Chapter 1023: People sit at home, and life comes from the sky
Tens of thousands of pounds per year, this investment is not even a drop in the bucket for aviation research...
It is not even a drop in the bucket.
At most it is equivalent to sneezing.
Even if Mr. Chang was brought here from China, he would have to say that I can't do the job.
So in fact, no one expects Ciro Company to actually use the money to conduct scientific research.
The actual use is closer to public relations funds——
Just find a few influential people in China to cooperate, do some feasibility reports or market research, and send the money out. , just treat it as a relationship...
At the beginning of the 21st century, the exchange rate of the pound is still relatively strong.
Converting it into RMB, although it is not much, it is absolutely clean white money after all, which is still somewhat attractive.
Therefore, Norris's answer is a mixed blessing for everyone.
What is worrying is that the situation is a bit embarrassing now -
But the senior management of the group does not understand aviation development.
But they understand financial statements.
If you want to say that this technology was jointly developed by Ciro Company and Huaxia, then when others look at it, they will find that tens of thousands of pounds per year can produce such a big job.
When I apply for project funding in the future, it will be difficult to ask for figures in the tens of millions or hundreds of millions.
Who else understands the urinary nature of capitalists better than the British?
If you overfulfill the task today, it will directly become a KPI tomorrow.
As for Xi...
After all, there is still some room for maneuver and the road is not completely blocked.
"Who is the person in charge of Ciro Company?"
Tim Bodie asked.
“George Brin, and Adam Whittle.”
This kind of thing is more familiar to Norris, who is also a middle-level executive:
"Among them, Brin once served as the representative of the office in Brazil. As for Whittle, he seems to be an engineer..."
"I have an impression of this man."
Lapworth suddenly interjected:
"When the RB211-535E4 was upgraded, he seemed to be in charge of the fuel oil system. Later, something happened to this part during the test, and the plane almost crashed and everyone was killed..."
Obviously, the reason why Whittle impressed him deeply was not because of any glorious things.
"Uh..."
Norris found the right opportunity and quickly interrupted this suspected behavior of settling old scores:
"In short...he was first sent to China because China introduced our Spey MK202 engine... …”
At this moment, everyone suddenly showed an expression of realization——
They were sent there.
But in the blink of an eye, I couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Just less than ten years ago, the so-called "technical exchange" between China and the United Kingdom consisted of buying completely outdated and even second-hand equipment and technology from the latter.
Now, the situation has reversed. A group of Britain's top aerospace engineers are considering how to quietly cooperate with the Chinese to defeat their opponents from North America.
Under the mixed feelings, the situation turned out to be a bit cold.
“Alas——”
In the end, thousands of words converged into a sigh from Lapworth’s mouth:
"Anyway, let's contact Ciro Company first..."
"If Sibei's technology transfer and improvement project had not been completed, we might be able to find some financial loopholes. ..."
As the discussion came to an end, everyone left the suite that belonged to Bodi one after another.
"Professor, please stay."
Pody called from behind Professor Elinor who was packing his things and about to get up.
The latter stopped what he was doing and raised his head, with some questions in his eyes.
"I remember you mentioned just now that the SeA650 is equipped with a permanent magnet fault-tolerant power generation system..."
Bodi said and sat on another sofa next to him:
"Are you sure it's the technology we know..."
"Judging from their description, it should be."
Elinor nodded.
Then without waiting for the other party to speak again, he said bluntly:
“But if you want to obtain this technology through pure cooperation or introduction, I can only be pessimistic.”
Podi was not embarrassed when his idea was seen through, he just asked:
"Why?"
Elinor smiled, obviously very confident in his judgment:
"The Chinese people should not set up any obstacles to technology transfer, or at least cooperation... But are you sure the Americans are willing to cooperate with them? Do you use Chinese subsystems in your air force equipment?"
However, Bodi's reaction was a sneer:
"Huh... just like before, don't let the Americans know. That’s it?”
Although Elinor did not reveal the source of this technology at first, he had already guessed it.
So I didn’t feel particularly shocked by this. Instead, I directly drew inferences:
“Just say that we developed it and then outsourced it... Anyway, now Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney have been replaced by the F35 I'm so exhausted with F135 that I don't care about these details..."
In one sentence, the classical Professor Elinor can't do it.
“…”
He stammered for a long time, not thinking about what he should say at this time. In the end I had to scratch my head:
"Then if that's the case...you can really give it a try..."
"But I have to remind you that the rotor support system is very important in aerospace engines. If you want to entrust others For development, you have to hand over part of the F135 data..."
Although Bodi showed no fear just now, he couldn't help but hesitate a little after hearing this sentence.
Both business and technical issues are easy to discuss.
But this matter may involve security aspects...
The long-arm jurisdiction of the Americans is quite scary.
Especially when he is still in the UK.
It’s even more scary.
"I'd better think about it again..."
...
The other side.
When the air show ended and Liu Yongquan finished his entire trip and returned to China, it was already three days later.
The harvest from this business trip can be said to be fruitful.
Therefore, he didn't even care about rest and jet lag. After getting off the plane, he went straight to the headquarters of the Aviation Power Group.
In fact, if he came back two days early, he wouldn't even see Chang Haonan -
The latter had just returned to the capital from the testing site in western Mongolia Province the afternoon before, which happened to be the first day of rework...< br>
“Old Liu?”
When Chang Haonan came back from lunch, he unexpectedly saw the dusty Liu Yongquan at the door of the office:
“Didn’t you just come back from France? ? Don’t be so anxious about the business trip report. Anyway, there won’t be any big mistakes with SeA650..."
He said as he took out the key and opened the door.
"Uh...I haven't started to sort out the business trip report yet."
Liu Yongquan took a deep breath, cheered up and followed Chang Haonan in:
"It's another I think one thing is important, so I’ll tell you in advance.”
Chang Haonan, who was entering his password, immediately became interested:
"Elaborate."
He can still trust Liu Yongquan's judgment ability.
“This time when we took a full-scale model of the SeA650 to the European Business Aviation Show, we met a group of engineers from Rolls-Royce.”
< br>“Although the person did not clearly state his purpose of coming, he just pretended to be an ordinary customer attending the meeting and asked us some questions about engine performance, but I judged that the other party may be interested in some of our technologies...”
< br>In fact, this is a pure mistake.
Professor Elinor's personal "interest" in SeA650 is purely out of curiosity as a scientific researcher.
As for the plan to cooperate with China, that was an idea that came later, and it has nothing to do with Elinor...
"Our technology..."
Chang Hao Nan came to the conclusion only after a short period of thinking:
“At the level of Rolls-Royce, I’m afraid I can’t quite appreciate the overall design of the SeA650…”
"Then only the permanent magnet fault-tolerant power generation system and film cooling technology are left?"
"That's right."
Liu Yongquan's tired face showed unconcealable excitement:< br>
“That person stayed in these two parts for a particularly long time, and asked a lot of questions.”
“And I think they should be very anxious, I am afraid they will talk to us soon Get in touch.”
"You didn't show it on purpose, right?"
Chang Haonan was a little suspicious.
Mainly because he thought about it for a while, but he really couldn't remember which project of Luo Luo was in trouble at this time——
He knew that EJ200 had a hidden disease, but that was The earliest structural design of the pot.
The rest of the models seemed to have been completed step by step in the previous life.
"No."
Liu Yongquan's attitude was very positive:
"Their behavior at the scene was actually very normal, but the questions they asked were all based on the normal civil aviation development conference. Design information.”
“If you are not in a hurry with these things, just keep paying attention to the publicity from Snecma and Dassault. There is no need to go to Switzerland...”
This explanation is well-founded and convincing.
Chang Haonan dragged his chin with one hand and tapped lightly on the table with the other hand:
"If this is true, then the British will most likely test us through the Siro Company soon. "
"However, Comrade Yongquan"
He paused for a moment, looked at Liu Yongquan opposite, and at the same time put on a rather formal tone:
"No matter in the end In what form and name, if the cooperation is reached, then considering the actual situation of Xiro Company, there is a high probability that it will be handed over to Haofa Group to be actually responsible. You must be mentally prepared for this. "
"Hey...Mr. Chang, I still have this overall perspective."
Liu Yongquan acted quite indifferent:
"The various units under our group are like a rope... Ahem - that's a win-win situation, no matter who it is handed over to, the whole group will benefit."
"Besides, even if the project is handed over to the Haofa Group, people who are familiar with these two technologies will also benefit. It's all with us..."
Chang Haonan was still very satisfied with this statement.
The road is widened.
Of course, he just nodded on the surface:
"After you go back, you really have to select some good seedlings who have participated in the SeA650 project and send them to fly for a while, and maybe even One or two will just stay there.”
“However, we don’t just want you to contribute... Luoluo’s family is very rich, and they have a lot of projects under development, whether it is a turbofan or something. Turboprops are all the most advanced models in their respective categories, so cooperating with them is also an opportunity for us to learn and communicate..."
(End of this chapter)