Chapter 169: Another Airshow
"Good news, good news, double happiness is coming today, double happiness is coming."
The excited Yang Hui rushed to the crowd in front of the viewing platform, and now he continues to break the news while everyone is happy, this is a day worthy of everyone's joy.
Yang Hui's excited appearance was difficult not to attract attention, and he only needed a little rest to feel like he could speak.
"Good news, we have been contacted by the British side just now, and Ferrenti and Marconi have coordinated to help us get a place in the main pavilion of the Farnborough Air Show, which is usually a dedicated booth only for British aviation manufacturers."
Sure enough, it's good news, this year's FeanPaul Air Show opportunity to participate in this year's Fainberg Air Show was just a remote pavilion location, but I didn't expect to get a main pavilion location, which is really valuable.
To say that this Farnberg Air Show is actually no less well-known in the international world than the Paris Air Show. The Farnborough Air Show and the Paris Air Show were also the result of negotiations between Britain and France, which were held once a year in the early days, and then changed to biennial after the negotiation between the two countries, and this pattern continued to later generations.
The odd-numbered year is the Paris Air Show in France, and the even-numbered year is naturally the Van Paul Air Show in the United Kingdom, and now it is 84 years, and it is the turn of the United Kingdom to sit in the village again.
It was not too difficult to get the exhibition hall at the Farnborough Air Show in 84, but it was quite difficult to get the main exhibition hall, not to mention that it was from the distant Red Republic, which was difficult to accept by the air show organizers.
In the early days of the Farnborough Air Show, it was no ordinary nationalism. At that time, it would have been more appropriate for the Farnborough Airshow to be called the 'British Aviation Products Exhibition'.
During this time, the British air show was quite 'patriotic'. The protection of national industry was the main theme, and all aircraft in the air show had to be British-made. I'm sorry if you have any ancestry from another country, but please walk out of the showroom.
The situation did not improve until 1966, when for the first time aircraft of foreign production were allowed to be exhibited, but only on the condition that such aircraft used British engines or other important equipment, or were supported by British suppliers.
In 1972, the air show became the European air show, and as long as it was a European product, it could be exhibited without restrictions. Two more years later, in 1974, all restrictions on the provenance of exhibits were lifted. The Farnborough Airshow is officially an international airshow worthy of its name.
Now that it has been 84 years, it is normal to think that exhibitors must be let go, but this is not the case, the obvious threshold is gone, but the other invisible thresholds are inexplicably a lot.
Non-UK manufacturers want to participate in the air show, yes. But the most important and most crowded pavilions are definitely not, these are the UK's own reserves, foreign exhibitors can just find a place to play in the mud. Therefore, it is not easy to get a booth in the main exhibition hall at the base.
Why. Naturally, I can guess some, on the one hand, the base has cooperative relations with several aviation product system suppliers in the UK, and I don't want to look at the monk face or the Buddha face; Of course, the main reason is that British aircraft manufacturers began to go bankrupt on a large scale and were merged one after another. There are not enough local exhibitors naturally
I heard that this year's Fein Paul Air Show has been completed, but this is a happy thing, and it is a thing to say that it is a double happiness.
"A group of bigwigs at the base knew that the British side would invite the base to participate in the Feanborough Air Show this time. This was decided during the negotiations on the introduction of radar, and I was not surprised to get a main exhibition hall. After all, the base has never participated in the Feanborough Air Show, so it is natural that he does not know about these twists and turns. ”
Although in my heart I already knew it. But now so many guests participating in the first flight still have to be considered, and it is still necessary to cooperate and pretend to know for the first time.
What is the Fan Paul Air Show, which is still a very tall air show in China, and can have such an international air show in the main venue of the exhibition, that is, it shows that our aircraft is very good, and it has been recognized by foreigners.
"Oh, is it? This is really good news, to be able to participate in an international air show like Farnberg, this is indeed another great benefit to the new aircraft, which also shows that the technical strength of your 0011 base is very good. ”
The base with strong technical force is really not as good as those international aviation manufacturers, but at least it is okay to compare in China, and now the technology can at least enter the first echelon in China.
Another shot in the arm, the whole team is jubilant, the first flight is completed, and now we have to go back to hold a small celebration, the celebration of the first flight in the first stage is still necessary.
"Your Royal Highness, is it okay for us to allocate the follow-up funds? At present, the test flight stage is quite costly, and our test aircraft can only do one or two without sufficient funds, and the final finalization will drag on for a long time. ”
"So, you look at this"
At the celebration party, everyone else was chatting happily, only Yang Hui, the unlucky child, received a hard task and came to collect money, which is really not a good thing, the so-called talking about money hurts feelings.
Prince Sultan heard that the base had spent the first batch of funds, and the first flight was successful today, and the plane looked very good, and the local tyrant was still quite bold.
"Oh, the question of funding, I understand this, this is what I am here for. Originally, when you said that there would be a Feinborough Airshow, I planned to wait for the follow-up funds to be announced to you at the time of Fainberg, but now I see that you are spending money faster, so I will give you the follow-up funds first. ”
Is there any connection between the timing of the handover of funds and the publicity of the FeanPaul Airshow? No, it doesn't matter, now that the money is given, when the time comes, the announcement of a large purchase order on Farnberg, can it also play a role in building momentum?
The local tyrant intends to build momentum for the new aircraft at the air show, which must not be missed, and the opportunity must be seized.
"Well, we can hand over the funding issue now, and we can also think of other ways to build momentum at the Farnborough Air Show, for example, we can announce procurement projects and so on."
Is it really good to announce the purchase of a project so quickly, and does it give people the feeling of asking for help? Of course not, it is really normal to place orders in the development stage of new aircraft, and almost 80 percent of the aircraft have a large stack of orders in the project approval stage.
This is a common thing in the manufacture of aviation products, and those projects that have not been ordered for a long time in the design and test flight are problematic, and generally this kind of project will not end well in the end.
The most typical thing is to pull out the F20 and whip the corpse, and the US imperialist plane will pull out the whip corpse as long as there is a chance.
When it comes to the procurement project, at this time, Saudi Arabia really has some ideas, although Saudi Arabia's current training aircraft T38 still has some life, but the local tyrant, it is not difficult to be willful.
"There is no problem with this, we Saudi Arabia can place an order for 20 aircraft, and we can also help the new aircraft contact Iraq and Jordan, and they also need super J-7 training aircraft, I believe their orders will not be less."
Orders for training aircraft are generally not too much, that is, twenty or thirty top sky, after all, this is not the main combat aircraft, and the demand is not very big.
The demand is not large, but the world's demand for training aircraft is a rigid demand, which means that it can be sold in small batches and multiple batches, and the final total amount is also quite considerable.
"Well, we in Pakistan can also purchase thirty aircraft, and we have a big demand for this new trainer aircraft. Not only do J-7 pilots need it, but also F16 pilots, and even we can use it to patrol in the north, and the trainer patrol is much milder than the fighter patrol, and it is not too irritating to the Soviet side. (To be continued......)