Chapter 1078 We Can Also Play the Environmental Protection Card

Sure enough, just as Du Yishan guessed.

Chang Haonan almost immediately announced the long-term goal of obtaining EASA and FAA airworthiness certification for AE1500.

If, at the beginning of the meeting, he caused silence with his achievements.

Now, it is his ambition that has caused an uproar.

China did achieve mutual recognition of airworthiness with the EU and the United States in 1997 and 1998 respectively.

This is also the main reason why SeA650 and Falcon 8Z can enter the international market without any obstacles.

Including the Xianzhou 60, it also occupies a considerable market share in the short-haul aviation field with its quietness and low cost.

Not only third world countries, but also several Central and Eastern European countries have entered the aviation market.

Even Tu-334 has sold dozens of aircraft by changing the skin of C808.

Objectively, it helped Tupolev, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.

But C909/Tu-214 failed to obtain airworthiness certification in Europe and the United States.

At present, there are still only two producing countries and some users under Western sanctions.

After all, the above are all strictly restricted.

The take-off weight is not more than 50 tons, and the maximum passenger capacity is not more than 100 seats.

That is, regional aircraft and business jets, as well as the corresponding supporting subsystems.

This part of the market is not mainstream in the entire aviation industry.

Even so, Chang Haonan seized a key node in the competition between Europe and the United States at that time, and barely won it.

But AE1500 is a completely different matter.

The thrust range is 11.5-14.5 tons.

Everyone knows that this is designed for trunk airliners.

Moreover, it is a trunk airliner of the level of Boeing 737/Airbus A320-

Although the size is not as dazzling as the giants such as Boeing 747 or Airbus A380.

But from the perspective of production share, it is an absolute backbone of the aviation transportation industry.

It is also the most important source of profit for the two major aviation companies Boeing and Airbus.

Although China has not yet announced the research and development plan for this level of passenger aircraft.

But if you apply for airworthiness certification for AE1500 now, it is obvious that you are preparing to grab the cake from your peers.

And you want to grab the biggest piece right from the start.

How can EASA and FAA easily give in?

But then again.

If this goal can be achieved, even if it is not the previous mutual recognition of airworthiness, the benefits it brings are almost incalculable.

On the one hand, AE1500 itself is very competitive. If it can be put into commercial use on a large scale around 2010, it will have a clear performance advantage within a few years, in other words, before the next generation of competitors' products enter service.

If there are no airworthiness issues, Airbus and Boeing may really dare to install it on the plane.

After all, capitalists can even sell their own hanging ropes when they are anxious, so installing a Huaxia engine is not a big problem.

On the other hand, it is more important.

This will be a leap from zero to one.

Once AE1500 passes the airworthiness certification, it will be much easier for Huaxia to pass the certification when it builds a passenger plane equipped with AE1500 engines in the future.

That would be the spring of China's aviation manufacturing industry.

Therefore, even the leader who said "no comments" before the meeting couldn't help but start a discussion with a few people around him.

Later, he probably remembered his previous promise and quickly shut up.

Chang Haonan also deliberately didn't continue immediately, but listened for a while.

In general, there were people with different attitudes at the scene.

But most people, including Li Zhongyi, still felt that the prospects were not optimistic.

However, although he said so, Chang Haonan, who was sharp-eyed, still noticed that the other party's notebook had a big circle around the four words "global airworthiness".

Obviously, he also had some ideas in his mind.

It's just that as the newly succeeded head of the Industrial Construction Committee, it's not good to draw too radical cakes right at the beginning...

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Of course, after all, it was a meeting, and it was impossible for everyone to completely leave Chang Haonan aside.

Therefore, after a few minutes, the noisy meeting room gradually quieted down.

"Comrade Haonan."

This time, it was Liu Zhenxiang who asked the question:

"Regarding this goal, are there some factors that are too uncontrollable?"

In fact, Liu Zhenxiang himself is more optimistic about Chang Haonan's goal.

The reason for asking this question is that there is really no other way-

Among the people sitting on the scene, only he is qualified to ask Chang Haonan this kind of question in the field of aeroengines.

And the latter certainly knows that this is part of the normal process.

After all, the project launch work is to ask questions.

It is impossible to end it in harmony and joy.

Therefore, he has been prepared for this:

"First of all, regarding uncontrollable factors...It is indeed foreseeable that neither EASA nor FAA can easily pass the airworthiness certification, so I set it as a medium- and long-term goal."

"As I said at the beginning of the meeting, my country is gradually and deeply participating in international aviation industry cooperation and gradually occupying an upstream position. Although it is difficult to shake the core discourse power of Europe and the United States in a short period of time, it can already exert some limited influence."

"In addition, it is foreseeable that in the next few years, Western countries will be more inclined to exert their strength in the field of environmental protection, and we can follow this trend, not only not to stop it, but to actively push it to the extreme. From the operational point of view, it is to launch or announce the launch of emission policies that are more stringent than those in Europe and the United States, thereby in turn restricting their products from entering the Chinese market and eventually forcing them to compromise."

"Of course, if you want to enter the European and American certified market, you can't eat alone. The good news is that we have reached a relatively good cooperative relationship with Rolls-Royce, and they are also worried about losing the huge market of 12-14 tons. If the British side agrees to provide support, then the possibility of introducing international cooperation in civilian models is not ruled out..."

"As for the initial period after the finalization... I believe that the military and domestic civilian markets are enough to form a positive cycle of user data and commercial costs..."

"..."

In fact, Chang Haonan's idea is somewhat similar to the new energy vehicles in the previous timeline-

You play the environmental protection card, and we can play it too.

First, Europe took the lead in issuing policies, saying that it would restrict or even completely ban the sale of fuel vehicles.

Although everyone knows that this is impossible, some people really believe it.

As a result, European car companies that were slow to react fell behind in this field, and were overtaken by their Chinese counterparts.

It even led to the development of Chinese fuel vehicle technology.

Even if they came to their senses later and began to use non-market means to protect their own market.

But on the one hand, at least the Chinese market has completely changed, ending the good days when foreign companies could make money without doing anything.

On the other hand, closing the market is equivalent to giving up the right to speak.

From the perspective of industry development, it is like drinking poison to quench thirst.

The specific situation in the aviation field is of course much more complicated.

For example, the users are mainly large airlines, not private individuals, and the degree of control and closure of the market is far greater than that of the automotive industry.

But the principle is actually similar.

Moreover, Chang Haonan's goal is relatively conservative. He did not say that he would rely on the AE1500 model to turn the tables and crush the United States and Britain.

He just wanted to participate in the ranks of sharing the cake.

He even planned to give Rolls-Royce a piece.

There is always some operability.

Of course, all this has a premise.

That is, the aero-engine produced by China, regardless of other performance, at least it must be more environmentally friendly than similar products in Europe and the United States.

Otherwise, the last operation will be counterproductive and harm itself.

Therefore, Liu Zhenxiang quickly said:

"So, specifically on the technical level, although the CFM56-7B is a model of several years ago, as Comrade Haonan just said, it is still the performance benchmark of the same level of aero-engines at present, so... in the case that basic disciplines such as materials science cannot make significant breakthroughs in a short period of time, how can we achieve the indicators in the table just now?"

This question is actually a bit like passing a message to Chang Haonan.

"This is exactly what I will introduce next..."

The latter smiled, while answering, he returned to the back of the small podium and turned to the next page of the PPT.

It is a 3D schematic diagram of a large bypass ratio aero-engine.

"We are going to learn from the ideas in the field of gas turbines and move the intercooling and heat recovery technology... Of course, strictly speaking, it is the intercooling system first, and then the complete intercooling and heat recovery system, to the aero-engine!"