificate of merit does not need to spend more money, and it can also be more or less the credit of care and guidance.

"Uh-huh, is there a bonus?" the old man stretched out his right hand familiarly, letting his thumb rub on his index finger, of course, this is not the old guy to Atletico Madrid "Korean finger Heart", but to indicate that the meeting is divided in half.

"I'm sorry, our country is still relatively poor, especially the official departments and industry associations are very poor, so I don't get any bonuses", Atletico Madrid said: "But I will personally give you an additional reward as a year-end bonus, but you know, it will have to wait until the beginning of the Spring Festival in February to give it to you, as a traditional New Year's gift." ”

"Well," said the old man, shrugging his shoulders, "I know that calendar, don't you think it's troublesome?"

"It's okay, there's a calendar app and Google anyway. ”

"Again, I'd have gone crazy without a calendar and a clock," the old man said sympatheticly.

Tommy Sr. is actually quite homely, although he has often filled up his mobile phone in the past two years and volunteered to work overtime, he has also lived a very happy life, and it is great that he does not need to produce the same product repeatedly for decades.

Originally, after meeting the big boss, his plan was to talk about his future plans and determine whether his current happy job would be laid off, but because Atletico Madrid took the initiative to mention the theme of reminiscing about the past eventful years, the two of them found a small round table to sit there and chatted very highly.

"Hey, Boss, Hey, old Tommy, what are you talking about?" was as he spoke, when a man's voice interjected.

Atletico said hello to him and pulled him to sit down.

This guy's name is Abraham Scholesiii., the American CEO of Pony Vehicles just introduced last month, graduated from the American engineering school Gatech Georgia Institute of Technology with a major in aircraft manufacturing, and is an experienced and capable master of science.

Tommy Sr.'s full name is Thomas Diego, and the Scholes Power he previously worked for can be said to be the family business of Scholes, where two generations of Abraham Scholes have worked. Originally, when little Abraham returned from school, he should return to his own company as Scholes III to take over, but this arrangement was rejected by Mr. Master.

He thinks that the decades-old engines at home are terrible, and he was able to produce them when he was in middle school, and he didn't want to make the same engines after a few years of college.

Then he is seduced by the old Uncle Tommy who gets the news, joins the ambitious pony vehicle, and flies to work across the Pacific.

The old man looked up at the passer, "We're talking about that poor kid out there, and your poor Uncle Tommy almost lost his job. ”

"Uncle Tommy, does your experience tell you that it's a promising product?"

"Little Abbe," the old man said slowly, "although I don't know much about this kind of multicopter, but they are so popular now, they should have a lot of advantages, right?"

"There are many advantages, the most obvious is that the cost is low, the pneumatic control is easier to handle, but as the machine is amplified, the propeller load increases, its control will become more and more difficult, and it is likely that a small wind will blow it down. ”

"What's more, there is the problem of battery capacity, this model itself is the most wasteful of energy, and the current battery technology does not see signs of a revolutionary breakthrough, so it is really not a good choice. ”

'That's what Mr Abraham said to me before and then I was convinced by him,' added Atletico.

Originally, Abraham was poached through Tommy Sr., and Atletico's big idea was to improve the air time and safety of the Pegasus aircraft. Although they have never had a problem with Pegasus themselves, neither the CAAC Civil Aviation Administration nor the FAA Federal Air Traffic Management Agency have issued them airworthiness certificates, on the grounds that the flight time and load capacity are too small, and there is not enough safety redundancy, which needs to be further improved.

As a result, this GIT top student spent a week checking the operation data of Pegasus after joining the company, and then greeted the provincial and municipal air traffic control departments, scolding them for dereliction of duty and slackness and murder. As for Pegasus's improvement plan, he naturally stopped it, and the test ride event arranged by Pegasus every sunny weekend did not need him to notify him to cancel, because Atletico played a jetpack overboard incident before, this activity has been suspended and has not been replied, this time he directly notified the permanent cancellation.

As Atletico said, he was persuaded by the new CEO to admit that Pegasus is still a long way from maturity under the current propeller technology and battery technology conditions, and nodded and agreed to the other party's indefinite suspension of the operation of the Pegasus program.

Not only Pegasus, but also the various vehicle research projects that the company received from the bees, the water that flew in the sky and swam on the ground, was cut down by him to only the two branches of smart cars and turbine electric vehicles and on-board smart accessories, and all the others were required to be completed or suspended within a time limit.

Abraham is not against it for the sake of opposition, these projects that he cut are all money-burning projects that have no hope of a successful listing in a short period of three or five years, and he believes that the company should concentrate on consolidating the current two profitable projects, the ferry car and smart accessories, and the others should be abandoned or shelved.

In fact, the turboelectric vehicle project was also going to be cut, and the project with annual sales of 21 units was also a money-burning hole, and he would not tolerate its continued existence because he was introduced by Uncle Tomy, and in the end, Atletico Madrid used the authority of the chairman to forcefully protect his "dark horse".

Although the sales of this car are very bad, it has contributed to Atletico in other aspects, and in general it is not a loss, so it has been retained.

In fact, most of those canceled projects are also the same, they are established because of Atletico Madrid's interest, and are supported by Ma Da local tyrants, it may be that this "I have money, I am willing" attitude has given birth to human inertia, resulting in related products can never really mature to the market, and finally Atletico Madrid can not bear it, please bring a Western sword to cut them to pieces, but also led to the first major layoffs since the establishment of the Pony Company.

As for whether the layoffs before the year were in a hurry to evade the year-end bonus, it is impossible to say, anyway, those personnel did not go to the labor arbitration department to complain about the pony company.

Seeing that the boss and the head of the U.S. branch were here, Abraham said: "Boss, I think we should expand the Miybida factory, there are more airports in the United States, and the shuttle bus market here is obviously bigger." ”

"Report back to me, you can send a few models over to test the water first. ”

After all, this is not the place to talk about things, and the three of them did not continue to go deeper, and the topic quickly turned to Chinese learning, and the elder Tommy used his unique accent to teach his nephew experience: "You just need to talk to people more, just like me, I will chat with the Asians of Miybida every day after work, and my Chinese will improve so rapidly." ”

Located in Santa Clara County, California, between Palo Alto and Los Angeles, where Stanford University is located, Milpitas is also considered a periphery of Silicon Valley because of its hundreds of high-tech companies. For the Chinese, this small town of tens of thousands of people is best known for the proportion of Asians who are more than half Asian and the highest proportion of Chinese Americans, and for Pony Company, the base of the automobile industry there is even more attractive.

There are Ford's production plants and Toyota America, which means that before the "Silicon Valley car" Tesla, there were actually a lot of Silicon Valley-made cars that were produced and sold, of course, this "Silicon Valley product" and the early years of SKD semi-loose parts assembly domestic cars are the same nature.

Because Detroit's workers are getting better and better, not only Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi and other Japanese car companies have put their U.S. headquarters and production plants outside Detroit, but Ford, GM, Chrysler's three major factories have also begun to flee, and the pillar industries have been shrinking, and the subprime mortgage crisis broke out to finally lead to the bankruptcy of this automobile city.

Of course, Detroit went out of bankruptcy protection a year ago, at the cost of retirees and buyers of Detroit bonds being forced to accept a discount on both pensions and bonds.

In short, because Mibita has a certain base in the automotive industry and is close to Silicon Valley to share the latter's resources, the North American research institute of Pony Vehicles was eventually placed there, and Abraham also planned to put the future production plant there.