For everyone in the conference room, although Fang Lang's proposal was incomprehensible to them, it was undoubtedly the best choice for the situation they were facing now. Diaphragm

They have no objection to Fang Lang's idea of raising the purchase price of the training aircraft to share the cost of research and development.

General Nairo Mora is very aware of the relationship between Fang Lang and Fang Yuan Group, and understands that what Fang Lang is doing now must have an element of giving him face, which makes him very moved.

"General Fang, I will remember your friendship in my heart, and all my colleagues in the Air Force will also remember it deeply, thank you for solving the biggest problem for us."

In fact, Fang Lang felt that this matter was actually a trivial matter, although what Fang Lang said was very complicated, but for Fang Yuan Group, it was not difficult to redesign a propeller training aircraft.

Since Professor Tan Ke is not interested in this kind of propeller aircraft, it is just right for other young designers who have not had the opportunity to display their talents to exercise well.

This is not a good thing for Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and as for the funds that need to be invested, it is not a lot of money in Fang Lang's opinion.

As for the piston engine used in the aircraft, Fang Lang is not worried at all, you must know that during World War II, Mercedes-Benz was also one of the important aircraft engine suppliers in Germany, although it cannot be compared with BMW. Diaphragm

But the engines of the BD600-BD603 series produced by him were also widely adopted by the German army. Unfortunately, this engine is an inverted V-shaped engine, which is somewhat different from the star layout of the American aircraft engines now used in Brazil.

If you want to re-entrust Mercedes-Benz to study the radial engine, it is obviously time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is not cost-effective.

In addition, Fang Lang has several options, such as seeking support from Bristol in the United Kingdom, and Pratt & Whitney in the United States.

In Brazil's current situation, it is clear that the most appropriate thing would be to turn to Pratt & Whitney in the United States for support and even to buy technology.

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And Pratt & Whitney's R-1830 "Against Wasp" type star layout engine is undoubtedly the best choice, why did Fang Lang think of this engine in his heart for the first time!

The reason is very simple, first of all, this engine was the most produced aircraft engine in the entire World War II, with a full 173618 units produced, accounting for 47.7% of Pratt & Whitney's total production during World War II.

This large production volume means that this is a very mature product, and the repair and maintenance costs will be very low. Diaphragm

Second, during the war, General Motors helped Hewlett-Packard produce 50,000 units of this model, and it had long understood the technical points of this engine. With the partnership between Fang Lang and the Morgan family, it is not difficult to negotiate the technical licensing of this engine.

Third, among the fighters used by the naval aviation under his command, the F4F "Wildcat" fighter and the C-47 "Sky Train" transport plane all use this engine, and if this engine is introduced, it will greatly reduce the maintenance cost in the later stage.

With so many benefits, Fang Lang's choice of this model is of course inevitable, as for the difficulty of introduction, Fang Lang is not worried, if you come to the Morgan family to apply, it should not be difficult.

In addition, the current Pratt & Whitney Company has long begun to switch to jet engine research, and the importance of this obviously outdated product is obviously not high.

If you really don't want to transfer, it's a big deal that Fang Lang will pull the tape measure directly! As for the samples, there are many in the warehouse of the Shata company. Let the researchers make a slight change, avoid some patent troubles, and just go straight to production.

Thinking of this, Fang Lang even felt that if this piston engine trainer was not good, the time for production might be earlier than the T-1 project!

From General Nairo Mora's gratitude, he also accepted it without any embarrassment. Diaphragm

"General Mora, we are friends, don't be so polite.

However, if you want to turn the T-1 project into a fighter, you will need a lot of investment.

As I said earlier, the T-1 is not suitable as a carrier-based aircraft, so it will be difficult for our Navy to provide follow-up research and development funds if we redevelop a piston engine trainer aircraft. ”

Everyone in the conference room was stunned when they heard this, yes! Why didn't you think of this! If the Navy no longer invests in it, it will be a great burden for them to rely on the Air Force alone!

However, Fang Lang just promised that he would come forward to persuade Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company to raise funds to develop a piston trainer aircraft, which could be regarded as helping the Air Force solve a big problem.

At this time, if you blame the other party and withdraw halfway without helping yourself, it is a little unreasonable!

After all, it was the Air Force that gave up the T-1 trainer project! Diaphragm

For a while, everyone in the conference room looked at me, I looked at you, and I didn't know how to continue.

Finally, General Nairo Mora gritted his teeth, looked at Major Leo Kanter, who was in charge of liaising with Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and said in a serious tone:

"Did Fangyuan Company say how long it would take and how much money would be invested in this turboprop engine if the overhaul time was increased to more than 1,000 hours?"

Major Leo Kanter, who was standing in front of the drawings and waiting for the results of the Elder's discussion, was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes involuntarily looked at Fang Lang beside General Nairo Mora.

Fang Lang didn't look at him, he could only bite the bullet and say:

"This ...... They didn't say. ”

Hearing this, General Nairo Mora and all the air force officers in the conference room frowned and were speechless for a while. Diaphragm

In fact, Fang Lang is also concerned about this problem, and now Fang Lang has also heard of the actions of the power research laboratory, as far as Fang Lang knows, Professor Tan Ke personally came forward to recruit some outstanding talents from Germany to join the power research and development team.

Among them are engineers who participated in the development of the world's first mass-produced turbojet engine, the Junker Yumo 004B, although the working time of this engine does not exceed 150 hours.

However, this is due to the blockade of Germany and the lack of many trace metal elements, which is not a problem in Brazil today.

As a professional, Professor Tan Ke knows very well what kind of talent he needs, so Fang Lang's expectations for this engine are actually very high.

Seeing the appearance of everyone in the conference room, he was a little worried that if he didn't cheer them up, he wouldn't dare to invest in the back of the Air Force.

"General Mora, don't worry, as far as I know, the current power research laboratory is already trying to find a way to solve these problems.

If my expectations are correct, within a year, we will definitely be able to meet the Air Force's requirement to increase the engine overhaul time to more than 1,000 hours. "Ahh

Fang Lang's words, of course everyone believes it, after all, this is the behind-the-scenes boss of Fangyuan Group.

After General Nairo Mora ate Fang Lang's reassuring pill, his face immediately became ruddy, and he looked at the people in the conference room with a laugh:

"If it's a year, everyone should be able to withstand the pressure!"

At this time, Fang Lang reacted, the reason why General Neiro Mora invited him to the conference room this time to discuss these issues in front of so many people may also be because there are different voices below him!

Seeing that the independent training aircraft research and development project led by him did not achieve the desired effect, some people raised objections and put him under a lot of pressure!

It's been a long time, and there is also a political struggle involved!

In this way, it is not that General Nairo Mora really felt that the T-1 was too technologically overt and wanted to abandon the more advanced turboprop engine in favor of an outdated piston engine. Diaphragm

It seems that this piston engine training aircraft project is a political compromise project at all!

When the air force generals in the conference room heard this, they all hurriedly laughed:

"No problem, in a year's time, we will definitely be able to withstand the pressure."

"Yes! Oh, yes! This year, we will reduce military spending and will fully support the improvement of the T-1 into a fighter. ”

Although everyone was smiling, Fang Lang had a judgment in his heart, and when he looked at the expressions of these people again, he could find many interesting details that he hadn't found at first.

I didn't expect that the Brazilian Air Force, which was established less than five years ago, has begun to grow on the inside!

Compared with the Rio de Janeiro aircraft carrier battle group built by himself, General Nairo Mora's life is not easy! Diaphragm

Turning his head and glancing at General Nairo Mora beside him, Fang Lang wanted to ask the other party very much, now that he knew that the overhaul time of the engine could be increased to 1,000 hours in a year, should he give up the backward piston engine project and continue the T-1 training aircraft project.

But after seeing the other party's serious expression, Fang Lang still chose to shut up.

Anyway, now that the construction of the T-1 prototype has been completed, it will be possible to declare the success of the T-1 project directly when the engine overhaul time increases.

Fangyuan Group can start selling this training aircraft with turboprop engines, and it doesn't bother to care if the Air Force buys it or not.

As for the development of fighters on the basis of the T-1, in fact, there is no need to invest much effort at all, because at the beginning of the development of the T-1 project, Fang Lang put forward a lot of suggestions, that is, to make the T-1 project have the basis for transforming into a fighter.

In order to make it easier to make the T-1 a serial model, like the later successful "Super Tucano" in Brazil.

Therefore, today's meeting of the Air Force is to make Fang Lang agree to persuade Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company to build a piston engine training aircraft, and take the initiative to reduce the technical level of the training aircraft. Diaphragm

At the same time, Fang Lang also said on behalf of the Navy that he would no longer join the project of transforming the T-1 into a fighter jet, saving the Navy some follow-up research and development funds.

As for the success of engine research, the T-1 will naturally succeed, and the Navy will also directly obtain the technical ownership of this model.

From this point of view, this political struggle within the Air Force is fundamentally a matter of injuring 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of itself, and it is completely unnecessary. Even, even Fang Lang felt that it was a bit of a waste of his time.

General Nairo Mora was obviously very dissatisfied with this, and after hearing everyone say that there was no problem, he stopped being verbose and got up directly and said:

"In that case, this is the end of this meeting."

After speaking, he looked at Fang Lang beside him and said:

"General Fang, I'm really sorry for causing you a lot of trouble. Diaphragm

I hope you don't mind and can come to my office for a cup of tea. ”

Hearing this, Fang Lang pretended not to know and got up directly, and said to General Nairo Mora with a smile:

"General Mora said with a smile, I originally heard that you invited me to tea, so I came here, of course I want to go to your office for tea.

But now it's not enough to just drink tea, you have to treat me to a big meal. ”

Fang Lang's performance made General Nairo Mora breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that Fang Lang was not angry because of his actions this time.