For Mason. Hand, Ma Fengshan is still very familiar. When he was in the United States, he worked with McDonnell Douglas' deputy chief designer, Mason Douglas. Hand's communication between them was the most, and the two often argued with a blushing face and thick neck.

Many of Ma Fengshan's aircraft testing solutions and design inspirations were obtained from arguing with this old American man who was about his age.

People have national boundaries and racial distinctions, but academics have no borders.

At least, Mason. Hand's this guy is like that.

Perhaps, he was fired by McDonnell Douglas because he revealed too much core technology to the Chinese. Otherwise, with the experience and achievements of the old man Hande in the aircraft design industry, even if McDonnell Douglas goes bankrupt and is acquired by Boeing, this aircraft designer who loves aircraft design to the point of distortion should be an aircraft designer at Boeing, instead of working at Pratt & Whitney, which only researches aircraft propulsion systems......

Catherine's words confirmed Ma Fengshan's conjecture.

"Mr. Hande left McDonnell Douglas for some reason after the high-tolerance exchange meeting and joined Pratt & Whitney as a project lead engineer...... "Catherine didn't know much about these things.

Because when Hande entered Pratt & Whitney, she was just an ordinary middle management of Pratt & Whitney.

Along the way, Ma Fengshan chatted with Catherine very devotedly, and Catherine, as a special reception for Yun Fei and his party, did not snub Yun Fei and others, and set up some topics from time to time to pull Yun Fei and others into the discussion topic, so that Yun Fei and others did not feel left out.

This woman was able to become the vice president of business of a huge high-tech company like Pratt & Whitney at the age of forty, and it definitely did not rely on her body. At least, along the way, she and Ma Fengshan exchanged a lot of professional and technical things.

And these things are not those dead parameters.

The forty-minute drive passed quickly under the exchange between Catherine and Ma Fengshan.

Yun Fei wanted to ask about the relationship between Ma Fengshan and the Hand that Catherine said, but Ma Fengshan ignored him at all. His heart was like a cat scratching, and there was nothing he could do except be in a hurry.

Founded in the early 20th century, Pratt & Whitney is probably the world's first professional aircraft engine design and production company. The doors of their company are not as majestic as some Chinese companies, and the huge factory area is very simple and old, and from the outside, the company does not look like a high-tech company with an annual turnover of billions of dollars.

When the convoy had just arrived at the administrative building of Pratt & Whitney, Blakel, the president of Pratt & Whitney, was leading several employees to wait for Yun Fei and his party at the door.

Before Catherine could be introduced, one of the few people waiting for her, a gray-haired, short old man called out exaggeratedly. Then he pounced towards Ma Fengshan. And Ma Fengshan, who has always been stricter, also laughed exaggeratedly, and stepped forward to hug this white old man who was about the same size as him.

When Yun Fei saw this scene, he felt that there was only one word in his heart that could describe this - passionate!

It seems that this old man is what Catherine called Mason. Hand, an aircraft designer who has a relationship with Ma Fengshan.

After some introduction, Blake took Yun Fei and his party to the conference room that had been arranged long ago.

This made everyone see the efficiency of the Americans, and after asking Yun Fei and his party if they needed to enter the hotel to rest and get a negative answer, they were ready to go straight to the point. After all, they are not facing the heads of state-owned units and government departments in China that have a strong institutional style, and they come out to talk about things secondly, and tourism and shopping are the main purpose.

Private business. It's all about efficiency.

Profit is the goal they are chasing.

And for them, time is money.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we need low-noise, low-fuel, high-efficiency engines with thrust between 17,500 pounds and 22,500 pounds. At present, we are mainly developing a new regional airliner with 90 to 110 seats, which is a new regional airliner with hundreds of orders. For you, this is really not a big order......" Ma Fengshan directly indicated their intention.

When it comes to large aircraft, the engine is the core component. And it's the most important part.

This is basically the most expensive part as well.

Although the ARJ-21 is a small regional airliner, the final market price is estimated to be around $30 million, but the price of two engines will cost between $4 million and $6 million.

The budget of Ma Fengshan and others for an engine is basically between two million and three million US dollars. If it can't be negotiated, the price of more than three million US dollars is also acceptable. After all, the market price of one large mainline engine is more than $10 million.

China Eastern Airlines once purchased 20 Airbus A330-300 passenger planes from Airbus, using the British Rolls. Royce's Ruida 700 engine, with a thrust of 67,500 pounds to 71,100 pounds, totaled $450 million. That's just the price of the engine.

As the most core component of the aircraft, the price of the engine accounts for almost one-seventh to one-fifth of the total cost of the aircraft. If you can't produce your own engine, it's inevitable that you'll be slaughtered.

Traditionally, such a quantity of procurement can even be carried out by introducing production technology for its own production......

Unfortunately, China has always been the object of despisis in these markets.

One hundred regional airliners, this is the number of regional airliners that Yun Fei plans to purchase in the next ten years, and many aircraft passenger transportation is not the main one, and cargo is the fat that he is eyeing. With the development of their e-commerce, the domestic air express business will show explosive growth in China in the next few years.

For 200 engines, the total contract price is only between 400 million and 600 million US dollars, which is more than one-fifth of Pratt & Whitney's annual sales, but the contract period is very long......

"For this kind of demand of your company, our Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 engine can be fully suited, with a thrust of 18,500-21,700 pounds, and most of the MD-80 aircraft produced by McDonnell Douglas are using this kind of engine, and there is absolutely no problem with frequent take-off between short-range cities. Moreover, it is currently the most environmentally friendly and reliable regional airliner engine in the entire world. As soon as Catherine heard Ma Fengshan report their request, she quickly reported the JT8D-200, an engine that was about to be eliminated from the aviation market.

"Moreover, the price of this engine is less than $2.5 million per unit, which is definitely an excellent engine with high cost performance for Chinese users."

"Ms. Catherine, I don't think you understand what we are looking for, what we need is an advanced engine to help our aircraft fly in the sky, not an engine that is about to be obsolete from the aviation market. In addition, as far as we know, McDonnell Douglas purchased JT8D-200 engines at Pratt & Whitney for each unit is not less than $2.5 million as you say, but $1.46 million per engine. If we need to spend such a high price to purchase an engine that is about to become obsolete, we might as well use the engine we purchased from Rolls in England in the seventies. The bass engine ...... technology introduced by Royce "Hearing Catherine's words, Ma Fengshan immediately laughed.

These guys really slaughtered them as wronged bosses.

"Mr. Ma, the price we sold to McDonnell Douglas is so low, I think you should know better than us, the planes produced by the United States and European aircraft companies do not need us to tackle key problems with the government, and at the same time, they do not need us to help obtain the airworthiness license of the United States, and the extra million dollars is basically the cost of tackling key problems...... " was known by Ma Fengshan about their reserve price, and Catherine did not have any embarrassment.

The Chinese want to purchase aircraft engines from the United States, which is a very difficult thing.

The former Soviet Union has collapsed, and the old Russian Maozi has always been eating the old books left by the former Soviet Union, and has not made much achievements in aircraft engine technology. Moreover, not much research funds were invested in the development of military engines.

In order to prevent the Red Empire from challenging the authority of the United States again, and for the whole world to no longer be tense and confrontational because of ideological differences, it is inevitable that the United States will suppress China, the largest socialist country on the planet -- who said that the purpose of socialism is to eliminate the bourgeoisie and the system of exploitation? Don't you know that most of the developed countries in the world are capitalist countries?

China clearly wants to eliminate these countries that serve the capitalists.

Therefore, it is necessary to suppress China.

Moreover, the United States needs a powerful object of repression to rally their little European brethren tightly around them. The polar bears have been dragged down by their space war plans, and in recent years, those countries in Europe have begun to distance themselves from the United States and suppress China, which is necessary.

The Yellow Peril threat theory, which is basically concocted by the Americans.

"Ms. Catherine, maybe you don't know that this kind of regional airliner order in our hands was placed by our boss's Jiuyi Airlines. The whole world knows that our boss only likes to make money from our own people, and has no interest in exporting it. Therefore, all we need is to obtain an airworthiness license issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China...... "Jiang Jianxing only understands some simple communication in English, so he said this in Chinese.

Just kidding, if you want to export regional airliners, for the European and American markets, this is not much possible at all.

Boeing's competition with Airbus is fierce.

A company like them, which has no slightest background, participates in the competition between the two of them, isn't it looking for a cripple by themselves? (To be continued......)