It took more than four hours to drive from Highway 295 to Highway 95, which runs north and south in the United States, through Connecticut to Massachusetts. After driving for a long time, there were no crops on the side of the road, just woods and meadows.

"Strange, Americans don't grow food or do they have too much land?" Yang Wanli asked suspiciously.

Lin Qiangsheng also said enviously: "The United States has the best land in the world, you see that Americans' skin is white and red, and the climate and environment are too good!" This is wasteland, and there are few Americans who want to plant things like China, and there is a lot of land here that no one cultivates! ”

Yang Wanli said with a smile: "That's good, we can organize some Chinese to come to the United States to farm, wouldn't it be a hair!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng laughed and said: "Don't think that Americans simply abandon the land, in fact, American agriculture pays attention to crop rotation, the land cannot be cultivated repeatedly, it must be planted for a few years and rested for a few years, and some land is to be kept as it is or no one has planted it because of the high cost!" ”

He thought for a while and said: "But the method you said is really good, there are still too many farmers in China, and they should go abroad to farm, which not only solves the problem of food and clothing but also earns foreign exchange, killing more birds with one stone!" ”

Yang Wanli said: "Yes, our country has a population of more than one billion, of which 900 million are farmers, what land can support such old people!" I think this abandonment policy is good, saving land! ”

Lao Yang is also a person who has gone to the countryside to plant the land, and knows that the land cannot be planted for many years.

Lin Qiangsheng also thought about whether to increase the intensity of exporting laborers, and since the 80s, some workers have been exported abroad intermittently, but the organization and the number of people going abroad are not large, and they are all spontaneous actions of some state-owned enterprises and coastal people.

All the way through Connecticut to Massachusetts. The Lynn division of GE Aero Engines is located in Lynn, Massachusetts, not far from Boston, a famous city in the eastern United States.

Wei Zhang is the vice president of overseas business at Lynn's Aero Engine Group, responsible for Asia, and one of his responsibilities is to promote the F404.

He first took Lin Qiangsheng and the four of them to a large Chinese restaurant opened by his father-in-law, called the China Royal Hotel.

It is a large restaurant that can accommodate 1,000 people at the same time, and it is very impressive. The décor is quaint and there are plenty of separate halls which are tasteful. It is hard to imagine that in the 80s in the United States, there were still such Chinese-style restaurants, and such financial resources were extremely unusual, which suppressed Ma Chenglin and others.

After arriving at the hotel, Zhang Wei took Lin Qiangsheng and the four of them to meet his father-in-law, who was in his 70s, and then had a sumptuous Chinese meal in a single room that had been prepared in advance, which was very different from ordinary American Chinese restaurants.

After the meal, Zhang Wei drove Lin Qiangsheng and others to his home. This is a typical American-style house with two floors above ground and one floor underground, and Mrs. Zhang is at home and warmly receives Lin Qiangsheng and the four people.

After sitting down and chatting for a while, Zhang Wei took out a two-foot (0.6 meter) magnified color photo, which was a group photo of him in front of the J-7M plane with Chief Engineer Tu Jida when he accompanied the vice president of GE Group to visit Chengfei.

At this point, Lin Qiangsheng and Yang Wanli are clear about GE's intentions, it turns out that they have been thinking about Chengfei's business, watching their wave of Chinese come to the United States to visit so they are actively promoting engines.

Ha ha. Well, Lin Qiangsheng very much welcomes the Americans to rush to do this. If people come and no one pays attention, how much does it hurt their self-esteem!

Ma Chenglin and Niu Xintang were very enthusiastic, they chatted a lot with Zhang Wei, and it could be seen that they also knew and participated in Chengfei's business.

But in fact, as far as Lin Qiangsheng knows, in the end, the J-7M that became an export product became an export product, and it was not equipped with an F404 engine. It uses a turbojet engine that can be produced domestically, and General Electric of the United States is busy in vain.

However, Lin Qiangsheng and Yang Wanli still attach great importance to the F404 engine, and the improved version of the F404 includes the F414 with increased thrust and the civilian G36 propeller fan engine. GE developed the F101 engine for the Air Force based on the F101 and F404 technology to replace the F16 engine used by the F15 and F100. The high-thrust F404-GE-402 engine developed by GE is used to equip the F18 Hornet exported to Switzerland and Kuwait. The U.S. military's later F18C and D models also used this engine.

In addition, the successor of the F404 is also equipped with many aircraft fighters, such as the Super Hornet, the T-50 Golden Eagle advanced trainer of Korea Aviation Industries, the Gripen fighter of the Swedish SAAB, and the LCA Tejas fighter of India's Asan.

It can be clearly seen. F404 is definitely an excellent aviation engine, its design potential is very good, and there is a lot of room for expansion; Moreover, the advanced design idea of unit component type is adopted, which piece is broken and can be replaced directly by the unit block, which is convenient and low in maintenance.

It is no wonder that Shenfei wants to develop a new generation of aviation engine with this engine as the core engine, and the design of the F404 is indeed advanced. Compared with the expandable space of this engine, it is inevitable to abandon the engine that no longer has much expansion capacity like the turbofan 6.

After a short break at noon, Zhang Wei drove to the General Electric Lynn branch in the suburbs of Boston with Lin Qiangsheng and others in less than 1 o'clock.

In the past two years, the sales of Dajielong as a multi-purpose commercial vehicle is very good, because the United States is completely adopted local production methods, parts are ready-made goods provided by various auto parts companies, so the quality is still guaranteed.

After arriving at the company, Li Mao, general manager of the advanced project of Lynn of the military project department of aero engines, and Sai Bo, the development manager of the F404 project, received them, introduced the situation of the F404 to Lin Qiangsheng and others, and took them to the assembly workshop to see the engine and the test bench.

What Lin Qiangsheng and Yang Wanli never expected was that Li Mao turned out to be the father of the F404 turbofan engine after listening to Zhang Wei's introduction, and he was also a Chinese!

This made them very surprised, Lin Qiangsheng is not convenient to ask, after all, this is General Electric Company, I don't know how many people pay attention to their visit, maybe these Chinese people will have to write a record after receiving them, after all, they were born and grew up in Si, and how much affection for China in their hearts can be imagined!

Lin Qiangsheng only has some regrets, the Chinese can do a good job of airplanes and turbofan engines, but the place where they can grow and promote their success is the United States and not China, which has to be said to be the regret of the motherland!

And Yang Wanli's eyes are a little wrong, after all, he is a person who came from that era, and his feelings for the motherland and his enthusiasm for fighting for it are very strong. Previously, Mr. Wang Chengdong and Mr. Bao of Grumman, as well as Zhang Wei of General Electric, can also be said to be business personnel without technology, since they live in the United States and work for American companies, it is understandable, but this Li Mao has a wealth of knowledge and wisdom but is willing to design advanced aero engines for foreigners, which makes Yang Wanli a little difficult to accept and can't figure it out, besides, the domestic situation is known to be weak technology and weak foundation, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are many experts and scholars who have returned from studying abroad and returned to the embrace of the motherland. But this Li Mao just stayed, and designed such an advanced and excellent engine for the Americans, if his talent and intelligence contributed to the country, how good it would be!

But why did he stay and didn't return to China, Lao Yang couldn't figure it out.

Li Mao smiled and said to Lin Qiangsheng and the others: "Everyone, please follow me into the test workshop, be careful not to touch anything!" ”

Listening to Li Mao's words, Yang Wanli was a little annoyed, and he said in a muffled voice: "We don't touch the Americans' things!" ”

Li Mao and Zhang Wei were a little surprised, how did this slightly older Chinese engineer start a fire for no reason, and the two glanced at Lin Qiangsheng puzzled.

Lin Qiangsheng pulled Yang Wanli for a moment, he smiled and said to Li Mao: "We promise not to touch anything, and we will not cause trouble to you." ”

Ma Chenglin and Niu Xintang didn't understand the situation when they saw Yang Wanli's face, but the two didn't say anything, and followed Li Mao into the test workshop one after another.

Yang Wanli was a little annoyed and said to Lin Qiangsheng: "The hearts of these Chinese have changed, and they are willing to serve foreigners, alas, how good it would be if their knowledge was contributed to the motherland!" He shook his head, a little regretful and a little annoyed.

Lin Qiangsheng said to him: "Since these Chinese can do it, it proves that we can make good things!" Remember the equipment and layout here, we will also get a set when we go back, and after a long experience, we will not come in vain! ”

Yang Wanli nodded heavily and said: "The harvest of visiting aircraft companies in the United States this time is too great, the aviation technology of the Americans is indeed developed, and it is not okay to accept it, especially their various test equipment and supporting facilities, which are quite advanced!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng touched his chin and said, "F404 engine, what do you think?" ”

Yang Wan immediately nodded and said, "Pretty good!" The parts have a long service life, high reliability, and easy maintenance! According to my estimates, it may be 20 years more advanced than the domestic aviation development! ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded and said: "In fact, we lack a core machine, so it's better to take F404 as a reference!" ”

Yang Wanli's eyes lit up and said: "Yes, Shen Fei already has some technical research materials for F404, I'll go and get it again, don't be in vain!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng smiled and said: "It's not enough to have information, there is no physical object, it is better for us to take the opportunity to import some F404, it just so happens that the Golden Eagle training aircraft has not yet selected the supporting engine, since it is aimed at the export market, it should choose international products!" ”

Yang Wanli looked at Lin Qiangsheng in surprise and asked, "You want to order an F404 turbofan engine?" ”

Lin Qiang nodded and said, "Of course, if you don't buy it when you can, you will regret it later!" ”

Yang Wanli thought about Lin Qiangsheng's words suspiciously, I don't know what it means, the Americans are so generous to invite them to visit the factory, will they not let them buy it! (To be continued.) )