You can't blame the government for your hard life, who do they don't carry on this black cauldron, do you want Airbus to admit that there is a problem with the design of its aircraft?

However, even so, it did not make the Airbus A320 recognized by the market, and in desperation, the French could only do it themselves and replaced the Air France passenger aircraft with the Airbus A320, but only they operated it themselves, and they had to find customers from the outside world.

Any mature airline will not accept a defective aircraft, a flight accident may make the entire airline bankrupt, so in addition to its own use, the export of Airbus A320 has always been zero.

Now, they are aiming to achieve a breakthrough of zero.

First of all, of course, you can't admit that there is a problem with the flight controller!

"That's right, our Airbus A320 is a cross-era passenger aircraft, it uses a digital fly-by-wire operating system, and the pilot's operating stick transmits electrical signals, which not only saves physical strength, but also can supervise the various states of the aircraft by the flight controller at any time, and intervene urgently in case of accidents to avoid misoperation by pilots."

Allen, the chief engineer of the Airbus A320 who came with him, said: "For example, if the pilot pulls the operating lever too hard, the aircraft will not pull the nose up completely like the mechanical control, but will maintain the correct upward elevation angle. ”

Yes, the plane can be controlled to dive, but if it wants to dive, no one can stop it.

"Of course, we know the advantages of fly-by-wire, but this is built on a mature fly-by-wire operating system, and if the fly-by-wire operating system is flawed, then there may be an implied risk that it will explode in a specific situation." Ma Lao spoke.

Although Ma Lao is the director of the landing gear factory and often deals with the French, as an aircraft chief engineer, he never talks in circles, goes straight, and is not afraid of offending people.

"We can guarantee that our fly-by-wire operation is fully mature!" Alan said.

"Any salesman will talk about his products in a big way, and customers have their own judgment." Qin Feng spoke: "Of course, we also want to believe that the Airbus A320 is mature and reliable, but ...... We can't just pay lip service. ”

"Mr. Qin, how do you want to prove it?" Richard asked.

"For example, give us the source code of the flight controller and let us see it, which can make us most down-to-earth."

"It can't be!" Allen stood up immediately: "This is the core secret of our Airbus A320, how can we hand it over to you casually!" ”

"That's right, customers don't need to know the source code of our flight controller, just know that our aircraft is absolutely reliable, besides, if it's handed over to you, you can't understand it." Casey spoke.

"Alas, how did this good atmosphere be ruined? Sir, you don't have to be in a hurry, sit down, sit down and talk! Qin Feng greeted Allen: "There is an old saying in our East, it is called that buying and selling does not become benevolent and righteous, let's not talk about anything a320, come, drink, drink!" ”

What kind of wine to drink, let's come here, it's to sell A320 door-to-door!

Richard was anxious, but now, it seemed that he could not continue the topic.

"That's right, drink, come, and cheer to our happy cooperation!" Wang Fang raised her glass.

The French are all sullen.

Now, Qin Feng's attitude has made it clear that if you want to sell the Airbus A320, a prerequisite is that the French need to provide the source code of the flight control program of this aircraft to the Orientals, but this is their core secret and must not be given.

So, this thing is blown?

"Yes, we have a great working relationship." Richard said: "The landing gear, the wheels, and many of the structural frames of the aircraft produced here are very reliable, and we ...... them."

When he said this, Richard suddenly thought of something: "Mr. Qin, last time I came to Jincheng, the leaders here promised us that as long as we set up a factory here, we could order fifty Airbus A320s, and now, this promise ......"

"Set up a factory?" Qin Feng said: "Why don't I remember? ”

You guy actually didn't admit it? The Frenchman's face changed again.

"Wait, I think about it, it seems like that's the case, but ...... Didn't the Airbus A320 have an accident? If you want to produce, how about we change the model? Are you still working on a large airliner? ”

At that time, almost all civil aviation in the West was controlled by the United States, what Boeing, Douglas and the like, the Europeans decided to unite and tinker with the airliner in order not to be drunk by the United States.

In this way, the Airbus A300 became the world's first wide-body twin-engine medium-haul passenger aircraft, and anyway, Europe is not large, and there is no need for long-range passenger aircraft.

Airbus's strategy was successful, the A300 was selling well, and Airbus was also full of oil, and then began to continue to develop new models.

The A300 is 300 seats, the A310 is 200 seats, and the A320 is 150 seats, and it seems that they have been developing towards small aircraft, but they also have large aircraft projects, and this is the A330!

After accumulating enough experience in short- and medium-range aircraft, Airbus began to develop into heavyweight large passenger aircraft!

Airbus A330, with a maximum take-off weight of more than 240 tons and a maximum range of more than 10,000 kilometers, is a medium and long-range dual-aisle wide-body passenger aircraft, and its appearance has allowed Airbus to finally have a benchmark Boeing 747 and 767 aircraft.

However, this aircraft was only approved in 87, and the first flight was not until 92 years in history, and it is still in the research and development stage.

Only when Airbus A320 is sold in large quantities, they will have more funds to develop A330, so they will come all the way, and at this time, Qin Feng put forward this sentence, which made their hearts cold a lot, and this Qin Zong's appetite is too great!

They just want to sell the A320 to Mr. Qin, and Mr. Qin actually wants to jointly develop the A330 with them!

How is this possible?

Ma Lao's eyes were full of light.

He will never forget the big passenger aircraft project in his life, he has been waiting, he believes that Mr. Qin, since he has made a promise, he will definitely fulfill it, now is a good opportunity!

"Mr. Qin, we are indeed developing a new large passenger aircraft A330, with a maximum take-off weight of 242 tons, which can fly intercontinentally and transport 293 passengers, but, with all due respect, you do not have an advanced aviation industry, so it is impossible to contact such high-tech products as large passenger aircraft."

"We have." Ma Lao said: "We once developed the Yun-10, which is a large passenger aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of 110 tons, which can also fly intercontinentally!" ”

"The Yun Ten is nothing more than a copy of the Boeing 707, and ......" Allen began to retort.

"Alan!" Richard frowned, if you don't say a few words, expose their shortcomings here, you will mess up the atmosphere again!

"It is difficult to develop modern large passenger aircraft, and the production technology is also complex." Richard used as euphemism as he could: "Your civil aviation technology is just getting started, just like we are, you should start with a small plane, we can make a copy of the A300 and A310 production lines......"

Qin Feng was proud in his heart, went around in a big circle, and finally returned to the right track.

Of course, he wants to produce the A320 airliner, after all, he also knows how popular this airliner will be in the future, and how many airlines will love it, but he doesn't want to be reduced to a simple assembly plant, and he doesn't want Airbus to dominate.

Therefore, a lot of demands were put forward first, all of which were unacceptable to the French, and then compromised in the end, and the conditions that were compromised, if the other party still did not accept them, then they could only be shot and scattered!

"If it were the McDonnell Douglas 82 assembly model, we could have given it a try." Qin Feng spoke.

"No, no, we ......" Casey shook her head.

Even if it sets up a factory abroad, Airbus's operation mode is a wholly-owned or joint venture, but the major shareholder of the factory must be Airbus's, and Airbus has the final say, and the profits earned are also Airbus's.

This is the case with the Airbus assembly plant established in Jincheng in later generations.

And what about McDonnell Douglas 82's model?

After successfully stifling the Yun-10 project, Modu Aircraft Factory cooperated with McDonnell Douglas to start producing McDonnell Dalwellwells 82 passenger aircraft, which were assembled by McDonnell Douglas and technicians trained by McDonnell Douglas in accordance with McDonnell Douglas' drawings and process methods.

What does this process mean?

McDonnell Douglas is a supporting role! McDonnell Douglas is just a middleman, they can't interfere in the operation of the Modu Aircraft Factory, they are only responsible for helping, the Modu Aircraft Factory is still Modu's, not McDonnell Douglas'.

So why did McDonnell Douglas say yes?

Of course, in order to sell the aircraft, these McDonnell Douglas 82 airliners were bought from the East, but they were assembled in China, and even the price of assembling them themselves in the first few years was higher than buying the whole aircraft directly.

How could Airbus agree to this way!

Airbus is not charitable, let alone cultivating a competitor, and the bloody facts of later generations have told Qin Feng how shameless Airbus is.

After careful argumentation, the relevant departments put forward a three-step plan.

The first step is to manufacture and equip McDonnell Douglas airliners, master the technology of McDonnell Douglas airliners, and improve production and manufacturing capabilities.

The second step is to cooperate with foreign countries to develop a 100-seat passenger aircraft.

The third step is to design and manufacture a 180-seat mainline airliner.

The ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel, McDonnell Douglas was merged by Boeing, and the cooperation with McDonnell Douglas was terminated.

As for cooperation and joint research and development with foreign countries, that is even more taken for granted.

In 94, the higher authorities allocated 10 billion yuan to cooperate with Airbus to develop a 100-seat AE100 passenger aircraft. However, Airbus has put forward an unattainable price, the technology transfer fee is 1.8 billion US dollars, and even the first flight will be made every time it is negotiated.

On the one hand, they said that there was no market for this airliner, so they turned around and walked away, and then announced their regional aircraft plans at the Farnborough Airshow.

The second step is not, the third step is not to go, the aviation industry in the East has entered the darkest moment, seeing that the domestic civil aviation market has begun to blow out, but can only spend huge sums of money to procure, the sky of the East, only Boeing and Airbus remain.

And now, it is the most suitable opportunity, when Airbus develops, how can they support the Eastern aviation industry to be their opponent.

Now, according to McDonnell Douglas's cooperation method, the factory is ours, the technology is Airbus's, and Airbus is just equivalent to selling the plane, and we are responsible for assembling it!

This step is necessary, after all, the Pacific Group has no experience in manufacturing aircraft, and there is no experience in manufacturing large passenger planes in China, and if you start from scratch, you will definitely waste a lot of time and may make detours.

As long as you assemble a few passenger planes in your own hands, the technology will be learned, and there may still be problems with the source of many parts, but the aircraft shell can be built, and it can be synchronized with the Western world.

Richard's eyes rolled: "It's okay to use the McDonnell Douglas 82 assembly method, but the cooperative project has to be replaced with the A320. Moreover, you need to buy at least fifty A320s, and these airliners can be assembled in your aircraft factory." ”

Now the unsalable is the Airbus A320, even if Air France purchases it itself, it is only a single digit, if the East can purchase fifty aircraft, then it will open up sales!

Qin Feng frowned: "Fifty is too much, and five is about the same." We can't afford to eat so many planes at Kunpeng Airlines. ”

Don't look at Qin Feng's embarrassment on the surface, his heart is happy, he can get in touch with the A320 at once, the factory is his own, and the French can't point fingers, as for fifty planes? It's definitely pediatric.

You must know that in later generations, the total number of A320s in China exceeded 1,200! There are more than 500 upgraded A321s, and the total number of domestic Airbus aircraft is more than 2,000.

The production line was taken by itself, and in the future, the first month of the building near the water, the Airbus aircraft needed in China must be purchased from their own side, and that is a hen that can lay eggs! The French are sending money to themselves.

"Mr. Qin, only large-scale production will have a high enough benefit, if only five planes are produced, the cost is too high, it is not cost-effective at all, fifty planes is not much." Casey also reacted and quickly echoed.

A300, A310 can still be sold for money, of course, it will be produced in a French factory, A320 can be sold in the future, I don't know at all, in case this project fails, it will be good to pit the Orientals, and assemble A320 here in the East!

"As long as you promise to purchase fifty aircraft, then we will use Jincheng as the main production plant of A320 in the future, and the A320 ordered by you in the East will be produced here!" Richard followed.

This is actually to let Qin Feng and them help sell, and when Kunpeng Airlines' A320 production is completed in the future, the production plant is vacated, isn't it a waste? At that time, Qin Feng will definitely need to sell hard and sell the Airbus A320 to their domestic airlines.

This is equivalent to expanding sales for Airbus.

Now, all the French are looking at Qin Feng with expectant eyes, as long as Qin Feng nods, the future of Airbus A320 is there!

"We can only pay for five firsts at most." Qin Feng said: "For follow-up orders, we can sign the contract first, but when these five are put into operation, we have more money to purchase more aircraft, of course, the price cannot be changed." We can sign an order of intent for forty-five aircraft. ”

"No problem!" Richard nodded at the moment, at least achieved a breakthrough of zero, and after going back, he could declare in a high-profile manner that Dongfang had taken a fancy to the Airbus A320 and bought fifty planes, and the intended order was also an order!

"Okay, then a toast to our happy cooperation!"

The intention of cooperation has finally been reached! Everyone was happy and raised their glasses: "Here, cheers!" ”

The banquet was lively until late at night, and while sitting in the car returning to the hotel, Casey spoke: "The Orientals can only assemble the airframe, avionics and engines, and they still need to be purchased from us, so that they can be controlled by us. ”

"That's natural, didn't they say, according to the McDonnell Douglas 82 airliner project? They are just riveting, the real core is still in the hands of McDonnell Douglas, and our airliners, of course, are also in our hands! Richard nodded, he had already thought about it.

Here, Ma Lao and the others did not go back, and held a meeting late at night.

"Today is just the intention, tomorrow it will be a formal negotiation." Ma Lao spoke: "We will definitely ask for more conditions in the negotiations, and the engines and avionics must be in our hands!" ”

Qin Feng shook his head with a smile: "That will definitely collapse." ”

"If the talk collapses, we have to talk about it, after all, without avionics and engines, we just build a shell, and they will pinch the lifeblood in the future!" Ma Lao is very determined.

"The engine thing, in another year or two, we will be able to solve it." Qin Feng said: "Anyway, they Airbus don't produce engines. ”

Aircraft factories do not produce engines, need to rely on engine manufacturers to provide, back then, a big reason for the transport of ten horses, is that the engine problem can not be solved, the horse is always deeply touched, if they can not have a qualified engine, then their own passenger aircraft is a castle in the air.

However, Qin Feng has a plan, as a reborn, he knows a lot of historical trends, this is his biggest golden finger!

The Airbus A320 uses engines produced by International Aero Engines, which was established in 1983 by Pratt & Whitney of the United States, Rolls-Royce of the United Kingdom, ISH Aero Engines and MTU Aero Engines of Germany, and takes the route of international cooperation.

The V2500 engine developed by the company has reached the world's advanced level, and is not only used in the Airbus A320, but also in the McDonnell Douglas 90.

Of course, Airbus also matches CFM-56, depending on the customer's situation.

Rolls-Royce is one of them, and it plays an important role in it.

When the Red Empire collapsed, the imminent threat disappeared, various companies began to lay off employees, and the British economy was sluggish, and Rolls-Royce directly laid off 3,000 people in 91.

It's tragic that so many people have lost their jobs, and there are quite a few engine specialists among them!

At that time, if you get the British, Lao Maozi experts, you still can't get our engine?

As for avionics, don't worry, our processors are already available, and others will be available.

The only problem is money, so next, we still have to find a way to make money!