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Probably got the wind in advance. The leaders and workers of the Lingxi Provincial Aircraft Factory expressed great enthusiasm for the arrival of Fan Heng and others, and although it was said that Fan Heng's status should be welcomed in this way, judging from the atmosphere at the scene, the workers' welcome to the entire delegation must have surpassed the enthusiasm for an executive vice premier.

And many people found that it was not so much that everyone's eyes were revolving around Fan Heng, but that everyone's thoughts were on Fan Wuxi, who was following Fan Heng.

Fan Wuxi also noticed this, and couldn't help but think in his heart, it is estimated that Lingxi Province leaked the matter of his own inspection with the group, based on the superstition of the legendary state-owned enterprise savior Fan's Investment Group, and the worship of himself, which led to the emergence of this situation now.

As the only large private group company in China that has been accepted by the top level and can invest in military enterprises, Fan's Investment Group can inject capital or inject technical capabilities into these state-owned military enterprises, which is also the starting point of Lingxi Province's very ardent expectations for itself.

Whether it is Xifei or Shenfei, in fact, domestic aircraft factories can produce some civilian small and medium-sized aircraft, as well as some second-generation or even second-generation and one-and-a-half military fighters, but if you want to compare with international aircraft manufacturing enterprises, the gap is relatively large.

In many key technologies, companies such as Xifei and Shenfei cannot reach the high-end technical level. Therefore, it lacks the strength to win the large aircraft project.

In fact, even during the Cultural Revolution, the domestic ability to develop large aircraft was not weak at all.

China's first self-designed, self-built jumbo jetliner was the Y-10. The maximum take-off weight of the aircraft is 110 tons, the maximum cruising speed is 974 kilometers per hour, and the maximum practical range is 8,000 kilometers. The cabins are arranged according to the three poles of full tourism, mixed and full economy, and can carry 124, 149 and 178 passengers respectively. The Y-10 aircraft was designed by the Shanghai Aircraft Research Institute, manufactured and assembled by the Shanghai Aircraft Factory, and the landing gear was manufactured by the Shanghai Aviation Electric Appliance Factory, and received the cooperation and support of more than 300 units inside and outside the Shanghai Municipality and the Ministry of Aviation.

The development of the Y-10 aircraft began in 1970 and was successfully tested for the first time in September 1980. After that, the development test flight and transfer test flight were carried out to prove that the Y-10 aircraft had good performance and met the design requirements. The successful test flight of the Y-10 aircraft has aroused strong repercussions at home and abroad. The aviation circles of the United States, Britain, and other countries have commented one after another, holding that this is a major development in China's aviation technology, which has shortened the gap between China's civil aviation industry and the world's advanced level by 15 years, and that China can no longer be said to be a backward country when such highly complex technology is obtained.

At that time, it was during the Cultural Revolution, which caused serious disruption to the research and development work, but under extremely difficult conditions, the vast number of workers and scientific and technological personnel, with a sense of responsibility and dedication to win glory for the country, adhered to the scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts, fought day and night regardless of remuneration, overcame all kinds of difficulties, and finally made the Y-10 plane fly into the blue sky.

The successful test flight of the Y-10 aircraft has filled a gap in China's aviation industry. It is a major scientific and technological achievement. In terms of design technology, there are many aspects for the first breakthrough in China, and in terms of manufacturing technology, there are also many new processes that are used in aircraft for the first time in China.

After a large number of tests and flight test practice, it has been proved that the Y-10 aircraft has good handling characteristics and safety, it is not easy to enter the tail spin and easy to change out of the tail spin, has good speed characteristics, its resistance divergence Mach number is better than that of similar aircraft, has better airport adaptability, under the airport conditions at that time, the domestic airports that can be used are more than Boeing 707 and Trident aircraft. It also has great development potential, such as modifying the engine and lengthening the fuselage, which can improve its economy. If a large hatch is opened in the fuselage, it can be changed into a passenger and cargo dual-purpose aircraft or a military transport aircraft, and it is also a suitable candidate aircraft for early warning aircraft and air tankers.

Through the development of the Y-10 aircraft, more than 100 achievements with application value have been achieved in China, but due to the historical conditions at that time, when the design task of the Y-10 aircraft was proposed, it was mainly considered from the chief plane. The requirement to be able to cross oceans and seas with a range of up to 7,000 kilometers has led to an increase in the structure and fuel load of the aircraft, and a decrease in the number of commercial loads.

After the first successful test flight of the Y-10 aircraft, it was difficult to continue the development work due to financial reasons. After the successful development, the Shanghai Flying Plant wrote a letter to the central leadership to report on the development of the Y-10 aircraft.

The State Council has asked experts to conduct demonstrations on this issue and put forward a proposal that the entire process of research and development should be completed. After the meeting, the Third Aircraft Department and the Shanghai Municipal Government put forward four plans for continuing the development, but they were not approved, and from the following year, the development of the Y-10 aircraft basically came to a standstill.

Fan Wuxian has always been obsessed with the production of large aircraft in China, if the country can produce large aircraft, then their own airlines can save a lot of money, now to Airbus or Boeing to buy dozens of hundreds of aircraft, the value is indeed a lot of money, to be honest, he himself also feels a little distressed, rather than take out so much money for foreigners to earn, it is better to invest tens of billions of dollars in China, to build their own large aircraft, not only to meet the use, but also to exercise the design and manufacturing team, Solving a large number of job and employment opportunities and making Chinese raise their eyebrows can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

In fact, the large aircraft project is very capable of training the work team, whether it is from the design or trial manufacturing, there are many problems that need to be solved, and more attention is paid to a cooperation mechanism. It often requires the collaboration of multiple enterprises, but in the current environment, it is indeed very difficult to achieve this effect.

Fan Wuxi's initial idea is to unite dozens of domestic research institutes and more than a dozen aircraft factories to create a large aircraft project development team, while processing parts for Airbus or Boeing, and at the same time start to rebuild the domestic large aircraft project, and strive to come up with large aircraft products that can be compared with Airbus A380 and other aircraft products within ten years.

In fact, according to the current technical strength and production capacity, this goal is not very high, the most critical step is to make the funds in place, and at the same time, it is to make inclined policies to domestic aircraft manufacturers in aircraft orders, focusing on support.

When inspecting the Lingxi Provincial Aircraft Factory, Fan Wuzhi casually raised the matter of the Yun-10 aircraft, saying that he had some doubts about stopping the project that year.

The chief engineer of the Lingxi Provincial Aircraft Factory, who participated in the development of the Y-10 aircraft at the Shanghai Aircraft Factory and was familiar with the experience of the Y-10 aircraft, said to Fan Wuzhi when he heard this, "Before the first test flight of the Y-10, someone had put forward the opinion that he was inclined to stop the development. After the success of the first flight of Yun-10, the people of the whole country rejoiced and raised their eyebrows. However, some people regard the Y-10 as a negative experience of pulling out seedlings and promoting it, saying that the development of the Y-10 is the product of a mistake in decision-making and self-shut-up, and the result is that they want to climb to the sky in one step. If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and this attitude is the same as that of shipbuilding, which had a negative attitude towards the shipbuilding industry. As far as foreign countries are concerned, the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company of the United States is also determined to defeat the Yun-10, otherwise they will not be able to enter and occupy the Chinese aviation market. ”

At that time, the American McDonnell Douglas Company made a business of assembling DC-9 super 80 in Shanghai, and then boasted in Fortune magazine how it had managed to become a billion-dollar business, saying that because Shanghai had engaged in the Y-10, they had cooperated with Shanghai, and if the Y-10 project had not been reversed, it would be difficult for the US aircraft to enter the Chinese market.

In December 1986, the executive meeting of the State Council decided. The re-development of domestic trunk large aircraft, so the aircraft selection, the general design unit fixed, the selection of foreign cooperation objects, and the preparation of feasibility reports. This feasibility report was carried out for six years until early 1992, and the development project evolved into a Sino-US joint production of MD90.

In November 1992, the State Council issued a document determined to develop a mainline aircraft with more than 150 seats, and the final implementation was to cooperate with foreign countries in the development of the AE100, a large regional aircraft with 100 seats. In this context, the competent authorities have put forward a three-step plan, the first step, Sino-US cooperation in manufacturing and assembling MD80/90, the second step, Sino-foreign cooperation in the development of AE100, which will be put into service in about 2005, and the third step, the design and manufacture of 180-seat aircraft, to be realized in 2010.

In the first step of the three-step plan, McDonnell Douglas was acquired by Boeing, and the McDonnell Douglas assembly line in Shanghai was on a dead end. As a result, the materials worth tens of millions of yuan that were originally intended to be used for the third Yun-10 were used to practice rivet guns in preparation for the cooperation between the Shanghai Aircraft Factory and McDonnell Douglas. One can imagine the mood of the workers who once proudly built their own jumbo jets.

In the second step of the three-step plan, Airbus Europe unilaterally broke the contract and was played a big head.

By last year, this three-step plan was completely frustrated, and the beautiful dream fell into two heavy blows, and the achievements of China's aviation industry with independent intellectual property rights are still the Y-10 prototype that was successfully developed 20 years ago, almost completely forgotten, and parked in the factory building.

The direct losses of the Y-10 are obvious, and the 15 years that the aviation industry has been catching up with in the research of large jet airliners have been rolled back, and what is even more painful is that it has dealt a heavy blow to its morale and ambition to develop high-tech industries and has broken up its ranks.

In those years, through the development of the Y-10 aircraft, they have accumulated a scientific research and technical force, and have accumulated a lot of valuable practical experience, they could have used this as the basis to show their talents, and become the basic technical team for the development of large civil aviation aircraft, just like the situation of the aerospace department today, but unfortunately the Y-10 dismounted and the country's problems in the decision-making of large aircraft. As a result, this aviation science and technology team has not yet been given a stage to display its talents and ambitions, and the research and development team, which has accumulated rich experience in systematic practice, is facing the final dispersal today after 15 years of consumption. However, after several decades of development, the aviation industry, which has hundreds of thousands of employees, more than 200 enterprises, more than 20 aircraft and aero engine manufacturing enterprises, and more than 30 research institutes, is faced with an unprecedentedly severe difficult situation of switching to civilian products, being unable to protect itself, having no way out, being laid off and diverted, and not being able to pay wages.

"Today's Airbus has become a giant challenging the monopoly of Boeing in the United States, but our Y-10 has been abandoned halfway. On the other hand, the carrier rockets we developed ourselves are now carrying US satellites into the sky, earning foreign exchange for the country, and becoming a symbol of national prestige and military prestige. The chief engineer of the Lingxi Provincial Aircraft Factory said to Fan Wuxian with some sadness, "Fifteen years after the death of the Yun-10, the mainline aircraft in the sky of China are all imported products, and the regional aircraft are still the Yun-7 developed during the Cultural Revolution. In terms of military aircraft, the air defense is supported by dozens of Su-27s purchased from the dilapidated Russia, and the desire to buy an AWACS aircraft from Israel has also been stopped because of the staring of the United States. After the US bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, we suddenly discovered that China's position as a military strategic strength in the world has been markedly weakened. In the face of these huge contrasts, reflecting on the untimely death of Yun 10 cannot help but think, why is this? Who should be responsible for the untimely death of the Y-10 and the widening of the gap between China's aviation industry and the world's advanced level? ”

The conversation between Fan Wuxian and the chief engineer made Fan Heng, who was also born in a military industrial enterprise, feel a little embarrassed.

The phenomenon of widening the gap between the aviation industry and the world's advanced level due to the premature death of the Y-10 is not isolated, and the same situation also appears in many other industries. For example, in the first 30 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China made achievements and progress in the control of many diseases that seriously endangered the people's health that were beyond the reach of capitalist countries, but in the following 20 years or so, many of these achievements and progress could not be sustained for a long time, and some of them even greatly regressed, and a series of new serious problems arose and were in a helpless predicament.

In reality, there are so many issues that need to be explained and explained. Sweep the yellow, the more you sweep the more yellow; Hit the black, the more you fight, the darker it gets; Anti-corruption, the more anti-corruption, the more corrupt; Farmers reduce their burdens, and the more they reduce, the heavier they become; The result of the reform of state-owned enterprises in contracting operations is large-scale losses and triangular debts; As a result of turning losses and increasing profits and resolving triangular debts, a large number of enterprises went bankrupt and closed down, and finally sold them. And so on, no one came out to give a decent explanation and explanation, how can we expect to give a clear explanation and explanation of the reasons and responsibilities for the untimely death of Yun 10?

The untimely death of the 10th Fortune Movement, like some setbacks in other fields, cast a thick shadow over the Chinese's grand cause of catching up with and surpassing the world's advanced level, the bright prospects for national rejuvenation, the ambition to stand on one's own feet among the nations of the world, and the solemn promise to make greater contributions to mankind.

"Now is the time to make up your mind." Fan Wuxian said to his father Fan Heng, "I think it is necessary to reopen the domestic manufacturing large aircraft project, reintegrate the country's aviation resources, and come up with a domestic self-sufficient large aircraft manufacturing roadmap as soon as possible." ”

"The amount of money to be spent here is not a small amount—" Fan Heng said cautiously, "It is probably difficult to complete without one or two hundred billion yuan." ”

"Money really isn't nothing—" Fan Wuxian said with some interest, "In this kind of thing, what is money?" ”

"yes, what is money?" Fan Heng listened to his son's words and said with some emotion.

In the revival of national industry, what is money?

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