Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

The next day, at the Bristol factory.

After the end of World War II, many American aviation companies developed rapidly. Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, etc. were all manufacturing passenger planes.

Although the British were also building passenger planes, their research and development capabilities were clearly not keeping up with the Americans.

However, in any project involving the French, they would definitely take the lead.

Airbus's first assembly plant was in Toulouse, France, and later expanded to Hamburg, Germany, and Seville, Spain.

However, there has never been an assembly plant in the UK. They only have component manufacturing plants.

The Bristol factory is used to produce Airbus wings.

Now that Qin Yang has come to the UK, he needs to look around.

Hearing that Qin Yang had arrived, the British were also very happy and immediately brought him here for a visit.

After all, Qin Yang had promised that as long as the Y-10 passed the airworthiness certificate, Dongfang would purchase twenty Airbus passenger planes.

The skies of Dongfang have always been dominated by Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. Now, Airbus is finally going to get involved.

"President Qin, this factory mainly produces wings," Henry, a Briton, introduced to Qin Yang. "The production of wings is crucial. After all, airplanes can only fly with wings.

Moreover, in order to reduce weight, we plan to use composite materials on these wings."

"That's right, your technology is very advanced," Qin Yang nodded.

"We use the method of suspending the engines below the wings, so we have very high requirements for the wing pylons.

I heard that you have a 60,000-ton hydraulic press. We also hope to send these parts to you for pressing in the future, so we don't have to go to the Soviets," Henry continued.

On large passenger planes, it is not only the landing gear that requires a large hydraulic press, but also the aircraft's load-bearing structure.

Not only are there the main beams of the aircraft, but also the engine pylons of the wings. If the strength of these things is not enough, the engine may fall off during flight.

"No problem. Since our hydraulic press has been built, it cannot only serve ourselves, but also the whole world.

As for the processing fee, just follow the Soviet's processing fee."

"Okay, President Qin, when you purchase A300 passenger planes, we will sign this kind of commissioned production agreement."

"Well, we are also waiting for the Y-10's airworthiness certificate," Qin Yang said, "We believe that it is only a matter of time before the Y-10, such an advanced passenger plane, obtains the airworthiness certificate issued by you."

"That's for sure," Henry said, "We have been urging it. Now we have completed almost all the projects. The airworthiness certificate will be issued soon."

"Mr. Henry, do you think it's better for a passenger plane to have four engines or two engines?" Qin Yang suddenly asked, looking at the promotional poster on the wall.

Airbus's planes have two engines because their passenger planes are wide-body, medium- and short-range passenger planes.

However, because they are wide-body passenger planes, the flight resistance is high. The thrust of these two engines is more than 200 kilonewtons, which is greater than the two engines of the Y-10.

For them, they already have rich experience in using two engines.

At this time, hearing Qin Yang's words, Henry suddenly thought of something, and his mind moved: "Of course, two engines are better. The fewer engines, the higher the operating efficiency.

If you want to change the Y-10 to a two-engine layout, we in the UK happen to have an advanced engine..."

Before he could finish speaking, Old Ma shook his head: "President Qin, our passenger plane is a four-engine passenger plane. This is a necessary solution for transoceanic intercontinental flights.

Besides, the four-engine layout has already been formed. It's too difficult to change both sides. You are a layman and don't understand the knowledge here."

"Yes, I am a layman and don't understand anything," Qin Yang smiled, "Then I will pretend that I didn't say anything."

The bait was thrown out like this. The visit ended on this day. Returning to the hotel in London, Qin Yang sat in front of the large floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the traffic below.

"President Qin, will they take the bait?"

"If they don't take the bait, we will think of other ways."

As soon as Qin Yang finished speaking, the phone in the room rang.

"Hello," Nie Xiaoqian picked up the phone, "What, you are from Rolls-Royce and want to invite our President Qin for a visit? Of course, you can send a car to pick us up at nine o'clock tomorrow? Okay."

It's done?

Old Ma felt a little incredible. Qin Yang just smiled. Did you see that? Rolls-Royce is anxious!

They invented advanced aero engines, but no one dares to use them, not even their own Airbus, let alone others.

Now, they can only trick us into using them.

They invited us, so we are welcome. All kinds of conditions can be put forward!

"Old Ma, let's go together tomorrow to see the world's most advanced aero engine company. It's a pity that I didn't bring the people who work on the Spey, otherwise everyone would have met old friends."

The introduction of the Spey was Rolls-Royce's product. Everyone can be regarded as old acquaintances, but unfortunately, the people Qin Yang brought this time are not familiar with it.

The next day, Rolls-Royce sent a car to pick up Qin Yang and his party. The group came to Derby, a city in central England.

Since the Industrial Revolution, Derby has been the most important industrial city in the UK. As early as the 18th century, factories using waterwheels to spin yarn appeared here.

Now, there are a large number of industrial companies here. In addition to Rolls-Royce, there is also the famous train manufacturer Bombardier.

After entering the 1990s, Toyota Motor also established a production base here.

There are also many small companies here, all serving these large companies.

Rolls-Royce is undoubtedly the largest company here, operating here for more than a century and employing 14,000 people.

In later generations, due to various reasons, Rolls-Royce fell into desperation again. However, they made a bold statement that they would rather lay off thousands of employees than sell the technology to Dongfang.

However, that was already a matter of the 21st century. At that time, the relationship between the two sides was extremely complicated. Now, in the 1980s, under the threat of the Soviet Union, the relationship between the East and the West is the most friendly, and cooperation is a matter of course.

The company's director, Kenneth, warmly welcomed Qin Yang and his party with a bright smile on his face.

"President Qin, welcome to the UK! I heard that you came specifically for the Y-10 project?"

"Yes, I heard that we are about to receive the airworthiness certificate. In the future, our Y-10 will be able to fly to Europe. I am very happy and came to take a look."

"The Y-10, such a large passenger plane, will definitely be produced in large quantities in the future, right? I don't know if the engine used on this passenger plane can meet the needs with your products? If not, we can provide solutions here. We have the world's most famous engine research and development institution."