Chapter 212 You can’t do it, but we can do it!
"Chang Gong wants to direct the personnel appointments of Finmeccanica Group?"
Liang Shaoxiu asked with a smile.
“I’m serious.”
Chang Haonan answered in a very calm tone.
The atmosphere in the carriage also became serious, and everyone focused their attention on him again, ready to hear what advice he would have:
"It seems that during the cooperation process, if he comes forward, We can consider making some concessions on non-core issues, and if it is someone else, we can stick to the conditions, so that when there is further cooperation in the future, we can also occupy some advantageous positions."
< br>"As for our old friend Colombo himself, because he has been promoted and raised on the bonuses we gave him, his foundation lies in the cooperation project with China. When it comes time to choose a partner, Even if he only considers his own interests, he will lean towards us, just like this time."
After saying this, the people in the car basically showed understanding expressions.
Everyone is in a mixed system, so they naturally understand this routine. Even if they have never used it, they have at least seen it before.
It's just that no one has thought of using the same method on foreigners in the past.
Of course, from another perspective, the bargaining chips in China's hands were really limited before, and there were no opportunities for true technical cooperation. The so-called "cooperation" was essentially exchanging money for Technology does not have much initiative.
Huai Guomo did not participate in the discussion just now, but looked at Chang Haonan not far behind him from the corner of his eye.
Before setting off on this trip, he had heard this name many times from his old superior Ding Gaoheng, as well as some things related to the latter.
However, at that time, Huai Guomo paid more attention to Chang Haonan on the technical level, thinking that he should be an engineering genius. This time, he specially invited the latter here because of the upcoming work. The negotiations involve a large number of issues related to anti-icing and de-icing, which require professional attention.
But after actually meeting the other person today, and after Yi Yuanhe's reminder just now, he realized that although this student-looking junior was young, his vision, or overall view, was very vicious, and his character was also very mature.
This can be seen from Chang Haonan's layout in the past year.
As a technical genius who had little influence at first, he did not rush to express his determination and shout slogans as soon as he came up. Instead, he worked step by step, allowing his superiors to first see the possibility of independently developing the aviation industry system, and then The need for this work was demonstrated in the case of the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger.
The subsequent development was a matter of course.
Looking at it this way, the entire Science and Technology Commission seems to be in his scheme...
It wasn't until the convoy arrived at its destination that Huai Guomo, whose thinking had completely changed, ended his brainstorming.
He came to a conclusion:
Chang Haonan should also be involved in the negotiation process.
After getting off the car, Huai Guomo immediately made this request to Chang Haonan.
And this is exactly the arrangement that Chang Haonan himself hoped for.
...
The first round of negotiations was scheduled for the afternoon of that day.
Chang Haonan temporarily borrowed a suit and followed the Chinese negotiating team at the back.
Rossi Colombo, the only person who had ever had a chance encounter with him, was a representative of the Finmeccanica Group. Naturally, he would not focus too much on a person in the corner of the negotiation table.
Besides, it doesn’t matter if you are recognized.
When negotiating technical cooperation, I will bring a technical person with me. Is that reasonable?
In short, this is how the first formal contact between the two parties began.
Generally speaking, both parties do not expect to achieve any breakthrough results in the first round of negotiations. They mainly want to get familiar with each other and reveal some specific information.
Sometimes some verbal quarrels will be added to establish the tone of the negotiation.
Soon, Chang Haonan got and guessed a lot of the news he wanted from the few words expressed by the other party.
To put it simply, the core reason why Europeans are so easy to talk to this time is because of the pressure from the United States.
The so-called pilot’s deliberate collision was completely a smoke bomb used to confuse the media. In fact, within a few days after the accident, investigators suspected that the problem of ice on the wings caused by weather factors.
This is quite critical for the European aviation industry.
About two years ago, in 1994, American Eagle Flight 4148 crashed into Chicago O'Hare International Airport while circling for landing in an attitude almost exactly the same as this accident. nearby.
The accident model happened to be the Italian-French joint venture ATR72. The cause of the accident given by the FAA was that the average diameter of supercooled water droplets in the area at that time exceeded 100 microns, and the largest was even 2 millimeters, which far exceeded the standards and requirements related to icing and anti-icing in existing standards.
As a result, the flight encountered sudden formation of supercooled clouds and water droplets during flight, and a mixture of rough ice and clear ice was produced on the fuselage.
The expansion de-icing device on the ATR72 aircraft was completely incapable of dealing with this level of ice accumulation, but the pilot did not know this. Instead, he opened the flaps according to the normal procedure and prepared to lower the nose of the aircraft for landing.
The following plot is closer to those crashed Y8s in China.
The aircraft, which was already close to its limit, lost its balance due to this action of lowering the flaps and fell to the ground.
Obviously, although there has not yet been a formal investigation report on the EMB120 air crash, considering that this aircraft, like the ATR42, uses expansion de-icing as the main de-icing method, I am afraid the results will be similar.
And this is where the FAA gets into trouble.
Two air crashes caused by supercooled large water droplets (SLD) icing weather conditions occurred intensively within three years. Obviously, they can no longer be regarded as small-probability events.
Therefore, the FAA proposed to update the part of its airworthiness certification standards related to anti-icing, which is Appendix C of FAR-25, to add conditions for mixed icing of freezing fog/rain and ice crystals & supercooled water droplets. , which is the content of the examination and approval of the droplet diameter of 100 microns.
At this time when public attention is extremely high, the reason for using aviation safety, a big stick full of accuracy, is naturally not just because the FAA is kind-hearted.
As far as the field of aircraft icing is concerned, regardless of theory or engineering, Americans have always been far ahead of the world (at least before), relying on the advantageous climatic conditions of the Great Lakes region.
As for the new conditions they proposed this time, European aviation companies would not have time to study them on their own.
Even JAA (the predecessor of EASA) has difficulty in conducting independent review.
Once the standards are passed, the entire European aviation industry will be subject to the FAA in this regard for at least a few years.
The condition proposed by the United States is that if the EU can approve the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, they will suspend the proposal of this amendment.
Faced with this kind of card-making game, the EU, which is still ambitious today, is naturally unwilling to give in.
But there seems to be no good way to deal with it.
At this time when everyone was at a loss, Rosie Colombo, who had just been promoted to the parent company, told about his experience in participating in the natural icing test flight, and said that China’s Golden State University has a deep understanding of this aspect. Through research, it has even been able to stably track qualified meteorological conditions and conduct airworthiness certification.
That’s why this negotiation took place.
The conditions proposed by the European representatives are that considering that both parties have the same interests in the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger, they hope that China’s CAAC can work with the JAA to delay the amendments proposed by the FAA and Establish a joint laboratory to study ice accumulation and anti-icing methods of supercooled droplets with a diameter of 100 microns under climate conditions.
Chang Haonan immediately laughed at this generally accepted condition.
As for "joint research", no matter how good you are, just join us in research. Why don't you just say that you want to get the research results for free?
As for the condition of joining forces to delay the FAA, it is fair, but also stupid.
The world's attention on air crashes has not yet passed. Aviation safety is political correctness. Playing the devil's advocate at this time will undoubtedly have a negative impact on the public relations image.
Of course, this is a negotiation scene after all, and it cannot be unorganized or undisciplined, so Chang Haonan wrote a note with his thoughts and handed it to Huai Guomo, who was sitting in the middle of his negotiating table, and quickly got the answer. Speech cues.
"We believe that instead of delaying the revised standards proposed by the FAA, it is better to focus on customers. Since they want to conduct research on the 100 micron level, we will get there in one step and directly propose to conduct anti-icing research and airworthiness certification under SLD climate conditions!"
When Colombo on the opposite side saw Chang Haonan's face, he was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes widened suddenly as he apparently remembered his identity.
"SLD climate conditions?"
The representative sent by JAA is called Anne Valette. At this time, she was looking at Chang Haonan with a slight frown:
"SLD The research object of the conditions is an order of magnitude higher, reaching the millimeter level. There is no technical reserve in this area. Have you ever considered how the FAA will respond if it is not scared back? "
Obviously, she thought Chang Haonan meant to bluff.
However, it is not.
"Ms. Valette, strictly speaking, you don't have SLD-related technical reserves, but we do."
Chang Haonan sat up straight and said slowly.
(End of this chapter)