The Russian pavilion is located on the other side of the taxiway from France.

Since it is customary to prepare Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, the area is really large.

The old Maozi also lived up to the arrangement of the organizer, and basically took out the housekeeping goods at the bottom of the box.

In the center of the exhibition area is an Il-96-300 that was absent from the Xiangzhou Air Show last time.

Although it is smaller than the Airbus A340-500/600, it is a serious four-engine wide-body airliner anyway, and it can barely match the counterpoint mechanism.

As for the other Tu-204-100S, it is an old friend who has already met last year.

However, Yi Yuanhe was more interested in the latter this time.

As the chief model engineer of the 603 Institute, he had heard some rumors from the level of the Science and Technology Commission before.

After the superiors have lost hope for the MD90 project in cooperation with McDonnell Douglas, in order to continue to promote the domestic large aircraft industry, and more importantly, to maintain the Hufei Company, which has obtained a certain capacity, will not fall apart, the current plan is to refer to the model of the No. 11 project, gradually introduce the Tu-204/214 production line, and require the Tupolev Design Bureau and the Aviation Industry Corporation to cooperate to convert and customize the domestically produced passenger aircraft according to the requirements.

Considering the current embarrassing situation of the Tupolev Design Bureau, it is clear that this proposal is quite feasible.

Of course, Huaxia's technological accumulation in large aircraft is even weaker than that of fighter aircraft, and it may be difficult to obtain an extremely favorable condition for its own side in terms of operation like Project 11.

But in any case, it is certainly better than Boeing after the acquisition of McDonnell Douglas in the future.

With the attitude of going to see and see, Yi Yuanhe directly crossed Lin Weixuan, who was half a step in front of him, and walked to the side of the Figure 204.

There were fewer staff in the Russian pavilion than expected, and there were basically only a few spectators cleaning and maintaining order.

What is even more surprising is that after looking at the documents of the two people and confirming that they are exhibitors from China, the other party directly invited them to get on the plane to have a look.

Generally speaking, the passenger planes exhibited will be open for viewing unless they are in a fairly early stage, but it is indeed rare to see such a warm and active invitation.

Yi Yuanhe was not polite, he had studied in the Soviet Union and could speak Russian, and after a brief communication with the Russian personnel, he led Lin Weixuan directly to the two planes to visit.

Especially the cockpit.

The cockpit of the Ilyush 96-300 and Tu-204-100S uses almost identical styling and avionics, and although the gap with Airbus and Boeing is still obvious, it is not completely behind the times from the perspective of the mid-to-late 90s.

The only fly in the ointment is that both aircraft still retain the design of a three-person crew, that is, the co-pilot and the mechanic, and the two new Airbus A340s just seen on the opposite side have been upgraded to two-person crews.

For an airliner that needs to be operated commercially, an extra person is a big expense.

Yi Yuanhe tried to sit in the driver's seat of Figure 204 and held the steering wheel in front of him to feel it.

"Can the cockpit be upgraded to a two-a-side?"

He turned around and asked in Russian about the Tupolev staff behind him.

The latter nodded:

The company already has plans to use a two-seater cockpit for the next major upgrade.

According to industry vernacular, this answer is basically equivalent to not being able to do it in a short period of time.

After all, with the current situation of the bureau, God knows when the next big version will come out.

But just as Yi Yuanhe was about to say something, the other party immediately added:

"However, we are planning to launch a sub-model using all-Western equipment, the Tu-204-120, which has the same basic performance as our Tu-204-100S, but with a higher degree of automation and of course a more expensive price."

Yi Yuanhe shook his head.

Avionics replacement may be more attractive to some Western or pro-Western customers, but in the case of Huaxia, the introduction of the production Tu-204 was originally to avoid risks and obtain a complete 100-ton aircraft manufacturing capacity.

Anyway, there are still a large number of three-person crew aircraft in civil aviation, which is not unacceptable in a short period of time.

As long as the price of the plane is right.

Thinking of this, he opened his mouth again and asked:

"Then this model, which is the Tu 204-100S, what is the price of each aircraft?"

The seemingly simple question stopped the Russian guy next to him.

In fact, this is interlaced like a mountain.

Yi Yuanhe is an expert in aircraft design, but he doesn't really know how to sell airplanes.

In aircraft trading contracts, the price of bare metal is often only a small part of the total price, while the majority is the other services attached to the contract, such as pilot and ground crew training, spare parts supply, warranty methods and warranty periods.

So don't talk about these things, only talk about the price, it's a hooligan.

In the end, though, he got a less precise answer.

"According to the procurement habits of ordinary airlines, the price of spare parts and repair services is about 32 million to 39 million dollars."

Later, Yi Yuanhe realized that he didn't actually have a relevant concept.

So I had to switch to Chinese and ask Lin Weixuan, who was confused because he couldn't understand Russian conversations:

"Lao Lin, the person just now said that the price of their plane is about 32 million to 39 million US dollars, what level is it in a trunk airliner?"

Only then did the latter know that Yi Yuanhe was inquiring just now.

"Less than 40 million...... It's kind of cheap. ”

After a little thought, Lin Weixuan replied:

"We bought a batch of Boeing 757-200 last year, and the overall performance is similar to this Tu 204, the price is 74 million US dollars, and Airbus's latest A321, 80-ton class, the unit price is about 70 million US dollars."

That's a pretty straightforward comparison.

There must still be moisture in the offer given by the Russians, and if localization can be completed in the future, then the cost can be pressed even lower.

At that time, even if it is used as a cargo plane or as a special machine platform.

So Yi Yuanhe secretly wrote down this matter in his heart.

In addition to the two large aircraft, the Russians also brought a new Flanker demonstrator with the designation 711, as well as a front-line bomber named Su-32FN.

As a military aircraft, it is naturally impossible to open the public for a tour as casually as a passenger plane, so you can only look at it from a distance outside the fence.

Both aircraft are three-wing designs, especially the 711 also uses ternary vector nozzles, which presumably will have a huge leap in maneuverability.

"Maybe it can also be used as a future improvement direction for Project 11......"

After leaving the Russian exhibition area, Yi Yuanhe took out a notebook and recorded all the things he had just thought about.

However, when they walked around the air show site and returned to the location of their plane, they found a scene that made people laugh and cry -

A group of old Maozi hanging the identity cards of the staff of the Russian exhibitors, like Yi Yuan and the two just now, stopped and watched in front of the display board of the New Boat 60 with great interest, and it sounded like a rather heated discussion.

"No wonder there weren't a few people over there just now, and they all came to us for a long time......"

Yi Yuanhe tidied up his clothes and stepped forward, but he heard a few words of Russian clearly from the messy environment halfway.

"The display board says that this type of aircraft has passed the airworthiness certification of all 15 EU countries, and I wonder how they did it?"

"Not only that, I have a colleague who went to Tashkent to receive Huaxia customers before, and I heard them say that Huaxia and Europe directly signed a mutual recognition of airworthiness certification of regional aircraft below a certain take-off weight and number of seats, which means that the models approved by Huaxia in the future can be directly operated in Europe."

There was a thick envy in the tone of the second voice:

"If this condition is given to us, it will be too comfortable......

In an instant, Yi Yuanhe suddenly realized something.

Huaxia really doesn't have any bargaining chips in the technology of large aircraft.

But there are places outside of technology.

And it's critical.

(End of chapter)