Rebirth of the Flying Era

Although he was surprised, Du Fei also heard that Director Nie came to him to tell him that these were not temporary thoughts, otherwise even Director Nie would not be qualified to decide the ownership of Shangfei Factory.

 You must know that this problem is not just a factory, but also has many symbolic meanings behind it.

Various large and small factions involved, as well as hidden interest groups.

 Du Fei couldn't help but feel a little worried. It was definitely not a wise choice to intervene hastily in this situation.

 I made up my mind that this matter must not be continued until the situation is understood.

 Fortunately, Director Nie didn't force him. Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, he smiled and said: "Xiao Du, there is no need to feel pressure. Go back and think about it slowly."

 Although Director Nie didn't say it, he actually meant that he should go home and ask Dad Zhu.

Du Fei laughed dryly and said quickly: "Uncle Nie, I understand. I will consider it carefully. Then you go ahead and I'm going back."

Director Nie nodded: "Go, go~"

Du Fei couldn't help but let out a long breath when he came out of Director Nie's office.

He could feel that Director Nie had no selfish motives for coming to him this time. He simply wanted to better allocate resources and obtain the best results.

 But for Du Fei, objectively it caused difficulties.

Du Fei came out of Director Nie's place and immediately went to find Dad Zhu without stopping.

 In this situation, it is better to ask Dad Zhu what is going on than to think about it all night.

Dad Zhu was in a meeting and I waited for a while before seeing him.

When Dad Zhu heard his description, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Oh? Is there such a good thing?"

Du Fei said with a bitter face: "Dad, please stop joking. Put aside the good and bad things, what is going on here? Why do you suddenly want to give me the Shangfei Factory? I don't know what's going on!"

Dad Zhu raised his eyebrows: "Is there anything else your kid is afraid of?"

Du Fei grinned and did not dare to say anything.

Dad Zhu continued: "What could be the situation? It can't be done over there~" He took a cup and took a sip of water: "I took everything for granted. We ended up with two bombs and one satellite. All the space satellites went up. What's so difficult about a plane? The result... hum~ is not down-to-earth, and always wants to make a big splash. Now I can't do it, and I want you to take care of it, so that at least it can end with dignity. "

Du Fei was still a little worried: "Dad, there won't be any pitfalls here, right?"

Dad Zhu thought for a while and said: "Logically speaking, it shouldn't be the case. If you take over now, you are helping them. If you want to take the opportunity to cause trouble again, you are ignorant and ignore the overall situation. If that is better, you don't need to talk to us, we will understand." Some people can’t see it.”

Du Fei said: "You mean Director Nie?"

Papa Zhu nodded: "We are all sensible people, and no one is a fool. Besides, you have just made great achievements in Nanyang this time, so you should be given some rewards. No one can say anything."

Once he heard this, Du Fei felt confident. He nodded to express his understanding, and then asked if he had any idea about cooperating with America?

Dad Zhu's expression was slightly serious: "Wait a minute, this matter is not that simple..."

Du Fei agreed. There wasn't much he could do in this matter, he could only be patient.

 After returning to work from Dad Zhu, Du Fei was still thinking about the situation at the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory.

The technical force there is still quite strong, especially after the launch of the large jet aircraft, which has gathered the strongest experts in the domestic aviation field.

Otherwise, in the world before Du Fei traveled through time, it would have been impossible to build a top-ten aircraft when various conditions were immature.

Although the project was eventually discontinued due to various reasons, it cannot be denied that the Yushi prototype did fly.

If you get the Shangfei Factory, you can get this part of scientific research and technology resources, which will definitely be a rare gain for Dufei.

However, there is another problem, that is, once you take over the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, you will by default take over the mess left behind.

Du Fei must find a way to clean up this mess, that is, get the big plane out as Director Nie just proposed.

Of course, this large aircraft can be the next best thing. It does not have to be a jet. It can use a turboprop engine.

After all, when Du Fei was competing for the large aircraft project, he said that he would use turboprop engines.

For Du Fei, this problem is not technically difficult with the H-8 in front.

The engine is readily available, and the H-8's body structure has withstood the test of high-intensity flight. The biggest difficulty in turning it into a large load transport aircraft is the strength of key components.

  After all, the maximum takeoff weight of the Y-8 is less than 160 tons, while the maximum takeoff weight of a large transport aircraft must be at least 200 tons.

This extreme weight places great demands on the strength of the aircraft fuselage and wing connections.

This is why the H-8, which is based on the Sailian Tu-95, looks roughly the same, but is smaller than the Tu-95 and has a take-off weight of 30 tons less. It is because of this gap.

 Fortunately, transport aircraft and bombers are different models and have different technical requirements.

 Based on the domestic technical level, it is almost certain that it cannot reach the An-22's maximum takeoff weight of 250 tons, a range of more than 10,000 kilometers, and a payload of 80 tons.

 But the next best thing is to achieve a maximum take-off weight of 200 tons, a range of 5,000 kilometers, and a payload of about 60 tons. There is still a lot of potential.

 At this level, it can transport tanks, which is enough to become one of the top five transport aircraft in the world in this era.

 Even if it is decades later, I will never stretch my hips.

 After all, there are only a few aircraft in the world that can carry tanks.

After careful consideration, Du Fei replied to Director Nie the next day and agreed to take over the Shangfei Factory.

 In the next two days, various departments coordinated the procedures, and nominally the ownership relationship of the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory was transferred to the name of the fire-fighting equipment company.

At this point, the fire equipment company that Du Fei founded in less than three years has become the largest and most profitable super enterprise conglomerate in the country.

Although including the Shanghai aircraft manufacturing plant, the entire firefighting equipment company has only 47,000 employees, which is much lower than the 400,000 employees of Anyang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in Liaoning Province.

However, firefighting equipment companies produce high value-added, high-tech products with extremely high profit margins. In terms of profitability alone, Du Fei's firefighting equipment company is already the well-deserved number one.

 Two days later, Du Fei took a flight to Shanghai.

Accompanying him were Shen Jianing and Zhang Wenzhong, as well as several relevant leaders and experts from Beijing Aircraft Factory.

Still taking Du Fei's "special plane" to fly directly from Beijing Aircraft Factory to the take-off and landing runway of Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory.

 The scale here is not inferior to the newly built factory area of ​​Beijing Aircraft Factory. As the most economically developed region in the country, Shanghai has always had unique advantages.

The plane came to a slow stop, and Du Fei walked out of the cabin door. People from Shangfei Factory who had been waiting nearby immediately came to greet him.

The front is the fact that the director Lu was fighting. This person was also a soldier, with a big face and a dwelling.

As soon as he saw Du Fei, he immediately smiled and stretched out his hand, shook hands and said: "Hello, Comrade Du Fei, welcome to come and give us guidance."

Du Fei smiled and shook hands: "Director Lu, you are polite. You are the senior and I am the junior. I am not the leader. Let's work together and make progress together."

 Lu Zhanzhan introduced Du Fei to the main leaders of the factory and those responsible for the large aircraft project.

This is Professor Chen, an old acquaintance of Du Fei.

Professor Chen was a little embarrassed when old friends met, but Du Fei smiled and said: "Professor Chen, we meet again. Different paths lead to the same destination. We still have to work together after all."

 Professor Chen forced a smile and secretly complained in his heart.

He really didn't expect this outcome in the end. If he had known earlier that he would have just agreed to Du Fei's recruitment, why bother doing it today.

Du Fei did not deliberately make things difficult for him, showing the tolerance of a winner. The most important thing is that Professor Chen himself has irreplaceable value.

 No matter what his character is, he is indeed the best expert in this field at present. It is definitely best to hold it in my hand and use it for me.

 There is absolutely no need to worry about the past rejection, Du Fei still has this kind of courage.

 After exchanging pleasantries, he went directly to the conference room for a meeting without any delay.

 In addition to the people brought by Du Fei, the leaders and important technical personnel of Shangfei Factory also participated.

 The large conference room was full of people.

Having completed the formalities before coming, Du Fei was now the superior leader of the Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory. He sat in the middle of the conference table, glanced at the whole room, coughed lightly and said: "Now is the meeting, I believe everyone already knows , what am I here for this time, I won’t talk nonsense about this, let’s get straight to the point.” Then he looked at Lu Zhanzhan: “Comrade Lao Lu, please first introduce the actual situation in the factory, as well as the jet What is the progress of the large aircraft project?"

Lu Zhan was stunned for a moment, and everyone present at Shangfei Factory was also slightly surprised.

They thought that the people coming from the capital would definitely want the new official to take office. After all, they were holding Shang Fang's sword, and they had something wrong, so there was no need to worry about it.

 In this case, the best way is to start with personnel, make some adjustments, seize power, and win people's hearts.

Unexpectedly, Du Fei went straight to the topic and asked about the development progress of the large jet aircraft.

What does it mean? Do you really not understand the situation?

That is simply impossible. Know yourself and the enemy, and you will be victorious in every battle. You must have figured out the situation on their side before coming.

　　Without even this means, it would be impossible for the superiors to hand over such a large factory to such a young man.

 Everyone was a little confused, wondering what kind of medicine Du Fei was selling in his gourd.

 Lu Zhan was also unambiguous. Although he was a little surprised, he reacted immediately.

These things are all in his mind, and he talks freely when he opens his mouth.

Du Fei listened, and the situation was basically similar to what he knew in the capital, and there was not much difference.

When Lu Zhanzhan finished speaking, Du Fei said: "Director Lu said it very well. Regarding the jet project, objectively speaking, there has been progress and achievements."

 Getting Du Fei's approval made some people present feel a little relieved.

What they fear most is that they have worked day and night for such a long time, forgetting to eat and sleep, only to be denied by their superiors.

 But some people understood that there must be a "but" in what Du Fei said next.

Sure enough, Du Fei continued: "However, this is not enough. This is not a problem of everyone present, but objectively the technical difficulty is too great. So... I have decided to temporarily freeze the use of large jet aircraft from now on. project."

 Suddenly, there was a commotion in the conference room.

 Although I have already guessed that since such big adjustments have been made above, there will definitely be changes in work in the future.

 But there is still a trace of luck in people's minds. Maybe the authorities will invest more manpower and material resources to ensure the successful completion of the large aircraft project.

It’s a pity that this extravagant hope was shattered by Du Fei’s words.

Du Fei waited for a moment without rushing to speak, until the commotion calmed down.

This is not a vegetable market, and the people who can come to this conference room today are not ordinary people.

Du Fei then said calmly: "The decision just now was not my personal decision."

　　Although it was euphemistic, everyone present understood clearly that this was an instruction from a superior, and it was useless to tell Du Fei.

Du Fei continued: “Starting from today, we will devote all our efforts to developing a large transport aircraft based on the existing coaxial counter-rotating turboprop engine, project code-named Y-9.”

This time no one made a fuss. Since one project has been suspended, another one must be established.

 Otherwise, let Du Fei come and do something.

And they also know to some extent that Du Fei was arguing with the aircraft manufacturer about large aircraft, turboprops or jets. Now that Du Fei is here, it is not surprising to reintroduce the turboprop engine.

 What they didn't expect was the parameters Du Fei reported next.

Du Fei said without hesitation: "The Y-9 project will target the Soviet Union's An-22 large transport aircraft. The target parameters are a maximum load of more than 60 tons and a maximum take-off weight of more than 200 tons. When carrying a tank, the full load The flight range is not less than 5,000 kilometers, and it can take off and land in cold and plateau areas..."

As Du Fei said these series of parameters, everyone present was surprised.

 The Y-10 project they previously developed, although the name is "Yun", is actually a passenger aircraft.

At this time, the number of routes was completely changed. What’s more, Du Fei’s request for the Y-9 was that it should be able to carry a tank!

 This is actually a bit exaggerated for now.

 In the world today, the only ones capable of manufacturing large transport aircraft of this level are America and Sailian.

 Du Fei didn't care about their reactions. Anyway, with the H-8 ahead, the conditions for developing the Y-9 were already met.

 Compared with Sailian’s An-22, Du Fei’s requirements for the Y-9 have been reduced a lot.

The take-off weight of the An-22 reaches 250 tons, while the Y-9 only has 200 tons; the An-22 has a load capacity of more than 80 tons, while the Y-9 only has 60 tons; the range of the An-22 reaches more than 10,000 kilometers, while the Y-9 only requires 5,000 kilometer.

 After these reductions in parameters, coupled with the use of portable space for optimization after the drawings are produced, Du Fei predicts that the Y-9 will be at least 90% sure to reach this level.

Taking a step back, even if it is slightly inferior, it still does not prevent the Y-9 from being a very excellent large transport aircraft.

 The most important thing is that it can fill the gap in this aspect in the country in the shortest possible time.

With just a few dozen of them equipped, a fully-organized heavy-armed force can be delivered to any place in the country in a short time.

 Even within the region, it has cross-sea delivery capabilities.

 This is the strategic deterrence of conventional forces beyond mushrooms.

 Before this, only America and Sulian had this ability in the entire world.

Even before Du Fei traveled through time, Huaguo was not able to obtain this capability until 2017, when large-scale equipment was shipped to -20.

 Now it is more than forty years ago.

 After Du Fei finished speaking, people who felt lost and depressed because of the suspension of the Y-10 project cheered up again.

These people are relatively pure technical personnel, they have no other thoughts and no interests involved.

Du Fei just announced the technical goals of the Y-9, which is equivalent to drawing a big pie for them.

If this aircraft can really be developed according to these parameters, the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction will be no less than that of building a jet airliner.

And from a practical point of view, it is obvious that the large transport aircraft proposed by Du Fei is of greater significance to the Guo family.

 Seeing everyone's reaction, Lu Zhan couldn't help but feel a shiver in his heart.

Before, he thought it was strange that Du Fei would talk about new projects and nothing else at all when he came.

●Only now can I see the brilliance of it. I directly used new projects to stabilize the hearts of the people in the factory.

This was only in the conference room. When the news spread, some people were originally panicked, but they probably stabilized in an instant.

 Compared with these people, the ideas of the workers below are simpler and simpler.

But not everyone is like this.

Just after the meeting ended, everyone was walking out, but a young man wearing glasses walked over.

The young man is less than thirty. He wears square-framed glasses, a 37-inch head shape, and a wanton look in his eyes.

ˆ is a very typical young intellectual.

 “Manager Du~” The young man came to the front.

 Lu Zhan frowned and said in a deep voice: "Lu Ke, what are you doing!"

The young man was not afraid at all, and said with a stiff neck: "I want to report to Manager Du!"

Du Fei looked at this man and made full preparations before coming. He knew that Factory Director Lu’s eldest son was called Lu Ke and he was currently the young technical backbone of Shangfei Factory.

However, Lu Ke, the technical backbone, did not rely on his father, but a serious graduate of Shuimu University, and the relationship between father and son was not very good.

Du Fei chuckled and said: "Comrade Lao Lu, young people are aggressive and have ideas. This is good. Don't suppress them."

Director Lu laughed dryly.

The people present were a little weird when they heard this. It seemed that Du Fei was younger than Luco.

Lu Ke came forward and spoke righteously: "Manager Du, the Yun-10 project is the hard work of our nearly 10,000 Shangfei factory workers. The drawings are now nearly completed. The next step is to start prototype manufacturing. As long as our superiors give us some more time, we will We can definitely build a jetliner."

Du Fei met the other party's firm eyes, then turned to look at some people who had not yet left the meeting room, knowing that he must have an attitude at this time.

He said in a deep voice: "Comrade Lu Ke, I understand your mood. To be honest, I also hope that we can build a large jet aircraft. I hope that our Guo family will be better than everyone here." After speaking, he looked towards Lu Ke: "I also believe in your hard work and fighting spirit. As long as we give you time, resources, and pay enough fault tolerance costs, we will definitely be able to build our own jetliner. But..."

Du Fei suddenly emphasized his tone: "Comrades! Now is not the time to be willful. We are children who come from a poor background. Unlike America, Yingguo, and Su Lian, they can be willful and do what they like. , there is no need to consider practical issues. We can’t do it, why? Because we have a weak foundation, because we have been bullied and exploited by foreign powers for more than a hundred years since 1840."

Du Fei's expression was solemn: "Comrades, it's been more than a hundred years! The wealth accumulated by our ancestors for thousands of years has been plundered, leaving only nothing but devastation. Now that we have finally stood up, we can no longer stand up. Get down and grab what's in front of you. As the old saying goes, a thousand birds in the forest is worse than a bird in the hand. It doesn't matter whether you say I'm short-sighted or conservative. The important thing is that we have to have it! Even if the technology is backward , even if we will be eliminated, we must first get the big aircraft out, fly it, put it there, and let our soldiers use it."

 Everyone present had mixed feelings after hearing these words, and there was no sound for a while.

  Lu Ke didn’t know what to say.

Although he is fond of jet aircraft and firmly believes that jets are the trend of the future, Du Fei does not deny it, but lays out the reality.

 Professor Chen reacted at this time and immediately started applauding.

 In the silence, the applause seemed particularly abrupt.

Others also followed suit and clapped. Regardless of whether they agreed with what Du Fei said just now or not, they must applaud at this time.

 What’s more, Professor Chen is taking the lead.

Du Fei glanced at Professor Chen, and sure enough, he was still the winking Professor Chen. He breathed a sigh of relief and then said: "Of course, I'm not saying that I won't build jet aircraft anymore. Suspension and sealing do not mean giving up, but temporarily putting everything aside." We will focus on large-scale turboprop transport aircraft. We have to eat one meal at a time and do things one by one. When we build the turboprop, we will definitely continue to build jets. At that time, we will be more leisurely and leisurely."

 After this statement, Lu Ke had nothing to say.

 In fact, when Lu Ke spoke out, he did not represent himself alone, but represented a large number of young technical backbones at Shangfei Factory.

After they were completely separated, Du Fei left Factory Director Lu and Professor Chen behind.

Factory Director Lu immediately said: "Boss, I just made you laugh. This son of mine has been stubborn since he was a child."

Du Fei waved his hand: "It's good to express your feelings directly." He then said sincerely: "Comrade Lao Lu, no matter what you think, I can tell you from the bottom of my heart that I really have no idea about Shangfei Factory. .”

 Director Lu was stunned and looked at each other with Professor Chen.

Du Fei continued: "To be honest, coming to pick up the flying factory this time is too heavy a task. If Director Nie hadn't forced me, I wouldn't have come anyway."

Factory Director Lu smiled bitterly and said to himself that even if we give it to others for free, they won’t even want it?

 But he couldn't say that, so he quickly said: "Leader, I know we are a mess..."

Du Fei interrupted: "You can't say that. Shangfei Factory is not a mess, it's just that the steps have been taken a bit too far. I still have the same attitude as before. Let's work together to get the large turboprop transport aircraft out first. This pair of up and down It has been explained that Shangfei Factory will still be Shangfei Factory when the time comes."

Factory Director Lu was stunned. He didn't expect Du Fei to say such a thing.

 It has been decided from above that Shangfei Factory must be merged into the fire equipment company, but Du Fei doesn't really want it.

 Whether this was a pretense of reserve or his true thoughts, he was completely unsure.

There is no need to pretend to be reserved, because by now it's like Du Fei has already eaten the meat in his mouth.

If it was really his idea, Director Lu would not understand it even more. Is Du Fei really such a noble person?

 In any case, if Shangfei Factory can continue to remain independent, it will be a good thing for him.

 But at this time, Director Lu must not show any joy.

As for Du Fei, he made this decision after thinking calmly.

Despite Director Nie's guarantee and Zhu's father's approval, Du Fei still felt that Shangfei Factory was a hot potato after much thought.

　　It is not that he is noble and upright, nor is he unfounded.

But the relationships involved in Shangfei Factory are too complicated, and if they have to be included in the fire equipment company, they are likely to suffer from indigestion.

Rather than that, it would be better to be a favor and continue to let Shangfei Factory operate independently, and then wait until the large aircraft project is completed, then the credit will be wasted.

 At that time, there is no need to merge with Du Fei.

In addition, Du Fei does not suffer a loss here, but has more tangible benefits.

 In fact, in Du Fei's view, the greatest value of Shangfei Factory is not the factory, but their technical strength and large number of experienced workers.

 In the meantime, Du Fei can use the human and material resources of Shangfei Factory for nothing.

These people have almost concentrated the best in the domestic aviation field. Before, Du Fei tried to recruit even Professor Chen, but now he just rolled them up.

 In the following days, as he said, Du Fei did not get deeply involved in the personnel management of Shangfei Factory, but only made more detailed work arrangements.

 The first step is to hand over the H-8 drawings and data brought to the newly established Y-9 project team. As for confidentiality issues, they do not exist in China.

 At this time, it was still a planned economy.

Besides, as long as the top doesn't loosen up, even if Shangfei Factory gets the drawings, it won't be able to produce it.

 Professor Chen is still taking the lead to design a four-engine large transport aircraft based on the H-8 and Yun-8 and with reference to the Soviet An-22.

In addition, Du Fei also mobilized a group of capable scientific research forces and formed a new project team.

 In fact, this is the key purpose of Du Fei's visit to Shanghai this time.

This new project team, with less than half the number of people in the Yun-9 project, will design a brand new twin-engine turboprop passenger aircraft based on the Yun-8, with the ability to take off and land in harsh conditions.

 This is Du Fei's plan long ago.

No matter what field it is in, although the military market is extremely profitable, it will never be as large as the civilian market.

Dufei builds this kind of aircraft just to occupy the low-cost aviation market.

  Relatively low cost, absolutely low cost of use, although it is uncomfortable and extremely noisy, it has the ability to take off and land at field airports similar to military aircraft, allowing this aircraft to open places that were originally unnavigable.

For example, Africa, the Middle East, South America, and some less developed island countries with beautiful scenery are the target customers of this kind of aircraft.

Du Fei knows that given his current situation, it will be difficult to compete with Boeing and empty shells in the future by following the normal path. Only by finding a new way and opening up a new battlefield can he gain a foothold in the civil aviation field.

At the same time, this project is also Du Fei’s reward from Shangfei Factory. These capable scientific research and technical personnel assigned to the new project team will be transferred back to the capital by him at the right opportunity.

Du Fei’s principle is: only eat meat and don’t chew bones.

 Director Lu knew this well but had to agree.

 Because this is the price that Shanghai Aircraft Factory must pay to remain independent in the future.