Chapter 772 Big Order with Bonus
The way Captain Liu deepened his impression was to spend money.
Not to mention 150 fighter jets at once, each fighter jet requires two sets of spare parts, including the most expensive engine, which is almost equivalent to 450 aircraft, but there are 300 aircraft without the fuselage and all of them are parts. Even Richard dared to quote a price, and the fat man of Wang Guo agreed without frowning. The order of 10 million was almost shocked by the steady Richard.
He came to Xinlong with a try-and-see attitude. He never thought about signing any intentional contract, not to mention that he had only talked with the fat man of the Kingdom for only an hour. The most extreme thing is that the Kingdom people paid for "one disagreement" and the five large suitcases totaled 3 million cash, which was placed in front of Richard, which almost made Richard's eyes flash.
You know, if Richard could negotiate this order, he could get at least three percent of the commission, 300,000! It is thirty times his annual salary as a consultant in Curtis Company.
Money is a kind of thing with its own magical attributes, especially when it reaches a certain number, so when the fat man of the Kingdom proposed to let Richard be the chief instructor of the Kingdom People's Aviation Group, with an annual salary of 100,000 yuan, Richard almost didn't have time to think about it and agreed dizzyly.
There is no way to be sober. Richard has never seen money, but he has never seen so much money.
Now, Richard has another impression of the fat man in the Kingdom: He is not stupid, he pays more money.
An order of ten million is considered a big business no matter where it is. Curtis's headquarters was soon alarmed, and a vice president led several senior designers of the company to Xinlong, vowing to swallow the order in one bite.
At the same time, Rolls-Royce, located in the Dark Yuan Empire, also sent its strongest powertrain designer to Xinlong. The telegram Liu Lang patted to them explained the demand for 450 aircraft engines. This order alone is enough for Rolls-Roycece powertrain factory to continue to survive for a year.
It’s not that Liu Lang couldn’t spend too much money, but that one plane would have to be equipped with two sets of aircraft parts, especially expensive things like aircraft engines. But when you arrive in the kingdom, you can’t buy them if you want to buy parts. Once the war begins, the Black Hawk Empire will almost strangle the road leading the kingdom to abroad, otherwise there wouldn’t be any subsequent Hump route.
Moreover, aircraft engines are not car engines, and they can be used for hundreds of thousands of kilometers at any time. They have a life span. Why do pilots in this period say that 500 hours of flight are skilled pilots? The life span of aircraft engines is too limited. It is not that you can fly the plane to the sky if you want to fly. The cost of flight is not only oil, but also huge consumption of the engine.
If an aircraft engine is used for training, it may be able to be repaired every 100 hours, but if it is used during wartime, once it is overpowered, it may be scrapped if it is less than 100 hours.
In other words, if these 150 aircraft are equipped with two engines, even if they are trained, the flight time of each aircraft is only more than 600 hours. If used for combat, the maximum is 300 hours, and the aircraft will be scrapped.
With all the additional components, the total combat life of nearly 60,000 fighter jets is only 300 hours. Otherwise, what is the battle is about financial resources! Once the engine catches fire, white silver will flow out.
In view of the relationship between Rolls and Rolls, Liu Lang stayed in Xinlong for several days until the two companies agreed to a cooperative relationship and communicated with the military departments of the two countries. Curtis Company fully agreed to all conditions for Liu Lang to strengthen the protection and firepower of the aircraft, ensure that the maximum level flight speed of the aircraft at an altitude of 5,000 meters can reach at least 500 kilometers per hour, and try to improve the aircraft's dive and pull-up performance.
Rolls & Rolls has also made a sacrifice for the order and promised to provide engine prototypes with a horsepower of more than 1,200 horsepower within half a year, deliver at least 100 export aircraft engines within one year, and all of them will be delivered within two years.
Liu Lang certainly knew they could, because last month, they had already started working with Super Marin to start the development of the famous Spitfire fighter.
They now promised to reach 1,200 horsepower because after the Merchant Group injected enough funds, they had already built a prototype that could reach this horsepower value after restarting the wind tunnel experiment. The reason they promised half a year was that they needed to develop a stronger aircraft engine model so that they could convince the Dark Yuan Empire government to sell this engine that was already extremely advanced at this stage.
In any case, the aircraft that Liu Lang asked to be equipped with the Kingdom Air Force has completely surpassed the performance of the Black Hawk Empire. The Black Hawk Empire is still stepping up its development and putting it into service in two years. Even if it encounters the future Type Zero, it will not suffer much loss.
This is the ultimate that Liu Lang can do. Each aircraft takes at least two to three years from design to finalization to equipment. Liu Lang uses this almost trick to complete the aircraft equipped by the Kingdom Air Force within two years, and then transport it to the Kingdom in about half a year. Finally, there is still one year for them to train at the Kingdom.
Of course, all this must be carried out in a state of extreme confidentiality. After the Kingdom Song and the Kingdom's Minister to the White Eagle, the king who learned about this news was naturally very happy. Fortunately, the king was not stupid. He knew that the sudden increase of 100 aircraft would be increased by the Black Eagle Empire. If the Black Eagle Empire knew about it, it might not only arouse the other party's vigilance. It might also be that it would use diplomatic means to prevent the White Eagle Government from approving the Kingdom people to form an aviation force and return to China to participate in the war.
You should know that at this time, the Black Hawk Empire was the big customer of the White Hawk people. A large amount of steel and ore in the White Hawk Kingdom was dumping the Black Hawk Empire. For a kingdom that had not yet established an ambassador-level relationship with the White Hawk Kingdom, the Black Hawk Empire spoke much better than the Kingdom people.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! At present, the telegram ordered the Minister to negotiate with the Kingdom and the Curtis Company, and announced to the public that the Kingdom government had purchased 120 Eagle II fighters of the Curtis Company. The news came to the Black Hawk Empire, and the Black Hawk Empire laughed out. They knew the performance of the old wooden-big-winged White Eagle Kingdom fighter purchased by the Kingdom, but they were not the opponent of the Type 96 fighter jets under development. Not to mention the new fighter jets that can be equipped with troops in two years, the current Black Hawk Empire naval and land aviation fighter jets are not very afraid of the Hawk II fighter jets. What role can the stupid Kingdom buy for the old White Eagle fighter jets?
The Black Hawk Empire, which has invested a lot of spies in the Kingdom, has not deployed enough power in the White Hawk Empire. In addition, the top leaders of the Black Hawk Empire do not pay attention to the low-quality military purchases of the Kingdom, so the Black Hawk Empire completely ignored this military purchase news from thousands of miles away.
Of course, Curtis Company would not be foolish about telling this matter. They had to keep this secret for the kingdoms. If this big customer was gone, they would cry.
The kingdoms, who had been nervous, waited for a long time but didn't notice any major diplomatic changes in the Black Hawk Empire before they were completely relieved. This was a major event that the kingdom rarely concealed from the Black Hawk Empire's eyes and ears.
Of course, nearly 100 aircraft-specific radio stations were suddenly added to this order of tens of millions, and it did not attract anyone's attention.
In fact, amid the huge roar of the aircraft engine, the sound of the radio station is almost inaudible, and the distance is very limited, so the Hawk III exported by Curtis to the Kingdom simply dismantled all the radio stations that were both increased by weight but felt that they were not very useful.
The Kingdom military had no objection, and could not hear clearly what the radio was doing. It would be better for the pilot to keep communication by shaking his wings or making gestures.
Yes, you heard it right. Don’t say that the Kingdom military thinks so. Even the most advanced Zero fighter of the Black Hawk Empire is equipped with radios, many Black Hawk pilots chose DIY, dismantled the radio station, and communicated in the air by gestures.
However, Liu Lang knew very well that the Baiying Chinese were the best in radio research and was completely ahead of all countries in this era.
Liu Lang also hopes that in the future war, he can command his soldiers to a greater extent. The additional 100 sets of seemingly useless aircraft-specific radio stations depends on whether the prides of heaven at Huaqing University can reduce enough weight according to their needs.
I'm afraid no one knows that the radio station that can make voice calls in short distances has been thought about for a long time before Captain Liu came to Baiying Kingdom, but he couldn't get it because he didn't sell it at all. Unexpectedly, he achieved his dream like this, and was just a big shot as a big shot. The aircraft manufacturer of Baiying Kingdom, who had just received 10 million orders and had not even asked for money, and gave it to you for free.
Chapter completed!