Yang Wanli and others came to Xihang Engine Factory smoothly with Qiu Jinsong's help, and watched the Spey engine in a lying state, which is now called the WT9.

Accompanied by the director of Xi'an Airways Foundry, they visited some of the very old Xi'an Airways factories. This airline company was established in the late 1950s. After it was established, it immediately undertook the manufacturing work of H-6. It can be imagined that its years and vicissitudes are going to happen!

The exchange team had already seen the downs and downs of domestic aviation companies when they were in Shenfei. Unexpectedly, at Western Airlines, they had regained their understanding of the domestic aviation industry!

Most of these members are graduates directly recruited from colleges and universities. It is impossible to go too far when you are in an internship in a company, which is just in Hafei. In the past two years, the Hafei factory has changed a lot. Because it is rich to sell cars, the factory has also been renovated and expanded.

During school, seniors and seniors occasionally talk about things about enterprises. The current situation of industrial enterprises in China seems to be not very good, and the speakers are sad and sad. Now the country is undergoing a serious economic transformation, and many national defense enterprises are in trouble and difficult business days and are beginning to accelerate the pace of turning to the production of private goods.

Most of these companies are short of money and funds, and it is common for deducting wages. The reason why these young people abandoned the school's allocation and came to joint ventures is because they have heard of it a lot before and have seen the prosperity of Bincheng Industrial New District with their own eyes. Compared with the situation I learned, the life of state-owned enterprises is really difficult, but joint ventures are very vital and burst out with vitality!

At Xi'an Airlines, they saw only a dozen technicians gathered together in the workshop of tens of thousands of square meters to do research, while other personnel either chatted and spanked or simply didn't come. I heard that the employees who did not come went to the city to find ways to make money to supplement their family income. They roasted sweet potatoes and set up small stalls to sell clothing. These days, people who are really good at selling tea eggs than those who are engaged in missiles!

They were also allowed to enter the huge warehouse of Western Airlines and check out the British raw materials and components of the Spey engine. Although it was Rolls-Royce's 6th-year technology, it would take more than ten years to digest and absorb such things in China!

After years of hard work, Air China has assembled and manufactured more than two turbofan 9 (SB) engines, two of which were specially transported to the UK to conduct high-altitude performance, functions, reignition tests and minus 4c cold start tests on high-altitude platforms, and conducted strength tests and assessments on five parts.

On May 3, 2019, China and the UK signed the assessment and test report. So far, China successfully passed various assessment tests of the turbofan 9 engine trial-made using British wool materials. The original plan was to continue the domestic wool materials trial-made, but due to the adjustment of the national economy in the years, the progress of domestic production was delayed. The wool materials bought from the UK at high prices were placed in the warehouse in a deserted and quiet manner!

Members of the China Eastern Airlines Industrial Exchange Group saw at least two engines that were very lacking in maintenance here, and they couldn't help but feel a pity.

Yang Wanli knew that since the beginning of one year, the Shaanxi National Defense Science and Technology Commission has organized the study and promotion of 42 new technologies, including mechanical processing, heat treatment, non-destructive flaw detection, etc. in military systems and other units in other departments and industries. Later, the State Council instructed the promotion and transplantation of SPEM technology in an organized, planned and step-by-step manner across the country. Four large-scale promotion meetings were held, and 161 technical report meetings were organized. 12 issues of the SSPEM technology data album were compiled and printed, and a large number of business backbones were cultivated for hundreds of units to promote and apply SSPEM technology. These technologies and these people promoted many units to improve processes, solved technical problems, and promoted production and scientific research very well!

He couldn't help but ask Hu Hanbin, the director of the Xi'an Airway Foundry, who was accompanying, and said, "I heard that you are doing the SB technology promotion work, and our China Eastern Airlines Industrial Company also wants to participate. You Xi'an Airways people are welcome to our company to talk about their technical promotion experience!"

Hu Hanbin smiled heartily and said, "Okay, as long as you welcome us, you will go. This is a good thing for both parties to benefit!"

Yang Wanli looked at Hu Hanbin with a sudden look at the engine, then pointed to the two Spey engines that lacked maintenance and said, "How about these two engines sold to our China Eastern Airlines Corporation?"

"This?" Hu Hanbin was shocked when he heard that Yang Wanli wanted to buy their engine. There was no problem in promoting technology, but he couldn't promise anything to sell aircraft engines.

Because the fighter jet equipped with SPEB has not been decided yet, the engine of this model is almost like the Turbofan 6, and maybe it will be disbanded one day, but Xi'an Airlines is not yet in the dilemma of selling aircraft engines!

However, Hu Hanbin thought about it again that an aircraft engine costs a lot of money, and this proposal was not something he could easily dispel!

Hu Hanbin hesitated and nodded heavily and said to Yang Wanli: "Speed ​​now has no aircraft matching. I think if China Eastern Airlines Industries needs it, it can be raised by the superiors of Xi'an Airlines!"

Yang Wanli nodded happily and said, "Our China Eastern Airlines Industries Corporation has also ordered two turbofan 6 modified engines at 66 and Leonard Engine Factory. They are currently producing spare parts and starting assembly, each priced at 20,000 US dollars, which is specially used for reference work for our company!"

"20,000? US dollars?" Hu Hanbin was shocked. He did not expect that this joint venture aircraft manufacturer with foreign-invested participation was so rich. He was willing to pay so much money for reference and it was US dollars!

"Hmm!" Yang Wanli nodded reservedly, and Qiu Jinsong, who was accompanying him next to him, also looked at him in surprise.

Hu Hanbin immediately asked loudly: "Do you have the final say? Do you need to ask your boss?"

Yang Wanli smiled and said, "Don't worry, this is also a matter decided by the upper level of our company. Dongxing Group is our parent company, how could it cost you money!"

Hu Hanbin also thought about which company Dongxing Group was. China is too big and the information circulation is extremely slow in the era. The Northwest region is completely unaware of what happened in the Northeast and will not care about where it is, and vice versa.

"Okay, Mr. Yang, wait for me to call the factory leader. I'll be back soon!" Hu Hanbin nodded and then recruited an employee to take care of the visitors and hurriedly ran towards the factory building.

Qiu Jinsong pulled Yang Wanli's clothes and asked, "Your company really paid 40,000 US dollars to buy two turbofans for 6 modifications?"

Yang Wanli nodded for granted and asked, "Yes, what's wrong?"

Qiu Jinsong opened his eyes wide and said, "What's wrong? Oh, it's a pity. If I bargained, I could save half of the price for your company. I think it would be enough to buy the turbofan 6 series engine that had been disbanded! Dawn Factory and 66 may have sold their previous machines to you. You are such a sucker!"

Yang Wanli smiled and shook his head repeatedly and said, "It's not wrong or wrong. You don't know this. We have also learned a lot of skills from them, and in the future, we will send personnel to them for internships. This will lay a good foundation for China Eastern Airlines Industries to pay some tuition. The boss said that I should give some money, what else do I say!"

Yang Wanli said this, but he thought in his mind that it was so exciting to make a decision. He would buy whatever he said he would buy and go to the project he would go to!

After learning that China Eastern Airlines had the idea of ​​buying a Spey engine, the leaders of Xi'an Aircraft Corporation quickly held an important meeting. After asking the superiors for no comments, they finally made a difficult decision to sell a Spey engine to China Eastern Airlines!

The reason why it is difficult is that they do want to sell two units, but everyone knows that one unit is just two units too much. It’s better to keep a low profile when doing such a business!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, China Eastern Airlines Industrial Company also proposed a series of technology introduction projects to Xifei. During the process of copying, SBE introduced new processes and new technologies at the level of the 7th level, including electrolytic processing, electron beam welding, laboratory control, detection and measurement, precision casting, and precision forging. The processing of turbofan 9 parts and process equipment is generally higher than that of domestic native machines.

Through trial production, Xihang Engine Factory has mastered 13 advanced technologies with the world's advanced level at that time, including metal spraying, vacuum heat treatment, pipe trajectory welding, vacuum brazing, CNC bending, and large-scale receiver electrolytic processing. There are also 46 process technologies that have reached the most advanced level in China, including soft Yin-Yang molding, peristaltic grinding.

Although state-owned enterprises of these advanced technologies and processes don’t spend much money to withdraw, joint ventures cannot be so blatant. After all, the SB project was introduced by the state for RMB 1.2 billion.

The UK transferred the licensing rights and technical information to China for the production of SB, providing all assembly and parts drawings, process procedures, as well as various technical specifications, instructions and tooling drawings, and dispatched experts to provide technical assistance.

It is impossible to get these things without paying a lot of money. These soft power can eventually be obtained, but Xifei's 100 million-dollar production lines and processing equipment also made the visiting and exchange team of China Eastern Airlines secretly envious.

Yang Wanli asked Xifei to buy it with greed. Anyway, Xifei has not used these equipment to be rusted and rusted. It is better to sell it to China Eastern Airlines Corporation at one time!

But his request was rejected by Xifei without thinking. Yang Wanli also knew that his proposal was too outrageous. Even if the country agreed, Xifei would not agree. The production line and these processing equipment introduced will be Xifei's future reliance!

It is worth mentioning that in recent years, Xifei has been working on compressor blade casting technology. Yang Wanli also put forward the idea of ​​cooperative experiments on this technology. China Eastern Airlines Industrial Company provides funds and R&D personnel to study in Xifei and work with Xifei researchers to overcome this technical difficulty. At the same time, they will also send personnel to station Xifei to learn the manufacturing and assembly process of the Spey engine.

It should be said that Xifei is now in a period of extreme desire for funds. Because their new bomber project was dropped, the Feibao fighter has not been recognized by its superiors for a long time. Xifei is now in a situation where the east wall is demolished and the west wall is repaired.

Of course they welcomed China Eastern Airlines' proposal for cooperation, and Yang Wanli immediately contacted Lin Johnson to tell him the good news.

Since then, China Eastern Airlines Corporation has come into contact with a large-thrust aircraft engine with a thrust-weight ratio of 7.5 such as the turbofan 6 modification, and the medium-thrust-weight ratio of SBB with a thrust-weight ratio of 5.5. Although they are all used, they have a good technical reserve. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!