"Have you heard it, now Pratt & Whitney has begun to penetrate our traditional market, the military mid-push engine is a territory that we must hold, and Pratt & Whitney must not be allowed to have any chance to intervene, and the investigation of the fire of the F404 engine must be accelerated again."

The unhappiness of the US Navy has long turned into all kinds of pressure, and the president of General Motors has been in a trance all day long, and now Pratt & Whitney in Congress has come out again, and the evil tentacles have invaded the traditional field of General Motors.

All kinds of pressure is on the head of the president of General Motors, and now it is natural to share the pressure, and these technicians responsible for the development of the F404 engine are destined to not escape this catastrophe, and they were reprimanded early like their grandsons.

The situation is very critical, but the leader of the technical research team responsible for the F404 troubleshooting has no clue at all, and can only continue to endure all kinds of reprimands without saying a word.

Seeing that the situation is stuck here and can't move, Brown has been struggling in his heart, do you want to believe the words of those Chinese people? Do they really know what is wrong with the F404 engine?

"Waste, it's all waste, what's the use of the company raising you, a gang will only fight with the wind, and when you encounter a problem, you will completely expose the essence. Let me tell you, if you don't come up with a solution before the year, all kinds of bonuses will be gone this year! ”

Cutting off someone's money is like killing your parents, which is simply the most amazing trick, and Brown can't live without this year's prize money now. Remembering that he had to pay the final payment every month for the big house he had just taken out a loan, and that he still had various expenses for the Chinese New Year, Brown knew that the time had come for him to give it a go.

After making up your mind: "I have a way. It may be possible to quickly find the cause of the fire in the F404 engine, depending on whether the company is willing to do so. ”

Listen there is a way to solve the problem. The people who originally buried their heads in the sand like ostriches raised their heads at once, and if they could really find the reason, it would be a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people.

"Say it quickly. As long as the problem can be solved, there is nothing unacceptable, and now the Navy and Pratt & Whitney are pressing very hard, and every moment of our time is very precious. ”

Since the high-level said that he would not exclude it, Brown cautiously put forward his plan this time, asking a world giant like General to seek advice from the Republic, which is indeed psychologically a little low-headed.

But the situation is stronger than people: "When I attended the last International Aspirated Engine Conference, I was inexplicably called aside by a participant from China, who said that our F404 engine had major defects and that our engine would crash. I was very unimpressed at the time."

With the in-depth introduction, the GM guys listened to it fascinated, it turned out that there was this kind of legendary story, the International Aspirated Engine Conference at that time was just over, and the F404 engine began to catch fire, which is simply a god-like pre-research technique.

"How is this possible, not to mention Huaguo's weak aviation industry, let's just say that their even weaker aero engine industry, how can it be possible to study our F404 engine such a high-end product. They haven't really developed an aero engine from beginning to end until now, and I don't believe it to say that they can figure out the shortcomings of the F404 engine. ”

As soon as Brown finished speaking, the leader of the technical investigation team on the side began to spray. All of this seemed to him to be a complete fantasy, and from a scientific point of view, it simply didn't work. But Yang Hui's existence is inherently unscientific. From this point of view, this technician is still quite level.

But GM's president doesn't think so. To say that F404 really seems to have a little to do with this eastern republic, as the president, he knows some information that no one else knows.

"It's still possible. In the United States in 79 years, there was an F404 engine stolen, according to later investigations, this engine was obtained by the Eastern Republic, but then we didn't hear what follow-up actions they had for F404, we didn't care, I didn't think that now they actually let them study some ways. ”

Hearing that the president here has declassified the news, what else can I say, I can only go and see the specific situation, if I can't really meet a blind cat and a dead mouse, there is no harm in trying.

"Brown, since that's what you said, it's up to you to get in touch and see what they want, and if it's not too much, you can agree, provided that you make sure they do know the shortcomings of the 404 engine."

"Yes, is it that unit in that country that came to contact you? They seem to have quite a lot of engine development units."

Brown was very upset when he heard that he was going to go on a business trip to that backward country, which was simply a crime. Now I have all kinds of twists in my heart, and I will answer roughly.

"It seems to be called Southwest Science and Technology, I don't know exactly what it is, they and Northrop have been cooperating in the past few years, and I heard that the two sides are very happy."

Can it be unpleasant? Northrop gave up the F20 for cooperation, Northrop's choice has always been incomprehensible to mainstream American aircraft manufacturers, what is it that your mainstream American boss goes to get involved with mud legs, this will lose its value!

But the president of General Motors knows about one of Northrop's recent moves: "Southwest Science and Industry, this is a little interesting, they cooperated with Northrop to launch an aircraft specially exported to Thailand, using our F404 engine, which is really confident enough." In this way, you go to see the situation, confirm that there is no problem and quickly reach an agreement, so they can be regarded as our partners, this time the Thai procurement case has a total of 80 F404 engine purchases, or to give a face. ”

With the company's requirements, Brown came to the imperial capital of the Republic, and under the banner of coming to the follow-up maintenance of the CFM56 engine produced by General Motors, he naturally came to the engine maintenance point of General Motors in the Republic, and then contacted the vice president of Northrop in Southwest Science and Industry.

Under the leadership of Northrop, he successfully came to Southwest Science and Industry, met Yang Hui and Zhong Jianjian, who gave Brown God the prophecy at that time, and the two sides got straight to the point and directly talked about the F404 engine problem that they were most concerned about.

"Last time, Mr. Zhong reminded us that there are design defects in the F404 engine, which we are very interested in GM, and I believe you have also learned about the problem of fire in the F404 engine in use through Northrop, I want to know if the major design flaws you are talking about are the problems you are referring to?"

Brown's straightforwardness made Yang Hui and Zhong Jianshe very satisfied, this is the efficiency that an international large company should have! I knew now, why bother to make a hanging example of Lao Tzu the best in the world at that time.

Now I don't have to come to the southwest science and technology industry to eat with chopsticks, Yang Hui nodded his head to agree with Brown's guess, and took out a black and white photo from the drawer of the office desk, the pixels are not very clear, but it is enough. Handing it to Brown, Yang Hui didn't say anything.

And Brown saw this and confirmed the news, this photo is the appearance of GM's F404 fire in the bench test, the flames are constantly burning on the F404 engine, which can at least prove that Southwest Science and Industry has been able to restore the scene of the F404 engine fire.

The fact that they were able to restore the scene of the fire must have been because they knew the cause of the fire, which proved that the company was right, and Brown felt that he was well worth it.

"Indeed, it seems that you know the cause of the fire of the F404 engine, and our GM company is here to buy this news, you can make a price, for the sake of the cooperation between our two sides in the Thai project, as long as it is not too excessive, there is no problem." (To be continued.) )