Xiao Zhen did not rest after returning to Shanghai as time was too tight. He packed his luggage and immediately went to Huamei Aerospace on Chongming Island.
After spending US$3.5 billion on global public relations, China Aerospace's new 450-seat wide-body passenger aircraft CM949 obtained its international airworthiness certificate before the Spring Festival. It was not easy. The previous 919 only spent US$690 million on public relations.
This is really not inflation. It has only been a few years. Even if it increases, it won’t be this exaggerated. Of course, there will be more exaggerated ones in the future.
What is the main reason? This is of course entering the deep waters of the civil aviation large aircraft project. Boeing is one of the few players in this level in the world, followed by Airbus, and then Huamei Aerospace.
Russia's Il-series aircraft can barely reach the required passenger capacity, but due to its outdated avionics system and incompatibility with international aviation standards, the Il-series market is very narrow.
Brazil's Bombardier can only be considered a regional airliner and private general aviation aircraft. This is why the country has no trump card and cannot get on the table.
Huamei Aerospace's CM949 was originally planned to be the 939, but after a thorough market investigation, 300 seats were deemed inadequate. International airlines are planning to purchase more wide-body aircraft with more than 400 seats that can carry more passengers, have a longer flight distance, and be more fuel-efficient. The spacious version of the 949 has 450 seats, while the compact version can carry 520 seats.
For safety reasons, Huamei Aerospace has designed a safety setting with 4 main engines and 2 auxiliary engines. Normally, the auxiliary engines are turned off.
Once the main engine fails, the auxiliary engine will immediately take over and the aircraft can cruise for 1,000 kilometers, greatly increasing safety.
The auxiliary engine also uses a full protective shell so that birds cannot hit it. The composite shell will be automatically discarded when the auxiliary engine is started.
Compared with the same-level engines of Boeing, Airbus and Il, the new engine saves 15%-26% of fuel. This is another market competitive trump card for Huamei Aerospace's wide-body passenger aircraft.
On average, it is US$15 million to US$30 million cheaper than the overall price of wide-body aircraft on the market or in pre-research, and the gross profit of an order of 100 aircraft is much higher than that of competitors.
By the end of February, China Aerospace had received 65 overseas orders for its CM949 wide-body aircraft. Of course, China gave priority to purchasing the 949 aircraft, but some airlines also purchased from the other two countries. However, the senior executives of these airlines were investigated one after another.
After Xiao Zhen arrived at Huamei Aerospace and listened to the report, he asked them to continue their efforts and of course also issued a round of 949 bonuses.
Xiao Zhen asked Huamei General Aviation Company to fly a 911 medical helicopter to his hometown. Of course, Xiao Zhen paid the fee out of pocket. The money was pooled by several brothers and sisters.
After Xiao Zhen arranged the M911 helicopter, he went to watch an ordinary warm-up match between the People's War God Club and the same city's Shenhua.
The People's Team is extremely strong. They have never lost the championship since the first A-level league. This year they are aiming for 11 consecutive championships. They are ridiculously strong.
Many Japanese and Korean players like to come to the Shanghai Baixing Ares team for a transition season or two, which is a shortcut to entering the European arena.
Those with good talents can go directly to Liverpool and Parma, while those with less talent can be arranged to try out in other teams.
Half of the current national team players are from the People's Ares Football Team or have served in the People's Ares. Players who have landed in Europe account for more than 80%.
Players who have experience playing for the People's Team have at least graduated from a junior college. They are just like the copper-pea management and coaching team of the People's War God Club. They are not sociable or corrupt at all.
Some guys even wanted to solicit bribes to collect the threshold fees for joining the national team, but they were directly accused of soliciting bribes in Hong Kong by the luxurious legal team of the international agency to which the common people's players belonged, which resulted in a direct replacement of the association's people.
This new batch of people wanted to use tacit cooperation and refereeing techniques, so they were called to Hong Kong City again. They were replaced by another batch within two years of taking office. Later, people realized that these "copper peas" were not easy to deal with.
You will know who to provoke later. Don't provoke Baixing, Huaguang, Huamei, and Daxia. This is domestic.
The international community plays it even dirtier and more thoroughly. UEFA has sent people to Africa, South America, and Australia to experience the lives of miners, a number that has reached the scale of two football teams.
After Xiao Zhen prepared the general aviation helicopter for his grandparents, he took the A-class car driven by Fan Dabao back to the 111th Institute of Jinshan Base.
For the rest of the time, Xiao Zhen didn't go anywhere and was immersed in the development of paint and avionics systems. It was not until around the Qingming Festival that the development was finally completed.
Subsequent environmental testing was carried out by two research teams and people sent by Lao Yang of Huangtianba.
The rest of the people joined the Beidou core algorithm team and worked on the development of space interference and anti-interference equipment.
Time slowly passed to May, and Director Zhang notified the six people from Institute 111 to go to Beijing before May 3 to attend the Youth Recognition Conference.
After the two main sub-projects of the stealth project passed the review of expert groups from several ministries, the awards were also issued.
The group won the third-class merit, and several people won the second-class merit individually. The project is scheduled to win the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award at the end of September.
Xiao Zhen personally won the third-class merit award, but this guy gave the honor to his subordinates.
On May 3, Xiao Zhen and six other people from the institute flew to Beijing on his CM wide-body private jet.
The guy from Huamei Aerospace became a big boss in business and built a duplex with a swimming pool in a crazy way.
What could Xiao Zhen say? He asked his full-time assistant Mai Ziwei to transfer $510 million to the private jet department of Huamei Aerospace, and the plane cost $380 million. These guys spent their boss $130 million to pile up a bunch of things.
However, Xiao Zhen heard from Mai Ziwei that the wealthy people in the Middle East really like this kind of private wide-body passenger aircraft with a lot of money, and by the end of April, 32 private jets had been booked.
Qatar Airways was the first to order the 949 aircraft, followed by Dubai Airlines, which were all sold in bundles with Land Rover International Security.
This is how large and high-value goods are handled internationally. The large flat-top ship that Xiao Zhengtang got has been towed to the Dalyan Shipyard for more than two years.
All the ship plates used are the large flat-top special ship plates from Huaguang Heavy Industry, which are internal special versions. The international versions are all purchased by Americans from Huaguang Heavy Industry.
Huaguang Ocean is currently manufacturing the third small flat-top ship for the order. The first two were ordered by the UK and Australia respectively, and the third one is for the mainland.
"Xiao Zhen, Mr. Qi from the aerospace department wants you to take a break for half a month after the Olympics and go to help him. Do you want to go?" Director Zhang said to his capable assistant.
"Leader, I'll go wherever the organization needs me, but after my vacation I have to go to the University of Science and Technology of China to check out the Beidou project before I go to see Mr. Qi." Xiao Zhen said
"Okay, you take care of the arrangements. We must do our best at the Olympics and win honor for our country," Director Zhang said.
"I guarantee that the mission will be completed!" Xiao Zhen stood up and saluted and said...
On May 4, Xiao Zhen and six other people from the institute received the May Fourth Youth Medal. The number of Yangtze River Scholars at the 111 Institute increased by 12. Xiao Zhen heard from his mentor Tao Dapao that he would be selected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering this year or next year.
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