Chapter 848: Venting Out Discontent

In fact, the military version of the American Boeing four-seat aircraft of the same level as the Shi-10 aircraft has always been responsible for a large number of military transportation tasks. There is nothing outdated. The Sidu has been flying for almost fifty years and is still the main force of the US Strategic Air Force.

If it was because of lack of money, how could it then spend billions of dollars to import American aircraft?

Any product, the first one created from scratch, will never be perfect, and it will be rejected just because it has insignificant shortcomings. This ended China's success in manufacturing large aircraft with its own raw materials, or because of a little bit of personality. People's selfish interests have caused China to artificially lag behind Sanfeng for many years in this field. It is indeed completely ridiculous.

"Let's not mention this. China has lost too many opportunities. I hope our cooperation today will be a good start. If we can achieve results within ten years, I can still fly around the world on our own domestically produced large aircraft. Circle." Boss Zhu said with emotion.

Fan Wuzian nodded, thinking that this goal should be achievable, or it could be done faster.

In the next few days, the State Council held a working meeting of relevant units. The main topic was to discuss the integration of the domestic aviation manufacturing industry. Of course, on a small scale, it also discussed whether China's fighter jet project will be completed in the near future. Discussion on the subject of mounting a horse.

The strategic goal stipulated by the state for the large aircraft project is to operate large civilian aircraft. The focus of debate in the aviation industry for decades has not been military aircraft, but large civilian aircraft. The fuse of the debate over large aircraft projects has always been China. The question is whether to fly large passenger planes.

The large-scale aircraft project marks the beginning of a historical turning point in China's economic development. It marks the shift of China's industrial development from reliance on foreign technology to independent innovation, and its rise from being trapped in low-end economic activities to the high-end field. Therefore, the strategic goals of this project must be understood in the sense of transforming China's economic growth model.

Large civil passenger aircraft are the crown jewel of the aviation industry, with the most complex technology, the highest quality requirements, and the greatest economic benefits involved. For the large aircraft project, the country mobilizes the strength of the whole country in the form of a country to establish a product development platform on which the technical capabilities of large aircraft are generated, developed and improved, and is organized in the form of a competitive enterprise through continuous product development and technological progress. Realize industrialization and eventually form a tripartite rivalry with the United States and Europe in this high-tech, high-value-added industrial field.

Fan Heng and Fan Wubing, father and son, also participated in this discussion. At the meeting, some people still put forward the old saying that it is better to buy than to build and to rent instead of buying. The implication must be that they are unwilling to give up the current comprador mentality. He is willing to give up the vested interests he has gained and is full of pessimism about the country's own large-scale aircraft project.

Naturally, many people hope to launch a large aircraft project in Malaysia, because this can revive many aviation manufacturing companies and bring a large number of job opportunities to the country.

After Fan Wubing listened to their quarrel for two days,

I felt very depressed, and finally expressed my opinion during the recess, "Contrary to what many people imagine, technical capabilities cannot be obtained through the free market mechanism. The reason is that technical capabilities are endogenous to the organization, and its important components can only be obtained through free market mechanisms." Tacit knowledge from experience. Therefore, a large amount of publicly flowing technical information and the technical capabilities to exploit this information are two different things. In addition, companies in backward countries will face when investing in technological learning due to the gap between them and advanced countries. Huge risks. Therefore, as the historical experience of all successful countries has proved, the development of technological capabilities depends on high-intensity technical learning, enterprising corporate strategies and unswerving national will. The significance of implementing major national projects in key areas is also an essential element for the success of large aircraft projects.”

Many people attending the meeting did not know Fan Wubing very well, and they all looked at this young man in whispers and made remarks that were completely inappropriate for his age. They were all surprised at how he could appear here and have the power to speak. ?

Fan Wubing ignored their reactions and continued, "If the large aircraft project succeeds, it will revitalize China's aviation industry and a series of related industries, and will create new opportunities in related fields including services. A large number of high-paying jobs. Not only that, it will also make China's air power more secure. It will create structural changes in China’s position in the world economy and will provide a powerful means to ensure China’s political independence and national sovereignty. This is a project for a strong country.”

After taking a breath, Fan Wubing slapped the table angrily and said, "On the contrary! While countless technical talents are working hard for the rise of China's national industry, some people are outsourcing aircraft for a little selfish gain. For a small kickback, in exchange for the foreign company's promise of their children studying abroad, and for some other benefits, they can actually betray their unfaithful behavior for the large aircraft project. How shameless!"

After Fan Wubing's words came out, everyone in the venue was shocked. No one expected that someone would bring up such a sensitive topic on this occasion, especially those in charge of passenger aircraft procurement. The person in charge of the project, whose face turned blue and white, was very ugly, in this kind of large-scale procurement case that often costs billions or tens of billions of dollars. If you say you are as innocent as a virgin, it is simply an insult to the word virgin. Who doesn't have a little bit of dirt on their butt that hasn't been wiped clean?

Soon everyone understood the identity of the young man in front of them, and they all took a breath of cold air. No wonder he had such confidence to slap the table at a high-level seminar held by the State Council. You have strength and confidence! Besides, what they said is correct, every word makes sense!

New China's aviation industry has a history of more than 40 years. It has an industrial scale second only to the United States and Russia, with more than 500,000 employees in the industry. Thirty-four, ministerial-level research institutes, fifty factory-level research institutes and more than one hundred. Large and medium-sized enterprises. There are six national key laboratories and 38 national key laboratories as well as one of the world’s most advanced wind tunnel test bases.

However, the Chinese aviation industry has followed a path of repeated defeats or failures in the field of civil aircraft for more than 20 years. In particular, the legacy transportation project that was launched in 1970, successfully tested in 1980, and was forced to be discontinued in 1985 has always been a historical event that cannot be avoided. Yunjiu is a major national project comparable to two bombs and one satellite. Analyzing the causes and consequences of its success or failure is a key to understanding the problems existing in China's aviation industry. Therefore, Fan Wubing directly opened up this matter without giving any attention to the people at the time. Take charge of any face in the human world.

From the perspective of technical capability development, Yunhuai is only a product development platform for small aircraft and China's first large-scale civil aircraft. In other words, Yunjiu was not only the embodiment of China's aviation technical capabilities at that time, but also the basis for further improving its technical capabilities.

The development of technical capabilities cannot be separated from the material objects of R&D activities, so product design, which represents the final results of corporate R&D activities, becomes the "step" or "working platform" on which the company's technical capabilities are developed, which is the so-called "opening platform". "

If a product design becomes a development platform, the company must own intellectual property rights for the product design, because without intellectual property rights, there is no right to modify and re-develop it, and it cannot become a working platform for the development of the company's technical capabilities.

The McDonnell Douglas aircraft once assembled by the China Aviation Industry and the foreign brand cars assembled by the China Automobile Industry through joint ventures are not product development platforms of the Chinese industry. This is because China does not have the intellectual property rights to the design of these products and cannot modify or renovate these products. open.

There are two ways to obtain intellectual property rights, design yourself or outsource product design. However, effective technology transfer requires that the technology recipient must demonstrate considerable capabilities, and striving to develop such capabilities is the process of generating independent development capabilities.

Obviously. Having an independent product development platform for the Dafeiquan project is of great significance to technological progress and the development of technical capabilities.

"People who defend the abandonment of the YFK always say that the YFK is a model developed in imitation of Boeing and had fallen behind in the 1980s. In fact, the YFK is a Boeing 4, even if the YFK is a Boeing R&D model, then the key to the problem is It’s not about whether it lags behind Boeing, but about the product development platform that China has not surpassed or even barely reached after the discontinuation of Yunjia. Wu Bing said sadly, “If this platform had been retained at that time, it would have been possible.” Continuous improvement on this platform. The result will inevitably be that on the one hand, the technical level of the product will continue to improve, and on the other hand, the technical capabilities of the development team will continue to grow.

On the contrary, the result of abandoning the operation of old platforms is to interrupt the process of technological learning in China's civil aviation industry.

After Fan Wubing finished speaking, he received a warm welcome from many technical staff, especially some old experts who had made many contributions to the aviation industry of New China. They all came over to shake hands with him. Many people had old eyes in front of them. Tears flowed freely, many of them were participants in the old project. Thinking about what happened back then, I feel a little sad.

"If I can restart the big aircraft project this time, I think I can still contribute again." A well-known aerodynamics expert who is almost 70 years old held Fan Wubing's hand and said to him with some regret.

Fan Wubing's heart was also very uneasy. In fifteen years, so many people's youth had been delayed.