Chapter 945: Take out the secret weapon and put it to use
Only two days later, a cooperation invitation letter signed by Serge Dassault was sent to the Torch Group.
The content... is naturally about the design method of the high-speed airfoil part of the Falcon Z design plan.
And, not even as a supplier.
Instead, it simply and crudely increased the Torch Group, which is actually the Aerodynamic Group’s share of the entire project.
In other words, every time an aircraft is sold in the future, more money can be shared from the profits.
And, correspondingly, they will have more say.
Basically, it’s a huge benefit with no harm at all.
However, the Aviation Power Group is a central enterprise after all.
As usual, this kind of matter can only be decided after collective discussion.
Of course, it's a discussion, but there's almost no suspense about the outcome.
It is nothing more than going through the voting process and finally getting General Manager Zhu Linyu to sign.
So there was no special meeting at the group level for this matter, but it was placed directly after a regular organizational meeting on Friday afternoon.
“Comrade Haonan, I don’t have any opinion on the decision-making of this matter. I just have a question that I am just curious about...”
It took less than two minutes to complete the vote. After that, maybe he felt that it was not right to end the meeting so quickly. In short, Zhu Linyu did not announce the breakup of the meeting immediately.
Therefore, Deng Shiyou, one of the deputy general managers, took this opportunity to ask:
“This wing design should be part of the aerodynamic design, but almost all of our aviation power group’s current business revolves around aero engines. Moreover, none of the subordinate factories have experience in the overall design of aircraft..."
"Of course, I know that during the head office period, Comrade Haonan, you participated in the research and development of several aircraft models, but the Falcon After all, Z is a large-scale project that also involves communication and cooperation with foreign parties. You cannot do it alone..."
Deng Shiyou is mainly in charge of corporate logistics and subordinate non-business organization management. They work together, but he was also a draftsman in his early years, so he doesn't have a bad eye for aviation technology.
Therefore, the question asked is not outrageous.
It is indeed impossible for Chang Haonan to complete such a complicated work by himself, so he must find some helpers.
But where will the help come from, that is the question.
However, before Chang Haonan could explain, Lin Zuoming, who was sitting closest to Zhu Linyu, replied in a half-joking tone:
“Actually, when it comes to communication... maybe there is no communication. There are too many things that need to be communicated.”
While speaking, he also picked up the cooperation invitation letter on the table and waved it in the air a few times:
"According to what is said here, as long as we optimize the airfoil part according to the requirements and then hand it over to Dassault, the subsequent work, including structural design and integration with the overall aircraft, are not things we need to consider. ."
After he said this, there was a burst of laughter in the conference room -
Although the wording used by Dassault was "cooperation", at this juncture, there was a sudden burst of laughter. Anyone can understand what it means by doing this.
To put it simply.
“We rashly chose the wrong calculation tool before and ended up screwing up. Now we want to correct our mistakes, but we feel it’s a bit too late. Can you help us wipe our butts?”
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It's just that everyone is a person who cares about face, and they always have to live up to their reputation.
It is impossible to really kneel down and kowtow.
So everyone just needs to understand what is going on.
"Mr. Lin is right."
Seeing this scene, Chang Haonan followed Lin Zuoming's words and continued:
"Passenger aircraft are different from fighter jets, because there is no need to consider the issue of wing-body fusion, and the Falcon X uses a tail-mounted engine layout, so the wing is a relatively isolated element in terms of aerodynamics."
"As for Mr. Deng's question just now..."
A smile couldn't help but show on his face:
"Although our group does not have a unit specifically responsible for the overall design of aircraft, we When Torch Group was under the Academy of Sciences, we had accumulated many designers with such experience through some projects.”
“For example, we have a numerical calculation business department, and the director of this department is my senior brother. , named Liu Hongbo, who had previously been responsible for the design optimization of the wings and rotors of the MA-60 and Z-12 aircraft..."
"..."
As soon as this explanation came out, not only Deng Shiyou, but also several other people in the conference room were shocked.
Only Chang Haonan himself, and Zhu Linyu and Lin Zuoming, who knew the situation better, behaved as before.
Actually, this cannot be blamed on the other leaders being unfamiliar with the situation.
The Torch Group is different from the secondary units directly assigned to the Aerospace Power Group from the head office. It is an independent branch that "brings capital into the group".
In addition, the general manager is Chang Haonan,
so he has a high degree of autonomy in daily operations-
This time participating in the Falcon Z project is an exception.
The reason why it needs to be approved by vote is because the French directly sent the cooperation documents to the Aerospace Power Group, so an additional procedure was required.
Under normal circumstances, it is basically only necessary to report major personnel appointments and removals, as well as financial income and expenditures to the group.
By looking at only two pieces of content, it is actually difficult to determine what business a company is engaged in.
Especially like Deng Shiyou, it is even less clear if the supervisor’s work has nothing to do with the business.
From just a few words in some reports, we can roughly understand that Torch Group is an enterprise related to software development and mechanical design.
Who would have thought that there is actually a crouching tiger, hidden dragon inside.
So Deng Shiyou gave a thumbs up: "Mr. Chang, what a plan!"
"Huh?"
Although Chang Haonan has long been accustomed to all kinds of praise and exclamation, this wave still left him a little confused:
"I What's the plot?"
"Don't be humble, Mr. Chang..."
Deng Shiyou had an expression of "I have seen through everything":
"When we separated from the aviation industry, we horizontally split the subordinate organizations according to different businesses, but now it seems that often Long before the head office was split, the president had left us a backup plan outside the entire Science and Technology Commission system.”
“In this way, when we have sufficient resources on hand, we can consider reorganizing the business scope. Expand it to aircraft design..."
"It's simply far-sighted..."
Looking at Deng Shiyou, whose thinking has been completely enlightened, Chang Haonan almost spread his hands and sighed. .
"No, Mr. Deng, please wait a minute."
He quickly raised his hand to stop the other party from continuing to think:
"I really didn't think so much at the beginning, it was just to expand the business. Just make more money to revitalize the company..."
When encountering this kind of thing in the past, Chang Haonan would usually respond with an attitude of neither admitting nor denying.
Because when his personal reputation was not enough, such urban legends really helped to increase his influence.
But now, the situation is obviously different.
Especially after the last attack, Fu Youquan actually suspected that the incident was related to Chang Haonan's actions.
I have to say it is very humorous.
And it’s also a little scary.
So, it’s better to explain clearly...
...
After obtaining approval at the group level, Chang Haonan quickly approached Liu Hongbo with relevant documents and information.
“I remember that you sent me a project document a few days ago, which should be the aerodynamic design plan for this wing.”
Liu Hongbo looked at the cooperation invitation letter. Content, while shaking his head, he said in a slightly sinister voice:
“When Dassault changed the calculation tool of COMSOL before, wasn’t it very resolute, but why did it suddenly change after realizing its mistake... ”
Chang Haonan wanted to say that they didn't know they were wrong, but they knew the Falcon Z project was about to be outplayed by themselves.
But when the words came to my lips, I swallowed them back in the end.
“So this is not a return to the lost path...”
He reorganized the language slightly, and then changed the topic:
“Let’s not talk about that for now. , you find a few comrades from your department who have participated in the aircraft external flow field simulation. The time given this time is tight and the work needs to start immediately.”
Hearing what Chang Haonan said, Liu Hongbo quickly put away the smile on his face.
If Chang Haonan said that time is tight, then he must be really nervous.
Therefore, he specially opened the design description document and took a look.
"I..."
The second word that was about to blurt out was stuck back in the throat.
"Six months?"
Liu Hongbo's eyes almost bulged out:
"Why don't they go to heaven?"
"Even us, we want to do it in half a year. It’s almost impossible to complete these calculation tasks, right?”
There is no content about wind tunnel testing in Torch Group’s tasks——
This part of the work will be completed by the French themselves.
But even if we only perform flow field simulation, the research object is after all a large aspect ratio straight wing operating in the transonic range.
No one had experience designing this type of airfoil in the past.
It always takes several times, or even more trial and error.
Therefore, in Liu Hongbo's view, this time cannot be said to be tense.
It's simply not enough.
“Don’t worry, it’s not a big problem.”
Chang Haonan was sitting on the sofa in Liu Hongbo’s office, leisurely sipping the tea in the cup:
“Originally, in order to improve the competitiveness of our company’s products in the CFD field, I specially prepared a secret trump card for next year’s version 2.0 TORCH Multiphysics.”
“But now...since COMSOL There is a crotch over there, so this is a handy tool... It doesn’t hurt to take it out for you to use in advance..."
(End of this chapter)