Chapter 325 Airliners, C808 and C909

"It's not an interest."

Chang Haonan shook his head slightly,

"After all, the Paris Air Show is the largest aviation show in the world today, so it's about tracking the movements of our country and seeing if there are any places where I need to provide technical support within my ability."

There is no way, he can't jump the god directly, and said that I have calculated that Chief Master Dong will face the disaster of illness in three years, and I am currently trying to find a way to help the latter avoid the disaster.

Now that we're almost in the 21st century, the craze for studying supernatural functions has long since passed, and saying such things would probably be a pleasure or a curse.

So in the end, I can only give an answer that is full of compatibility.

Fortunately, Huai Guomo only asked casually and didn't pay much attention to this matter.

Although the purpose of his visit this time is also related to the Paris Air Show, the focus is still on the large aircraft project that the entire Science and Technology Commission is currently very concerned about.

Although the dust has not yet settled on the merger and acquisition of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, Europe and China also know that this kind of thing cannot be finally stopped, and it is not beneficial for everyone to really tear their faces with the Americans, so they have begun to consider their own conditions.

The long-pending merger and acquisition has done more damage to McDonnell Douglas than Boeing, and the MD90 program has basically stalled, and many engineers sent by the United States have been called back to China to work or even dismissed.

After investigation, the working group sent by the Commission of Science and Technology Industry believed that the resources received so far were not enough to manufacture a complete passenger plane, so the entire Shanghai Airlines once again fell into a situation of suspension and waiting for materials.

It's just that this time, anyone with a discerning eye can see it, and I'm afraid I can't wait.

Huai Guomo slowly and methodically took out one document after another from the file bag in front of him and put them on the table:

"This morning, also from Paris, after the closure of the air show last night, people from the Tupolev and MiGs took the initiative to contact us."

Chang Haonan perked up and picked up the closest information from the table.

It is a summary of the meeting.

As with all negotiations, the first contact with everyone is to test each other's requirements, so there are no clear conditions involved.

But judging from the fact that almost a quarter of the questions of the Russian personnel, especially the leader of Tupolev's team, are about the agreement between China and Europe, it is clear that they are greedy for the huge market hidden behind it.

"Director Huai, Tupolev I understand, but the MiG ......"

Chang Haonan flipped the more than 20 pages in his hand to the end, and he didn't find that the whole project had anything to do with MiG.

He knew that the other party had several passenger aircraft projects at the end of the 90s, but they basically belonged to the stage of painting cakes, and the only MiG-110 that landed on the ground still coincided with his own Xinzhou 60 positioning.

"Oh, because in the future, Tupolev's commercial aircraft will be produced at the Nizhny Novgorod plant of the MiG company, so if we really reach an agreement with the other party to introduce something similar to Project 11, then the MiG people will also be involved."

Huai Guomo, who had just returned from an inspection in Russia, naturally knew the most about some details.

"And what's going on? I remember that they didn't have a manufacturing plant in Kazan......"

In the original timeline, the MiG company, which failed to find a stable market for the improved MiG-29, eventually went into complete decline, while Tupolev relied on dozens of Tu-204 orders in Russia and the maintenance of more than a dozen Tu-160s that Da Mao got back from Ermao at the turn of the century, and barely survived until the new Tu-160M2 order landed.

As for what happened after that, Chang Haonan didn't know.

"Because of our previous contact with the Ilyushin, the two factories in Kazan and Ulyanovsk have begun to move around frequently, ready to undertake the business in Tashkent, and switch to the production of the new model Il-76MF, Tupolev has no orders in his hands now, and there is no way to take them, so they can only make preparations with both hands, and it just so happens that the MiG side is also a difficult brother."

Huai Guomo suddenly laughed when he said this:

"Regarding this point, Xiao Chang, you can see it accurately before, one ring after another, everything is calculated."

"I ......"

The sudden praise made Chang Haonan a little confused.

He didn't even know about these things before, and he really couldn't see anything......

Fortunately, Huai Guomo immediately continued:

"Comrade Yang Shuyu from the Navy has already told us that before Tupolev relaxed his tone to us, saying that he could export the Tu-22M3 bomber, this matter was very controversial at that time, and the representatives of the Navy and the Air Force couldn't make up their minds for a while, and in the end you helped him determine the objections."

"In hindsight, this should be a move for the bureau to save itself, with an order, you can seize at least one factory to maintain production capacity, and realize the delay."

"As a result, Tupolev didn't expect that we, who were interested in the Tu-22M3 a few years ago, did not respond at all this time, and caught them off guard, no, the attitude towards the passenger plane has softened."

Chang Haonan suddenly realized.

Tupolev's current situation is actually similar to that of Hufei, and they are facing the situation of being forced to stop production because of no orders.

And because they don't have their own production capacity, once the production is stopped, the supporting factories are likely to directly find another way to make a living.

Once the aviation manufacturing industry stops for a few years, it will not be so easy to recover.

And customers who were willing to do so will definitely be affected when they find out that you have lost your productivity.

Therefore, from the logical relationship alone, it was indeed Chang Haonan's original words that led to Tupolev's current crisis, which in turn prompted them to take the initiative to throw an olive branch in the field of passenger aircraft.

Of course, the details in the middle were made up by Huaiguo Mo's brain, in fact, Chang Haonan just felt that in the case of no significant increase in range and bomb load, the simple supersonic bomber did not improve the combat effectiveness of our army much.

Regardless, the results were good, and they did make sense.

So he naturally recognized it:

"There is no way, our current financial resources are also limited, we can only give priority to the most important models, as far as the current situation is concerned, to get a medium-sized passenger aircraft production capacity, to help Hufei keep the production line, workers and team team, is the top priority."

Since the second half of last year, the leadership of the civil aviation industry has also been obtained by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and Hufei, which is responsible for the production of large aircraft, has naturally been completely included in the system management of the Commission of Science and Technology.

People have already accepted the vote, so naturally they also need to give some sweetness, and they can't just enter the military industrial system, and they can't even mix up the order, so it's ugly to say it.

Of course, having said that, at this time in the last life, Hufei was still swaying between MD90 and turning its head to produce AE100, two completely nowhere directions, and now it is much stronger.

"Yes, but in addition to the Tu-204 that we are focusing on, Tupolev also proposed another model, which is a regional aircraft with about 100 seats, Tu-334."

Huai Guomo said and pushed another piece of information in front of Chang Haonan,

"When I went to investigate, I saw this model over there, it is not very big, the take-off weight is a little smaller than our Yun-8, more than 40 tons, but it can basically suppress the upper limit of the mutual recognition agreement reached between us and Europe, and the other party estimates that it also wants to take down the airworthiness of the European model through us, so that even if it cannot be sold to the EU in the future, it is easier to export to third world countries."

"It's just that what we're thinking about is whether it's possible for us to build a 40-ton regional airliner on our own?"

Obviously, after all the surprises of the past year, the thinking of the Commission of Science and Technology has also gone wild.

After all, the 60-ton Y-8 has been built, and the 40-ton regional airliner looks like it can be measured.

Chang Haonan, who heard this idea, was a little nervous.

Although he has hanging, it is not the kind of violent hanging that directly turns up, and the Basic Law still has to be observed.

The design principles of passenger aircraft and military aircraft are completely different, and because of the need to consider comfort and economic issues, the difficulty is actually much greater than that of military aircraft of the same class.

Not to mention anything else, the ARJ21-700, which was basically the same level as the Tu 334 in its previous life, was designed from 2002 with a lot of foreign technical support, and it was not until 2006 that the construction of the first prototype began, and it was delivered and operated in 2015.

Even if Chang Haonan puts the focus of his later work on passenger aircraft, with Huaxia's current overall technical level, this process will take three or four years at the shortest.

I'm afraid Hufei won't be able to wait for that time.

So he considered his sentence and replied:

"If it takes a few years to design, it doesn't have to be......

"But in terms of the current situation of Hufei, the top priority is to have a model put into production as soon as possible, and re-establish the confidence of employees, especially front-line workers.

"Hmmm......"

Chang Haonan said that this angle made Huai Guomo fall into a short thought:

"Plus, one more thing."

He continued to increase the weight,

"Similar to the situation of the AL31F engine on the No. 11 project, because the PS90 engine used in Figure 204 has a wide range of installed objects, the Perm Engine Factory may not be willing to transfer the power system-related technology to us, but the D436T1 engine on Figure 334 can be fought for and get it together with the aircraft."

"The reason is also very easy to explain, that is, in order to meet the requirements of the mutual recognition agreement on airworthiness between China and Europe, the localization rate of the aircraft must be maintained above a certain level, for the Tu-334 model, Tupolev is definitely more anxious than us, and the Ivchenko-Progress Design Bureau has its last breath now, and the resistance should not be very large."

The D436T1 is a 7.5-ton turbofan engine with a large bypass ratio in the same class as the CF34-10A, and it is almost the only model that has a better fuel consumption ratio than its American counterparts.

Moreover, it is difficult for Ermao to obstruct the technology transfer of the D436 like the D18 or D36 engines, because the intellectual property rights of such engines are a muddled account, and the Ufa Engine Industrial Complex and the Salyut Aero Engine Company also control about half of the production capacity and property rights.

It's really urgent, and Da Mao is not a good master who follows the rules......

About this, Soros will soon experience.

In short, if this wave of operations can be successful, it can save Chang Haonan at least two to three years of effort.

Such a bargaining chip obviously moved Huai Guomo easily:

"This is indeed a big problem, I will report your opinion......"

"By the way, if the contract is signed in general accordance with this condition, then the future Tu 334 and Tu 204 will become highly customized, and our country can obtain complete intellectual property rights of the model, just like J-11, there should also be a name of our own, do you have any ideas?"

"What ...... this?"

Chang Haonan couldn't help but smile.

In the previous life, the naming method of the Huaxia aircraft was actually good, and it can be copied directly:

"Airbus planes start with A, Boeing's planes start with B, then we use C, just C is still the first letter of China."

"Our Huaxia pays attention to the nine, so the first trunk airliner from the Hufei factory can be called C909, just like Boeing, followed by 919, 929 ......"

"As for the branch, after all, the grade is still a little lower, you can settle for the second, use 8, the first is called C808, which is also an auspicious number......"

During the conversation and laughter between the two, the naming method of the Huaxia C series passenger aircraft was determined in this way.

(End of chapter)