Lin Qiangsheng only stayed at home for one night, and the next day he and Zhang Zhenzhong took a plane to the north. Kyo put him on the plane. After the passenger plane of the sea, he rushed to the China Aviation Technology Import and Export Corporation and met Niu Xintang, the deputy general manager of his acquaintance.

In 84 years, Niu Xintang once went to Grumman in the United States with Lin Johnson and others to participate in the negotiation of the introduction of the F14 fighter project, and he also participated in the negotiations of the Super 7 project and the J-82 project to the United States.

Niu Xintang was also very surprised by Lin Qiangsheng's visit and asked, "Xiaolin, what is the matter with your visit this time?" ”

After not seeing each other for a long time, Lin Qiangsheng asked: "Mr. Niu, where is the current F14 fighter project progressing, and will the United States be able to approve the release within the year?" ”

"I'm just the deputy general manager, not the general manager!" Niu Xintang smiled, he shook his head regretfully, and said: "The F14 fighter project is now in difficulty, and some people in the U.S. government have repeatedly asked us to get such an advanced fighter as the F14, and the country has also been unable to make a decision due to the lack of foreign exchange, and now it is impossible to reach an agreement." ”

However, he still said to Lin Qiangsheng: "But we are not busy in vain, the Americans still let us more or less get in touch with the F14 fighter, which is in progress with the J-82 reform project, but let our technicians have the opportunity to participate in the US military aircraft system, which is also very difficult!" ”

"It's good to have a harvest." Lin Qiangsheng said with a sigh.

In the past few years, due to the tense relations between China and Vietnam and China and the Soviet Union, military projects have risen slightly, but now China's external environment is improving, the pressure has dropped sharply, and the country has begun to vigorously reduce military construction and develop the economy.

Lin Qiangsheng suddenly thought that perhaps in 87~88 Sino-Vietnamese relations will be tense again, the possibility of armed conflict in the South China Sea will be greatly increased, and then there will be a domestic motivation to increase military investment, and the United States will continue to relax its China policy in order to contain the Soviet Union's intervention in Vietnam, and at that time, whether it is F14 or J-82, the process of reform will be accelerated, which is another opportunity.

After thinking for a while, Lin Qiangsheng returned to his eyes, and asked: "Mr. Niu, I want to ask you something, which leader of the Ministry of Aviation Industry has the final say about the introduction of civil aircraft?" ”

Niu Xintang looked at him in surprise and asked, "Civil aircraft, why are you asking this?" ”

He thought for a while and said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Theoretically, the minister has the final say, but the minister is also in charge of other departments, and the actual business is in charge of several deputy ministers, and the work of civil aircraft is managed by Vice Minister He Wenzhi!" ”

Lin Qiangsheng asked curiously: "Is Vice Minister He also in charge of the McDonnell Douglas-82 project now?" ”

Niu Xintang nodded: "Yes, McDonnell Douglas-82 is settled. At the beginning, Vice Minister He was in charge of the test flight of the Y-10, and now he is mainly responsible for the introduction of McDonnell Douglas-82! ”

Seeing Lin Qiangsheng bowing his head and pondering, he asked with some confusion: "Xiao Lin, what is the matter with you, why are you asking this?" ”

The two are quite familiar, Lin Qiangsheng hesitated, and simply said: "I went to Shangfei a few days ago and met Mr. Zhang Zhenzhong, the head of McDonnell Douglas China. You know that I also have an aircraft factory, Dongxing Aviation Industries, but we don't have a project now, and I invited Mr. Zhang to visit me. He showed me the way to develop regional airliners, and told me the important news that the West German company MBB was planning to develop its own airliner, and he suggested that I contact MBB for cooperation. At the end, he added: "The West Germans are also looking for partners!" ”

"I see." Niu Xintang nodded and said.

Lin Qiangsheng spread his hands and said: "I think that the introduction of aviation technology belongs to the management of China Aviation Technology, and the Ministry of Aviation Industry is in charge, so I will ask, I plan to contact you, and what other deputy ministers, to see if we can cooperate with West German MBB to develop regional airliners." ”

Niu Xintang asked in surprise: "MBB company wants to build its own regional airliner, is this news reliable?" ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded: "It should be reliable, I have personally contacted and asked the general manager of MBB Airlines, although he did not answer me positively, but he did not deny it."

I think that since the establishment of Airbus, Germany has been under the control of the French, they are very eager to restore their aviation strength, West Germany has strong strength in terms of precision manufacturing, material technology, and it should not be difficult to obtain the European airworthiness certificate after the success of this project! ”

Niu Xintang nodded and said: "You're right, if this news is true, it would be great, we can fight for it!" ”

He said to Lin Qiangsheng: "In this way, Xiaolin, you wait for a while, I will inform the leader of this matter, and then we will discuss it to see if we can jointly do it with West Germany, at least it is good to test their ideas." You can rest assured, Dongxing should have no problem participating in this project. ”

He asked Lin Qiangsheng to leave the pager number, and if there was news, he would contact him immediately. And Lin Qiangsheng thought that he could find some connections, and he also took action. For example, Lu Dong, the former minister of aviation industry, had previously visited Dongxing Group to encourage them to develop more mechanical and electrical products and participate in Poussin's localization projects, and was very supportive of Dongxing's development, and was very supportive of Lin Qiangsheng's idea in the establishment of an electrical group in the three major factories in Bincheng.

Niu Xintang immediately reported the news to the authorities, and after learning of this trend, the leaders of AVIC immediately confirmed the authenticity of the news through the embassy in Germany and the office of the company in Germany.

What they didn't expect was that after CATC took the initiative to contact MBB, MBB in turn quickly and actively invited China to participate in their passenger aircraft project, and behaved very enthusiastically.

Since the launch of the Y-10, China has been hoping to enter the field of jetliner manufacturing again, and it is certainly very happy to have such an opportunity for cooperation.

The leaders of China Aviation Technology also attach great importance to it, and it is usually the Chinese who go to the West to ask others to cooperate, but now they have not said anything, the German side took the initiative to invite cooperation in the jetliner project, and even the aircraft blueprint was sent to China, unexpectedly active, this is the first time that the Chinese side has encountered!

MBB, which stands for Messerschmidt-Berko Blom, is not a newcomer to aviation, having built jets at the end of World War II.

Over the years, Germany has been a vassal of the French, which makes the Germans who are proficient in machinery and have a deep industrial foundation naturally unwilling, taking advantage of the Cold War and the strong talent base of the former Germany, the German aviation industry has quickly recovered, and by the 80s, the Federal Republic of Germany has a fairly strong ability to manufacture flying machines.

They have jointly developed and produced the VFw614 short-range airliner (20 tons, 40 seats, cabin without cockpit 11.21 meters long, 2.66 meters wide and 1.92 meters high) with the Netherlands, and developed and produced the Dornier 228 and Dornier 328 turboprop (turbofan) regional airliners. In some areas, West Germany even has some strengths, such as precise hydrodynamic calculations, machining of large precision parts, composite technology, etc.

Moreover, the Germans still have a very strong will, although West Germany has more than 37.9% of the interest in the A320 project (developed in 1982-1987), but the identity of the defeated country makes its influence less than that of France, so as the largest airline in Europe - Lufthansa is not even the starting user of the A320, the first user is still France, the Germans hate it very much, this weak diplomatic status is extremely incompatible with West Germany, which has a rapid rise in national power in the seventies and eighties.

Naturally, West Germany had too many reasons to accept this, and they had too many reasons to decide to go it alone. But after all, it is the majority shareholder of Airbus, and the West Germans are not good at blatantly developing a trunk airliner, and the MPC75, which obviously has trunk potential, started its own Luo Ben road in this way of covering up and stealing the bell under the guise of a regional line.

Passenger aircraft naturally need customers, and in order to reduce risks, China, which has a huge population and a vast market and needs to preserve its ability to develop civil aircraft, has become the best partner for West Germany! (To be continued.) )