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Chapter 399 Explosion (Second update)

"I just don't know if large aircraft will encounter patent problems abroad?" Sun Aiguo asked another question.

Liu Hai has already considered this, otherwise he would not have changed the shape of the aircraft and the engine. If he really copied the original version, it would definitely be affected in the international market.

"We need to ask dealers in Hong Kong to check the patents for this." Of course, Liu Hai couldn't boast that his design was basically a new one, and even the power system was brand new.

The power system used in the original DC 7 is completely different from this one.

"Because we can only know the appearance and structure of the DC 7, but we don't know anything about the inside. But I don't think McDonnell Douglas will register its own aircraft design and detailed control system as patents." Liu Hai didn't know that McDonnell Douglas Has Dao Company applied for relevant patents? After all, many things about piston engines have expired.

Foreign countries did not develop piston engines more than ten years ago. Those who are capable of developing aircraft projects cannot develop piston engines. If you are not capable, you can give them piston aircraft drawings and technology, and they will not understand.

The more high-end manufacturing is, the more there are two extremes: those who can, can do everything, and those who can't, can't do anything.

Sun Aiguo felt more relieved when he heard Liu Hai's words: "That's good!"

"Do you have any ideas about shipbuilding?" Sun Aiguo is now thinking about shipbuilding again.

When Liu Hai heard this, he shook his head and said, "Let's make money first for the time being. Our factory is still relatively weak in shipbuilding."

Shipbuilding is definitely not something that can be started easily. There are too many things involved in the shipbuilding industry. There is another bigger reason, which is that North America cannot be allowed to take the lead and feel the threat from us.

We have already fallen out with the big brother in the north. If you want to produce a few more powerful ships, be careful that North America takes the lead and puts your shoes on.

However, in terms of offshore defense, Liu Hai can still think of something similar to missile boats. These things do not pose a threat to the United States.

"Let's build the next-level yacht first, and wait until we have accumulated enough experience to do other things." Liu Hai thought for a moment and said.

"How long will the next-level yacht be built?"

"Is it the Queen's, which is more than 60 meters long?" Sun Aiguo asked a little excitedly. I wonder what the final price of this yacht will be?

"No, the number of rich people in this world is limited. It's better to take the civilian route and get on a 20-meter yacht first." Of course, bangs will not go up and do high-end things.

Even if a 100-meter to 200-meter yacht is built now, buyers may be able to count them on one hand.

It is better to build some cheap small yachts that can sell thousands or tens of thousands a year. Not only can they make money, but they can also maintain their own industrial chain.

The reason why the yachts of those wealthy people in later generations are so expensive is because everything is customized and there is not enough production to maintain the industrial chain.

"You have the final say in this aspect. It's strange to say that I don't like some of your designs, but those foreigners like them."

"A designer who has never studied art in the West can actually design things that are sought after by Westerners." Sun Aiguo also felt incredible when he said this.

Liu Hai chuckled: "Actually, sometimes if you study too much, you will fall into the rules."

"Just like we can know what an airplane looks like, we will have an impression when others tell us about it. Just like last time when the representatives went back and told people around them how tall and big the airplane was, their imagination was completely different from ours."

Sun Aiguo slapped his thigh: "I agree with what you said. I had never been exposed to tanks at first. Those veterans said they were iron bastards. I had the bastard in my mind, but I was dumbfounded when I saw it. Such a big iron lump. How could it be so? Called Iron Bastard?"

"The most important thing for a designer is imagination. I heard that there is an abstract art movement abroad. Their paintings are just like our children's graffiti. If 100 people see this kind of thing, there will be 100 different opinions." Liu Hai nodded and finally put the matter aside. Fooled over.

"I've never heard of this, but it seems to say that our artists are different from theirs." Sun Aiguo took a sip of water.

Sun Aiguo can only chat quietly and peacefully with Liu Hai. Elsewhere, he has a loud voice.

Because as a factory manager, you have to manage a lot of things, but the more you reason with some idiots, the more stubborn they will become with you.

On Liu Hai's side, Sun Aiguo couldn't raise his voice. Not to mention Liu Hai's contribution, Sun Aiguo was confused by the things Liu Hai did.

Sun Aiguo left from Liu Hai, who continued to prepare for the design of heavy transport vehicles.

"Want to find something to do for the people in the maintenance department?" Liu Hai thought about finding something to do for the people in the maintenance department.

After thinking about it for a while, there is nothing that needs to be done for the time being, mainly because there are many things for which there is currently no domestic market.

Liu Hai set his sights on the international market again, and suddenly he had a direction. Power tools will also be a big market in the future.

Not to mention anything else, there are so many decoration workers, and one or two power tools for each person is enough to support a company, and decoration is not only a domestic matter, but also abroad.

When Liu Hai crossed over, the power tool market even occupied half of the decoration industry.

In fact, many overseas supermarkets carry various domestic power tools. There is no other way, the prices are too good.

And some are said to be imported from abroad, not domestically produced OEM.

Gather people from the maintenance department to form a power tool project team. This thing is too difficult for the current motorcycle factory. The maintenance department is just doing resource integration.

There is no need to report to the factory director when Liu Hai opens a research project team or something like that. In other places, it is not that simple. You have to write a plan first, and then find someone to study and judge the plan. After all, as long as you do research, you have to use the factory's knowledge. Various resource materials.

Although it is called a maintenance class, it is actually run by the chief engineer, and it is more powerful than the general chief engineer of a factory.

On the civil aviation large aircraft side, in order to obtain more data for dealers on Hong Kong Island to see, the department responsible for passenger aircraft began to open applications to units at a certain level across the country to fly on civil aviation passenger aircraft for free.

For a time, people who reach a certain level will be blessed when they travel on business.

After all, at this time, except for soldiers with certain special professions in the military, very few people can get on planes. The main reason is that there were too few planes in the past.

But when they got on the plane, they discovered that they couldn't smoke, drink, or run around.

Although some people are a little dissatisfied, they must follow the regulations. The aircraft are now managed by the Air Force department, not the enterprise behind it.

It's a purely military management. Of course, the service attitude is not that good, and there are many interns inside.

Relevant regulations on civil aviation aircraft are formulated by motorcycle factories, and the plans formulated by motorcycle factories were written by Liu Hai with more than 10,000 words.

But being able to fly at this time is already awesome, and I can brag about it for half a year when I go back and drink with my buddies.

The large plane can carry more than 80 people at a time, of which only about 80 are passengers, and the rest are seats for cabin crew and pilots.

The planes are full every day, there are too many people applying, and it’s the end of the year and there are also many people going to Kyoto for business.

It's a pity that there are only a few large civil aviation aircraft. Fortunately, they are maintained in strict accordance with the aircraft maintenance regulations formulated by Liu Hai. Otherwise, such a high-intensity flight may cause problems.

Even if the operation of today's piston propeller aircraft is not very complicated, you must at least be able to understand the instruments and the like, and you must conduct personal inspections and reviews, otherwise this thing that weighs dozens of tons will be a big bomb.

Therefore, not all pilots were in place so quickly, and some experienced pilots could only be mobilized from the Air Force to perform flight missions.

Liu Hai is assigning tasks to the people below in the maintenance department. To be honest, the current domestic market for power tools is not very big, and the country is all allocated, including these production tools.

Liu Hai simply planned to go to the factory director to make a report and import a batch of various styles of power tools and small gasoline engine tools.

But before Liu Hai could report to work, Sun Aiguo strolled over again. "Your royalties this year are huge." Sun Aiguo handed Liu Hai a thick stack of documents.

Liu Hai just handed the report in his hand to Sun Aiguo: "Director, this is a report of mine. I need to apply to purchase some power tools from abroad. If it is done well, it will be able to occupy the market and support several large factories."

"Let me take a look." Sun Aiguo's eyes lit up when he heard this.

The motorcycle factory has a unique advantage in small internal combustion engines, so it is no problem to make some tools.

Produce technology and spread it, directly occupying the market with low cost and high cost performance.

Liu Hai looked at the document handed to him by Sun Aiguo again. No wonder he said that this year's manuscript fee was high. Last year, he wrote more things. He wrote a lot of words and made a lot of pictures on simple construction machinery.

In addition, there are things related to aircraft manufacturing and design, as well as aircraft ground maintenance manuals, etc.

In addition to the various literary things written in the past, because the number of college students has increased, a large number of these books are printed every year.

In other words, many of the contents in textbooks were written by Liu Hai.

"Director, don't ask me about royalties from now on." Liu Hai just looked at one and probably let it go.

"Although you donated, I still want to show you the details. The royalties will be higher next year. It is said that the number of college students will expand again next year. The literate and the uneducated are not at the same level in terms of study and technology." Sun Aiguo looked at Liu Hai's report. , said while saying.

Of course, Sun Aiguo is talking about most ordinary people, and there is no way to compare with a small number of geniuses. Like Liu Hai, who only started to read when he was a teenager, there are definitely very few who have grown up to this point.

"It's just buying some tools. It's a small thing. I remember that the department seems to have various imported tools." Sun Aiguo closed the document after reading it.

"Now when I go out to a meeting, they all call me Big Brother Sun." Sun Aiguo only shows his true feelings when it comes to Liu Hai. When he talks about others calling him Big Brother, his mouth breaks with laughter.

"This is the honor you deserve, director. If you hadn't agreed with me in the beginning, it would have been you, the leader, who made it possible for me." Liu Hai smiled and complimented the director.

"It's been more than ten years. I still remember when you entered the factory. Because no one signed up for swimming in the workers' sports meeting, I asked you to participate in swimming. I didn't expect that from that time on, our factory would be able to grow to this day. It can be said to be the backbone of domestic industry. ." Sun Aiguo looked at Liu Hai, who was just a little more mature than when he first came.

"There have been many times over the years that I woke up in the middle of the night and didn't believe that our factory is now so good. I never dared to think like this in my dreams before." Sun Aiguo's words are true. Many times he sits up in the middle of the night, still a little confused.

Liu Hai chuckled: "Director, just keep dreaming, our factory will develop better and better."

Of course, Sun Aiguo didn't know that the young man in front of him had not yet shown his true abilities, and these were just scraps.

"We can be regarded as each other's achievements. To be precise, it should be me who takes the credit from you. When you won the championship in swimming, I have been taking the credit from that time on."

"What you said about the motorcycle engine, if someone else becomes the leader, they won't stop it. After all, you bring glory to the factory." Sun Aiguo waved his hand again and said.

"Let's not talk about each other here. Let's work together from now on and fight for our new society."

"Fight for our new society." Sun Aiguo liked hearing Liu Hai's words very much.

"You should actually get the royalties. You have written too much in the past ten years. Many textbooks on industrial machinery have included your content."

"Now I show you the bill every year and you can donate."

"But if the policy changes one day, you still have to take what is yours. That means there is no way to publicize it now, otherwise you don't need to donate royalties, which will have a bad impact on other people."

"Your income is also very high. Most of the other people who rely on writing are actually doing worse." Sun Aiguo patiently explained why he wanted to show Liu Hai the details of his royalties.

"In addition, I just received news that someone wants to buy our twin-engine water transport aircraft." Sun Aiguo told Liu Hai again.

Liu Hai was a little surprised when he heard this: "Anyone wants to buy a seaplane?"

"The feedback from the dealers on Hong Kong Island seems to be that a certain country in South America is planning to open a water bus route. The jungle there is too dense and there is a rainy season every year, so the transportation is very inconvenient."

"There is an urgent need to find a cost-effective aircraft, mainly to ensure smooth local transportation routes, government information transmission, medical emergency, and even some emergency material transportation, which belongs to the national level." Sun Aiguo explained.

Liu Hai probably knew that it was probably the Amazon River Basin, where travel was basically by boat, but the government must firmly control the various villages scattered in the jungle.

The only way is to find a very cost-effective means of transportation to connect these villages and towns scattered in the rain forest.

South America was very wealthy at this time, but it continued to decline.

"What's the specific order? There's no feedback yet. My superiors called me to tell me about this so that we can make preparations."

Liu Hai nodded when he heard this. Different countries have different requirements. Even the text on the dashboard must be changed, and an operation manual must be written.

The rain forests in South America are indeed suitable for seaplanes. This kind of piston engine aircraft is the most suitable, and the flight cost is very low.

An investment can last for decades. This is why in very backward places in Africa, where people cannot afford cars, they can afford to fly. In some documentaries, when local tribes go out to sell sheep, they fly by plane and put their sheep on the ground. On the plane, of course, there are no seats on that kind of plane, so people can just sit on them casually.

There is no airport locally, just an open space and a small wooden house.

"And to be honest, our seaplane production is somewhat oversupplied. The production workshop in Hongdu can produce at least fifty or sixty twin-engine seaplanes a year." Sun Aiguo said again.

Liu Hai thought about it for a moment after hearing this, and was frightened by the output of twin-engine transport aircraft.

There are three other factories that produce twin-engine transport aircraft. If one factory produces 100 aircraft a year, that's 300 aircraft, and 1000 aircraft in three years.

"Foreign manufacturers that manufacture light aircraft and small aircraft have suffered again." Liu Hai felt sad for those foreign light aircraft manufacturers.

As long as domestic products can be exchanged for exports, then they can be exchanged. How many materials can be exchanged for an aircraft export, and then how many aircraft can be produced with these materials.

Domestically, this is a simple calculation. As for labor costs, given the current wage system in China, you can earn so much money regardless of whether you work or not, so this can be ignored.

The same electricity cost can also be excluded, because from the upstream coal for power generation to the intermediate transportation, the largest labor cost is fixed expenses.

In other words, the factory's expenses for production are not much different from those for not producing.

Is there any manufacturer in the world that can have such competitiveness? Moreover, this aircraft is still new, comes with a warranty, and parts are always available. Now if you buy junk from World War II, although it is cheap, it may be difficult to find parts that are broken.

Of course, another one is word-of-mouth. The industrial equipment that has just been delivered to the dealers is not only cost-effective, but also well-made and has nothing that is easy to break.

Once word of mouth is formed, the benefits are almost unlimited.

Also, dealers on Hong Kong Island must use their own resources as much as possible to sell domestically produced industrial products, so that they can make money.

Because the country does not need money, but needs to use it to exchange for supplies. It is not profitable to sell things now, but it is better to make some money when buying things for the country, and then make some money for your own transportation company. In addition, there is also after-sales maintenance training. Waiting for it is all a slow and steady work.

"Actually, seaplanes can also be converted into fire-fighting planes. Do you want me to modify one?" Liu Hai felt that fire-fighting planes could be sold very well around the world, so he had already set aside a margin for modification at the beginning of the design.

"Fire-fighting plane?" Sun Aiguo asked curiously.

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