Chapter 442: A Successful Debut

In the early winter of 2005, there was no chill in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the 9th Dubai International Air Show was held in an unprecedented lively atmosphere. During the five-day Dubai Air Show, a total of 726 companies from 46 countries participated in the exhibition, more than 70 military and civil aircraft of various types gathered on the airport runway, and more than 20 aircraft performed wonderful flight performances every day.

Although this amount of money is a drop in the bucket compared to the investment in Tejas drones, it is still a good start.

"Mr. Jiang, I think the effect of participating in the air show is not bad, and I also want to arrange personnel to participate in the next Singapore air show," Dai Fuqian said.

In the past few days, Dai Fuqian has taken the lead and fought on the front line of sales, and Jiang Hui is quite satisfied with his performance.

"Yes, our early customers of X1 are mainly locked in developed countries, especially the United States, and there are many ordinary aerial photography enthusiasts who are also our potential customers. In the future, we will launch a few more X1 styles to meet the various needs of professional and non-professional customers."

Just as Jiang Hui and Dai Fuqian were chatting, two Westerners who were relatively good and big came over.

"Steven, which one? is this it?".

"Light ~ Hui ~ No ~ People ~ Machine, yes, this is it."

"Hello, is there anything I can do to help you?", Jiang Hui personally stepped forward and asked.

"Hello, my name is Kavin and I'm an American film director. I heard that your drones are produced specifically for aerial photography?".

"Mr. Kavin, I am Jiang Hui, the chairman of Tejas UAV, and at present, our company has launched an X1 for aerial photography. I also have a film and television company, and this year we have been using drones for aerial photography on a large scale, and we have achieved very good results."

"Your drones have already made films?".

"Yes, you can go to Google and search for the movie "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" and the TV series "Struggle", or you can log on to Tudou to watch, there are many shots taken by drones."

"I use it every day, can I see it on the potato net?"

"Yes, by the way, Tudou is also a company controlled by our Korn Ferry Group."

Are you sure we're talking about the same company? That one that has been around for more than a year, and Google has offered more than a billion dollars for Tudou that it hasn't bought yet?"

"I'm sure we're talking about the same Tudou.com. Moreover, what Google wants to buy is only Tudou America, and the valuations of Tudou Celestial Empire and Island Nation will not be worse than that of American companies."

"Oh my God, I didn't expect the person standing in front of me to sell drones was a billionaire," Calvin said in surprise. The United States is a capitalist society, so what is capitalism? Jiang Hui seems to be a society in which "capital" has the final say, so the status of the rich in the United States is very high.

"I didn't expect that the person standing in front of me to buy a drone was a big director", Jiang Hui complimented Kavin.

"Jiang, can you give me a specific introduction to your products? Our crew needs a large number of professional drones."

"X1, our company named this product X1, is a high-definition aerial photography drone with a stay time of more than two hours and a maximum speed of 50 kilometers per hour. You can carry a high-definition digital camera and a normal camera for aerial photography, Carvin, you can come and take a look, these are the ...... taken by our X1".

"I'm going to shoot a big war movie, how many drones do you think I need to have at the same time to get the best results?".

"If you shoot at different angles and at different heights at the same time, it's best to shoot with six to eight planes. Of course, it is possible to shoot with only two or three planes, but the effect is a little worse."

"Let's arrange according to the best eight, so do I have to prepare two waves of a total of sixteen drones?"

"Of course it's good to be configured like this, but in fact, twelve or thirteen should be enough", Jiang Hui also counted on Kavin to help promote the Glorious Drone in Hollywood, so he didn't plan to pit him.

"How much does your drone cost?".

"Depending on your destination and service requirements, the benchmark price is $32,000."

"If I could, I would like to be able to pick it up now, and I see other people buying drones directly here."

"I'm sorry, we only have four left," Jiang Hui said regretfully.

"How can there be only four, I think there are about a dozen here."

"Those are mockups".

"I'm not afraid, as long as it can be used normally, I want a prototype too."

"I'm sorry, it's only 10 a.m., and there's still some time before the show closes. We're not thinking about selling a prototype yet."

"Then you'll give it to us again when the show closes, we'll want it all," Steven chimed in.

Jiang Hui didn't expect Kavin to be in such a hurry, but Steven's idea was not bad, and the cost of consignment back to China was even lowered.

"No problem, if that's the case, I'll give you a good price. Four brand new and twelve prototypes, half a million dollars, and we'll send an engineer to your site for a week to teach you how to use it."

"Jiang, this price is no problem. But can you arrange an engineering team to come to our crew, there are not many people, just three people, and I will be responsible for all the costs."

For Carvin, after seeing Grumman's sky-high price of $800,000 a plane, he has no interest in haggling the price of cabbage for the X1.

"What do you want these three people to do?"

"One is responsible for maintenance, and if you use it every day, there will definitely be a time when there will be a breakdown. The other two, I hope they are in charge of operating the drone. Our crew is in a hurry to start shooting, aerial photography is a very important project for me, and I don't want to be out of the basket."

"Director Carvin, a pleasure to work with. I hope there will be opportunities for cooperation in the future," Jiang Hui stretched out his hand and said.

"Happy to work with".

In this regard, the debut of the Tejas UAV can be regarded as a happy ending.

With the first batch of users Jiang X1 put into practical use, there will inevitably be more potential users who pay attention to the Guanghui UAV. Maybe there will be a steady stream of orders coming when sitting in the office in the future.

The sales capacity is greater than the production capacity, which is Jianghui's expectation for Guanghui UAV, and also Jianghui's expectation for the entities of Guanghui Group.

This air show, in addition to all kinds of expenses, in fact, the glorious drone did not make much money. However, it is already a very good result to be able to slowly open up the situation of drone sales without burning money and even making money.

(End of chapter)