Chapter 483: Challenging Boeing and Airbus
The International Space Agency's first moon landing was scheduled for July 20, and as the time approached, astronauts from various countries arrived on Penglai Island. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Before landing on the moon, these people will undergo a week-long training at the Penglai Space Base, which is said to be training, but in fact, it is just familiar with Space One, because these people themselves are excellent astronauts, and this moon landing is not too risky.
Li Xiaoman, a reporter from Penglai TV, was allowed to enter the space base for interviews, and she was excited for a long time. Li Xiaoman is the host of Penglai TV, and has won the love of countless people with her pure and lovely appearance, and Lu Yang has a good impression of her.
"Audience friends, today we are going to enter the Penglai Space Base to interview the astronauts of 37 countries who are training here, and they will take Space One to the moon in a week, completing a great feat in the history of human spaceflight!"
Li Xiaoman was not nervous when facing the camera, but when she walked into the space base, her heartbeat accelerated significantly. Under the leadership of the staff, Li Xiaoman came to the place where the astronauts were trained, which was full of machines, which made people a little dazzled.
Li Xiaoman, who is very familiar with the production of such TV programs, first interviewed Wang Cheng and Chen Yusong, who were in charge of training, and then interviewed astronauts trained in various countries. She keenly observed that there were three colors of people in this group of astronauts, and she also took them into account during the interview.
"Hello, which country are you from?" Li Xiaoman asked in Chinese, because both sides had automatic translation headphones and were not worried about communication.
"I'm from London, England, and my name is ......," an astronaut from the United Kingdom replied in Chinese, which made Li Xiaoman a little surprised, but she didn't expect that a random person she interviewed could speak Chinese.
But after interviewing 9 astronauts, Li Xiaoman was strange, because these 9 people all know Chinese, although they are not proficient, but there is no problem with simple communication. Li Xiaoman is still speculating in his heart, has Chinese now become a compulsory course for astronauts?
The facts are similar to what Li Xiaoman guessed, in fact, within the International Space Agency, there are officially two working languages, Chinese and English. Because the Chinese people are more powerful in the International Space Agency, coupled with Lu Yang's angry youth characteristics, Chinese is used more frequently than English.
As for the Chinese language of these astronauts, it is directly related to Li Yilong. When he audited, he clearly put forward the Chinese language requirements, so Chinese language ability became one of the criteria for the review.
When the astronauts were training intensively, Li Yilong was talking to some companies about advertising sponsorship. Since the first official flight of Space One, space advertising has become a new form of advertising, and so far there have been advertisements on four space trips, and those companies have contributed more than 10 billion advertising expenses to Penglai Aerospace Company.
There will be no sponsorship for a normal mission at Space-One, but a manned flight with a high profile like this must. However, this time, because it was in a hurry, the time for investment promotion was a bit short, and in order to complete it before the moon landing, Li Yilong personally talked to major brands.
"Erie wants to be the exclusive sponsor of milk, only 80 million? No, the exclusive sponsorship is at least more than 100 million, or let them bid for ...... with Mengniu."
"Adidas wants to sponsor clothing? How much do they bid? What, only 30 million? Oh, the dollar...... You go and contact Nike to see what their price is! ”
"Volkswagen wants naming rights? I can't agree to this, reply to them, and two days later a tender will be held on Penglai Island, and these car sellers have money......"
Under the auspices of Li Yilong, the moon landing event received a total of 1.7 billion advertising expenses, which was higher than he had expected. Don't look at the high advertising cost, that's because it has a good effect, otherwise those companies will be wronged, they can be shrewd.
Although the International Space Agency (ISA) has just become operational, Li Yilong has already won the trust of member states with this achievement. Originally, everyone was dissatisfied with the high cost, but when they saw the 1.7 billion advertising cost, the dissatisfaction of the member states decreased a lot.
On July 20, Space One took off from the space airport with 300 astronauts and 500 tons of supplies. The flight will go directly to the Xuanyuan Sea Lunar Base airfield on the Moon. Of the 300 astronauts, 100 crew members will inspect the base, while the other 200 astronauts will land on the moon.
300 astronauts from 37 countries landed on the moon at the same time.
Lu Yang was very confident about the moon landing, so he didn't pay too much attention to it. The main purpose of this moon landing is to build the space base of the International Space Agency (ISA), and the materials carried by Space 1 will be dropped 120 kilometers away from the Xuanyuan Sea base, on the other side of Shennong Mountain, which is the base chosen by the International Space Agency.
When Space 1 took off, Lu Yang was inspecting Song Minglun at home. Song Minglun is in his early 40s this year and studied in the United States at the age of 18, and this is the first time he has returned. He used to be a senior executive at Boeing, but because of the rejection of Chinese people in the United States, he was not able to get a status that matched his talent.
Song Minglun is a very far-sighted person, although he is in the United States, but has been concerned about the development of the domestic aviation manufacturing industry, two years ago after the domestic large aircraft off the assembly line, Song Minglun intended to return to China, but failed to do so. At that time, he also noticed the development of Tianxin Aerospace.
Song Minglun didn't know that Lu Yang had the technology to build large passenger planes at first, but after the launch of Space One, Song Minglun applied for naturalization to Penglai Island, and he judged that Lu Yang would definitely get involved in the civil aircraft industry in the near future.
Song Minglun's judgment was not wrong, less than half a year after he was successfully naturalized and entered Penglai Aerospace Company, Lu Yang's plan was launched, and Li Yilong also recommended him to Lu Yang.
"Your Mr. Li recommended you to me, and I have also read your information, but I want to hear your opinion on my entry into the civil aircraft manufacturing industry." Lu Yang and Song Minglun met in the Huxin Pavilion of Xianjing Garden, and the two were not like interviews, but like chatting with old friends.
Song Minglun didn't have the slightest slackness in the environment and Lu Yang's attitude, he knew that this was the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time, and he was thoughtful before speaking.
"First of all, the prospects for the manufacture of civil aircraft are very broad. Last year, more than 4,800 passenger aircraft of various types were delivered worldwide, an increase of 7% over the previous year, and civil airliners will maintain high growth in the next ten years......"
Song Minglun began to explain his opinion to Lu Yang, and although Lu Yang had no expression on his face, he increasingly agreed with him in his heart.
“…… Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, Embraer are currently the four largest civil aircraft manufacturers in the world, among which Boeing is the strongest and is our biggest enemy, and I have worked in Boeing for 14 years and know it very well......"
After this exchange, Song Minglun was appointed by Lu Yang as the vice president of Penglai Aerospace Company and the head of the aircraft manufacturing department, and opened some information about the Happiness to him.
Seeing the data of the Happiness, Song Minglun had a feeling of being electrocuted, and it took a minute to calm his mood. He was skeptical at first, but quickly put this idea behind him, because Lu Yang had no reason to lie to him at all. Although the data given by Lu Yang is very illusory, Penglai Island has even made aerospace aircraft, so what is it to create such a civil airliner?
"Boss, I think we should lower these indicators a bit, because this aircraft is too advanced, which is not conducive to our development." Song Minglun said, "Moreover, its cost is too high, according to the cost of 2.41 billion, when we sell it to the outside world, the price is at least more than 3 billion, and few people in the world can afford such an aircraft!" ”
Lu Yang adopted Song Minglun's opinion: "To what extent do you think its performance should be weakened?" ”
Song Minglun thought about it for a while and said: "It's good to be better than the latest planes of Airbus and Boeing, although we have not made planes before, but we have made aerospace planes, in terms of fame and reputation, we are not weaker than Boeing and Airbus, so as long as our products are better than Airbus and Boeing, the initial market development is not a problem." ”
"There's also the added benefit of that when Boeing and Airbus come out with new planes, we'll follow suit and overtake them. In this way, Penglai Aerospace will soon become the best manufacturer of large passenger aircraft in the world! "Song Minglun obviously has a long-term perspective.
"In that case, I'll leave this matter to you."
Song Minglun added: "At present, the domestic aviation industry is growing the fastest, and Huaxia has become the world's largest aviation market, so our initial goal is also domestic. Boss, I suggest outsourcing part of the work of aircraft manufacturing to domestic enterprises, especially state-owned enterprises, to strengthen ties with them and facilitate future aircraft sales. ”
"It's really a way to do it." Lu Yang thought about it for a while, "My happiness is completely completed by intelligent robots, but the other aircraft we launch in the future still need workers, so let's organize technical personnel to study it, put the unimportant parts into domestic manufacturing, and then assemble them on Penglai Island." However, we must strictly control the quality, and I don't want any problems with the passenger planes produced by our company in the future. ”
"You are not familiar with the situation in China, I will arrange someone to help you." Lu Yang added.
"Thank you boss!" Song Minglun didn't expect Lu Yang to think about it so carefully, and he was slightly moved in his heart, such a boss was exactly what he dreamed of.
"Boss, I think before we officially enter the civil airliner market, we can first open a private jet custom business, and we have an innate advantage ......in this regard." )