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Chapter 791 is the last point

After finishing the Langya City side, Zhang Qihang personally rushed to the Provincial State Z Office to discuss this matter with Director Chen Haiyang.

"Are you going to put the helicopter production factory in Shun Geng? This is a good thing," Chen Haiyang was very happy to hear Zhang Qihang's thoughts, but he also kindly reminded Zhang Qihang: "But Xiao Zhang, have you discussed with the comrades in Langya City? You still have to respect and take care of the comrades in Langya City on this matter."

Zhang Qihang nodded and said: "I have reported to our secretary Yan, our secretary Yan supports my idea very much, and thinks my idea is very good, since Huateng Industrial Group is now a provincial enterprise, it should stand on the national See the problem from the height of the province.”

"Comrade Baoping's consciousness is still very high," Chen Haiyang smiled when he heard this, nodded and said, "Since Comrade Baoping also supports you in putting this aircraft manufacturing factory in Langya City, then this matter is easy to say , our State Z Office will definitely support you with all our strength...Xiao Zhang, I don’t know much about your helicopter, can you introduce it to me, and by the way, introduce the purpose of this helicopter?”

In fact, what Chen Haiyang said was very euphemistic. Before that, his helicopter business of Huateng Industrial Group was limited to "I know there seems to be such a project", but because this project is still in the stage of airworthiness certification, He didn't pay much attention to this project until a few days ago Huateng Industrial Group reported to the Provincial State Z Office that our helicopter had completed the airworthiness certification work, and the next step was to obtain the production certificate, Chen Haiyang It was only then that I began to pay attention to this matter: the small helicopter produced by Huateng Industrial Group has obtained an airworthiness certificate?

But he doesn't know what this little helicopter can do and who the target customer group is, so he just took this opportunity to ask Zhang Qihang—knowing this, he also knows that the Provincial State Z Committee should respond to this question. How much support is given by the project.

Zhang Qihang nodded and said: "Our helicopter is designed and developed with reference to the R22 ultra-light helicopter of the Robinson Helicopter Company of the United States and the TH-55 trainer helicopter of the US Army. The TH-55 trainer helicopter is the same as the R22 helicopter. A two-seat, ultralight helicopter with piston aeroengines.

This kind of helicopter has a wide range of uses, one of which is as a training helicopter for helicopter teaching. In fact, our helicopter project has received strong support from the Army Aviation of the Shungeng Military Region at the beginning of the project. In the stage of airworthiness certification, we will ask them 'Sponsored' more than 10 helicopters, obtained a lot of key data through a large number of frequent test flights..."

Before Zhang Qihang finished speaking, Chen Haiyang was immediately moved: "You mean your helicopter is a military helicopter?"

If it's a military helicopter, it's a bit of a hassle...

Seeing Chen Haiyang's slight frown, Zhang Qihang knew what he was thinking, or said what he was worried about, and explained with a smile: "To be precise, our helicopter is a common project for military and civilian use...you As you know, our group’s unmanned helicopter business and unmanned helicopter services are doing well, and it is one of our group’s main export projects.”

"Well, I know," Chen Haiyang nodded, and at the same time he was a little curious: "You mean this helicopter project of yours is also related to your unmanned helicopter project?"

"Yes," Zhang Qihang replied, "Actually, we had the idea of ​​developing a manned helicopter at the beginning because some of our foreign farmer customers put forward some suggestions to us. Due to the small load and the need for frequent take-offs and landings during plant protection operations, they asked us if we could develop a single-piloted helicopter that could carry about 100 liters of pesticides at a time?
If such a helicopter is used for plant protection operations, it can not only greatly improve the efficiency of plant protection operations, but also play a role in other aspects when not carrying out plant protection operations-of course, the most important thing is that they all hope that this The price of this kind of aircraft should not be too expensive. "

"Uh-huh……"

Chen Haiyang got a little out of character, he nodded repeatedly, motioning for Zhang Qihang to continue.

Zhang Qihang went on to say: "In the beginning, we didn't really take it seriously, but later, more and more farmers and forest owners gave us feedback on this idea, so we started to formally discuss this matter.

It is also a coincidence that at this time, we learned that Robinson Helicopter Company of the United States is preparing to introduce their R22 helicopter into our country, and is preparing for airworthiness certification, and it is such a two-seater helicopter with a 4-cylinder piston engine. Robinson's offer is actually more than 250 million..."

"250 million?" Chen Haiyang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "Is the price too high or too low?"

"It's ridiculously high!" Zhang Qihang snorted and said, "At that time, I told my colleagues in our group: 'Didn't the Robinson company treat us as fools? Such a simple plane is worth more than 200 million yuan. Already? If let us do it, we still have at least 100% profit at the market price of 30 million RMB.'”

"..."

Chen Haiyang was speechless at once: The selling price of 100 million, and there is still a 30% profit, but the same thing, a company in the United States actually sells it for 250 million?This is definitely taking our Huaxia as a fool.

But apart from being speechless, Chen Haiyang actually knew better that this kind of thing was not uncommon, and there were many similar situations.

He nodded and signaled Zhang Qihang to continue.

Zhang Qihang said: "My colleagues told me: 'Since this project is so profitable, why don't we do it? The market demand at home and abroad is here. Among other things, it means that the sale of plant protection helicopters alone can't be sold. few.

In addition, I know that in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps, they use a two-seater, piston-engined helicopter similar to Robinson R-22 as a training helicopter for helicopter introductory teaching. The official number in the U.S. Army is TH-55. And our country's army aviation force has just been formed, and it is still using Zhi-9 as a training helicopter.

The Zhi-9 helicopter is so expensive. The flight cost per flight hour is thousands or even tens of thousands. If we make the helicopter, we will sell it to the road aviation army by the way, let them be used as entry-level training helicopters and daily Basic flight training, should have prospects. '

As soon as I heard this, it was also the same reason, so I contacted the leaders of the Army Aviation Unit of our Shungeng Military Region through the introduction of the leaders of our Langya City Military District F, and shared our thoughts with them..."

Hearing what Zhang Qihang said, Chen Haiyang couldn't help pricking up his ears.

This question is actually what he is most concerned about. Since the army and military equipment are involved, what is the attitude of the military region on this matter?

"The leaders of the army aviation unit of the military region were very happy when they heard it!"

Seeing that Chen Haiyang seemed to be very concerned about this matter, Zhang Qihang's thoughts moved slightly, and then he explained the situation more carefully: "You also know that our country is not rich, and military expenditures for test flights are limited. At the moment, they are also troubled by the high cost of entry-level helicopter flight training and daily flight training for pilots. When they learned that we are planning to develop a product similar to the TH-55 piston trainer helicopter of the US military, they immediately expressed Will strongly support us, and will evaluate our project, if our helicopter can indeed play the role of the TH-55 trainer helicopter of the Mi Army, can complete entry-level helicopter flight teaching and daily basic flight training, and even Help us recommend to Army Aviation units in other military regions.

It is also because our project has received strong support from the military region that we were able to pass the inspection and acceptance of the National Civil Aviation Administration in such a short period of time and obtain the type certificate. "

Hearing what Zhang Qihang said, Chen Haiyang finally felt a little relieved, and he asked cautiously, "That is to say, if you sell this helicopter, you won't reveal the country's military secrets, right?"

"Of course not," Zhang Qihang laughed immediately after hearing the words: "Director, this thing is essentially the same as the driving school's coach car. Compared with this plane, the Yun-12 light transport plane produced by Hafei The technical content and sensitivity are much more sensitive than our small helicopter, but so what? Hafei’s Yun-12 transport aircraft has not only obtained the airworthiness certificates of the British Civil Aviation Administration and the American Aviation Administration, but has even been exported to the United States ,Europe.

At that time, we also asked the leaders of the military region about this question, and the leaders laughed and patted all of us on the shoulders and said: 'Don't be afraid!If you have the ability to export this helicopter to the United States, instead of being angry, you will applaud and cheer for you!Thank you for exporting to the country to earn foreign exchange. '"

"That's fine."

Hearing this, Chen Haiyang breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there is no possibility of leaking state military secrets, then there is no problem.

Zhang Qihang was still thinking about Chen Haiyang's problem at the beginning. Seeing Chen Haiyang heaving a sigh of relief, he went on to say: "As for the purpose of this ultra-light helicopter, besides the plant protection use I just mentioned and the helicopter introductory teaching In addition, such as aerial photography of movies, TV dramas and large-scale official outdoor activities, tourism, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline fishing, border defense and security patrols, etc., can be used. If it is exported to foreign countries, it can even be used as a means of private transportation. "

Speaking of this, Zhang Qihang said: "Our optimistic estimate is that based on an export price of 25 US dollars, we should be able to export more than 100 aircraft per year. If we are more optimistic, 200 aircraft per year are also possible."

In fact, the last sentence is the key point.

(End of this chapter)