The MacDonald Company has been the pride of the city of St. Louis since the day it was founded, and the MacDonald Company is the undisputed boss of the city, and St. Louis has been glorious because of McDonnell Douglas and has declined because of MacDonald's decline. ,

The sixties and seventies were the most glorious two decades of the McDonald Company, he has always been the largest arms supplier in the United States, in the sixties once monopolized all the air-to-air missile markets in the United States, and in 1968 it merged with the famous American civil aircraft manufacturing giant -- the Douglas Aircraft Company, collectively known as the McDonnell Douglas Company.

Douglas is a well-known aircraft company produced the famous DC-3 and DC-4 aircraft during World War II, and in 1967 and 1971, Douglas launched the famous DC-9 and DC-10 trunk aircraft, and Boeing's 737 series aircraft dominated the global small trunk aircraft market.

However, in the eyes of Ling Shizhe, a reborn person, McDonnell is a complete mistake, first of all, the business philosophy of the two companies is not compatible at all.

McDonnell Douglas has always been a military aircraft manufacturer in the United States, so its development philosophy has always been to use the best materials and the best equipment to manufacture the best and most advanced aircraft with comprehensive performance, that is, at least 30 years ahead of other countries' aircraft.

Douglas is different, he is a civil aircraft manufacturer, and he is facing civilian customers, so his business philosophy is to use relatively cheap materials and mature technology to create the best comprehensive performance of civil aircraft, pay attention to high economy and high reliability.

The forcible merger of two companies with completely different business philosophy will inevitably lead to serious confrontation in business philosophy, which makes the newly born McDonnell Donnell Douglas Company in the next few decades have been in constant internal friction, except for the F-15, the rest have never made any achievements, and the current McDonnell Douglas seems to be the world's first, in fact, it has shown signs of decadence, and this merger is completely more than worth the loss.

During the inspection, Ling Shizhe asked MacDonald why he wanted to merge Douglas because it was not a good deal.

However, the other party's answer to him is that MacDonald has always been a military aircraft manufacturer, but it has always been the company's shortcomings in the field of civil aircraft, and the future is the world of civil aircraft.

Ling Shizhe shook his head in his heart, MacDonald and Donald Wells Douglas are too idealistic, although the two of them have always been good friends, but both of them are very strong people, no one will make concessions in business philosophy, a tiger and a lion, hey! Your buddy will be able to see the future.

He knows that this kind of internal friction will last for decades, and the dispute will not end until the death of the two, but at this time, McDonnell Douglas has long been yesterday's yellow flowers, whether it is in the military or civilian use, it can no longer come up with powerful products, but continue to launch a facelifted version of the MD-90 on the basis of the long-deceased MD-90.

MD-90 is objectively a very good aircraft, but unfortunately he launched it too late, the mid-to-late 70s is its best period, the launch of Boeing's 737 series during that period will only be killed, the small trunk airliner will be completely monopolized by the MD-90, but unfortunately McDonnell Douglas has serious internal friction, so that it was not launched into the market until the 90s, seriously lagging behind the times.

In the mid-90s, Embraer launched a new regional airliner, which is lighter, more economical, and the passenger capacity is basically the same, which will impact McDonnell Douglas's original market, followed by the European Airbus company has also launched the famous A-320 small trunk airliner in history, which is a new airliner with full computerized control, which not only robbed most of McDonnell Douglas's original market. It also robbed most of the Boeing 737 market.

Under the joint efforts of the two companies, McDonnell Douglas, who was already dying, was directly sentenced to death, and was finally reluctantly merged by Boeing, and at the same time, Embraer became the world's third largest aircraft manufacturer after Boeing and Airbus, and the successful development of A-320 also laid a solid foundation for the later Airbus empire.

Looking at MacDonald, who is now in high spirits, if he knows that the company he has worked hard for all his life will end up like this in the future, he doesn't know what he should do and feel at this time.

Although he did not get the comic authorization of the F-15, he did get the comic authorization of the F-14 fighter, which was relatively successful for this trip to the United States.

Solving the copyright problem, the comic "Top Gun" has also entered the fast lane, the editor-in-chief of the comic is called Gray Garcia, a veteran screenwriter in Hollywood, he will be the main writer of the comic script, and he and his team will first characterize the characters in the comics.

The creation of comic characters is not a simple matter. Each character has a different personality, so when writing an outline, you have to give each character a more appropriate background: where they come from, what kind of family background, and educational background. As a person, what kind of language style, action habits, and dress are there? How to show people's temper and character in the interaction between people...... These things have to be taken into account.

Ling Shizhe's request to Garcia is: the relationship between the characters is slightly more prominent. The warmth between people is the part that needs to be emphasized.

These aspects seem to be very simple, but if they are not done well, the problem will be very serious.

In his previous life, Ling Shizhe watched a lot of domestic film and television dramas, and there were a lot of similar problems: a character who studied architecture in a university kept saying how he was in four years of college, completely ignoring the fact that architecture was a five-year education system; A certain little couple who claim to be tight on food and groceries, each with an Apple mobile phone, seems to be very popular; In a certain TV series, some people wear coats, some people wear T-shirts, magically people don't know what season it is, not to mention those costume dramas, there are all kinds of things, there are all kinds of things, the love is boundless Qin Shi Huang, the Three Kingdoms full of masters, and the braid family of love saints for generations...... In this regard, there is no way to complain.

So Ling Shizhe made up his mind from the beginning, the writing of comic scripts must be handed over to Hollywood professionals, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan are not in his scope of consideration at all, Chinese screenwriters are relatively rough when writing scripts, not to mention this is a typical American comic, and domestic screenwriters can't write stories that meet the tastes of Americans.

As for saying that this manga did not have a ...... in the original history In Ling Shizhe's opinion, this problem is not big.

"Top Gun" itself is a team comic, the team is his core and skeleton, the others are just a skin, he is just another type of "Oolong Police Station", but in a different place.

After carefully reading the preliminary draft of the comics, Garcia suggested to Ling Shizhe that the comics should be based on the live-action style and specialization, the live-action style can bring a sense of reality to the readers, so that the readers can better bring into the comics, and the professional is because this kind of air combat comics involves a lot of aviation expertise, if the plot is not professional, it will give the reader a feeling of treating the reader as mentally retarded.

Ling Shizhe completely agrees with Garcia's point of view, and proposes that all aviation knowledge involved, in addition to paying attention to professionalism, but also pay attention to popular science, because comics are always for children, although this comic is for older children, but they are still relatively jerky and difficult to understand in the face of those advanced aviation knowledge, so the script must pay attention to this problem when writing, these professional knowledge must be written in a simple and understandable way, full of fun, this is done well, professionalism is also a major selling point of comics.

"That's going to take some aviation experts as consultants." Garcia thought for a moment and said.

"Then leave it to you, you are professional, I respect your opinion."

"Who's going to write the comics?"

"A manga artist named Kuyo Oshima is in charge, and after you have shaped the character of the main character, he will draw the prototype draft of the character, and he is a good hand at drawing the character, and when the time comes, we will select the most suitable character. In addition, I asked for the background of the comic to be beautiful, not rough. ”

Garcia nodded and agreed to Ling Shizhe's arrangement, and the two continued to communicate.

After the overall design of this comic, the specific work will be completed by means of decentralized packaging and OEM, which is also a common method used by American and Japanese animation, which can not only ensure quality but also save costs.

The two communicated until Garcia left in the afternoon, and then Ling Shizhe flew non-stop to Silicon Valley to meet Spot, the president of National Semiconductor.

He is the only friend Ling Shizhe knows in the United States, and usually the two are busy with their careers and rarely see each other, but this time Ling Shizhe has to go to see his old friends when he comes to the United States.

The National Semiconductor Company of the United States, also known as the National Semiconductor Company, has made rapid progress in recent years under the leadership of SPOT, the power supply IC chips produced by the company are in short supply in the market with the help of computer cameras and function calculators.

However, during this period of time, Spot was restless, and the reason was the same as Ambrera's, because of the lack of production capacity of its own chips.

At the beginning, Ling Shizhe's invention of the computer camera and scientific function calculator added a power supply IC chip, and now with the big sales of these two products in the market, the production capacity of the national semiconductor company is seriously unable to keep up with the market demand, so that Spot has to find chip foundries everywhere, sacrificing a large part of the profits.

At this time, Texas Instruments also launched its own power supply IC chip, so that the market, which should have belonged to the national semiconductor company, was robbed by Texas Instruments, and the main culprit of all this is because of its own insufficient production capacity.