Yang Wanli and others came to the Xihang Engine Factory smoothly under the guidance of Qiu Jinsong, and took people to watch the Spey engine in a lying corpse, which is now called turbofan 9.

Accompanied by the director of the Xihang Foundry, they visited the very old part of the Xihang factory, which was established in the late fifties, and immediately undertook the manufacturing work of the H-6 after its establishment.

The previous exchange group had already seen the downfall of domestic aviation enterprises when they were in Shenfei, but they did not expect that they would refresh their understanding of the domestic aviation industry again in Xihang!

Most of these members are graduates directly recruited from colleges and universities, and it is impossible to go too far in the enterprise internship, that is, in Hafei, and the Hafei factory has changed a lot in the past two years, because there is money from selling cars, so the plant has also been renovated and expanded.

During the school period, the seniors occasionally talked about some things about the enterprise, and the current situation of the domestic industrial enterprises did not seem to be very good, and the speaker was sad and sad. At present, the country is undergoing a serious economic transformation, and many national defense enterprises are in a difficult situation and have begun to accelerate the pace of turning to civilian production.

Most of these enterprises are short of money and funds, and the deduction of wages is a common thing. The reason why these young people abandoned the school's package distribution and came to the joint venture is precisely because they have heard a lot about it before and have seen the prosperity of the new industrial zone in Ben Cheng with their own eyes. Compared with what I learned, the life of state-owned enterprises is really difficult, but the joint ventures are very vigorous and full of vitality!

Here in Xihang, they saw that in the workshop of tens of thousands of square meters, only a dozen technicians got together to do research, while other personnel either got together to chat and fart, or simply did not come. I heard that the workers who didn't come all went to the city to find a way to make money to supplement their families, and there were all kinds of people who roasted sweet potatoes and set up stalls to sell clothes.

They were also allowed to walk into the huge warehouse of Western Airlines and inspect the British raw material parts of Spey engines. Although it is Rolls-Royce's technology in the 60s, it will take more than ten years to digest and absorb such things in China!

After years of hard work, Xihang has assembled and manufactured more than two turbofan 9 (Spey) engines. Among them, two of them were specially shipped to the United Kingdom for high-altitude performance, function, re-ignition test and minus 40 °C cold start test on the high-altitude platform, and the strength test of five kinds of parts was carried out.

On May 30, 1980, China and Britain signed the test report. So far, China has successfully passed the assessment tests of the turbofan 9 engine trial-produced using British wool. Originally, it was planned to carry out trial production of domestic wool, but due to the adjustment of the national economy in the 80s, the localization progress was delayed, and these wool materials bought from the UK at a high price were put in the warehouse in vain and silent!

The members of the China Eastern Airlines Industry Exchange Group saw that at least two engines were very lacking in maintenance, and they couldn't help but feel a pity.

Yang Wanli knows. Since 81 years, the Shaanxi Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense has organized more than 100 units in the military industry system and other departments and industries to study and promote 42 new processes and technologies such as mechanical processing, heat treatment, and non-destructive testing in Spey technology, and later the State Council instructed to promote and transplant Spey technology in an organized, planned and step-by-step manner throughout the country. Four large-scale promotion meetings were held before and after, and 161 technical reports were organized. Compiled and printed 12 issues of Spey technical data albums, and cultivated a large number of business backbones to promote and apply Spey technology for hundreds of units. These technologies and these people have promoted many units to improve their processes, solve technical problems, and promote production and scientific research!

He couldn't help but ask Hu Hanbin, the director of the Xihang Foundry, who accompanied him: "I heard that you are engaged in the technology promotion work of Spey, and we also want to participate in the China Eastern Airlines Industry Company, and welcome you people from Xihang to our company to talk about technology promotion experience!" ”

Hu Hanbin smiled heartily: "Okay, as long as you welcome us, we will go." This is a good thing for both sides! ”

Yang Wanli looked at the engine and suddenly looked at Hu Hanbin with a strange light, and then pointed to the two Spey engines that were undermaintained and said, "How about selling these two engines to us China Eastern Aviation Industry Company?" ”

"This?" When Hu Hanbin heard that Yang Wanli wanted to buy their engine, he suddenly felt a shock in his heart, there was no problem in promoting technology, but he couldn't promise anything if he wanted to sell Hangfa.

Because the fighter jet with Spey has not been decided, so now the engine of this model is almost like the turbofan 6, and it may be dismounted one day, but Western Airlines has not yet reached the dilemma of selling aviation hair!

However, Hu Hanbin thought about it, an aviation engine is a lot of money, and this proposal is not something he can easily dismiss!

Hu Hanbin hesitated, nodded thickly, and said to Yang Wanli: "Now Spey has no plane matching. I think that if China Eastern Airlines Industry Company needs it, it can be brought up to the superiors of Western Airlines! ”

Yang Wanli nodded happily and said: "Our China Eastern Aviation Industry Company has also ordered two turbofan 6 modified engines from the 606 Institute and the Liming Engine Factory, and they are already producing spare parts and starting the final assembly. Each unit costs $2 million, and it is specially used for our company as a reference! ”

"2 million? Dollar? Hu Hanbin was taken aback, he didn't expect this joint venture aircraft factory with foreign participation to be so rich, and he was willing to pay so much money and it was in dollars!

"Uh-huh!" Yang Wanli nodded reservedly, and Qiu Jinsong, who was accompanying him, also looked at him with a surprised expression.

Hu Hanbin immediately asked loudly: "Do you have what you say?" Do you need to ask your boss? ”

Yang Wanli laughed and said, "Don't worry, this is also a matter decided by the upper echelons of our company." Dongxing Group is our parent company, how can it be bad for your money! ”

Hu Hanbin also thought about which company Dongxing Group was, China was too big, and the flow of information in the 80s was extremely slow, and what happened in the Northeast and the Northwest Region did not know at all and would not care where it went, and vice versa.

"That's good. Yang Gong, you wait for me to call the factory leader, and I will be back immediately! Hu Hanbin nodded, and then recruited a worker to take care of the visitors, and he hurriedly ran towards the factory building.

Qiu Jinsong pulled Yang Wanli's clothes and asked, "Did your company really pay $4 million to buy two turbofan 6 changes?" ”

Yang Wanli nodded as a matter of course and asked, "Yes, what's wrong?" ”

Qiu Jinsong's eyes widened and said, "What's wrong?" Oh, alas, it's a pity, if I can save your company half of the price, I think $1 million to buy the turbofan 6 series engine that has been discontinued! Dawn Factory and 606 may have sold their old machines to you, you are really wronged! ”

Yang Wanli shook his head with a smile and said, "No, you don't know this." We also learned a lot of technology from them, and in the future, the two sides will cooperate, we will also send personnel to them for internship, which will lay a good foundation for China Eastern Airlines Industry Company, and it is also appropriate to pay some tuition, and the boss said that I should give some money, what else do I say! ”

Yang Wanli said this, but in his mind, he thought that it was really refreshing to make a decision, and he would buy whichever he said he would buy, and he would go on whichever project he said!

After learning that China Eastern Aviation Industry Company had the idea of buying Spey engines, the leaders of Xifei hurriedly held an important meeting, and after asking their superiors and not expressing any opinions, they finally made a difficult decision to sell a Spey engine to China Eastern Aviation Industry Company!

The reason why it is difficult is because they really want to sell two, but everyone knows that one is exactly two too much, so it's better to keep a low profile when doing such a deal!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, China Eastern Aviation Industry Co., Ltd. also proposed a series of technology introduction projects to Xifei, and introduced new processes and technologies at the level of the 70s such as electrolytic processing, electron beam welding, laboratory control, testing and measurement, precision casting, and precision forging in the imitation process. The processing accuracy of turbofan 9 parts and process equipment is generally more than one level higher than that of domestic original models.

Through trial production, Xihang Engine Factory has mastered 13 advanced technologies with the world's advanced level at that time, such as metal spraying, vacuum heat treatment, pipe trajectory welding, vacuum brazing, CNC pipe bending, and large-scale casing electrolytic processing. There are also 46 soft yin and yang mold forming, peristaltic grinding and other 46 processes that have reached the most advanced level in China.

Although it doesn't cost much for these advanced technology and technology state-owned enterprises to get it, the joint venture can't be so blatant, after all, the Spey project was introduced by the state at a cost of 1.2 billion yuan.

The British transferred the license and technical data for the production of Spey to the Chinese side, provided all assembly and parts drawings, process specifications, as well as various technical specifications and specifications and tooling drawings, and sent experts to provide technical assistance.

If you want to get these things, China Eastern Aviation Industry Company can't do it without paying a lot of money, and these soft power can be obtained after all, but the production line and processing equipment worth 1 billion yuan in Xifei also made the visiting delegation of China Eastern Aviation Industry secretly envious.

Yang Wanli greedily made a purchase request to Xifei, anyway, these equipment Xifei is not used now, and it has to be maintained by spending money to rust in ashes, so it is better to sell it to China Eastern Airlines Industry Company at one time!

But his request was rejected by Xifei without even thinking about it, Yang Wanli also knew that his proposal was too outrageous, even if the country agreed to Xifei, it would not agree, the introduction of this production line and these processing equipment is Xifei's future dependence!

It is worth mentioning that in recent years, Xifei has been researching the casting technology of compressor blades, and Yang Wanli also put forward the idea of cooperative experiments on this technology. At the same time, they will also send personnel to Xifei to learn the manufacturing process of Spey engines.

It should be said that the West Flight is now a period of extreme thirst for funds, because their new bomber project has been dismissed, and the Flying Leopard fighter has not been affirmed by the superiors for a long time, and the current West Flight is in a situation of clumsily tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall.

Of course, they welcomed the cooperation proposal of China Eastern Airlines, and Yang Wanli immediately contacted Lin Qiangsheng to tell him the good news.

Since then, China Eastern Airlines has come into contact with high-thrust aero engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 7.05 such as turbofan 6 change, as well as medium-thrust engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 5.05. (To be continued.) )