Siheyuan: I eat melons while doing scientific research

Chapter 1134 Anxious Triangle Company (Three more chapters)

"If possible, my sir, I hope to get your generous help." The director of the Space Research Center seized this rare opportunity.

In fact, he knew very well that once this opportunity appeared, it would not disappear. After all, decisions of this level would not be changed on a whim. However, the backward technology made him somewhat worried.

"Okay, I got it. We will work hard for it." It was obvious that the Gallic man stayed with the director of the space research center for a very short time, just a few minutes. After completing the above core conversation, he ordered someone to send the director away.

After the director left, he made a phone call.

Some things may not be so mature in Europe. If we look further ahead, there may be some breakthroughs.

The people from the Delta Aircraft Company quickly arrived at the Champs-Elysées.

"Mr. President, do you think it is necessary for us to do something of our own when Citigroup is almost starting to monopolize the regional jet market?" The Gallic man was very direct.

As the helmsman of Triangle Aircraft Company, President Triangle is very interested in this.

"As far as I know, Citigroup is preparing their 727 aircraft." In fact, the famous 707 was not as successful as the 727 in sales.

Compared with the three-engine 707, the four-engine pioneer 727 still has a certain gap in areas such as fuel economy, under the premise that the total passenger capacity has not changed qualitatively. Of course, the 727 is also worse than the later 737. The final winner is the 737, and because this winner won so much, the troubles that happened in the end are another story.

President Triangle did not stop talking: "Sir, I think there is a reason why Citigroup has been constantly innovating in medium and large passenger aircraft."

Such a big cake, anyone who is not a fool would want to take a bite.

"Have you ever calculated what conditions are needed to support us on this path?"

President Triangle was overjoyed when he heard this, which meant that this man was really considering this matter.

"We considered it, sir!"

"Tell me an exact number. Don't use numbers like 'dozens' or 'hundreds'."

"We have estimated with the gentlemen from the airline company that our country needs about 80 regional jets with a capacity of about 150 passengers and a range of 1500 kilometers. The break-even point for orders for our research and production of a new type of regional jet is about 125 to 150 aircraft." It seems that Triangle Aircraft Company has already considered this matter, otherwise it would not have given such a precise number.

"Is that so... In other words, if we take into account our domestic demand, theoretically we only need 50 more orders to start our medium-sized regional jet journey in a relatively healthy manner?" The Gallic man looked at the president of Triangle with a burning gaze.

"Yes, my sir, if we can get another 50 orders, we can theoretically start our research on regional jets. This may take some time. We only have a little experience with the Falcon 20 business jet. We need some time to develop medium and large passenger aircraft." President Triangle said very objectively.

“What if it’s not just about time, but also about partners?”

President Triangle shook his head. "Partners? It's a bit difficult to find partners right now. Both John and Hans are affected by various factors. Especially John, they have the most relevant experience, but they don't seem to want to cooperate with us for the time being."

At that time, John Bull's civil aviation technology had not been suppressed so much by the Citigroups that it did not need to huddle together with its brothers in distress on the European continent. As the birthplace of the world's first jet airliner "Comet", John Bull still had its own pride and calculations.

What kind of cooperation? Isn't it good to eat alone?

Not to mention that John Bull is now tinkering with their "Trident" passenger aircraft. They still have great ambitions and have a model that is about to be completed. It is undoubtedly difficult to expect them to humble themselves and cooperate with the Gauls.

The man nodded. He was very familiar with the isolated three-island country overseas.

"What if the partner I'm talking about is not in Europe, but in the Far East?"

"Far East?" The president of Triangle didn't know that we had asked the Gauls for cooperation in passenger aircraft. The partner proposed by the Gallic man at this time directly confused him.

"The Far East? The only partner worth cooperating with in the Far East is White Bear, but that's unlikely, right? And White Bear should be a European country. As for the others... I can't think of anyone else for now..."

"No, no, no, Mr. President, have you forgotten something?" the man said with a smile.

"Forgot... Could it be the Orientals? The Lion Nation?" "Yes, don't forget. We just introduced and exchanged some technologies from them, including some related to aircraft."

As the actual executor of the introduction of fighter jet technology, the president of Triangle suddenly realized: "Ah, it is true, but that is a fighter jet, which is completely different from passenger aircraft. I admit that when we cooperated with them on industrial design software, their execution was perfect and they were a good partner, but this has nothing to do with passenger aircraft, right? Compared to fighter jets, they don't even have any source of passenger aircraft technology."

They knew very well that although the Z-7 was an excellent aircraft, its most basic technology came from the Russian MiG-19, but we did not have such good conditions for passenger aircraft.

"Sir, maybe they have relevant technology? After all, before this, we didn't consider formally cooperating with them, and we don't know the situation in the relevant field. Moreover, even if they don't have the technology, we can still cooperate with them. Don't forget, it's a vast country..."

"You mean, we want to use them to fill the remaining 50 orders? Do they have so much money?" President Triangle shrugged.

I don’t know whether they have so much money or not. I only know that I have made a lot of money from their high-tech products and consumer electronics.

"At least this is a very good potential target. If we develop certain cooperation with them, I believe that with the habits of Oriental people, this market will be hard to snatch away by Citigroup or even White Bear."

Orientals want to acquire technology, so as long as they have the relevant capabilities, they will no longer consider other companies' aircraft, even if such capabilities have slight flaws in some aspects, but as long as safety is guaranteed, this is almost an iron market.

What's more, that country is different from any other country in the world in that no one can force them to give up the technology they have already obtained. Not only the Huaqi people, but also the Russians. In this regard, no country in any camp in the world is as reliable as them.

The Americans have forced their allies not to produce certain products, and so have the Russians.

"And even if the Orientals are poor, I think they can always come up with orders for dozens of aircraft. Even if it's not that many, it won't be too few."

The Gallic men made a very accurate estimate of this matter.

Not to mention the future, even in the difficult 70s, we still managed to produce more than 40 John Bull Trident passenger aircraft.

After hearing this, the president of Triangle Aircraft finally came around.

Yes, no matter whether they have the technology or not, as long as they can provide funds to promote the initial development of regional aircraft and provide orders to support the subsequent survival of regional aircraft, that is enough.

Moreover, judging from the level of military technology of Oriental people, it is not necessarily true that there is absolutely no relevant technology.

"You are right. If you can make this happen, we at Delta Aircraft are very happy to be the specific executor. We even have a rough idea of ​​a regional airliner. If we can start now, maybe we can catch up with Citigroup and John Bull."

The Gauls have their own regional airliner, which is the "Mercury 1967" launched in 100. Of course, if the definition of a regional airliner is set more loosely, then the "Clipper" airliner, which was born in 1958, with an initial capacity of 80 passengers and a range of only 400 kilometers, can barely be counted.

The Clipper was the world's first passenger aircraft with a tail-mounted layout, but in terms of passenger capacity and range, it was undoubtedly not enough to undertake the main branch transport mission in most parts of the world. In fact, one of the original intentions of developing the Mercury 100 was to replace the Clipper.

Moreover, for Triangle Company, "Clipper" had no meaning because it was a product of another Gallic aircraft company, not its own.

Thinking of this, the president of Triangle Company even directly put forward a very sincere condition that could be said to be a win-win situation.

"Sir, if you can make this happen, we can transfer a portion of the benefits of our upcoming new Falcon-20 business jet to the other party in some form."

At first glance, this sounds like Triangle Aircraft Company is giving up its interests, but the president of Triangle is not stupid.

——The market that the other party may gain profits from through the Falcon-20 business jet is something that we cannot enter at all!

"It seems that your company is very interested in this matter?"

"Yes, we are sincere."

At this time, Triangle Company was thinking about launching the regional jet they had envisioned as soon as possible. They knew very well that with the development of the civil aviation industry, the "Clipper" with extremely limited performance and potential had almost no prospects. As long as they could produce the envisioned regional jet, they would almost certainly be able to at least occupy their own regional jet market.

However, what they didn't know was that things were not as simple as they imagined. Even when the world developed to the 70s, the total sales of Mercury 100 was still extremely bleak, with only 1 order for a total of 10 aircraft.

(End of this chapter)