"There are three passenger planes that have been confirmed to be started."
"The Federal Republic of Lufthansa, Germany, United Airlines also has a short-established airline transportation enterprise in Ireland called Ryanair." Liang Yuan Gherardini said that it is to be continued …
Chapter 4 The Wheel of History (5)
"The Ryanair in Ireland?" Guo-wei li repeated.
"A year ago, when I was working, I heard that this Irish company had found a Boeing head and asked if Boeing had continued the five-seat regional aircraft project." Li Guowei spread his hands.
"Oh, they even looked for Boeing before looking for us?" Liang Yuan interest atmosphere curious asked.
The prospect of the first generation of advanced regional aircraft exhibition in the whole decade is as vague as fog. Generally speaking, there are two views: the international aviation industry occupies the mainstream position. One is that the trend of regional aircraft and trunk passenger aircraft exhibition is the same, and it is bigger and bigger
There is also a view that the 5-seat jet branch line is the future of regional aircraft Exhibition.
If we go deep along these two ideas, we will come to two conclusions. If regional aircraft develops in a bigger and bigger direction, it seems that it will be a loss to build a new regional aircraft platform after the completion of the 737 or a32 narrow trunk line which has been recognized by the international mainstream aviation industry.
But the five-seat jet regional aircraft is a complete chicken’s rib for such giants as Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. It is better to devote resources to this small plane with no technical content than to concentrate on the competitiveness of its own enterprises, a generation of narrow-body trunk passenger aircraft or wide-body large passenger aircraft.
These two mainstream opinions deeply influenced the international aviation enterprises at that time to judge the future. Bombardier and Brazilian Aircraft Company, two of regional aircraft’s top two companies, both chose the five-seat class. Both of them started the rj1 and erj145 regional aircraft platform research at the end of the decade and the beginning of the 1990s.
However, with the collapse of the Soviet Iron Curtain and the withdrawal of the ball resources from the cold war confrontation, the regional aircraft market exploded rapidly, and the number of regional aircraft customers was stretched around 1995-one-seat became the mainstream requirement of airlines.
Of course, due to the huge investment in the aviation industry, Bombardier and Brazil’s aircraft industry have observed it for two to five years before deciding to show the number of customers-the first-class regional aircraft hesitated to observe it for several years, which also led to the introduction of a319 and Boeing’s 717 models into the regional aircraft market one after another, eroding their share.
However, at the end of the decade, the international civil aviation aircraft competition was filled with smoke, and it was far from the future. There were two giants, A and B, who were tit for tat. Compared with Boeing’s attempt to get five seats in regional aircraft, the rumor was even more flying all over the sky. It was no accident that Ryanair was looking for Boeing roots.
Li Guowei nodded and said with a smile, "When Ryan Operations Director O ‘Reilly visited Seattle, he also asked whether his company could properly participate in Boeing’s new passenger plane plan. Because of the great popularity and influence of Ryanair’s operation industry, Boeing decisively rejected O ‘Reilly’s proposal to try to get O ‘Reilly to buy a 737 passenger plane. After Boeing failed, O ‘Reilly returned to Ireland with a document and did deny the recent five-seat regional aircraft plan."
Liang Yuanwen laughed. At this time, Boeing thinks that God is the first state of mind. Big-name airlines like Singapore Airlines, Japan Airlines and Lufthansa Airlines can make Boeing smile and greet Ryan. This kind of dust and shrimp can be ignored.
It’s a pity that Boeing wouldn’t have thought that this seemingly unremarkable Ryanair flag became the largest low-cost airline in Europe in ten years, with a fleet of more than 300 (note 1)
Of course, if Liang Yuan intervened in Ryanair, he finally chose Boeing 737 to take charge of his own fleet, but with Liang Yuan’s participation, Boeing is bound to lose this huge fat.
According to the exhibition report made by Comac and bb for B Aerospace, it is estimated that the investment in fixed assets of B Aerospace will be less than one billion dollars by the end of 1993 before the official flight of a passenger plane, and the personnel resources such as research, management and production will increase year by year, with an average annual investment of 300 million dollars, which means that the overall investment of B Aerospace 1 project will reach 2.2 billion dollars.
If the profit rate of similar chip industry in aviation industry is calculated according to the average price of $20 million per passenger plane, refer to B Aerospace’s approximate breakeven point of about 240 aircraft.
It can be said that it is normal to just expect Ryanair Bill B to be born in the future. If we consider that Ryanair has dominated the European low-cost airline market and has played a leading role in setting up a new low-cost airline, the sales volume in regional aircraft has doubled.
In fact, Liang Yuan didn’t participate in that plane. Ryanair finally chose Boeing 737 to operate its own fleet, which was largely influenced by Southwest Airlines, the founder of low-cost airline.
"Mr. Li may not know that Ryanair’s most sought-after aircraft manufacturer before looking for Boeing was bb six years ago. Lufthansa and Ryanair both intended to update the flag propeller regional aircraft into a jet regional aircraft and expand the fleet size. At that time, the two companies had more than 30 intentional orders."
"It can be said that the reason for the initial establishment of the p75 project was that at that time, the number of passengers in the p75 project was 50, which was aimed at Lufthansa and Ryanair orders. Things have been around for three years, except for the addition of a United Airlines in our country, and things have basically returned to the original point." Liang Yuanxiao said.
Liang Yuan dares to push through the crowd and plunge into the aviation industry with Yuanjia, which is to grasp the low-cost airlines that will be popular all over the planet in the future. This market is professional, and the demand for one-seat jet regional aircraft has exceeded 6,000 before the new century alone, and it has exploded to 10,000 in just five years after entering the new century.
More importantly, before the Asian financial turmoil in 1999, both competitors and Boeing focused their attention and energy on the giant passenger plane field, a huge market of over 300 million US dollars, which was not noticed by powerful established aviation enterprises at the end of the decade.
Without Lufthansa as rj1/2, regional aircraft’s confidence in Bombardier’s March into regional aircraft will definitely be hit, not to mention that Liang Yuan also commanded Comac and Bombardier to compete with the British Short Aircraft Company.
First, put Bombardier into regional aircraft and cut off its tentacles. When the Brazilian aircraft company started the erj145 research project in 1995, a passenger plane would have become a climate.
At that time, this market of over $300 million will be monopolized by B Aerospace. At that time, the far-reaching weapon, Liang Yuan, and Lian Heng will stir it up. Even if Boeing and the guest leg are not discounted, these two giants will be stripped of their skins to be continued. h11
Chapter 5 The Wheel of History (6)
"At least our Commercial Aircraft Technology Research Department has seen that the minimum number of passengers on a passenger plane is 9, right?" Guo-wei li asked some doubts.
Listen to Liang Yuan’s description that the original purchasing intentions of Ryanair and Lufthansa for p75 project were all based on the fact that 50 small advanced regional aircraft passenger planes are close to the actual size of narrow trunk passenger planes, which is very out of step.
At this time, when the single-stage cockpit layout is adopted, the technical scheme of 9-passenger 1 passenger plane and 115-passenger 2 passenger plane has been formally locked. At present, a three-size solid model of wood is being made for research and reference in aviation and decoration, and the first part of the passenger plane will be officially put into production after the successful assembly and adjustment of the production line equipment of B aerospace passenger plane.
Liang Yuan slightly turned to look at and walked side by side with himself. Meng Da smiled and said, "Manager Meng should know better than me about this."
Before Liang Yuan intervened in the p75 project, the p75 project was promoted, and the number of foreign customers who had difficulty in childbirth was also one of the core differences between China and Germany.
Although for Xifei, the bigger the plane is, the better, even if it is bigger than the joint venture d2 between Wusong Aircraft Factory and McDonnell Douglas, the so-called problem is that Xifei can’t compete with Wusong Aircraft Factory, but for holding its own d2 project exhibition fund exhibition ♂ its own d2 project competition project p75 plan, Wusong Aircraft Factory has long wished that p75 plan would die early.
Therefore, Wusong Aircraft Factory has always insisted that the number of new and advanced turbofan passenger planes at Xifei Exhibition must be limited to five people, and the small regional aircraft platform must be strictly defined.
Around this issue, Xifei and Wu Fei fought several wars of words, and finally they still paid for it. Wu Fei was the uncle of p75 project. The early technical framework was locked. The number of tail-hung twin turbofans was 315. The body width of small regional aircraft platform and Daimler in later generations? Mercedes-Benz Aerospace launched the Dornier 32, which is similar to the 2+1 3-person layout of each row of seats. It is an out-and-out small jet regional aircraft.
From the early projects of Dornier 32 and p75, it can be seen that the German aviation industry still follows the national talent of Excellence. Similarly, the small regional aircraft platform, the black-hearted Bombardier of Canada, changed the rj2 seat from 2+1 to 2+2, and the passenger plane with approximate size was forced to fit in more than one person, which directly led to the poor width of the rj seat in regional aircraft, 17 inches (43 cm). In the field of Chang Min passenger plane, the riding experience of Bombardier rj passenger plane was definitely not comfortable, almost similar to that of a crowded bus.
This bad experience also directly led to the bad reputation of regional aircraft. Although there is no qualitative difference between the accident rate in regional aircraft and the 737 trunk passenger aircraft, regional aircraft aircraft in the air transportation field of the Republic of China in the new century is simply synonymous with backwardness and disaster
It’s a pity that great wealth dominates the new century. Bombardier and Embraer still stepped on many bodies of regional aircraft, including German Dornier 32, and boarded the throne of regional aircraft.
The desperate struggle in the field of Xifei large aircraft coincides with the huge ambition in the field of German aviation. The p75 project is getting bigger and bigger after all. After three years of official exhibition, the passenger plane platform has changed from a typical small regional aircraft 2+1 seat layout to a wide 3+2 one, and finally it is difficult to grow into a narrow trunk passenger plane when Liang Yuan took over.
Meng Daxian and Li Guowei briefly introduced the key information of the early era of p75 project, and then went on to say, "The original design of 315 small feeder platforms has been completed since the p75 project with engine tail crane layout, and even the wind tunnel blowing has been completed. These technical materials have been merged into the technical patents of the new company with the establishment of B Aerospace."
"The problem is that bb’s ambition will expand with the official capital injection. Without Comac’s insistence, bb wouldn’t continue to spread its tail and hang the twin turbofans at all. Small feeder lines want to narrow down the energy department and directly compete with Boeing 737 and a32," Meng Da said.
In less than five years, it was less than $2.2 billion to change guns for guns. bb shone with excitement and passion. If it were not for Liang Yuan’s command of Comac, it would be a key aerospace research project with 14 passengers and 16 passengers standing on the brakes.
In the future, more than 4,000 7377 and 737 trunk passenger planes were sold, and the number of passengers was 14,919 when the typical single-class cabin layout was adopted. At this time, the number of passengers of Boeing’s main 7374 narrow-body trunk passenger plane in the civil aviation field was only 16. Once B Aerospace really started the research plan of 3 and 4 passenger planes, it was simply daring to throw sand into Boeing’s eyes.
If you piss off Boeing and wake up this behemoth, it will lead to a similar situation in which Bombardier was suppressed when researching passenger planes in the future, and B Aerospace will reappear. That would be a suicidal thing.
Of course, although the aviation industry has not been completely integrated by the two giants A and B at this time, B Aerospace may not necessarily face the situation of passenger planes unifying people and goods, but even if it only faces the front line of a new generation of Boeing 737, the consequences are not what Comac is willing to bear at this time.
"General Manager Zhou, General Manager Sun and Jia and I have been talking with bb for more than three months. We intend to restart the p75. We originally planned to continue to exhibit the 5-seat turbofan engine regional aircraft. However, considering the huge technical differences between the 5-seat branch line and the narrow trunk line, bb is not very optimistic about our discussion, which will disperse the enterprise resources."
Bb wants a big plane and a bigger plane, but Liang Yuan is considering trying not to make Boeing and passengers alert. Let’s make the equipment and technology of passenger planes simple and easy first, so as to build a solid foundation in the field of commercial aviation industry. The basic result is Meng Da and Frederick, general manager of B Aerospace Germany. Heisenberg had a small quarrel for two days and a big quarrel for three days. Until now, the direction of the follow-up exhibition of B Aerospace has not been decided.
"Meng Zong, if bb is told by us that the 5-seat branch line plans to adopt 2+1 or 2+2 layout?" Li Guowei asked keenly.
"In the original p75 project, the effective width of the cabin was only 3 inches, and the 2+1 seat layout could be arranged," Meng Da said with a wry smile.
1 The effective width of passenger cabin is 125 inches, and the reserved width of boarding aisle is 2 inches. Compared with luggage case, the international standard boarding size is 1 inch, which is two units richer to reduce the number of collisions between luggage and seats during flight, speed up the passenger plane’s transition and thus improve operational efficiency.
Except these 2 inches, all the seats are effectively occupied by five 21-inch wide seats. The Hans in Germany are simple and rude. The original p75 project is 3 inches, and two seats with a width of 42 inches are directly added, which makes it become an approximate trunk airliner nebsp. If Liang Yuan had taken over the p75 project earlier, he would certainly not have made the regional plane into a 2+1 tail crane layout by German humanity. With later experience, Liang Yuan clearly knows that more convenient maintenance is king for airlines, and his comfortable magic code is hopeless for small regional aircraft.
When Embraer introduced the erj145 regional aircraft in the early days, it focused on the 2+1 seat layout, claiming to be more comfortable than the trunk line 737. However, the airline company still complained a lot until Embraer repented and learned from Bombardier’s experience in Canada, and turned the erj145 regional aircraft 2+1 comfortable layout e175 passenger plane into a black-hearted 2+2 layout. Only then did regional aircraft come from behind and finally became one of the top two.
Of course, B Aerospace does not worry about the growth of the small regional aircraft platform. When the route is busy and the passenger flow increases, it can guide the airline company to directly purchase a large number of passengers.