"However, the only pity of Bae146 passenger plane is that it has adopted a four-motive layout. Although the safety has been greatly improved, the maintenance of the passenger plane is at a very unfavorable position." Qilian Mountain finally couldn’t help but vomit a sentence about the wonderful idea of the British.
"This time, British Aerospace sent such a large team to come over and had great expectations for us. The British simply didn’t believe that we would stop and switch to other models after assembling the eleven Romanian passenger planes."
At the beginning, the contract signed between Romania and BAE was a license, which was far from reaching the production quantity agreed by both parties. Therefore, Yuanjia did not sign a supplementary agreement with BAE for the time being after taking over the Romanian project.
"This aspect of British Aerospace can be put aside for the time being. I got a message from James, the president of Aerospace Asia during my space visit. I think Shao Shao will be very interested," Qilian Mountain said with a smile.
Chapter 271 Unlucky Short
"What news? I like it when Laoqi sells the good news that Laoqi said last year, or what is the material of eleven Ba111 passenger planes left in Romania this time? " Liang Yuan curious asked.
"Less this time, there is no remaining passenger plane, but there is one in the remaining factory." Qilian Mountain put out his cigarette and leaned forward slightly in the ashtray.
"Factory? Where is the factory? "
"Have you heard about Short Brothers Aircraft Company in Northern Ireland?" Qilian mountain asked
"Short?" Liang Yuan thinks this name is very familiar, but he just can’t remember where he saw it.
Looking at Liang Yuan, Sun Zhuolin took out a thick document from his briefcase and handed it to Liang Yuandao. "This is the information that Qi always brought from England. The three of us have just seen it and watched it again."
Sealing the kraft paper bag Liang Yuan slipped a few photos out of the paper bag and dropped them on the tea table in front of Liang Yuan.
Vertical oval cross-section thick fuselage silver-white metal structure speedboat boat style nose straight single wing side by side with four star-shaped motive wings, and a circular buoy is hung at the outermost ends respectively.
The photo plane is too familiar to Liang Yuan, a military fan. The most influential long-range plane of the Royal Army during World War II, the German U-boat, was known as the "flying porcupine" Sunderland Seaplane.
"I remember that Short Company was the company that produced Sunderland seaplanes during World War II," Liang Yuan said with an epiphany.
Liang Yuan took out the thick information in the paper bag and read it carefully.
Short Brothers Company was founded in 19 years, which is regarded as the first batch of industrialized aircraft manufacturing enterprises on this planet.
Schott has been the world’s leading manufacturer of seaplanes since the 1920s. During World War II, Schott even produced flying porcupines, representing four long-range planes. After the end of World War II, when the British economy changed from wartime to normal, all wartime emergency large-scale construction factories were closed, and Schott was not surprised to face a difficult transformation.
Since the 1960s, Schott Brothers has switched to the cargo plane field. Due to the rich experience accumulated in the field of military aircraft production, Schott Company’s transformation effect is not bad. After introducing short-haul transport planes such as shrsne, shrs33 and shrs36, Schott Company has painstakingly managed military aircraft and suffered a big fall.
In the early 1950s, after the Korean War, the two camps of the East and the West formed the Warsaw Pact and NATO respectively, and the interests of the British Empire were better protected. At that time, the British Ministry of Defence reached a tender for British aviation enterprises to develop a new generation of royal military transport aircraft.
At that time, the idea of building the British army was still ball delivery. Therefore, in the tender documents, the Royal Army requested that the first batch of production models of a new generation of transport aircraft could transport all heavy equipment of the Royal Sixth Army except the Chief’s main battle tank, such as large-caliber guns, anti-missile helicopters and so on, and the later models would be able to transport all the active equipment of the Royal Sixth Army.
After some competition, Short Company’s code s5 plan won the bid for the Royal Army’s new generation transport aircraft, which is the last large transport aircraft with strategic pedigree developed by Sunrise Empire-Belfast.
The Belfast project was formally established in the late 1950s. The prototype flew in 1964, and the second prototype successfully entered the flight state six months later. The Royal Army purchased five first batch production models, which were named Belfast 1 by the Royal Army.
Belfast 1 is equipped with four Rolls-Royce Ry12 turboprop engines, which can ride over 150 deputy armed soldiers. The plane can carry 20 tons of cargo and fly 5 kilometers. The success of Belfast 1 makes the dream of British military power ball delivery close at hand.
Unfortunately, in the 1950s, the international situation was unpredictable. With the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, the last piece of imperial underwear was swept by the sinister anti-colonial national independence movement of the United States. The British empire painstakingly maintained its rule for 200 years, and the Belfast transport plane was suddenly pushed to the forefront.
Faced with the historical tide like an avalanche, Short Company struggled not only to introduce S5-1 and S5-13 in succession, but also to cancel the automatic refueling platform and navigation equipment of Belfast 1 transport plane into a large civil cargo plane with code 1a.
After the modification, the performance of Belfast transport aircraft has been significantly improved, and the maximum take-off weight of the aircraft has increased from 90 tons to 113 tons and weighs 10 tons. The flight distance of Belfast has reached an amazing kilometer.
After completing two modified powertrains based on turboprop motive, Short Company made a breakthrough in technology and went further. The latest generation of modified Short Company set its sights on the US 141 strategic transport aircraft.
Short intends to adopt new design wings and Rolls-Royce? Rolls-Royce Research’s latest modified RB13 turbofan is similar to the U.S. 141 strategic transport aircraft. The maximum takeoff weight of the T-shaped vertical tail can reach 190 tons, the maximum weight of the military model can reach 54 tons, and the maximum commercial model is expected to exceed 60 tons.
Unfortunately, this general trend of national transportation is not an aircraft technical goal, which can be redeemed in the face of the fact that the British military defense base in the future is left with the British Isles. The British actually chose the American 13 tactical transport aircraft as the first generation transport vehicle of the Royal Army.
In the end, the British military bought ten heavy transport planes in Belfast symbolically, but Schott lost even its underwear. Since then, it has been on the verge of bankruptcy for ten years.
After Margaret Thatcher came to power, the original nationalized Rawls? Large industrial enterprises such as Royce have been sold to private individuals, which has long been a financial burden for the British government, and Short Brothers has also been privatized.
However, since Short’s Belfast project was hit hard by the law, the accumulated losses of Short’s company have exceeded 100 million dollars since the 1970s, and no private capital dares to take over this rotten stall. As a result, the British government has sold it for more than ten years, Short’s company is still interested.
Qilian Mountain brought back the information of Short Company, and the last news aroused Liang Yuan’s great interest. In view of Short Company’s difficulties, the British government intends to remove the accumulated debts of Short Company at one time and inject some funds into the company’s restructuring.
Chapter 272 has a long history.
"When I visited Aerospace, James, the director of Aerospace, revealed that the British government would inject $600 million into Short Company’s assets reorganization, personnel training and equipment renewal and reorganization, resulting in losses," Qilian Mountain added, looking at Liang Yuanfang’s information.
"It stands to reason that this kind of good thing can’t fall on our head. Even if Yuanjia holds 600 million yuan in cash, he will enter the aviation industry. But from which angle, the British government theory is unlikely to sell the enterprise to China?" Liang Yuan asked doubtfully.
The fact that Yuanjia sold Fengyuan Material Trade for $600 million is not hyped by the Federal German media, but it is not a trade secret. For people with a heart or enterprise, it is easy to find a short message from the local newspaper in Frankfurt, where Deutsche Bank is headquartered.
"Of course, the British won’t sell the enterprise to us, but James is extremely interested in the p75 project that bb and we are negotiating. Not long ago, bb just handed in the intention to buy Short Brothers to the British government …"
Bowed their heads and hesitated for a moment Liang Yuan slapped a sand handrail around him.
"The Englishman deserves to be a trick-or-treating stick. This abacus is too precise." Liang Yuan blurted out the nickname that best conforms to the British style.
"Talking about things with less is frank," Zhou Yuanhang said with a face of admiration.
"I talked with General Manager Qi and General Manager Sun for three hours with information before I got a rough idea of the British intentions. I thought about it for ten minutes and guessed the July 7th."
"Although there are many subjects that need make-up exams, I have studied very hard at Dongda University." Liang Yuanxiao said.
Liang Yuan had to admit that the British had a good abacus.
Although the western media often call the Middle East or the Balkans a powder keg and a time bomb for human peace, it’s just that crows fall into coal piles and can’t see their own darkness when they see others.
Britain, France and Germany, the source and participants of the two world wars, fell in love and killed each other for hundreds of years. What kind of love-hate relationship can be covered up by a peace agreement after World War II?
In the aviation field, Britain, France and Germany hold together to keep warm. It is not because the American aviation industry is too strong. Except for the Warsaw Pact camp, Boeing’s market share was 62% at the end of the decade, followed by McDonnell Douglas’s 23%, which integrated the essence of the European aviation industry. The passenger car has 15% market share.
Without such strong external pressure, the member enterprises of Keqi would have gone their separate ways long ago.