Chapter 175 The Germans Are Going Against the Sky
Mbb Group's aircraft factory in Finkway District has a very long history. Not only does the factory area cover a huge area, it also has a factory-specific wharf on the Elbe River.
Liang Yuan stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the red and white building on the river bank with some emotion. He took a plane to Hamburg in his previous life. Before landing at Finkweld Airport, he looked down through the plane's porthole. The most obvious marker was this octopus-like office building.
However, at that time, the Mbb company had already been merged by Mercedes-Benz Daimler Group. One of the two overlords in the sky, the second production line outside the Toulouse production line in the French headquarters of Airbus Group was established here.
The captain of the "Rainbow Warrior" obviously often runs this route. He is familiar with the road and parks the yacht steadily on the factory dock, without even the feeling of a collision.
Jiang Qingmin, the head of the mpc75 project team who came by land by bus in advance, led the employees of the 7, 8 mpc75 project team and the three and four Germans standing on the dock waiting for the arrival of Liu Wenyue and Edmiston.
The straightforward and old-fashioned Germans did not prepare any welcome ceremony, so they took Liu Wenyue directly onto the electric car driving in the factory and began the tour process.
In terms of industrial automation alone, the developed Western industrial countries had been very perfect in the late 1980s, and the infrastructure was extremely mature. Even compared with advanced factories twenty years later, there was only a huge gap in software such as information communication and data processing, and other basic hardware facilities were limited.
Although for Liang Yuan, the engineers in the Mbb factory who hold coffee and eat snacks when working are much more interesting than visiting neat and clean factories and nearly magical CNC machine tools.
Two hours later, the group of people who visited the factory came to the large conference room of Mbb Company. As soon as they entered the door, Liang Yuan saw a huge mpc75 passenger plane model painted in red and white, steadily placed in the center of the strip table in the conference room.
Liang Yuan walked around the strip table and was about to find a place next to Liu Wenyue, but found that the other side of the passenger plane model was a transparent shell made of resin, and the seat layout in the cabin was clearly visible. What was even more interesting was that the rear wing of the passenger plane was painted with an artistic red phoenix. It was the signature of China International Airlines. It was the only one in the world.
It seems that the Germans have put in a lot of effort and are really looking forward to the Republic, Liang Yuan thought to himself.
In Liang Yuan's last life, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Germany, which had been unified at that time, still sent people to the Republic to seek cooperation on the mpc75 project. It even offered conditions for signing an intergovernmental implementation agreement. It planned to attract the Republic to invest in the mpc75 project.
Unfortunately, the United States McDonald launched a counterattack at that time and released personnel from the Republic to produce equipment and intellectual property rights and materials. It adopted a method similar to the cooperation between Germany Volkswagen and the Republic to jointly produce the McDonald 90 trunk passenger aircraft, and finally completely ruined the MPC75 project.
When everyone sat around a long strip table, a typical Germanic aunt took a stack of thick information to everyone.
Liang Yuan looked at the detailed explanation of the mpc75 plan on the information in front of him, and did not have the intention to listen to the verbal tests between the two old foxes, Liu Wenyue and Edmiston. He threw the translation matter to the staff sent by the embassy, and picked up the information and read it.
This is a newly designed medium- and short-distance regional passenger aircraft, which adopts a 3+2 seating mode and uses first-class cabin comfort standards, providing passengers with a more comfortable ride experience than large trunk passenger aircraft.
The mpc75 passenger aircraft is a technologically advanced regional passenger aircraft. Advanced technology will ensure that the mpc75 has extremely low fuel consumption and operating costs, which will greatly improve the economic benefits of operators and achieve unparalleled profit growth. The operation of the mpc75 passenger opportunity greatly improves the competitiveness of the airline.
The forward-looking design concept and the choice of world-class subsystem suppliers will ensure the leading level of mpc75 passenger aircraft technology. Even if it enters the new century, mpc75 passenger aircraft will still be the technical leader of regional passenger aircraft.
The end of the plan was magnificent and extremely loud, which made Liang Yuan feel shocked.
mpc75 branch passenger aircraft is divided into two models, mpc75100 and mpc75200. The 100 model is expected to be its first flight in the fall of 1993 and will be delivered to the first order user at the end of 1995. The 200 model is expected to be its first flight in 1994 and will be delivered to the first order user in 1996.
Below the text is a three-view of the mpc75 aircraft and a brief timeline of the project. It is marked on it that the mpc75 project was officially launched in 1985. It is expected that all technical verification will be completed in the summer of 1990s, the design will be officially locked, and then the parts of the first mpc75 passenger aircraft will be manufactured in early 1991.
It doesn't seem special. Looking at the 10-year-old passenger aircraft development plan in front of me, I think about the domestic regional passenger aircraft Arj21 that I built in the Republic before traveling through the project in 2002. Although it was not delivered before Liang Yuan passed through, it was only in the past ten years after careful calculation. Based on the industrial foundation of the Republic, the arj21 is doing pretty well.
Of course, some people at COMAC bragged about the chair under their butt or the official hat on their heads, and they had to say that the arj21 passenger plane was delivered to use in 2007, which was purely seeking death, and being scolded was completely worthy of being scolded.
With a messy thought in his head, Liang Yuan turned the plan in his hand another page.
The second chapter of the plan is not much. In addition to the detailed schematic diagrams of the graded cockpits of the six-pair 100 and 200 passenger planes, there are also data on the aircraft's range, maximum takeoff weight, maximum fuel-free mass, etc.
However, after Liang Yuan finished reading the second piece of paper, he could no longer calm down. As a veteran military fan who cares about the military of the Republic, he could still distinguish the quality of an aircraft through the key data of the aircraft and the design purpose. After Liang Yuan roughly read the data listed in the plan, the Germans' purpose was obvious.
The ranges of the mpc75100 and mpc75200 basic passenger aircraft are 2963 kilometers and 2592 kilometers respectively, and the ranges of the mpc75100er (er is the extended range) and mpc75200er can reach a maximum range of 5001 kilometers and 4445 kilometers.
In conjunction with the selection of the upper segmented fuel tank, the mpc75 passenger plane will be able to perform flight missions on all routes below 5,000 kilometers.
Among the three regions with the most dense air routes in the world in later generations, the distance between the east and west coasts of the United States is about 4,500 kilometers, the Republic is about 5,000 kilometers from east to west, and Spain at the westernmost end of Europe to Moscow at the easternmost end of Europe is also about 5,000 kilometers, which means that the mpc75 passenger plane has fully covered all routes except ultra-long-range intercontinental routes.
The normal passenger capacity of the mpc75100 is 89 people, the passenger capacity is 82 people when using the secondary warehouse layout, and the passenger capacity is 104 people when using the high-density layout.
The normal passenger capacity of the mpc75200 is 115 people, the passenger capacity is 107 people when using the secondary warehouse layout, and the number of passengers when using the high-density layout is as many as 134 people.
What the Germans are going to do? From these seemingly ordinary data, Liang Yuan seemed to be able to see the Germans' extremely huge ambitions.
At present, the Boeing 737300, 737400, 737500 third series passenger aircraft, which is currently in full swing, has a passenger capacity of only 132 people and 168 people when adopting a high-density layout.
Liang Yuan turned to the previous page and found three views of the mpc75. He looked at the mpc75, which was still a bit short and thick body, and the Germans obviously prepared in advance. As long as they connect the body more than 3 meters and six rows of seats, there is basically no need to change it. It is really easy for the future mpc75300 model to exceed 160 passenger capacity.
Chapter completed!