After the leader set the tone, COMAC immediately took action.

The next day, Master Yang and several engineers arranged time to come to Shancheng City in person, hoping to cooperate with the Phoenix Group on the "Tongtian Satellite Network".

The news of COMAC's upcoming visit was quickly reported to Hu Lai Lai. When he heard Factory Director Zhang's excited report, Hu Lai was still very surprised.

COMAC’s C919 is seeking cooperation with our “Tongtian Satellite”?!

Soon, Hu Lai began to learn more about COMAC's C919.

COMAC's C919 aircraft was initiated in 2011. After more than ten years, it finally obtained the airworthiness certificate from Yan Civil Aviation and began formal mass production.

Currently, it has orders for more than 800 aircraft from 28 airlines, but the only drawback is that there are relatively few foreign orders.

The reasons are, firstly, because neither Europe nor North America has approved the aircraft airworthiness certificate for the C919, and secondly, because the C919 is currently a brand-new aircraft, and objectively speaking, its competitiveness cannot compete with Airbus and Boeing in terms of reputation.

To put it simply, an aircraft airworthiness certificate is an aircraft certificate.

Only after an airworthiness certificate is issued will the C919 be considered an aircraft that meets safety standards, and only after passing the certification can many overseas airlines be able to purchase the C919.

Otherwise, which airline would dare to purchase an aircraft that is not certified?

The embarrassing part is that the Airbus aircraft itself is an aircraft produced by France, a member of the European Union, and Airbus aircraft are not just a French exclusive company as everyone imagined.

An Airbus aircraft is manufactured jointly by many large companies in Adelaide, France, Spain, and Great Britain. The entire industry chain connects hundreds of European companies...

Good guy!

The C919 is clearly a competitor of the Airbus A320, and it is clear that it is here to steal business from the entire EU.

Under such circumstances, you can completely imagine the European attitude towards this matter...

Not to mention North America.

Boeing is now showing signs of being overtaken by Airbus, and its financial reports have even seen huge losses.

Coupled with the recent conflicts between North America and Yanguo, it is surprising that the C919 airworthiness certificate can be approved.

In addition to the issue of airworthiness certificate, the C919 itself is obviously at a disadvantage in competition with Boeing and Airbus.

As we all know, in the global large passenger aircraft market, Boeing and Airbus have almost monopolized the entire passenger aircraft market.

But what many people don’t know is that thirty or forty years ago, the global large passenger aircraft market was very prosperous, and many aircraft manufacturers around the world had their own large passenger aircraft.

For example, Da Mao's IL-96 and Tu-204, such as the DC series produced by Douglas, such as the Concorde, the only supersonic passenger aircraft in history, and so on.

But what about in the end?!

Without exception, these aircraft manufacturers have gradually faded away from the stage of history due to many problems such as poor product competitiveness and poor management.

This is the inevitable direction of the development of the modern aviation industry.

All airlines are increasingly pursuing the economy and safety of aircraft, and have also put forward higher requirements for the cabin design, flight life, logistics, maintenance, performance, configuration, etc. of passenger aircraft.

Large passenger aircraft is a very complex large-scale project, covering many fields such as materials science and dynamics. If an aircraft manufacturing company does not have strong comprehensive scientific research strength as support, it will eventually be eliminated by the market because its products are not competitive enough.

COMAC's C919 large aircraft will obviously encounter equally fierce competition.

In addition, C919 also has great disadvantages in maintenance and after-sales.

Passenger aircraft is not as simple as buying a car. After purchasing the C919, the airline needs to specially deploy pilots to learn the C919 aircraft, and also needs to train maintenance personnel.

Even said.

The main models of Airbus and Boeing can be replaced with spare parts and aircraft maintenance at mainstream airports around the world, but what about the C919 aircraft?

Before it became a mainstream model in the world, it was obvious that it could only be maintained at designated airports...

All these will undoubtedly increase the airline's costs.

In other words, if the C919 cannot provide the core highlights that make all airlines act, why should others buy your aircraft?!

Airbus and Boeing have already experienced the test of the market, and the market is very mature. Isn’t it great?

After understanding the problems faced by C919, Hu Lai had an idea and vaguely guessed the purpose of COMAC's visit.

"Old Zhang, tomorrow you can personally greet the comrades from Shangfei..."

"OK."

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This day.

A group of five people led by Master Yang hurriedly drove to the Phoenix Group Industrial Park as soon as they got off the plane.

When several people arrived at the gate of the industrial park, Director Zhang had already been waiting for a long time.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Director Zhang found that the faces of everyone visiting him were full of surprise, and their eyes kept scanning around the industrial area.

In fact, before coming here, everyone at COMAC was still a little worried about cooperating with the Phoenix Group.

Although Phoenix Group has made great achievements in the satellite industry, the first impression given by Phoenix Group is that it is a company focusing on electronic products such as mobile phones and computers. It has always felt that it is not suitable for large aircraft manufacturing, which is at the top of the industrial field.

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But when they arrived at the place, they realized how stupid their previous ideas were!

Damn it, Phoenix Industrial Park is so big!

At a glance, you can see endless factories and production departments, and you can feel the strength of Phoenix Group without saying anything else.

The entire industrial park has a strong smell of manufacturing!

"Ah... Manager Zhang, your industrial park covers an area of ​​at least a thousand acres, right?"

“How many employees does such a large industrial park require?!”

"Not too many, not too many. We now have nearly 150,000 employees involved in front-line production."

"call……!"

Everyone looked at each other in shock.

And when Director Zhang invited a few people to get on the "unmanned park car" and walk around the park, several people were even more amazed, and their understanding of Phoenix Group's technological strength was once again refreshed.

After a while, Director Zhang led several people to the reception room.

Hu Lai also paid great attention to the arrival of COMAC personnel. After Director Zhang arranged the people to the living room, he personally brought two engineers from the satellite department to the living room not long after.

After some polite remarks, Master Yang, led by COMAC, went straight to the point.

He picked up several technical documents that he had prepared and handed them to Hu Lai and the engineer, and then said:

"Mr. Hu, Mr. Zhang, I won't be too polite."

"We are here this time hoping to cooperate with your company and use your company's 'Tongtian Satellite' to realize the 'global real-time tracking and positioning function' on our C919 aircraft."

"True realization of 24-hour global real-time positioning!"

"We have detailed the relevant functions and performance requirements in the document, you can take a look first."

Hu Lai nodded, and then briefly flipped through the technical documents handed over by Master Yang.

In fact, when COMAC proposed cooperation with the "Tongtian Satellite System" before, he guessed that the C919 might want to access the "Tongtian Satellite System" to achieve global tracking and positioning!

You know, although today's radio and radar technology are very advanced, they still cannot achieve full coverage of the aircraft without blind spots.

Why?

Because if civil aviation aircraft and ground air traffic control centers want to achieve communication, they rely on the connection between the aircraft and the radar stations and communication stations on the ground!

Once it encounters a desert, plateau or border area between two countries, where there is no ground radar coverage, the aircraft will disappear from the radar and lose contact temporarily.

However, if there are inaccessible areas such as the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, and there is no ground radar base station at all, then the passenger plane will lose contact with the air traffic control center for a long time, and no one knows where the plane flew to and what the specific situation is.

There is no way, this is an unsolvable drawback brought about by aircraft and ground communications.

Now, Phoenix Group's "Tongtian Satellite" has begun to achieve coverage in most areas of the world. As long as it is connected to the "Tongtian Satellite" system, in theory, direct communication between aircraft and satellites can fundamentally solve the problem of inability to be covered by ground radar base stations.

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It is completely possible to track the aircraft at any time 24 hours a day.

but.

Although he was aware of this, Hu Lai did not answer immediately. Instead, he looked at the satellite department engineer Sun Kai.

Sun Kai is a top engineer in the satellite department, and he was specially arranged by Hu Lai to do technical communication this time.

I saw him flipping through the technical documents with a serious look on his face, and then suddenly frowned.

Master Yang on the side felt a thump in his heart and thought something had happened. Unexpectedly, Sun Kai closed the technical document directly, turned to look at Hu Lai and said softly:

"Mr. Hu, there is no technical problem. This function is too simple."

What?!

So simple!

Several people from COMAC were stunned. When they came here, they were worried about whether Phoenix Group could realize this function.

But now it takes less than two minutes to make sure it’s OK?

Don’t want to communicate?
To be continued...