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Chapter 476: The New Era of Aviation (Second update, please subscribe)
Faced with the power of money, who can resist it?
What even the British Prime Minister cannot refuse, ordinary people cannot refuse.

This naturally includes the Rolls-Royce Company. In fact, the Rolls-Royce Company has already knelt down directly in front of Li Yian's financial capabilities - as early as a few years ago, it had launched a comprehensive cooperation with BMW and invited BMW to participate. When it comes to the design of the Nien engine, in fact, it is not just the Nien engine. BMW has also participated in other projects of Rolls-Royce, and the most important project is the new project chaired by Alan Arnold Griffiths, chief engineer of the company's aero-engine department. This project is known for its "bypass ratio" "Concept as the basic model.

In the process of finalizing the Nien engine, after learning about this research, Li Yi'an immediately expressed his willingness to invest in participating in the research - and required Allen's introduction, he realized that it was a turbofan engine.

The Nien engine is a turbojet engine, which not only consumes a lot of fuel, but also has a short life. The future belongs to turbofan engines, and the world's first mass-produced turbofan engine was the "Conway" engine launched by Rolls-Royce, which is also the engine currently developed in cooperation with BMW.

"...The engine is driven by a four-stage low-pressure compressor of a two-stage turbine and an eight-stage high-pressure compressor...After four years of design, we have completed all the design work. If the project funds can be guaranteed, we will do so at any time. You can start trial production..."

Alan Arnold Griffiths seemed extremely enthusiastic. As early as half a year ago, when he learned that the funder would visit in the second half of the year, as the chief engineer, he had been speeding up the design work, and finally made it ahead of schedule when the funder arrived. The design is completed.

Facing the visit of the funder, while showing off his achievements, he also specifically mentioned funds. It is not easy for Luo Luo Company now. The orders of the Air Force are limited and overseas orders are also very limited. Without the attention of external funds, even if Even after the design was completed, it was difficult to raise enough funds to manufacture engineering prototypes in a short period of time.

"BMW will provide all the funds needed for the project!"

Li Yian directly made the decision for BMW. He had no choice but to make BMW's largest shareholder be him?

BMW is a Nanyang car brand, but its products are not limited to cars. In fact, its superior product is the same engine as Rolls-Royce. As for Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce also has a name, which is similar to Rolls-Royce. .Royce is just a different translation of Rolls-Royce.

Compared with BMW, Rolls-Royce has stronger technical strength. In fact, it is far ahead of BMW in the research of jet engines. It is for this reason that it cooperates through this investment method to obtain its jet engines. engine technology to make up for its own shortcomings.

"Just as we agreed in the contract,"

"Your Majesty, your Majesty, is this true?"

With this engine, the era of cheap air transportation has arrived!
Similarly, its arrival will also open a new era in Nanyang - low-cost airlines will strengthen the connection between the main island and outer islands.

In fact, compared to others, this is the reason why Li Yi'an invested in it. After all, the straight-line distance from Chang'an to Dongning is more than 2700 kilometers. Only jet-age passenger aircraft can closely connect the two places.

At this time, Li Yian was staring directly at the engine on the drawing, which had a structure completely different from that of a turbojet engine. It was bound to usher in a new era - the jet era.

Allen, who was stammering, couldn't believe his ears. He clearly remembered the board of directors' decision after completing the design - unless there was funding from the Royal Air Force, they would not conduct trial production of the engineering test aircraft.

But as we all know, the Labor cabinet is eager to scrap all the Royal Air Force aircraft in order to save money, and it is simply a dream to fund the Royal Air Force. In fact, it was not until Churchill returned in 1951 that the Royal Air Force received relatively sufficient funds and was able to continue to promote many stalled projects, including the Conway engine.

This also delayed testing of this extremely superior turbofan jet engine for two years. "Mr. Chief Engineer, I look forward to good news from you."

Li Yian then turned his attention to other members of the project team, many of whom were from Nanyang. After all, this project was funded by BMW. As the president of Nanyang, Li Nian naturally walked over and had a cordial exchange with them. In the end, he told them to cherish this learning opportunity and design Nanyang's own jet engine in the future.

After such instructions, Li Yian left Rolls-Royce. Of course, he did not leave empty-handed. At Rolls-Royce, he ordered 20 more RB.80 engines from Rolls-Royce. This jet engine has a thrust of up to 9250 pounds. , is also the "master version" of the Conway engine. In fact, this is not the first time that China has purchased it. After Rolls-Royce launched the RB.80 engine last year, Nanyang Aviation Industry Corporation purchased six engines for jet engines. aircraft project.

Yes, Nanyang also has its own jetliner project, but it just doesn't have a suitable engine yet. It should be said that there is just no engine that Li Yian thinks is suitable.

Now that we have the right engine, how far away is that from an airplane?
"Okay, the engine problem is finally solved, then..."

On the way to leave Rolls-Royce Company, Li Yi'an couldn't help but start to think about the future. In the future, large passenger planes carrying hundreds of people will sail between Nanyang and outer islands, connecting the main island and outer islands into a whole. , large aircraft will also become Nanyang’s dominant product.

"Who said there can only be Boeing and Airbus in this world, and there can also be Nanyang!"

What should the name of Nanyang Aircraft Manufacturing Company be in the future? Is it still Nanyang Aviation Industries?
Or is it a direct plagiarism from Airbus?
It's not impossible.

But no matter what its name is, with its excellent engines and scientific body design, the large aircraft coming to Nanyang can even lead Boeing and become the pioneer of jet airliners. This future is not impossible.

This is not just because of confidence, but because... Li Yian did give some help in the Nanyang jetliner project.

Although it won't help much, it will certainly be able to greatly promote Nanyang's large aircraft project.

In the next few days, Li Yian has been inspecting factories across the UK. Everywhere he went, he was given a grand welcome. The chairman and board members of those companies wanted to send their daughters to his bed. In order to please this money-spreading boy, everyone knows that he came here waving banknotes, and they are the US dollars that Britain needs most.

For the British business community in the midst of an economic crisis, orders from Nanyang will not only bring them considerable profits, but may even save their companies - from World War II until now, 99.5% of these business owners have been The corporate income tax is tortured to death. Because of the shortage of profits, the company has no ability to resist risks at all. If there is a slight disturbance, it will fall into bankruptcy. Therefore, in this case, continuous orders become It gave British businesses hope for survival.

Naturally, as a "wealth-spreading boy", Li Yi'an was especially welcomed wherever he went. Everyone has only one thought - Master, please quickly turn over the cards. As long as you turn over the cards, we can survive.

Of course, the "wealth-spreading boy" would definitely not disappoint them. In just three days, the entourage reached orders totaling more than 100 million US dollars with more than 30 British companies. These orders not only involved In terms of procurement of machinery and equipment, as well as transfer of patented technology, etc., in order to survive, sometimes capitalists will indeed take off their pants.

(End of this chapter)