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Chapter 613 It's really a pie from the sky

As for soldiers, there are not many people who are not in a hurry. Director Wang, who was worried about something, couldn't hold back. After making the phone call, he turned around and came to the guest house again.

"You mean that our Air Force University wants to purchase our helicopters as trainers?" Zhang Qihang couldn't close his mouth in surprise after hearing Director Wang's words: Nima, there is such a good thing?

Director Wang waved his hand and said, "It's not directly used as a trainer aircraft, but to be modified to a certain extent on the basis of your aircraft to meet the needs of helicopter flight teaching..."

"Isn't that still the same?"

Hearing what Zhang Qihang said, Director Wang was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Uh...it's really the same, Mr. Zhang, I'm a straightforward person, so I won't go around in circles with you..."

Ok?
Zhang Qihang couldn't help muttering in his heart: Yes, he is so enthusiastic, what exactly does he want to do?Just muttering, Zhang Qihang still nodded and said: "Director Wang, if you have anything to say, just say it."

"We have helped your group so much, shouldn't your group express it? For example, give us two planes or something..."

That's it? !
Frankly speaking, when Director Wang just spoke, Zhang Qihang was really beating drums in his heart. He was worried that this guy would speak too loudly, but now he heard that Director Wang just wanted Huateng Group to donate two training helicopters. Thoughts have become "Fuck!" Two words.

Taking a deep breath to adjust his mood, Zhang Qihang said: "Director Wang, you are too polite. Our Huateng Group is an advanced unit supporting the army. This is what it should be. I am just a little doubtful. Our aircraft can really Can it take on the important task of being a trainer? This... this... You know, our group has no accumulation and background in helicopters. This is our group's first manned helicopter, and the overall technical level can be Those who say they are mediocre can no longer be mediocre..."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Hearing what Zhang Qihang said, Director Wang laughed immediately, and he shook his head while laughing: "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang, do you know what the basic requirements of a trainer are?"

"What is it?"

"It's mediocrity," Director Wang said: "Besides mediocrity, the trainer plane must be cheap enough to use, such as our Chujiao-6, do you see any advanced things about this plane? No! This Everything on the plane is the most common, but being common has the advantage of being common, that is, the overall cost is kept to a minimum, and at the same time, the cost of future use and maintenance is also kept to a minimum.

As a student flying for the first time, this kind of aircraft is what they need most. Isn't Millikin good enough?But the first aircraft they let the army aviation cadets come into contact with was the TH-55 which is similar to your helicopter, and they only started to contact the TH-67 with turboshaft engine when they were advanced to study..."

"TH-67?"

Zhang Qihang was a little curious. As a military fan, he really hadn't heard of this type of aircraft in the US Army.

"It's the trainer model of the OH-58 light reconnaissance armed helicopter," Director Wang casually explained to Zhang Qihang: "Do you know the OH-58 'Okiwa' light reconnaissance armed helicopter?"

Zhang Qihang thought for a while, and asked uncertainly, "Is that the helicopter with the ball on its head?"

Among military fans, the OH-58 helicopter is not as well-known as the UH-60 "Black Hawk" general-purpose helicopter, AH-64 "Apache" and other large helicopters. The 1 "Chinook" and CH-47 "Stallion" series are also incomparable. Among the series of Mi Army helicopters, the OH-53 "Ochwa" is relatively unknown, but in fact this helicopter has a huge The family, this family has a lot of equipment in the US Army and the US Marine Corps, and even the US special forces favor this light helicopter. In the first two years of the Gulf War, the OH-58 "Ochwa" Same great and amazing performance as the AH-58 "Little Bird".

"A ball on the head?"

Thinking of the photoelectric reconnaissance turret on the rotor mast of the OH-58D "Okiva" light reconnaissance armed helicopter, Director Wang laughed aloud, and felt that the saying "a ball on the head" was really vivid.He nodded and said: "That's right, that's the one. There are two versions of this aircraft: Navy trainer and army trainer. TH-57 is the army aviation trainer, code-named 'Crick', and the navy trainer is TH-57, code-named ' Sea commandos', helicopter students of the U.S. military, first learn basic operations on the TH-55 trainer plane, and then learn advanced flight skills on the TH-57/67. This is the two-level training system for U.S. Army aviation pilots.

Our country is still in its infancy in the training of helicopter pilots. Compared with the United States, a country with a mature training mechanism, there are still many gaps and areas to be improved..."

Speaking of this, Director Wang couldn't help feeling the good luck of Huateng Industrial Group: "After I reported this ultra-light helicopter project to the leaders of the Air Force Aviation University, the leaders of the Air Force Aviation University were very interested. If you also intend to cooperate with the Air Force Aviation University, it will be very beneficial to your project, such as in the future airworthiness certification link, etc., can speed up..."

There is no need for Director Wang to say these things at all. Is there any reason why Zhang Qihang doesn't understand?
If this ultra-light helicopter of Huateng Industrial Group is really expected to be selected by the Air Force as an entry-level training helicopter, then in the future, this aircraft and even the heavy oil engine that Huateng Group is developing for this project will inevitably usher in a new era. With the opportunity of rapid development, even with the coordination of the Air Force, a special green channel will be opened up for airworthiness certification. Before that, airworthiness certification has always been a headache for Zhang Qihang...

As soon as Director Wang finished speaking, Zhang Qihang nodded heavily: "Of course no problem! It is our honor to contribute to our country's aviation industry. We welcome the leaders of the Air Force Aviation University to visit our unit at any time... ..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Qihang's heart suddenly moved, and he asked Director Wang: "By the way, Director Wang, I suddenly have an idea, and I want to hear what you mean."

"Oh? You said."

"It's like this," Zhang Qihang explained: "When we introduced our manned agricultural plant protection helicopter to the heads of some domestic farms, forest farms, and agricultural departments, they were very interested in this project, but they also Some concerns are about the pilots..."

Before Zhang Qihang finished speaking, Director Wang's eyes stood up: "Are you going to poach people from us?!"

If Zhang Qihang really planned to poach someone from the Army Aviation Corps, Director Wang would be ready to beat him.

Director Wang's reaction startled Zhang Qihang: Is your reaction so intense?He quickly waved his hand and said, "Of course not. I know a little bit about the situation of our Army Aviation Corps. How could it be possible to poach people from our unit? I mean, can the two of us apply to the higher authorities to open a private school?" Helicopter pilot training institutions to train helicopter pilots for these units in need?"

Um?That's it...

Director Wang, whose eyebrows were not eyebrows and eyes were not eyes, couldn't help blinking twice: "You mean, let's start a civil aviation helicopter pilot school together?"

"It can't reach the height of civil aviation at all," Zhang Qihang waved his hand and said, "According to the classification of our domestic flight licenses, it is roughly divided into sports aviation licenses, private licenses, commercial licenses, and multi-crew flight licenses of civil aviation companies. Most of the customers are those who are entrusted by state farms, forest farms, and some agricultural or forestry management departments to carry out flight driving skills training. As long as they can fly our helicopter and have basic maintenance skills, generally It is the level of private photos.

Of course, it is necessary to communicate with the civil aviation management department whether to train according to the private license level or the commercial license level. However, at present, there is no helicopter pilot training institution for private people in China, which has caused many departments to treat us. interested in our products, but it is useless for them to buy our helicopter, because there is no personnel who can fly this helicopter, so..."

"I understand." Now, before Zhang Qihang finished speaking, Director Wang nodded again and again: "If it is such a training institution, then it is not impossible to consider, but you also know, Mr. Zhang, this kind of thing is not my responsibility. I can say..."

Director Wang doesn't have any concerns about the joint school running. Isn't the famous Lan Xiang the joint school run by the military region and the private forces? Driving can't run a joint school?

Of course, don't look at Director Wang's words "I don't have the final say", but in fact, after searching the entire Shungeng Military Region, except for the two army aviation regiments in the military region, they can still be recruited to serve as helicopter flight instructors Talents?
So, it’s fine if we don’t do this joint school running, but if we want to do it, we can’t avoid the Army Aviation Group anyway.

"I know, I understand," Zhang Qihang didn't understand the meaning of Director Wang's words?He smiled and said: "However, I would like to trouble Director Wang to report this matter to the leaders of our military region. The main reason is that there is a huge shortage of civilian helicopter pilots in our country. I hope our army can support the training of civilian helicopter pilots." , Speaking of which, these trained pilots can be regarded as the country's reserve pilots, right?"

"Ha...that's true..."

Hearing what Zhang Qihang said, Director Wang was also happy. Of course, he understood the other meaning of Zhang Qihang's words: the tuition fee for training a pilot is not cheap...

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Air Force Aviation University arrived much faster than Zhang Qihang imagined.

On the third day after Zhang Qihang returned to Langya, he received an official letter from the Air Force Aviation University to Langya City, claiming to come to Huateng Industrial Group for inspection.

People in the system, of course, know the importance of the Air Force Aviation University in the army, especially in the air force, and indicated that the leaders of Langya City attach great importance to this official letter!

It's just that everyone is a little confused while attaching great importance to it: the Air Force Aviation University will go to Huateng Industry for a few days to visit by name. What is the purpose of this?

Everyone was a little confused for a while.

It doesn't matter if you can't figure it out, just call Zhang Qihang over and ask, will you know?
Faced with the inquiries from the leaders of the S Committee and S Government, Zhang Qihang was a little confused at first, but soon he realized what was going on, and then quickly explained the cause and effect of this incident to the leaders.

And after listening to Zhang Qihang's explanation, the leaders became even more confused, and Comrade Zhao Deqing couldn't help asking: "Comrade Qihang, what do you mean, the leaders of the Air Force Aviation University have taken a fancy to the helicopter you made and want to send it to the helicopter?" That helicopter as a trainer helicopter?"

Zhang Qihang nodded: "According to the information I have so far, this should be the case."

"But why?" A leader next to him couldn't help it, and he didn't care about his impolite behavior of interrupting Comrade Zhao Deqing: "This is the equipment provided for the army. This...the ability of your unit... "

The other comrades did not speak, but expressed the same meaning.

This is also very understandable: this is an aircraft equipped for the army. Your Huateng Group, a unit that produces buses, motorcycles and electric bicycles, can actually provide aircraft for the army?Why does this sound so unbelievable?

"Leaders, this question is actually very simple. Let me give you an example to make everyone understand," Zhang Qihang explained: "For example, if it is a two-wheeled vehicle, our helicopter is an ordinary bicycle, and the fighter jets in our army are motorcycles. , but for the army, if they want to train a 'motorcycle driver', the most economical way is to let the academy learn to ride a 'bicycle' first, and then let them ride the bicycle after they can ride the bicycle without falling down. Motorcycles are easy to use.

On the contrary, if you let the students use motorcycles to learn, the repair cost of this motorcycle will be much higher than that of bicycles..."

Zhang Qihang's words made the leaders understand: "You mean this helicopter of your company is equivalent to a bicycle?"

"Yes," Zhang Qihang nodded and said, "Didn't I go to the military region a few days ago? I got a general understanding of the situation when I communicated with the leaders of the Army Aviation Regiment of our military region. The Air Force Aviation University trains a helicopter cadet. The flight cost of the helicopter is several thousand dollars, but if we use our helicopter as a 'bike', the flight cost is only 300 yuan per hour, which is probably the reason why the leaders of the Air Force Aviation University are interested in our products."

That's it!

Only then did the leaders suddenly realize.

(End of this chapter)