Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

"Zhenhua, we have an opponent." Guo Rongwei made such an opening remark.

Seeing Tan Zhenhua's puzzled eyes, Guo Rongwei explained: "Just as the planning book we handed in arrived at the ministry, another person also visited the ministry."

"Who? Who?"

"U.S. "McDonald-Douglas Aircraft Company" Chief Engineer, Director and President of Asia, Zhang Zhenzhong."

When Tan Zhenhua heard the name, his heart felt like 10,000 alpacas rushed past.

It turned out to be him!

It really is him!

On the Internet of Tan Zhenhua’s previous life, there is such a “conspiracy theory” among the many statements about the reasons for the dismissal of the "Yun Ten", which roughly means: the dismissal of the "Yun Ten" was actually secretly planned and succeeded by Mi Di. A containment plan aimed at China’s civil aviation industry was implemented. It was one of the world’s leading civil aviation giants "McDonald-Douglas" who came forward to implement this plan, and the specific person in charge was this Zhang Zhenzhong!

"McDonald-Douglas" was originally two companies, called "McDonald" and "Douglas", the founders of these two companies both graduated from the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and both named after their surnames He established his own company, and began aircraft design and manufacturing almost at the same time in the 1920s.

The Second World War that swept the world led to tremendous development in the US aviation industry, and these two companies also made a lot of money like other arms dealers.

Unfortunately, the war was over, orders withered, and the funding chain was broken. The two companies had to lay off staff and scale down, and finally decided to stay together for warmth.

In 1967, "McDonald" and "Douglas" merged and developed into the largest defense contractor in the United States and the second largest manufacturer of mainline airliners in the world.

The company’s most famous military aircraft include the US Air Force’s main fighter "F15 Eagle" series and the Navy’s "F/A18 Hornet" series; and its civilian product line is named after the "DC" series. The output of the transport aircraft reached a record of more than 13,000. The most classic and representative aircraft in the history of the world transport aircraft, the "DC-3", is its product.

Unfortunately, due to poor management and the failure of the two major internal factions to integrate well, this once giant company failed miserably when it competed with Boeing and the profitable civil aircraft market, and its cash flow dried up. It was not annexed by the latter in 1997.

Moreover, this merger has also affected China. The cooperation between the Magic City Aircraft Manufacturing Plant and the "Mai Dao" Company, which has been in operation for 12 years, was forced to cease due to the change of the Mi side, and even more because the original contract was not rigorous. No way to claim, let China reluctantly swallow hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and the bitter fruit of another aborted large aircraft project.

Of course, this is something.

The first thing that needs to be faced now is a seemingly sweet and delicious pie thrown by Zhang Zhenzhong: "Mai Dao" company is willing to cooperate with Huaxia to establish a production line in Magic City to produce its important civilian model "DC-9" -50" airliner, also known as "MD-82" in later generations!

In all fairness, the "MD-82" is a pretty good aircraft. The aircraft has a length of 41.5 meters, a wingspan of 32.87 meters, an empty weight of 35.6 tons, and a maximum take-off weight of 67.8 tons. When cruising at a normal speed of Mach 0.76, its maximum It has a range of 3,800 kilometers and a maximum passenger capacity of 172 people. Like its main competitor, the Boeing 737, it is a standard medium and short-haul trunk aircraft.

This aircraft is propelled by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-217 engines, and the thrust of a single unit reaches 9000 kg. Due to the rear engine layout, that is, both engines are placed at the rear of the aircraft, so the noise in the cabin is extremely low , Can be said to be one of the quietest airliners currently.

The fuselage of this aircraft is slender and very beautiful. In order to meet the needs of takeoff and landing in high-temperature plateau areas, it has also made a lot of performance and equipment upgrades. It was only awarded the U.S. Federation on July 30, 1981 last year. The type certificate of the Aviation Administration began to be delivered to users in August of the same year.

Therefore, this aircraft is indeed one of the latest technological achievements of American Airlines.

However, it was a coincidence when it appeared in China.

At this critical point in time, the plane and this person named Zhang Zhenzhong suddenly appeared, making Tan Zhenhua believe in the "conspiracy theory" again!

After all, there are quite a lot of information on the Internet in previous lives, and some are even more difficult to justify. Tan Zhenhua is not a person in the aviation industry and has no way of understanding his insider. However, there is one doubt that he can't let go:

"Yun Ten" ended its last soaring in the blue sky in February 1985, and has since been shelved forever; and on April 13 of that year, only two months later, the Magic City Aircraft Factory The contract for the production of "MD-82" was signed with "Mc-Dao", and the workshops that originally belonged to the "Yunshi" were vacated and transformed at an extremely alarming speed. During the period, the "Yunshi" was demolished to vacate the workshop. Labor competition for manufacturing equipment!

The "MD-82" was riveted in August of that year, and the last semi-finished "Yunshi" in the workshop was reduced to a trial product for workers to practice riveting...

If this is a complete coincidence, Tan Zhenhua feels that he cannot convince himself.

What's more, as far as he knows, Mr. Zhang Zhenzhong, who was sent by the "Mc-Daw" company to take charge of this matter, has no pure background?

Zhang Zhenzhong, if you search the Internet in Tan Zhenhua's previous life, you can get the following information: Rice Chinese, chairman and CEO of a well-known media company, and influential Chinese entrepreneur in the international media industry. And he has served as directors, presidents, and vice presidents in a series of the most famous companies in the world. These companies include News Corporation, Apple, Palm, etc., and he is also a member of several top universities in China Guest professor.

What is not known is that his father and uncle are both senior generals of the Fruit Party!

Regardless of whether there was a conspiracy in this cooperation, from the historical process of Tan Zhenhua's past life, the goal of "containing China's civil aircraft manufacturing industry" proposed in the "conspiracy theory" has indeed been achieved!

After cooperating with "Mc-Daw" and a series of failures afterwards, China has almost completely lost the ability to develop large aircraft, especially large civil aircraft, in the next two decades, and China has been like a blowout. The expanding civil aviation market is completely occupied by the two companies, "Boeing" of the United States and "Airbus" of Europe!

History has reached this critical crossroads again. The same people, the same things, and perhaps the same conspiracies have begun to be staged again. However, this time the cast has added a seemingly insignificant role. His name is Tan Zhenhua, and he is a teenager under 18 years old.

What should he do?

What will he do?