Chapter 1603: Boeing into a desperate situation (first update, please subscribe)
"Your Excellency, are you saying that Washington will attack us?"
Lin Kangwei frowned. "This, it seems unlikely. After all, it's just commercial competition."
The United States never relaxes its blow to its competitors!
No matter whether this competitor is from an enemy or an ally!
Li Yian has always been very clear about this.
But many people don't realize this at the moment. This is exactly what they are naive. They actually think that business competition is just competition.
"Because now is the golden age of the United States. At this time, the United States is still considering face. But it is uncertain in the future."
When will it be in the future? Of course it was the oil crisis a few years later.
Although the layout has finally completely erased Saudi Arabia from the world, Borneo Oil Company and Afghan Petroleum Company hold the oil fields that once belonged to Saudi Arabia.
However, the establishment of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is inevitable.
Both Iran and Iraq, they hope to gain a certain degree of oil autonomy and increase their own oil revenue.
And as a member of the oil-producing countries, or as the holder of the Persian Gulf and Libyan oil fields, Li Yian does not oppose the price increase of oil to a certain extent.
After all, for yourself, it is a process of turning left hand into right hand.
Moreover, from the perspective of developing Iran and Iraq, rising oil prices are also conducive to the development of the economies of both countries.
Of course, the only problem is that the Soviet Union - the Soviet Union will receive more petrodollars in the process.
This is the headache.
In fact, in the Occupy Oil Crisis, there is another role that has been ignored - the United States!
As the world's largest oil-producing country, what role did the United States play in that oil crisis?
What was the situation facing the United States at that time? Huge war expenses and the established task of protecting Western Europe have become the two major helpers to accelerate the depreciation of US inflation. As a result, before the US military completely withdrew from Vietnam, it was forced to end the Bretton Woods system.
The collapse of the Bretton Woods system has caused the expansion of the US dollar to be impacted. The Soviet Union needed the petrodollar to ease economic pressure, and the United States did not need the petrodollar to help the United States complete its economic transformation.
In this case, the US dollar needs a new anchor.
And that oil crisis happened just right.
When many gas stations hung signs without fuel, and when angry people began to take to the streets.
Politicians from Europe and the United States also need to deal with multiple tortures from domestic and foreign entrepreneurs, financial oligarchs and ambassadors of allied countries, and the form is very passive. The whole world seems to have seen the end of the Western world and has never felt the importance of oil resources so deeply.
It is during this crisis that the US dollar and oil are deeply bound together. After that, the oil dollar appeared on the earth, laying the groundwork for the infinite expansion of the US dollar.
As long as humans cannot live without oil for a day, the US dollar will be in a strong position around the world.
Li Yian is not a conspirator.
However, he believes that the United States will definitely play a role in fueling the oil crisis, otherwise how could the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries tie the US dollar and oil together?
There may not be any conspiracy in this world, but there must be some deliberate plans to plan something. In other words, even if you try every means to prevent the oil crisis from happening, the United States will make all this happen at the right time.
After all, the world needs to realize the importance of oil, so as to tie the US dollar and oil deeply together.
Of course it's too early to say all this. The entire 1970s was the most painful era in the United States after the war, and the golden age that lasted for more than 20 years after the war was declared to be over. The economy is in a long-term depression.
In this case, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still flesh. The foreign aviation industry, which could be tolerated in the golden age, will become a thorn in their side.
Because he knew what would happen in the future, Li Yian started to make an advance arrangement and said: "As the most important member of the US military-industrial complex, Boeing's influence in Washington is difficult for foreign companies to reach. , It is precisely because of this that the United States has specially issued laws to protect its own aviation industry.
While protecting, trade conflicts in the fields of aviation and other parties have always been an inevitable problem.
>In this case, creating a targeted competitive product will only further be based on the competitive deterioration relationship. In this case, um..."
Li Yian said: >
"I don't think this is a good choice."
"This... Your Excellency, are we going to give up the aviation market for the sake of Americans' feelings? Or sacrifice our own aviation industry."
Lin Kangwei's tone became a little excited.
"Sacrificing its own aviation industry for the sake of the United States?"
Li Yian shook his head and said:
"How is this possible? The first thing we consider is our own interests.
Compared with 4-engine heavy aircraft, I think we should engage in differentiated competition."
"Differential competition? ”
Lin Kangwei looked at your Excellency with some confusion.
"Wait a minute, are you talking about supersonic planes?"
The reason why Lin Kangwei mentioned supersonic aircraft is because it is now the hottest topic in the world.
Although c707 has made transoceanic travel in hours, people still feel that this is too slow. There is a desperate need for a supersonic airliner to meet travel between continents of Europe and America. Although everyone knows that developing a supersonic passenger aircraft requires a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, aviation experts from both the United States, Europe or the Soviet Union have no doubt that supersonic passenger aircraft must be the future development direction. .
When countries around the world bet on supersonic passenger planes, Borneo Aviation Industry Corporation did not fully participate in the competition. Instead, it launched the world's first supersonic business aircraft - Global Express - .
It's an airplane that just serves the rich. As for ordinary people, they basically have no chance to make such supersonic aircraft.
Now that you mentioned differentiated competition, it must be a supersonic passenger plane in Lin Kangwei's opinion.
Shaking his head, Li Yian said: "No matter how outstanding the supersonic aircraft is, in the end he is just a thing for rich people. Whether it is now or for aviation, it is not the patent of rich people, but the way for general public travel. What we need is a wide-body passenger aircraft that can deal with the impact of Boeing aircraft. "
When Li Yian mentioned the wide-body aircraft, he naturally thought of the success of Airbus.
"The 200-seat 707 aircraft has no advantage in front of 400-seat aircraft. Therefore, theoretically speaking, such large aircraft with a capacity of more than 400-seats does have a very large market. Future.
But we must note that airports that can take off and land large aircraft are very limited. At least for now, only a few hub airports can take off and land large aircraft such as those. "
When pointing out this point, Li Yian naturally thought of the failure of a380 later.
It is true that the A380 has a large passenger capacity and the fuel consumption per person is more economical. However, the time and fuel economic costs brought about by frequent transits in the domestic waypoint-intercontinental hub-intercontinental hub-domestic waypoint transportation model are ignored. Finally, when a large number of airlines used B787, B777, A350, and A330 long-range wide-body passenger planes to open international routes from second-tier cities-intercontinental hubs/second-tier cities, the competitive advantage of A380 disappeared...
This has a lot to do with technological progress, especially engine technology. However, at present, BMW's engine technology is still very advanced. Even if there is a certain gap, it is necessary to carry out appropriate technical research. It is very realistic to develop a dual-engine long-range passenger plane that can meet the Airbus A330. After all, it is a flight from the 1980s. Technically speaking, it is not impossible to launch this aircraft in the next decade.
Thinking of this, Li Yian said:
"What we need is a twin-engine jet passenger aircraft with a long range and a large passenger capacity."
"What!"
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Lin Kangwei said in a little shocked manner.
"Now, even the boldest designers designed a three-engine passenger plane. Once one engine fails, they can still land in the airport with two engines." br>
This is also the fundamental reason for the popularity of three-engine jets. Compared with four-engine aircraft, it has one less engine and the cost has been reduced a lot.
But that's it.
After all, two engines are more cost-effective. This is also the fundamental reason why twin-engine aircraft became the mainstream of commercial aviation later.
There is no other reason, it’s because of saving money.
Li Yian said in response to such doubts.
"So so far, has there been a passenger plane that has an engine stopped working when it is flying in the air?"
Your replies made Lin Kangwei silent for a while and said.
"There should be no such case."
There is indeed no such case, because all engines will undergo a long experiment before they are put into use. In addition to durability experiments, they also There are experiments under various harsh working conditions. Because of sufficient experiments, the failure-free service life of the aircraft engine is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Moreover, before each takeoff, the ground crew will conduct the engine and Its strict inspection.
It is precisely because of this kind of software and hardware that the failure rate of aircraft engines is very low.
"Isn't that all? A twin-engine wide-body passenger plane must have a natural economic advantage over a three-engine or four-engine wide-body passenger plane.
I think we can focus on the double-engine wide-body passenger plane as a passenger plane. In terms of future aviation industry development, are the market, long-range and intercontinental aircraft the world?
Intercontinental navigation does not necessarily mean flying to hub cities. You can also fly directly to those second-tier cities City, such direct routes are more popular in the market.
And, the larger the aircraft, the less occupancy rate. After all, there are so many seats there, and you want to fill the guests. It is not easy to do. Considering these factors, I think we should still develop dual-engine long-range wide-body passenger aircraft."
Then, Li Yian said with a smile.
"And this aircraft is our killer weapon for market competition. We can use this dual-engine wide-body long-range passenger plane that can fly intercontinental missions to give Boeing the most fatal blow.
When they put all the chips When they were all pressed on large hub aircraft, they launched a smaller size and less passenger capacity, but the itinerary was similar to that of many sub-aircraft landings at ordinary airports, and used their flexibility to attract the market.
The market will eventually make a choice.
The design and development of aircraft are all around the market. We only need to find the right market positioning and we will definitely win this competition. ”
Double-engine, wide-body, remote...
For Lin Kangwei, he didn't expect that this trip to the official residence would have these benefits.
These pointed out by you completely subverts the current design concept in the aviation field, but is this really the future?
Because of some doubts, Lin Kangwei did not directly agree with your opinion, but said that he would conduct research on this aspect with the company's marketing department and technical department after he returned.
Li Yian didn't care about this, after all, companies always have their autonomy.
If they study in depth, they will find the market potential of such wide-body aircraft.
It’s not just the market potential, they may even become monopolists in the market, just like another world.
In the end, long-range wide-body passenger planes such as B787, B777, A350, and A330 eliminated the A380 and the Boeing 747 were eliminated.
Maybe its size is not large enough, but it has a wider range of uses and more flexible use, which is its biggest advantage.
If Aviation Industries can now launch a similar aircraft, will there be a chance to eliminate Boeing?
Li Yian didn't know.
Just like he initially founded the Aviation Industry Corporation, he initially wanted to develop the aviation manufacturing industry and wanted to share a piece of fat in the civil aviation market.
At that time, the C717 knocked on the door to the era of civil jet passenger aircraft, allowing engineers to think for the first time how to reduce R&D costs by using existing designs and introducing the nose and cockpit of comets.
How to reduce the difficulty of aircraft manufacturing through international procurement, how to learn from existing aircraft's shortcomings and make up for their weaknesses, how to increase sales through marketing in the test flight stage, how to open up blank markets through more accurate product positioning, and how to design a They finally handed over a very good answer.
The answer sheet is that Borneo Aviation Industry Corporation has become the second in the world, so now there is only one question left - when will it become the first in the world!
But he knew very well that the next decade would be extremely painful for Boeing.
In fact, what does Li Yian want to see?
It is to force Boeing to the end! Even destroy it!
(This chapter ends)