You Mengxiang's father, You Shengkun, like his mother Meng Yaqiong, used to be a teacher.

But the two are completely opposite personalities.

Meng Yaqiong teaches middle school English, and You Shengkun is a professor in the university's aviation department.

When You Shengkun first began teaching, the aviation department of his university was independent.

Later, it was merged into mechatronic engineering and automation, and the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics was formed.

It is said that it is the aviation department, but the major taught by You Shengkun has nothing to do with the space shuttle and astronauts, he teaches courses related to aircraft maintenance, and all of them are civil aviation aircraft.

You Shengkun was the youngest professor in the Department of Aeronautics and the most outstanding in professional ability, and later the school made You Shengkun the head of the department, but he only liked to deal with all kinds of machinery, and he was not interested in administrative responsibilities at all.

At the end of the nineties of the last century, You Shengkun chose to leave the school to start a business and focus on maintenance because of the adjustment of the school's departments and various administrative matters.

After You Shengkun left school, because of limited funds, he only opened a small company to repair aircraft.

Although the company is small, its name is very large, called Xiamen Kuntian Aircraft Engineering Co., Ltd. (abbreviation: Kuntian Feigong).

There are many people who study auto repair, and most of them do not need a college diploma, as long as they are skilled, there is no problem with graduating from junior high school.

Aircraft maintenance, which also looks like a variety of wrenches and maintenance tools, is no different from repairing a car.

But the reality is very different from what it seems.

The requirements for aircraft maintenance are not the same as those for automobiles.

The maintenance of each aircraft needs to go through a special examination before obtaining a maintenance license.

Boeing, Airbus, McDonnell Douglas, will not give you a roll in Chinese and you will do it.

You Shengkun came out to start a business with several of his own students with better qualifications.

From the Boeing second-generation 737 model of the 300 passenger aircraft maintenance qualification to pick up, to the 400, 500, and then to the third generation of the 600, 700 passenger aircraft.

Finally, the most common today, the best-selling Boeing 737-800 in the history of civil aviation.

The same type of aircraft, a small upgrade, a new generation, maintenance qualifications have to be re-obtained.

In addition to the 737 model, there is also the once very popular Boeing 757 airliner, which was discontinued in 2005.

Before You Mengxiang was born, You Shengkun's aircraft maintenance and transformation engineering company had always been in a state of making ends meet.

You Shengkun, who is not good at socializing and unwilling to take up administrative positions, came out of the school's teaching position to start a business, and is even more ignorant of things in the business field.

You Shengkun just wants to repair the plane, but the premise is that someone is willing to repair it for you.

The training fee for maintaining an aircraft is not comparable to that of auto repair.

At the beginning of the business, You Shengkun had very full ideals, but he was facing the extremely skinny reality every day.

Kuntian Feigong is a small company that has been struggling for a long time on the survival line.

You Shengkun's first Kuntian Aircraft Engineering Co., Ltd. was opened in Xiamen.

In the 90s, Xiamen's airport could not take off and land many planes in a day, not to mention that it did not have any maintenance capabilities recognized by major airlines.

At that time, the planes flying to Xiamen, no matter how small the fault, would go back to big cities such as Beijing or Shanghai to repair them.

If you encounter a situation where you can't even return home, you have to invite engineers from big cities or even abroad to come to Xiamen for repairs.

Fortunately, the nineties were the era when China's civil aviation industry began to thrive.

The background of the industry, coupled with the growing strength of Xiamen's position as one of the preferred cities for tourism, requires more and more aircraft to be overhauled in Xiamen.

More and more new routes are being opened, so that the big maintenance centers in big cities can send fewer and fewer engineers to support.

In this context, You Shengkun's Kuntian Feigong slowly found vitality because of his excellent technical ability.

After nearly 20 years of development, Kuntian Feigong's aircraft overhaul and modification capabilities cover not only all Boeing 737/747/757/767/777 models, but also Airbus 330/340 and McDonnell Douglas MD11 models.

Kuntian Aircraft Engineering Co., Ltd. is also one of the first companies in the world to obtain the maintenance and modification qualification of Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A380.

Xiamen Airlines' own aircraft are pure Boeing echelons, so those Airbus that come to You Shengkun's Kuntian Flying Workers for maintenance must be "foreign" aircraft.

When the Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 were just put into the global civil aviation market, the orders of domestic airlines were not delivered in the first time.

The major domestic aircraft maintenance centers also do not have the maintenance capacity of large passenger aircraft such as Boeing 787 and Airbus A380.

However, the Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 have just entered the commercial flight stage, and Xiamen Airport, which has not yet had a Boeing 787, already needs to do a good job of upgrading the ground of the airport for the take-off and landing of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the air giant A380.

These planes come with only pilots and no passengers.

These new-generation passenger planes that flew to Xiamen Airport were not civil aviation flights to Xiamen, but came to Xiamen from big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai to "see a doctor" from You Shengkun's aircraft maintenance company.

Many flight fans went to Xiamen Airport to see the "first landing" of Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 of foreign airlines.

You Shengkun's Kuntian Feigong, backed by Xiamen, but not affiliated with an airline, is an independent and professional civil aircraft maintenance and transformation enterprise.

At the beginning of the business, when the company was struggling, as long as they were willing to come to them to repair the plane, they could have enough materials and food money.

Later, after the business improved, there was no large-scale price increase.

This also makes Kuntian Aircraft Engineering Co., Ltd. recognized as the most affordable company in the global aircraft maintenance market.

The most competitive price, coupled with the excellent maintenance ability of the team brought out by You Shengkun personally, the company has gradually gained a firm foothold in the aviation maintenance market.

By 2010, Dad You was already very mature in Xiamen Kuntian Feigong from operation to team, and the company was also on track, so he decided to start global expansion from that year.

As the soul of the company and the technical core, You Mengxiang's father chose to go to the country where the new company is located to train and lead the new team.

No matter what the company has developed, You Shengkun still likes the feeling of personally repairing aircraft and leading a team on the front line.

After opening the "machine repair factory" abroad, You Shengkun not only became a trapeze artist who often needed to travel, but also stayed in the country where the "new factory" was located for several months because the technical team of the new company had problems that needed to be overcome.

This is also why, since You Meng missed junior high school, he rarely saw his father at home.