Chapter 814: No-Fly Zone

It seems that the prime minister has been waiting here for a while, and as the secretary sent Yang Hui and Director Chen of the Civil Aviation Administration together, the prime minister casually beckoned the two to sit down on the sofa next to them: "Let's talk here!" Because we have more things to talk about this time, the sofa here is more comfortable. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”

In this way, the process of discussing the follow-up improvement and development of the MPC-75 began, and the follow-up improvement and development work did not seem to be so simple, and the Prime Minister raised a question at the beginning of the meeting.

"The reason why the MPC-75 passenger aircraft and CG-2000 engine can successfully get the airworthiness certificate of Western countries is related to the positioning of this aircraft as a large regional airliner with less than 100 seats, although it can also make a cameo appearance in the trunk airliner market with small passenger flow density, but because Airbus and Boeing have not paid attention to this market, coupled with our various efforts, this has issued an airworthiness certificate, and now I want to ask you if you improve the MPC-75 to more than 100 seats, do you think you can withstand the pressure now?"

It is said that the country's high-level will not be too familiar with the specific situation of various industries, but this time the premier's words directly subverted Yang Hui's understanding, and he did not dare to say it to other leaders, but at least now the prime minister should have carefully investigated and listened to the report on the civil aviation manufacturing industry, otherwise he would not have asked such a sharp and sharp question.

Similarly, the director of the Civil Aviation Administration over there is about to crawl in the field of civil aviation, and naturally he still has to have some clear views on the civil aircraft manufacturing industry, so in the simple three-person meeting, he still has a deep agreement with the issues discussed this time, and he also knows that if he makes up his mind to enter the field of trunk airliners with more than 100 seats, the pressure is definitely not small.

At this time, Yang Hui's heart naturally has a lot of mixed feelings, such as United Passenger Aircraft Company, an aircraft manufacturing company that started by manufacturing regional airliners, usually after the company completed the basic regional airliner model layout, it began to gather all its strength, and then began to impact the 737 narrow-body trunk airliner market, which is the most demanded in the world.

The last regional airliner company that hit this market in the 90s was a total of two, namely Fokker in the Netherlands and Nusandra in Indonesia, but it is a pity that these two companies that hit the narrow-body trunk airliner in the 90s ended in failure.

Needless to say, the Dutch Fokker Company is the world's oldest aircraft manufacturer that has existed since the First World War, and the 'Fokker disaster' that caused huge losses to the Allies in World War I was the fighter produced by the Fokker Company, so this company is absolutely awesome.

After World War II, Fokker lost its ability to manufacture fighter jets because they had produced BF-190 fighters for the German army, so they were looted by the Allies, but after the war, Fokker turned to the passenger aircraft manufacturing industry, starting from regional airliners, and in 83 years, almost at the same time node as MPC-75, it began the design of a large jet regional airliner Fokker 100 that was aerodynamically very similar to the ARJ-21 of the previous face Republic.

The Fokker 100 aircraft is just positioned at the highest passenger capacity of 107 seats, and the finalized delivery in 88 years, at that time Airbus, Boeing did not have any tacit understanding, they think that the Fokker 100 is to compete with McDonnell Douglas MD-82 or MD-90, so they are naturally willing to let it go and did not initiate the strangulation of Fokker Company, anyway, it is a good choice to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

But soon, with the successful finalization and delivery of the Fokker 100 in '88, Fokker began to expand its ambitions, and began to prepare for a facelift operation on the Fokker 100, directly preparing to enter the 130-seat narrow-body trunk airliner market.

And just in this case, with the merger between Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, Boeing naturally took over two good projects in the hands of McDonnell Douglas: McDonnell Dalnot 90 and McDonnell Dalnot 11, and then McDonnell Dalnot 90 was renamed Boeing 717 airliner, carrying 110 passengers, which means that both the Fokker 100 and the improved version in the follow-up plan have launched head-to-head competition with Boeing.

At this time, it coincided with the fact that Airbus was preparing to develop the A-318 into the field of 100-seat small trunk airliners, so Airbus and Boeing, the only remaining mainline airliner giants, began to strangle Fokker.

Under the joint strangulation of the two giants, soon Fokker declared bankruptcy in 97, and the Fokker 100, which had a bright future, stopped production, and only 284 aircraft of this type were delivered, and then it was closed, and Fokker became the first challenger to be strangled by Airbus and Boeing.

In the 90s, there was also Indonesia's aviation manufacturing industry, don't look at Indonesia as a country, but in fact, they also had a brilliant aviation manufacturing industry, such as the aforementioned Fokker founder grew up in Indonesia, and Indonesia itself has a unique aviation industry road after World War II.

Indonesia is known as the "Land of a Thousand Islands", and there is a great need for air transport between islands. During the Suharto era, Indonesia was determined to go all out to develop its own national industry, the Nusan Dara Company. Under the auspices of General Manager Habibie, who returned from studying in Germany, the company brought in a large number of experts from the West on the one hand, and sent a large number of engineers to the West to learn aviation manufacturing technology on the other hand, and the company had nearly 20,000 employees at its peak.

The Nusandara company, which poured the power of Indonesia, first cooperated with Spain to develop the 30-50 seat 235, and the global sales performance was good, and then the Indonesian aircraft industry company independently developed the 70-seat propeller aircraft N250, which is an internationally advanced model in the nineties, even more advanced than the Y-7 100 of the Republic of the same era.

Anyway, before the Asian financial crisis, the rising star of regional aircraft in the world aviation community was naturally represented by Indonesia.

But just when the N250 had more than 100 hours of test flights, hundreds of domestic orders, and a year to obtain the FAA and European Joint Aviation Agency (JAA) airworthiness certificates, the Asian financial crisis broke out and Indonesia's economy was paralyzed.

Subsequently, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund began to intervene in the Indonesian economy, and one of the causes of the so-called diagnosis of the Indonesian economy was that the Indonesian government invested a lot of the country's wealth in the aviation industry, doing things beyond its power.

In the end, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund promised to aid Indonesia, but one of the conditions attached was that "not a penny can be invested in the plane." In this way, the Indonesian Aircraft Industry Corporation was washed away with the Asian financial turmoil, and most of its outstanding talents were absorbed by Boeing and Airbus.

Just after the collapse of the Nusan Dara company, some Western media directly revealed that behind the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, there are actually Boeing and Airbus black hands, and the reason why the World Bank will give a ridiculous "diagnosis" is naturally because Indonesia proposed to build a 110-seat N2130 on the basis of the N250 at that time.

And this ambitious step is actually that Nusandara wants to participate in the trunk line big aircraft club, which is undoubtedly another "big rebellion" for Boeing and Airbus, and the end will naturally end in tragedy.

Therefore, despite the fierce competition between Boeing and Airbus, but for those latecomers who are full of challenging spirit, the two giants are very united, regardless of the East, the West, whether it is friend or foe, as long as they dare to challenge the forbidden place of the large aircraft market, it is necessary to kill, therefore, more than 100 civil aircraft since the 90s, has been the world's civil aircraft market in addition to Boeing and Airbus "no-fly zone". (To be continued.) )