Liu Tuanzuo's way of deepening his impression was to throw money at him.
Not to mention the 150 fighter planes that need to be ordered at one go, each fighter requires two sets of spare parts, including the most expensive engine, which is almost equivalent to 450 aircraft, except that 300 of them have no fuselage and are only made of parts.
Even when Richard boldly quoted a price, the fat Chinese man agreed without even a frown. The order of US$10 million almost shocked the steady Richard.
He came to San Francisco just with the mentality of giving it a try. He never thought about signing any intention contract, not to mention that he only talked with the fat Chinese man for an hour. The most egregious thing is that the Chinese "
If they didn't agree, he took out the money. Five suitcases totaling three million US dollars in cash were placed in front of Richard, which almost made Richard's eyes dazzle.
You know, if Richard can negotiate this order, he can get at least a 3% commission, which is three hundred thousand dollars! It is thirty times his annual salary as a consultant at Curtis Company.
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Money is a thing that has its own magic properties, especially when it reaches a certain amount, so when the Chinese fat man proposed to let Richard serve as the chief instructor of the soon-to-be-formed Chinese aviation group, with an annual salary of one hundred thousand US dollars, Li Li
Chad almost didn't have time to think before he agreed in a daze.
It was impossible to wake up. It was not that Richard had never seen money before, but he had definitely never seen such a large amount of money.
Now, Richard has another impression of fat Chinese people: they are not stupid and pay back a lot of money.
An order of ten million US dollars is considered a big deal no matter where it is. The headquarters of Curtiss Company was quickly alerted, and a vice president led several senior designers of the company to fly to San Francisco, vowing to swallow this in one bite.
Order.
At the same time, Rolls-Royce in the UK also sent its most powerful powertrain designer to San Francisco. The telegram Liu Lang sent them stated the demand for 450 aircraft engines. This order alone was enough.
Rolls-Royce's powertrain plant survives for another year.
It’s not that Liu Lang couldn’t spend too much money. An airplane needs two sets of aircraft parts, especially expensive things like aero engines. But when you get to China, you won’t be able to buy parts if you want. Once the war starts, Japan will
People have almost strangled all the roads leading from China to other countries, otherwise there would not be any hump routes.
Moreover, aviation engines are not car engines. They can run hundreds of thousands of kilometers at a time. They have a lifespan. Why is it said that a pilot in this period is a skilled pilot if he flies 500 hours? It is because the lifespan of aviation engines is too limited. It’s not that you want to fly
, which allows you to fly a plane into the sky. The cost of flying is not only fuel, but also a huge consumption of the engine.
If an aerospace engine is used for training and is inspected every 100 hours, it may be able to last more than 200 hours. However, if it is used in wartime and is used for afterburner flight, the entire engine may be scrapped in less than 100 hours.
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In other words, for these 150 aircraft and the two engines each is equipped with, even for training, the flight time of each aircraft is only more than 600 hours. If used for combat, the aircraft will be considered scrapped after a maximum of 300 hours.
Including all the additional parts and components, the combat life of the fighter aircraft, which totals nearly 60,000 US dollars, is only 300 hours. Otherwise, the war is about financial resources! Once the engine catches fire, all the money will flow out.
In view of the relationship between Rolls-Royce and Rolls-Royce, Liu Lang stayed in San Francisco for a few more days until the two companies negotiated a cooperative relationship and completed communication with the military ministries of the two countries. Curtiss Company fully agreed to all Liu Lang's conditions.
Strengthen the aircraft's protection and firepower, ensure that the aircraft's maximum level flight speed reaches at least 500 kilometers per hour at an altitude of 5,000 meters, and try to improve the aircraft's dive and pull-up performance.
Rolls-Royce has gone all out for the order, promising to provide an engine prototype with a horsepower of more than 1,200 horsepower within half a year, deliver at least 100 export-type Merlin aviation engines within one year, and all deliveries within two years.
Of course Liu Lang knew they could, because last month, they had already started cooperation with Super Marlin to develop the famous Spitfire. In the past, the horsepower of their finalized Merlin 61 aeroengine reached
It has 1,500 horsepower, and the improved version in the later period of the war even reached 1,700 horsepower. The Spitfire with a powerful heart can even reach 650 kilometers per hour. Its maximum take-off weight reaches 4,300 kilograms. It can carry two 500 kilograms and can sink a bomb.
Aerial bombs of a cruiser.
They now promise to reach 1,200 horsepower. That is because after Huashang Group injected sufficient funds and restarted the wind tunnel experiment, they have built a prototype that can reach this horsepower value. The reason why they promised for half a year is because they need to develop
Only in this way can the British government be persuaded to sell this extremely advanced engine at this stage.
In any case, the performance of the aircraft Liu Lang requested for the Chinese Aviation Volunteer Army has completely surpassed the Type 96 fighter that the Japanese are still stepping up development and put into active service two years later. Even if it encounters the future Type Zero
You won't suffer too much loss.
This was the ultimate that Liu Lang could achieve in early 1934. It takes at least two to three years for each aircraft to be designed, finalized, and equipped. Liu Lang used this almost tricky method to convert the Chinese Aviation Volunteer Army
The equipped aircraft will be completed within two years, and will then be shipped to China in about half a year. Finally, there will be one year for them to be stationed in China for training.
Of course, all this must be done under extreme confidentiality. After Situ Meitang contacted Shi Zhaoji, the Chinese Minister to the United States, the bald man who learned the news was naturally very happy. Fortunately, the bald man was not stupid, and he knew that there was a sudden increase of 100.
If the Japanese know about the aircraft, it may not only arouse the other side's vigilance, but also may use diplomatic means to prevent the U.S. government from approving the Chinese to form an aviation force and return home to participate in the war.
You must know that at this time, Japan is the big customer of the Americans. A large amount of steel and ore from the United States are being dumped to the Japanese. For China, which has not yet established an ambassadorial relationship with the United States, the Japanese can speak louder than the Chinese.
Much better.
At that moment, Shi Zhaoji, the minister to the United States, was ordered by telegram to negotiate with the Curtiss Company on behalf of the national government, and announced to the public that the Chinese government had purchased 120 Curtiss Eagle II fighter jets. This news reached Japan, and the Japanese laughed it off.
It is very clear that the performance of this old wooden double-winged American fighter plane purchased by China is no match for the Type 96 fighter plane under development. Not to mention the new fighter planes that can be commissioned into the army in two years, it is the current Japanese navy and army.
Even though they are not afraid of Hawker II fighters, even if they are aircraft fighters, what use will the stupid Chinese people do if they buy more old-fashioned American fighter planes?
Japan, which has invested a lot of spies in China, has not deployed enough forces in the United States. In addition, Japanese high-level officials did not pay much attention to China's low-quality arms purchase. Therefore, the Japanese completely ignored this report from the Chinese and American troops thousands of miles away.
purchase news.
Of course, Curtis Company will not be foolish enough to tell this matter. They have to keep this secret for the Chinese. If they lose this big customer, they will cry.
The Chinese, who had been nervous all the time, finally breathed a sigh of relief after waiting for a long time without discovering any major diplomatic movements from the Japanese. This was one of the rare things that the government had managed to hide from the eyes and ears of the Japanese.
It's a big thing.
Of course, the sudden addition of nearly 100 aircraft-specific radios to this tens-of-million-dollar order did not attract anyone's attention.
In fact, amidst the huge roar of the aircraft engine, the sound of the radio station is almost inaudible, and the distance is very limited, so the Hawker III model exported to China by Curtiss Company simply increases the weight without feeling
Radio stations that were of too great use were dismantled.
The Chinese military didn't have any objections. They couldn't even hear what the radio was doing. It was better for the pilots to maintain communication by shaking their wings or making hand gestures.
Yes, you heard it right. Don’t say that the Chinese military thinks so. Even Japan’s most advanced Zero fighter planes are equipped with radios, but many Japanese pilots chose DIY and dismantled the radio stations.
They communicated by making hand gestures in the air.
But Liu Lang knew very well that Americans were the best in the world in radio station research and were completely ahead of all countries in this era.
During the war, American soldiers even used individual radio communicators. Later in the war, they even used big brother communicators similar to those decades later, with transmission distances as high as 10 kilometers. An infantry platoon of American cowboys
The commander can even talk directly to his general.
Liu Lang also hopes that in future wars, he can command his soldiers to a greater extent. The extra 100 sets of seemingly useless aircraft-specific radio stations are just a matter of those talented people from Huaqing University.
, will it be possible to reduce enough weight according to your needs?
The Americans will only launch a radio communication device for individual soldiers in six years, and Liu Tuanzuo can't wait.
I'm afraid no one knows that a radio station capable of short-distance voice communication was something that Liu Tuanzuo had been thinking about for a long time before he came to the United States, but he couldn't get it because they didn't sell it at all. Unexpectedly, his dream was realized like this.
It's just a supplement. It just received an order of 10 million US dollars. The proud American aircraft manufacturer didn't even ask for the money and just gave it away for free.
Liu Tuanzuo almost burst out laughing in a deserted place.
PS: Brothers! Even though Fengyue has only had two updates, Fengyue has been writing big chapters recently! Even the two updates are close to 6,000 words, which is definitely much more honest than the 2000 party members. It’s the end of the month, and the monthly tickets are useless.