Chapter 1023: Sit at Home and Live From Heaven

Tens of thousands of pounds per year, this investment is significant for aerospace research...

Not even a drop in the bucket.

At best, it's equivalent to a sneeze.

Even if Mr. Chang was brought here from China, he would have to say that I can't do the job.

So in fact, no one expects Ciro Company to actually use the money to conduct scientific research.

The actual use is closer to public relations funds——

Just find a few influential people in China to cooperate, do some feasibility reports or market research, send the money out, and treat it as a relationship...

At the beginning of the 21st century, the exchange rate of the pound was still relatively strong.

Although it is not much when converted into RMB, it is absolutely clean white money after all, which is still somewhat attractive.

Therefore, Norris's answer is a mixed blessing for everyone.

Worryingly, this situation is a bit embarrassing now——

Yes, the senior management of the group do not understand aviation development.

But they understand financial statements.

If you say that this technology was jointly developed by Ciro Company and Huaxia, then when others look at it, they will find that tens of thousands of pounds per year can produce such a big job.

When I apply for project funds in the future, it will be difficult to ask for figures in the tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

Who else understands the urinary nature of capitalists better than the British?

If you overfulfill the task today, it will directly become a KPI tomorrow.

As for joy...

After all, some operating space was still reserved and the road was not completely blocked.

"Who is the person in charge of Siro Company?"

Tim Purdy asked.

"George Breen, and Adam Whittle."

This kind of thing is more familiar to Norris, who is also a middle-level administrative manager:

"Among them, Brin once served as the representative of the office in Brazil. As for Whittle, he seems to be an engineer..."

"I have an impression of this guy."

Lapworth suddenly interjected:

"When the RB211-535E4 was upgraded, he seemed to be in charge of the fuel and oil system. Later, something happened to this part during testing, and the machine almost crashed and everyone was killed..."

It was clear that Whittle's impression on him was not due to anything honorable.

"Well……"

Norris found the right opportunity and quickly interrupted this suspected behavior of settling old scores:

"In short...he was first sent to China because China introduced our SPEI MK202 engine..."

At this moment, everyone suddenly showed expressions of realization——

He was sent there.

But in the blink of an eye, I couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Just less than ten years ago, the so-called "technical exchange" between China and the United Kingdom consisted of buying completely outdated and even second-hand equipment and technology from the latter.

Now, the situation has reversed. A group of Britain's top aerospace engineers are considering how to quietly cooperate with the Chinese to defeat their opponents from North America.

Under the mixed emotions, the situation turned out to be a bit cold.

"well--"

In the end, thousands of words converged into a sigh from Lapworth:

"Anyway, let's contact Siro Company first..."

"If Sibei's technology transfer and improvement projects had not been completed, we might have been able to find some financial loopholes..."

As the discussion came to an end, everyone left the suite that belonged to Bodi one after another.

"Professor, please stay."

Bodie called from behind and stopped Professor Elinor who was packing his things and about to get up.

The latter stopped what he was doing and raised his head, with some questions in his eyes.

"I remember you mentioned just now that the SeA650 is equipped with a permanent magnet fault-tolerant power generation system..."

Bodi said and sat on another sofa next to him:

"Are you sure it's the technology we know..."

"Judging from their description, it should be so."

Elinor nodded.

Then without waiting for the other party to speak again, he said bluntly:

"But if you want to acquire this technology through pure cooperation or introduction, I can only be pessimistic."

Bodi was not embarrassed when his thoughts were seen through, and just asked:

"Why?"

Elinor smiled, obviously very confident in his judgment:

"The Chinese should have no obstacles to technology transfer, or at least cooperation... But are you sure the Americans are willing to use Chinese subsystems in their air force equipment?"

However, Bodi's reaction was a sneer:

"Heh... just like before, can't we just not let the Americans know?"

Although Elinor did not explicitly state the source of this technology at the beginning, he had actually already guessed it.

So I didn’t feel particularly shocked at this meeting. Instead, I directly drew inferences from one example:

"Just say that we developed it and then outsourced it... Anyway, Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney are already so busy with the F35 and F135 that they don't care about these details..."

In one sentence, Professor Elinor of the Classical School would be incapable of doing anything.

"..."

He choked for a long time, not thinking about what he should say at this time.

Finally, I had to scratch my head:

"Then if that's the case...you can really give it a try..."

"But I have to remind you that the rotor support system is very important in aviation development. If you want to entrust others to develop it, you have to hand over part of the F135 data..."

Although Bodi had just shown that he was not afraid of anything, he still felt a little hesitant when he heard these words.

Both business and technical issues are easy to discuss.

But this matter may involve security aspects...

The Americans' long-arm jurisdiction is quite scary.

Especially since he is still in the UK.

It's even scarier.

"I'd better think about it again..."

…

The other side.

When the air show ended and Liu Yongquan ended his entire trip and returned to China, it was already three days later.

The harvest from this business trip can be said to be fruitful.

Therefore, he didn't even care about rest and jet lag. After getting off the plane, he went straight to the headquarters of the Aviation Power Group.

In fact, if he came back two days earlier, he wouldn't even be able to see Chang Haonan——

The latter had just returned to the capital from the testing site in western Mongolia the previous afternoon, which also happened to be the first day of rework...

"Old Liu?"

When Chang Haonan came back from lunch, he unexpectedly saw the dusty Liu Yongquan at the door of the office:

"Didn't you just come back from France? You don't need to be so anxious about your business trip report. Anyway, SeA650 won't make any big mistakes..."

He said as he took out the key and opened the door.

"Uh...I haven't started organizing the business trip report yet."

Liu Yongquan took a deep breath, cheered up and followed Chang Haonan in:

"It's another matter. I think it's more important, so I'll tell you in advance."

Chang Haonan, who was entering the password, immediately became interested:

"Elaborate."

He can still trust Liu Yongquan's judgment ability.

"This time when we took a full-scale model of the SeA650 to the European Business Aviation Show, we met a group of... engineers from Rolls-Royce."

"Although the person didn't clearly state his purpose of coming, he just pretended to be a normal customer attending the meeting and asked us some questions about engine performance, but I judged that the other person might be interested in some of our technologies..."

In fact, this is a pure mistake.

Professor Elinor's personal "interest" in SeA650 is purely out of curiosity as a scientific researcher.

As for the plan to cooperate with China, that was an idea that came later, and it has nothing to do with Elinor...

"Our technology..."

Chang Haonan came to the conclusion after only a short period of thinking:

"At the level of Rolls-Royce, I'm afraid I can't appreciate the overall design of SeA650..."

"Then the only ones left are the permanent magnet fault-tolerant power generation system and air film cooling technology?"

"That's right."

Liu Yongquan's tired face showed unconcealable excitement:

"That person's stay in those two parts was particularly long and he was asking a lot of questions."

"And I think they should be very anxious and I'm afraid they will get in touch with us soon."

"You're not showing it on purpose, are you?"

Chang Haonan was a little suspicious.

Mainly because he thought about it for a while and couldn't remember which of Luo Luo's projects was in trouble right now——

He knew that the EJ200 had hidden flaws, but that was the fault of the earliest structural design.

The rest of the models seemed to have been completed step by step in previous lives.

"Won't."

Liu Yongquan’s attitude is very positive:

"They actually behaved very normally at the scene, but the questions they asked were all basic design information that the normal civil aviation association would gradually release."

"If you are not in a hurry with these things, you can just continue to pay attention to the publicity from Snecma and Dassault. There is no need to go to Switzerland..."

This explanation is well-founded and convincing.

Chang Haonan dragged his chin with one hand and tapped lightly on the table with the other hand:

"If this is the case, then the British will most likely test us through the Ciro Company soon."

"However, Comrade Yongquan"

He paused for a moment, looked at Liu Yongquan opposite, and at the same time changed into a rather formal tone:

"No matter what form or name it takes in the end, if the cooperation is reached, then considering the actual situation of Xiro Company, there is a high probability that it will be handed over to Haofa Group to be actually responsible. For this... you must be mentally prepared."

"Hey...Mr. Chang, I still have this overall perspective."

Liu Yongquan acted quite indifferent:

"The various units under our group are like a rope... ahem - it means that one will prosper and the other will suffer. No matter who it is handed over to, the whole will benefit."

"Besides, even if the project is handed over to Haofa Group, the people who are familiar with these two technologies are still with us..."

Chang Haonan was still very satisfied with this statement.

The road is widened.

Of course, he just nodded on the surface:

"After you go back, you really have to select some good seedlings who have participated in the SeA650 project and send them to fly for a while. One or two may even stay there directly."

"However, I don't just ask you to contribute... Luo Luo has a very strong family background and has a lot of research projects in hand. Whether it is a turbofan or a turboprop, they are all the most advanced models in their respective categories, so we cooperate with them. , it is also an opportunity for us to learn and communicate..."