Rebirth 99 to become a car giant

Chapter 895 Lockheed Martin VS Boeing VS Daystar, an interesting three parties

"Mr. Cao, what Boeing is best at is passenger aircraft, fighter jets, bombers, satellites and missiles. If we want to make things difficult for them, we need to start with these products."

"We are already taking action on passenger aircraft. The company is not involved in fighter aircraft for the time being. Bombers are already working hard. Can we make some good moves on satellites and missiles?"

Zhao Siyu must be thinking that the group can invest more resources in Venus Technology.

As long as we vigorously develop the satellite and missile business, we will support the development of Venus Technology.

However, Mi Ying, who had not spoken much, mentioned an idea of ​​her own and said: "It is estimated that it will be difficult to achieve results in a short period of time if we only focus on products."

"I wonder if we can change our approach and start with some violations of discipline within Boeing."

"Boeing has a close relationship with the FAA. It can be said that they are both referees and athletes. There are rumors that Boeing's management in this area is relatively chaotic. I think we can work hard to produce some plausible news."

"The news may have been made up at first, but it may be true."

"Many people want to bribe employees of our group to learn some confidential information. We can also learn some information about Boeing through similar methods."

"Maybe after we get started, Boeing's opponents will pounce on themselves and make this fire even more intense."

Mi Ying completely jumped out of the framework of the exchange just now and considered ways to deal with Boeing from another angle.

When she said this, Cao Yang really thought of something.

Although I don’t remember it particularly clearly, I have the impression that there were many scandals happening inside Boeing.

If it is publicized at this time, it will definitely be enough for Boeing to drink a pot.

"This is a good idea, you can try it."

"We can't always let them mess with us, let them try to feel like being attacked."

Several special proposals were approved by Cao Yang, and everyone became more motivated to speak.

Soon, enterprises in the Nanshan Group started to move.

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Companies such as Boeing, Airbus, Venus Technology and COMAC are all taking various actions regarding the C919 and Venus 777.

In Japan, across the sea, the development of the MRJ project is getting increasingly difficult.

Within Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, many people have begun to worry about the future of MRJ.

"President, ANA is constantly asking us about the progress of the MRJ project. If we are unable to deliver it, they may have to order Boeing 787 aircraft."

As the director of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' MRJ project and the person in charge of Mitsubishi Aircraft, Ichiro Inukai was under great pressure during this period.

According to the original plan, the first batch of aircraft of the MRJ project was scheduled to be delivered to ANA for use in 2013.

But it's already 2014, and the aircraft's first flight has not yet begun, let alone delivered to customers.

The original C919 project of China's Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China also had twists and turns. In comparison, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' side was not too ugly.

After all, it is very difficult to develop large aircraft.

However, the C919 project has made a very big breakthrough during this period, and people have already planned to mass-produce it in three years.

However, Ichiro Inukai has no guarantee that the MRJ project will be produced domestically in three years. Whether it will be produced domestically even in five years is still a question.

"The delivery time of Boeing aircraft is relatively long. If ANA really can't wait, we understand that they can order a batch first."

"But please make sure they believe that our MRJ project will be successful. If there are new big order plans, please discuss them with us."

Omiya Hideaki knows that it is unrealistic to force ANA to wait for its own MRJ at this time.

Unless he can give an accurate delivery time, and this time cannot be too long.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to wait for you all the time.

As the largest military giant in Japan, the MRJ project led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has brought together large Japanese heavy industry companies such as Fuji Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries. Even Toyota Motor has participated in the research and development of the project.

I thought everything would go very smoothly.

After all, many of these companies provide various parts for Boeing aircraft, and almost 30% of the parts on Boeing aircraft are produced by Japanese manufacturers.

But when I actually started designing my own aircraft, I found that the situation was completely different.

Although Japanese companies can produce many parts, it is still very difficult to hand over most of the parts to domestic manufacturers.

It is almost inevitable to find European and American suppliers to supply some core parts.

But these suppliers are basically Boeing suppliers.

Among the two customers, everyone knows which one they should value more.

Boeing definitely does not want the MRJ project to succeed, but in order not to make itself look so ugly and to make Japan completely give up, Boeing ostensibly supports Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' MRJ project and even provides some help.

But when the critical moment comes, Boeing will definitely stab Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the back to prevent MRJ aircraft from rolling off the assembly line so quickly.

Even if it is produced, don't expect to get the airworthiness certificate so quickly, or even keep delaying it, finding various reasons to prevent the MRJ project from getting the airworthiness certificate.

In the end, various development costs will definitely wear down Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' patience.

After all, in addition to feelings, everyone also wants to make money when doing this project.

Nowadays, making money is far away, but various investments are increasing year by year.

Even Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which has a great business, cannot withstand such a torment.

"I'll try my best to communicate with them, but maybe the company needs to consider arranging more personnel and funds to quickly promote the development of the MRJ project."

Taking this opportunity, Inukai Ichiro naturally asked Omiya Hideaki for some support.

Otherwise, he really does not have the confidence to solve various problems quickly.

"Submit your budget request and discuss it at the next board meeting."

At this point, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries certainly cannot retreat.

In particular, the progress of civil aviation passenger aircraft in China seems to be accelerating, and they do not want to fall behind.

But in the end they will find that some things cannot be solved through hard work.

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On the American Internet, negative news about Boeing is popping up like mushrooms after a rain.

Although these news are not the headlines of mainstream media, the true and false information has attracted the attention of many people.

As Boeing's biggest competitor in the United States, Lockheed Martin has naturally noticed these contents.

Don't look at the fact that when the United States suppressed companies in the Nanshan Group, its actions were quite consistent.

But in fact there are many factions within them.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin obviously belong to two factions, and the contradiction is very prominent.

As one of the top arms companies in the United States, many of their products are in competition, and the teeth left by these years of struggle are quite deep.

Currently, in the U.S. aviation industry, Boeing dominates almost all large civil aircraft models in the United States.

Lockheed Martin is a well-known professional fighter aircraft company. The three American stealth fighter jets F-117, F-22 and F-35 are all its masterpieces.

Few people know that in the 1970s, Lockheed Martin was also a major player in large civil aircraft.

The L-1011 Samsung wide-body airliner they developed formed a Big Three competition with Boeing's giant Boeing-747 and McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 at the time.

However, the final result of the Big Three's shopping spree was that Lockheed Martin failed and was forced to close its production line in 1983 and withdraw from the civil aviation aircraft market. The Big Three shrank into two giants.

Later, Boeing annexed McDonnell Douglas and became the only giant in civil aviation.

This is just the battle between Lockheed Martin and Boeing over commercial airliners.

There are also countless battles in other areas such as fighter jets.

This also means that everyone's conflicts have become very deep.

Now that Lockheed Martin people see some unfavorable news about Boeing on the Internet, they naturally don’t want to miss it.

"Robert, I arranged for someone to inquire specifically. Some of the content uploaded on the Internet may be true."

"Boeing's attitude is a bit ugly. Some of the people assigned to do the airworthiness certification don't understand anything at all and are just messing around."

"In addition, some fraud within them has existed for many years."

"I think this is a great opportunity to discredit Boeing."

As the vice president of Lockheed Martin, Walensky is now very active in trying to get Boeing involved.

As long as he can make Boeing uncomfortable, he is in a good mood.

After all, when he first joined Lockheed Martin, the project team he was in happened to be responsible for civil aviation aircraft, but he lost to Boeing.

As an independent aircraft manufacturer, Lockheed Martin is full of geniuses and whimsical ideas in aircraft research and development.

At the time, it was far ahead of its rival Boeing in the development of passenger aircraft.

They have more powerful lift system design and avionics technology, as well as a revolutionary new generation of three-shaft turbofan engines: Rolls-Royce's RB211.

The engine has a maximum thrust of 18.6 tons and uses a large number of high-tech technologies. The engine is very fuel-efficient.

At that time, various reviews showed that the industry was unanimously optimistic about the L-1011 Samsung passenger aircraft.

But no one could have imagined that the disaster was buried in the RB211 engine.

Because the engine was technically too difficult, various failures continued to occur and deliveries continued to be delayed. When Lockheed Martin finally withdrew from the civil aircraft market, only 250 aircraft were delivered.

Rival Boeing used the lower-risk CF6 twin-shaft turbofan engine, which had fewer problems and achieved good results of 446 aircraft.

Lockheed Martin is also a big fan.

At that time, some airlines were particularly worried about the unknown risks brought by Rolls-Royce's revolutionary RB211 engine. For hedging purposes, they hoped to use General Electric's CF6 engine on more advanced Samsung passenger aircraft. Its main features are stable operation, safety and reliability. .

These airlines have also promised that if Lockheed Martin can develop a model that is compatible with the CF6 engine, they will vigorously purchase it.

After all, Lockheed Martin’s strength is obvious to all.

But unfortunately, the stubborn Lockheed Martin designers rejected this alternative design.

In fact, Lockheed Martin needs to do very little work. It only needs to design a tail S-shaped engine nacelle that is compatible with 2 engines.

For Lockheed Martin, it's not a problem at all.

It is a pity that Lockheed Martin was too confident and they did not consider this compatibility solution.

Eventually, as the project moved forward at full speed, some of the customer concerns arose.

Rolls-Royce had a big problem with its RB211 and almost went bankrupt.

In the end, Lockheed Martin's passenger planes were delayed in delivery, and the economy was overwhelmed, and they had to shut down the passenger plane production line!

Lockheed Martin's refusal to make the engine compatible resulted in serious consequences that later became an unwritten rule in the aviation industry.

That is, in addition to the standard engine, if a sufficient number of airline users want to use another engine, most aircraft designers will follow suit and add engine options to avoid the tragedy from happening again!

Of course, for Lockheed Martin, these are all shame.

Although the responsibility lies mainly with Lockheed Martin itself, Walensky believes that everything is Boeing's fault.

Without Boeing, Lockheed Martin's commercial airliners would not have disappeared from history.

"Are you confident you'll find more evidence?"

"Just relying on the current news on the Internet, there is actually no way to pose a big threat to Boeing."

Robert naturally doesn't have a good impression of Boeing either.

If there is a chance to do it, he will definitely support it.

However, if he wants to cause trouble for the person he used to be, he must not make a small fuss, otherwise he will appear to be too incompetent.

But if you want to make things big, you must have some practical information.

"I found a former quality control manager at Boeing named John Barnett."

"He just started working at Boeing's North Charleston plant and, according to him, he was responsible for inspecting suppliers for product defects."

"On one occasion he took a team of inspectors to a supplier's factory to inspect the products they were about to deliver."

"At that time, he brought four inspectors to the supplier Spirit Company to inspect 41 departments."

"Then 300 defects were discovered, some serious enough to require engineers to fix them."

"When he returned to Boeing's North Charleston plant, his senior manager told him that too many defects had been found and that he would lead the next inspection at Spirit."

"As a result, his senior manager brought two inspectors with him the next time. When they came back, they only found 50 defects and were praised."

"John Barnett pulled an inspector aside and asked, had Spirit really made improvements in such a short period of time?"

"That doesn't sound right!"

"The inspector was very angry and said that was not the case. The two inspectors were only allowed to inspect as many as 41 departments in just two hours and then were kicked off the plane."

"Robert, I think some of the information revealed by John Barnett should be very meaningful."

"We just need to get it out there and help make John Barnett's exposure more accessible to more people."

Since Walensky chose to come to President Robert to report on dealing with Boeing today, he naturally made some preparations.

Otherwise, there will be no preparation at all, and the problem will definitely not be solved.

That would actually lower your own impression.

The higher you reach a higher position, the more important you sometimes take your own face.

Naturally, you can't do this kind of thing that will embarrass you and lower your impression score.

"If it is just one person's evidence, although it can cause some trouble for Boeing, it may still be a little less convincing."

"Boeing will find a reason to say that this person has a grudge against the company, and the matter may be over by then."

Although Robert felt that Walensky's entry point was chosen well.

But as an old rival, he knew very well that Boeing could not be brought down by the accusations of such a former employee.

That is simply impossible.

If it really comes to that point, people can let this so-called former employee "commit suicide."

By then the matter will be unproven.

Anyway, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and others have done similar things in recent years.

Do you really think these large arms giants are vegetarians?

People's methods can be much more despicable than many people imagine.

"There is actually a story here that can be told properly to make everyone believe that this testimony is credible."

"Before 1997, Boeing's leadership was in the hands of the engineering and design department."

“In August 1997, Boeing purchased the bankrupt aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas for $14 billion.”

"This merger of the century is the dividing point that leads to a sudden change in Boeing's style."

"After the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, McDonnell Douglas CEO Stonecipher became Boeing CEO and brought lean management concepts to Boeing."

“Shortly after the merger, a big movement started called the Shared Value Initiative.”

"Boeing wants everyone to pay attention to the stock price and wants everyone to work together to increase the stock price. Even technical meetings are centered around Boeing's stock price."

"Boeing started to believe that the cost of everything had to be reasonable."

“In many people’s minds, the key to Boeing’s continued excellence is that they have always been driven by engineers, not finances.”

"When McDonnell Douglas's temperament penetrates into Boeing, then Boeing is destined to become mediocre."

"It used to be that Boeing employees would raise their hands and say, there's something wrong here. The company would say, you're right, we'll deal with it."

"After the merger with McDonnell Douglas, Boeing stopped listening to its employees. Every time employees raised their hands and said there was a problem, they attacked the person who identified the problem and then ignored it."

"According to Barnett, a serious flaw in the oxygen system of the Boeing 787 airliner could cause a quarter of the oxygen masks to fail to work in an emergency."

"He also pointed out that some workers failed to follow the factory's parts tracking procedures, resulting in the loss of defective parts, and that under production pressure, workers would remove substandard parts from scrap bins and install them into aircraft being manufactured. to prevent production delays.”

"However, when Barnett reported these quality issues, he was viewed as ignorant by his superiors."

"He began to be targeted everywhere, his job performance rating was lowered, and finally he was even transferred from his original position."

"Robert, I think if these stories are sorted out properly, American netizens will be very interested in understanding them and can easily accept these views."

"Although it won't kill Boeing, it can damage Boeing's reputation and tilt the balance towards us in the competition for some future projects."

Walensky has already said this, so Robert will naturally not object again.

Soon, Lockheed Martin took action secretly, and there was a lot more unfavorable news about Boeing on the American Internet.

This time, Boeing immediately fell into the whirlpool of public opinion.

"David, those messages on the Internet must be suppressed as soon as possible."

"The company is facing various challenges now and cannot accept the spread of any negative news."

Muilenburg just took over as CEO of Boeing this year, so he naturally doesn’t want to encounter such bad things as soon as he takes office.

Muilenburg joined Boeing after graduating from college in 1985. In 34 years, he went from a low-level engineer to a project manager in Boeing's military industry department.

Later, he became the head of Boeing's defense department and eventually became the CEO of Boeing. It can be said to be a classic success story of the "American Dream".

When he became CEO, he naturally wanted to bring more profits to shareholders.

The butt determines the head, this is inevitable.

Even if it still misses the engineering culture deep down, it will not change this result.

"What happened this time was a bit sudden. I felt like someone was causing trouble behind it."

"Otherwise, it would be impossible for a former quality director to make his speech spread throughout the Internet."

David has been responsible for helping Boeing develop some competitors in recent years.

Therefore, I also have a certain understanding of some Internet public opinion control methods and the practices of trolls.

In addition, considering Boeing's influence in the United States, this matter will ferment so quickly. If there is no story behind it, he will never believe it.

But because of this, Muilenburg was even more concerned and said: "Of course I understand what you said. No matter who is behind the scenes, I will calm down this matter as soon as possible."

"If it really can't be calmed down, then the person who caused the trouble will be punished."

As an American arms giant, Boeing can definitely be said to take both black and white.

They also have close ties with U.S. intelligence agencies. In addition, many of Boeing's past executives have served in relevant U.S. departments, so the power they can mobilize is actually quite large.

Even some illegal and disciplinary matters are still willing to be done by Boeing.

Of course, in order to maintain this situation, Boeing spends a huge amount of public relations expenses every year.

"I understand, I will take care of this matter immediately."

Without any hesitation, David was ready to act according to Muilenburg's arrangements.

However, at this time, most relevant departments in the United States have no energy to deal with Boeing's affairs.

Because polar bears are causing big trouble.