Chapter 216 The Aviation Age of the Ming Dynasty
Zhu Jingyuan was silent for a long time after receiving Chu Yuqiang's report.
It was not because of France's reaction, France's reaction was all expected by Zhu Jingyuan.
As for what Prince Charles did, Zhu Jingyuan didn't pay attention to it at all.
Zhu Jingyuan was surprised by Chu Yuqiang's thoughts.
Digging out on his own, this craftsman is simply a business genius.
Taking advantage of the airplane experiment, the advertisement was hung on the wing.
You can also imitate it yourself.
Due to Bernoulli's breakthrough in aircraft research and development, Zhu Jingyuan had to start laying out aircraft patents in Taixi.
Now that Taixi can produce aircraft, the local civil aircraft market in Daming should also be gradually opened up.
After a year of preparation, the Ministry of Industry and the two aviation industry leaders are also ready.
So Zhu Jingyuan wrote three reports and sent them to his father, the Ministry of Industry, and his own Daming Airlines.
Remind his father that the Ming government and related enterprises can open the aviation industry to the local people.
You can open a special flight training school, and you can open a related profession in a craftsman school.
Of course, the registration of the plane also has to be done, whether it will go to the Ministry of Industry or Taifu Temple, and let my father decide for himself.
The Ministry of Industry was reminded that the relevant regulations and standards of the aviation industry could be made public, and the Aviation Industry Association was formally established.
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The Ministry of Industry is responsible for setting up local aviation industry associations in various offices and organizing basic aircraft pilot training schools.
Royal Flying Machines, Daming Airlines, is responsible for the production and sales and promotion in various places.
At the end of February of the first year of Ankang, the factory and personnel, who had been conservative for most of the year, officially appeared.
In Jingshi New Town, a group of businessmen approached the offices of two airlines to inquire about the purchase of aircraft and training.
"At present, there are only two types of aircraft sold to the private sector: integrated civil aircraft, small transport aircraft with less than five passengers, including seaplanes and land aircraft.
"The integrated civil small aircraft is the flagship product, with a maximum engine power of 64 horsepower, a maximum range of 400 kilometers and a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour.
"You can take up to two people and carry less than 100 kilograms of cargo.
"It can be used for flight learning and training, it can be used for simple in-flight advertising campaigns, it can be used for flight experience activities within a certain range, and it can be used for short-distance travel.
"The purchase of an aircraft requires the completion of the registration procedures for the aircraft itself, and the pilot's licence is required through training to fly at the specified altitude and range.
"To operate the relevant business, you need to apply for a license from the Aviation Industry Association.
"The Aviation Industry Association sponsored by the Ministry of Industry, the Royal Flying Machines Company and Daming Airlines have all set up special flight pilot training schools, welcome to sign up for learning.
"At the same time, Daming Air has launched air travel services in pilot areas.
"Shuntianfu, Yingtianfu, Suzhou, Kaifeng, Xi'an, Wuchang, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, and the two adjacent cities on the map are within 800 kilometers of each other, and they all have opened flights, and it only takes two hours each way!"
There are very few types of aircraft that are just beginning to sell, and there are restrictions on engine power and use.
However, in civil aircraft, except for large and medium-sized transport aircraft and passenger aircraft, they do not need much power.
Large and medium-sized technology and transport aircraft, temporarily operated exclusively by the royal consortium and Daming Airlines.
The power and function requirements of ordinary aircraft stipulated by Daming are basically in accordance with the upper limit of what Taixi can do.
This power already meets the needs of civilian use, and the businessman does not feel that there is anything wrong with this.
Some businessmen are interested in buying airplanes, but many more are interested in flights.
The distance of seven or eight hundred kilometers took several days before the advent of the train, but it was shortened to one day after the train. ….
Now it's been reduced to two hours again, an efficiency that has surprised the merchants.
Many people were amazed at the capabilities of the aircraft, and more people considered the impact on the business.
After the news spread, more people came to inquire and consider buying an airplane, learning an airplane, and taking an airplane.
The people involved and consulted in these businesses are wealthy people who have made a lot of money over the past year.
And some of those who have made more money have begun to think about "building" airplanes at the same time as they decide to buy airplanes.
In Songjiang Fucheng, several businessmen approached the office of the Aviation Industry Association together and consulted about opening an aircraft factory.
"Anyone who wants to get a production license and wants to participate in the aviation industry can apply to join the Aviation Industry Association.
"Through the Aviation Industry Association, you can get all the core patents required to produce an aircraft at once.
"The total licence fee is subject to availability, but it will not exceed 20% of the price of the aircraft."
Hearing these introductions, the merchants did not react.
The 20% license fee is relatively high at present, but it is also a proportion that everyone has seen.
In an epoch-making thing like an airplane, a 20% license fee is also acceptable.
However, with the introduction of the staff, the feelings of these businessmen began to change rapidly.
I soon began to feel that this fee was not high at all, but very low, almost free of charge
Example.
Because they found that there were too many things they could get for the two percent licensing fee.
Because airplanes are newly invented, new technology from start to finish.
More importantly, in the course of the past year, the Ministry of Industry and the two major airlines have accumulated a large number of patents in the aviation industry in accordance with a large number of drawings and tips left by Zhu Jingyuan last year.
The way aircraft is manufactured and controlled, the different uses of the aircraft itself, all the parts and raw materials of the aircraft, cover all the needs of the aviation industry.
In the original history, it was a design that was slowly accumulated over a period of several decades, and it was made in a year.
These patents are not so much patents as a complete design and production instruction.
With the explanatory documents of these patents, you will know how to design and produce an airplane.
Moreover, the aircraft made are very complete and mature, and can be directly used in various industries.
So this is actually a technical cost, not just the cost of a few patents.
If these patents are really sold as patents, if they are sold separately, then the price will have to be doubled several times.
Manufacturers who want to participate in the operation can only buy more important patents, and small patents rely on lakes and avoidance.
Even if the licensing fee for each major patent is 5% of the sales price, the total cost will exceed 100%.
Then there is no way to charge royalties according to the selling price, and more than half of the manufacturing cost is royalties.
Now, after replacing 20% of the licensing fee with a full technology transfer fee, this price is very low.
Therefore, the Aviation Industry Association requires all authorized companies to join the Aviation Industry Association.
New aviation-related patents accumulated during the R&D and production process will be automatically back-licensed to the Aviation Industry Association. ….
This request is very overbearing, but according to Zhu Jingyuan's instructions, this authorization is not gratuitous.
If the corresponding patent is separately authorized in the future, the invention company will directly receive 70% of the licensing fee.
If a patent passes a full examination and it is confirmed that it has some necessity, it is added to the pool of granted patents as a whole.
The inventing company would then be able to receive a share of the licensing costs from all newly produced aircraft.
The Aviation Industry Association is equivalent to a patent-sharing platform, and whoever provides more patents gets more shares.
Encourage companies to pioneer new technologies in the production process.
Most of these patents in the hands of the association now belong to Zhu Jingyuan, and Zhu Jingyuan has made a commitment.
The license fee allocated by oneself can be refunded according to the number of sales, and the maximum amount of the fee can be refunded.
In other words, the cost of this complete technology transfer is only 4% of the minimum selling price.
This is really low enough in this day and age to be regarded as a free gift.
As for the patents applied for by Zhu Jingyuan, including the aircraft itself, only the most basic control patents.
That is, to ensure that the plane can fly and be able to fly according to the simple instructions of the pilot.
There are no other details and functional patents.
Zhu Jingyuan will not apply for those detailed patents, which does not affect the amount of patent fees he obtains.
There is a potential cap on the cost of patent licensing, i.e., the legal requirements of each country must not disrupt the market.
That is, the price cannot be too high, and the specific high is not very accurate, and it usually cannot exceed 30% of the total selling price.
Zhu Jingyuan's invention patent for the aircraft itself, plus the supporting basic control patent, is enough to win the 30% license fee.
If you apply for a design patent in more details, you won't get a higher licensing fee, which is equivalent to giving free technology.
Then it's better not to sell it at all, and let the Tessie people explore it themselves and get those patents by themselves.
In all parts of the Ming Dynasty, among the businessmen who consulted the threshold of the aviation industry, there were no really powerful ones who set up aircraft factories
After a few days, it was decided to join the Aviation Industry Federation and enter the aviation industry market.
The prospect of this market really doesn't need to be specifically described by others, they can see a huge prospect with a little investigation and judgment.
And the Ministry of Industry and the royal consortium of the Ming Dynasty, as well as an airline led by a prince, can also see the full support of this industry.
It is impossible for an industry that receives this kind of support to lose money, so many businessmen quickly decide to invest.
However, it is not so easy for them to get on board, to get all the licenses and technical documentation.
They need to pass the review of the Aviation Industry Association to determine that they belong to reliable and powerful Ming merchants.
Only after signing a letter of technical confidentiality and sales guarantee can you be eligible to participate in the production of flying machines.
At the same time, for the time being, all participating companies will be able to produce only one type of aircraft in one category.
All of them are the lowest level of "general-purpose small civil aircraft" that are restricted.
For the time being, they will only be able to obtain the technical authorization and corresponding technical documentation required for the production of this type of aircraft. ….
In the process of design and production, there is also the Aviation Industry Association to provide on-site guidance, which is also a kind of supervision.
The lowest-level civil aircraft is the aircraft that most needs the participation of private manufacturers to reduce costs and increase production as much as possible.
In the future, small seaplanes, five-person small transport planes, agricultural planes and so on will be gradually opened.
There will be many such manufacturers at the beginning, maybe hundreds or even thousands, and in the early days the aircraft was very simple, it was simpler than building a car, and in the end there may be dozens to one or two hundred left.
In this competitive process, a small number of manufacturers have emerged from a large number of small manufacturers and shown their operational and production advantages.
Only then will there be opportunities to cooperate with the factories of Daming Airlines, Royal Flying Machines and the Ministry of Industry to produce large and medium-sized transport aircraft.
There may be more than a dozen such manufacturers.
Then further screen out the most powerful manufacturers, and the manufacturers that are deeply bound to the Ming Dynasty to produce fighters and bombers.
There should be only a few such manufacturers.
In this process of selection and competition, the association gradually opens up its technology and production scope to private manufacturers of the corresponding level.
You can't be completely open now, you can't put all the technology out now.
In that way, private manufacturers can't digest it at all, and the vast majority of private manufacturers don't need the most high-end technology at all.
Direct opening will only speed up the catch-up of competitors.
Even these vetted companies can't keep their secrets completely secret.
Even if they don't divulge the technology themselves, the lack of confidentiality awareness will keep the technology flowing out.
The outflow of technology is impossible to eradicate.
You can only be prepared for theft from the very beginning.
Be prepared to control the probability of outflow from the source, and the technical level of control of outflow.
Prince Void