Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat - Chapter 453

Chapter 453 Political Struggle

For everyone in the meeting room, although Fang Lang’s proposal made them incomprehensible, it was undoubtedly the best choice for the situation they were facing now.

None of them had any objection to Fang Lang’s idea of ​​raising the purchase price of the trainer aircraft to share the cost of research and development.

General Nero Mora is very aware of the relationship between Fang Lang and Fangyuan Group, and understands that Fang Lang’s current actions must have elements of giving him face, which moved him very much.

“General Fang, I will remember your friendship in my heart, and all my colleagues in the Air Force will also remember it deeply. Thank you for solving the biggest problem for us.”

Actually, Fang Lang felt that this matter was actually a trivial matter. Although what Fang Lang said was complicated, it was not difficult for Fangyuan Group to redesign a propeller trainer.

Since Professor Tan Ke is not interested in this kind of propeller aircraft, it can just give other young designers who have no chance to display their talents a good exercise. With Professor Tan Ke’s guidance, young people will surely grow up quickly.

This is not a bad thing for Yuanyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company. As for the funds that need to be invested, Fang Lang doesn’t think it is a lot of money.

As for the piston engines used in aircraft, Fang Lang is not worried at all. You must know that during World War II, Mercedes-Benz was also one of Germany’s important aircraft engine suppliers, although it cannot be compared with BMW.

But the BD600-BD603 series engines he produced were also widely used by the German army. It is a pity that this engine is an inverted V engine, which is different from the star layout of the American aircraft engine currently used in Brazil.

If you want to re-entrust Mercedes-Benz to study radial engines, it is obviously time-consuming and laborious, and it is not cost-effective.

In addition, Fang Lang has several options, such as seeking support from the Bristol company of Reinhardt’s family in the United Kingdom, and Pratt & Whitney in the United States.

Judging from the current situation in Brazil, the most appropriate is obviously to seek support from Pratt & Whitney in the United States, and even purchase technology.

Pratt & Whitney’s R-1830 “Pair the Hornet” star-shaped engine is undoubtedly the best choice. Why did Fang Lang think of this engine in the first place!

The reason is very simple. First of all, this engine was the aircraft engine with the largest output in the entire World War II, with a full production of 173,618 units, accounting for 47.7% of Pratt & Whitney’s total output during World War II.

Such a large output means that this is a very mature product, and the repair cost and maintenance cost will be very low.

Second, during the war, General Motors helped Hewlett-Packard produce 50,000 units of this model, and it has long understood the technical points of this engine. Based on the cooperative relationship between Fang Lang and the Morgan family, it is not difficult to discuss the technical authorization of this engine.

The third is that among the fighter jets used by the naval aviation under his command, the F4F “Wildcat” fighter jet and the C-47 “Sky Train” transport aircraft all use this engine. If this engine is introduced, it will greatly reduce the later maintenance costs. .

With so many benefits, Fang Lang’s choice of this model is of course inevitable. As for the difficulty of introduction, Fang Lang is not worried. If you invite the Morgan family to apply, it should not be difficult.

In addition, the current Pratt & Whitney Company has already started to research jet engines, and obviously does not pay much attention to this obviously outdated product.

If, if you really don’t want to transfer it, at worst, Fang Lang can just pull the tape measure! As for samples, there are plenty of them in Shata’s warehouse. Let the researchers make a slight change to avoid some patent troubles, and just produce it directly.

Thinking of this, Fang Lang even felt that the trainer with a piston engine might be put into production earlier than the T-1 project!

Grateful from General Nero Mora, he also readily accepted without any embarrassment.

“General Mora, we are friends, don’t be so polite.

However, if you want to turn the T-1 project into a fighter jet, you still need a lot of investment.

As I said just now, the T-1 is not suitable as a carrier-based aircraft. Therefore, if we redevelop the trainer aircraft with piston engines, it will be difficult for our navy to provide subsequent research and development funds. ”

Everyone in the conference room was taken aback when they heard the words, yes! Why didn’t I think of this! If the navy no longer invests, it will be a big burden for them to rely on the air force alone!

However, Fang Lang just promised that he would come forward to persuade Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company to raise funds to develop piston trainer aircraft, which has already helped the Air Force solve a big problem.

At this time, if you blame the other party, if you don’t help yourself by withdrawing the capital midway, it will be unreasonable!

After all, it was the Air Force that gave up the T-1 trainer project!

For a while, everyone in the conference room was looking at me and I was looking at you, not knowing how to proceed.

Finally, General Nero Mora gritted his teeth, looked at Major Leo Kanter who was in charge of contacting Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and said in a serious tone:

“Did Fangyuan company say how long it will take and how much money will be invested if the overhaul time of this turboprop engine is increased to more than 1,000 hours?”

Major Leo Kanter, who was standing in front of the drawings and waiting for the results of the boss’s discussion, was taken aback when he heard this, and involuntarily looked at Fang Lang beside General Nero Mora.

Fang Lang didn’t look at him, he could only bite the bullet and say:

“This. They didn’t say it.”

Hearing this, General Nero Mora and all the Air Force officers in the meeting room frowned and were speechless for a while.

In fact, Fang Lang is also paying attention to this issue. Fang Lang has also heard about the actions of the Power Research Office. As far as Fang Lang knows, Professor Tan Ke personally recruited some outstanding talents from Germany to join this power R & D team.

Among them are engineers who have participated in the development of the world’s first mass-produced turbojet engine, the Junkers Yumo 004B, although the working time of this engine does not exceed 150 hours.

But this is because Germany is blocked and lacks a lot of trace metal elements. Brazil does not have this problem now.

As a professional, Professor Tan Ke knows very well what kind of talents he needs, so Fang Lang’s expectations for this engine are actually very high.

Seeing the appearance of the people in the conference room, he was a little worried that if he didn’t cheer them up, the Air Force Department might not dare to invest in it.

“Don’t worry, General Mora, as far as I know, the power research laboratory is already trying to solve these problems.

If my expectations are not bad, within one year, the Air Force will definitely be able to meet the requirements of the Air Force to increase the engine overhaul time to more than 1,000 hours. ”

Fang Lang’s words, of course everyone believes, after all, this is the behind-the-scenes boss of Fangyuan Group.

After General Nero Mora took Fang Lang’s reassurance, his face immediately turned rosy, and he laughed and looked at the people in the conference room:

“If it is a year, everyone should be able to withstand the pressure!”

Only then did Fang Lang realize that the reason why General Nero Mora invited him to the conference room to discuss these issues in front of so many people might be because there were different voices below him!

Seeing that the independent trainer research and development project led by him did not achieve the desired effect, some people raised objections, which put a lot of pressure on him!

It took a long time, and it also involved political struggles!

In this way, it is not that General Nero Mora really thinks that the T-1 has excess technology, and he wants to abandon the more advanced turboprop engine and adopt a backward piston engine.

It seems that this piston engine trainer project is simply a project of political compromise!

The air force generals in the meeting room laughed and said:

“No problem, we will definitely be able to withstand the pressure for a year.”

“Yes! Yes! This year we will ask for less military expenditure, and we will fully support the improvement of T-1 into a fighter jet.”

Although everyone was smiling, Fang Lang had a judgment in his mind, and when he looked at the expressions of these people, he could discover many interesting details that he hadn’t discovered at the beginning.

Unexpectedly, the Brazilian Air Force, which has been established for less than five years, has already begun to be filled with hills!

Compared to the Rio de Janeiro aircraft carrier battle group built by himself, General Nero Mora’s life is not easy!

Turning his head and glanced at General Nero Mora beside him, Fang Lang really wanted to ask the other party. Now that he knows the overhaul time of the engine, it can be increased to 1,000 hours within a year. Do you want to give up the backward piston engine project and continue? T-1 trainer project.

But after seeing the other party’s serious expression, Fang Lang still chose to shut up.

Anyway, the manufacture of the T-1 prototype has now been completed. After the engine overhaul time is increased, the T-1 project can be directly declared a success.

Fangyuan Group can start selling this trainer aircraft with a turboprop engine. As for whether the Air Force buys it or not, Fanglang doesn’t bother to care.

As for the development of fighter jets based on the T-1, in fact, there is no need to invest much energy at all, because when the T-1 project was first developed, Fang Lang made many suggestions that the T-1 project should have the ability to transform into a fighter jet. The basis of fighter jets.

In order to facilitate the T-1 to become a series model like the successful “Super Tucano” in Brazil later.

So, the meeting of the Air Force today is to get Fang Lang to agree to persuade Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company to manufacture a piston engine trainer, which actively lowers the technical level of the trainer.

At the same time, Fang Lang also asked Fang Lang to express on behalf of the navy that he would no longer join the project of transforming T-1 into a fighter jet, which saved the navy part of the subsequent research and development funds.

As for the successful engine research, T-1 will naturally succeed, and the Navy can also directly obtain the technical ownership of this model.

Looking at it this way, this political struggle within the Air Force is simply a matter of injuring the enemy by one thousand and self-injury by eight hundred, which is completely unnecessary. Even Fang Lang felt that it was a waste of his time.

General Nero Mora was obviously very dissatisfied with this. After hearing that everyone said that there was no problem, he stopped talking and stood up directly:

“In this case, this meeting ends here.”

After speaking, he looked at Fang Lang beside him and said:

“General Fang, I am really sorry for causing you a lot of trouble.

I hope you don’t mind, you can come to my office for a cup of tea. ”

Hearing the words, Fang Lang got up directly pretending not to know, smiled and said to General Nero Mora:

“General Mora was joking. I came here only when I heard that you invited me to drink tea. Of course, I have to go to your office to drink tea.

However, it’s not enough to just drink tea now, you have to treat me to a big meal. ”

Fang Lang’s performance made General Nero Mora breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that Fang Lang was not angry because of what he did this time.

(end of this chapter)