After getting off the plane, Albert and the Calabrian family parted ways, and Paula reluctantly turned around and waved goodbye to Albert, but Albert was not in a hurry to attack Princess Paula, anyway, the title of Prince of Calabria is also unknown in Italy, so Albert is not worried that he will not find her, anyway, there will be an opportunity to take this little Lori into his harem in the future.

"Goodbye, my Apennine little swan, we'll see you again." Albert said silently in his heart, then turned and walked out of the airport. After coming out of the airport, Albert did not have a moment to relax, he hurried to the hotel room with his luggage, and after packing up, he first prepared to meet an old acquaintance with whom he did not have a good relationship, Alan Lockheed.

When Alan Lockheed received Albert's name at the front desk, his heart was entangled, because he was severely humiliated by Albert at the previous North American Defense Exhibition, and this time the crown prince did not know what tricks he would change to correct himself. But after thinking about it again, he couldn't help but be curious, so he still turned down his previous appointment and made time to meet Albert.

When Albert appeared in front of Lockheed, he felt that this guy had changed a little compared to before, becoming more calm, although the other party looked like a teenager, but his demeanor and speech had an indescribable mature charm, as if the body shell of a child was stuffed into a mature soul.

"I'm glad you took a moment out of this meeting, Manager Lockheed." Albert smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Lockheed's hand in a friendly manner, but the other party's face was not very good-looking.

"Your Highness Albert, did you go to the United States to purchase fighter jets again this time, I remember that the Belgian Air Force only acquired a batch of F84 Thunderbolt fighters from the US Air Force before, what's the matter, do you want to buy our Lockheed P80 fighters this time?" Lockheed's tone is not salty or light, if it is an arms purchase, it is okay, Belgium is not within the scope of the US arms embargo, Lockheed can sell the foreign trade version of the P80 to Albert, but if Albert comes to find fault, he will definitely not hesitate to ask him out of the company.

"No, no, no, I don't have any interest in your P80 fighters, I'm mainly here to talk to Lockheed about another business." Albert said frankly that in the future Korean battlefield, the F-80 will withdraw from the front-line air battle after encountering the MiG-15 fighter whose performance is no longer enough to compete with it.

"Another business, what is it?" Lockheed is interested, and he has always refused orders from those who come to his door. In fact, the pursuit of money by capitalists is the most enthusiastic, and it is no wonder that some people will say that there are two kinds of people in the world who have no concept of state, one is the capitalist and the other is the proletariat.

"Isn't your company interested in NORINCO's TV screen imaging technology? I can transfer this technology to you for an additional $600,000 in exchange for sharing the core technology of your company's large forging machine and aircraft with Belgium. "Albert offered Lockheed a lucrative offer.

Lockheed stared at Albert for 10 seconds to make sure that the other party was not joking before asking with a straight face, "I said, is what His Highness Albert said serious?" ”

Albert nodded, he pulled out a contract from his bag and put it on the table, "You see, I've got the contract ready. Just wait for you to nod and sign. ”

"Ridiculous." Lockheed angrily reprimanded, he now has a feeling that he has been tricked again, and the other party is still joking with him seriously, "You know how important these technologies are to a company, these things are the lifeblood of Lockheed's money, and they will never be sold to anyone." I don't think His Royal Highness Albert has woken up yet, so get out of my company quickly, or I'll call the security guards. ”

"Don't be angry, I'm not done yet." Albert motioned to Lockheed to calm down first, and listened to him finish speaking, "I can promise Lockheed not to seize your North American market share, and even join forces to defeat Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, what do you think of adding this condition?" ”

"You're crazy, please get out of here with your contract, as far as you want." Lockheed unceremoniously got up and gave an eviction order, "Miss Secretary, please send this gentleman out, I don't want to see him for a moment." ”

Albert didn't get up obediently, he just silently asked a strange question, "Does the president of Lockheed know the F86 Sabre fighter that North American Airlines began to develop last year or the year before last?" Originally, Albert wanted to add a Soviet MiG-15 fighter, but the MiG-15 will not be officially put into service until the end of this year, so far they don't know about it, so Albert didn't talk about the MiG-15.

Lockheed was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Albert to throw such a question inexplicably, so he had to reply, "I've heard of it, so what?" This aircraft only completed its first flight last year, don't you want to say that it will replace the F80 in the US Air Force on a large scale, please, the first flight does not mean equipping the Air Force, even if it really is, it will be 7 or 8 years later. ”

Albert really couldn't bear to tell him that the F86 Sabre would serve in the U.S. Air Force in 1949, that is, next year, and in the Korean battlefield, the poor performance of the F80 also made the U.S. Air Force directly abandon this aircraft, when the time comes, as a product almost six years ago, the competitiveness of the F80 is really not the opponent of the F84 Thunderbolt and F86 Sabre, of course, the Soviet Union's MiG-15 is only forcibly analized.

When the F-86 competed with the Soviet Union's first-generation jet fighter MiG-15 fighter on the Korean battlefield, it had an advantage over the MiG-15 with more advanced radar sights, more flexible dives and low-altitude maneuverability. But the machine was nothing more than an advantage over the MiG-15 of the earlier model, and not overwhelmingly. By the time the MiG-15 Biss appeared, the F86 Sabre would be at the level of half a catty plus eight taels.

"Even if the F84 Thunderbolt engine is GE's **-180 turbojet. The engine is axial-flow, which is slightly less fuel efficient than the centrifugal engines used in your Lockheed F-80 fighter jets. The smaller diameter of the axial engine also has the advantage, allowing for a more streamlined airframe design with less drag. Albert cites a flurry of data.

Lockheed's expression became solemn, because the performance of the engine is the company's trade secret, even if Albert has the F84 Thunderbolt fighter, but how can he make a comparison with the F80?

Albert pretended to be mysterious, "And the engine of the F86 Sabre fighter is a General Electric J-47 axial turbojet engine, with a military thrust of 23 kN and an afterburner thrust of 45 kN." And what about the engines of your F80? The J33 centrifugal jet engine has a thrust of only 18,000 N, how to compare it with the other party's engine, and you can see which is better or worse in this regard. ”

It can be said that compared with the centrifugal turbojet engine, the axial flow type has the advantages of small cross-section and high compression ratio, and the turbojet engines used in later generations are all axial flow type. It is worth mentioning that although the MiG-15 and the F86 Sabre were tied, the MiG's engine was still centrifugal.

The F-84F, a derivative of the Sabre, also has good low-altitude performance, and the U.S. Air Force feels that the aircraft needs to be more powerful to improve its relatively sluggish takeoff, climb and high-altitude performance. For this purpose, Republic chose the "Sapphire" axial turbojet engine of the British company Armstrong-Siddeley with a thrust of 3265 kgf. The engine was manufactured in the United States under license by Curtiss-Wright under license number J65. In this way, the F80 can only obediently lie in the dustbin of history, or sell it cheaply to third world countries, but then it has nothing to do with advanced fields at all.