Chapter 500

If this is disgusted by CAAC, it will not affect the money, but the development strategy of McDonnell Douglas in the next ten years.

It's obvious that a sales director can't bear such a big responsibility, so the best result is to get rid of it.

FOSS doesn't care about the position, but he cares about the annual salary of two million dollars and the equity incentive of tens of millions of dollars. Once he is expelled from McDonnell Douglas, all these will have to say goodbye to him, which is fatal to him.

You know, in addition to having a legal wife in Chicago, two sons and a daughter, he also has a mistress in New York and Los Angeles. He is not only a normal husband and wife, but also has two children. Besides, he has several lovers in Washington, Seattle and Atlanta.

There are a lot of them. They all depend on FOSS. He has a lot of annual salary, but it's good to have a few family members.

So don't say to kick him out of McDonnell Douglas, even if his salary is slightly reduced, FOSS will be as painful as cutting his flesh.

Because of this, after the successful landing, FOSS just took a long breath of joy, and his freckled face immediately sank like the bottom of the pot. When the notice outside the cabin suggested that the spiral ladder had been closed and the cabin could be opened, FOSS immediately stood up and said coldly to several accompanying McDonnell engineers: "check the situation immediately, I want to know for the first time What's wrong with it. "

Then he took a cold glance at the other assistants, put on his coat and went to the cabin door. He followed the recommended spiral ladder provided by the naval aviation force and got off the plane. FOSS immediately asked the interpreter to find the person in charge here, hoping to provide the corresponding convenience so that McDonnell's engineers could find out the cause of the plane's failure.

The head of the Navy, who is in charge of coordination and command, is relieved to see that the plane has successfully made a forced landing without causing too much personnel loss. At the same time, it is not difficult for FOSS. After all, it is a plane that is on display in China, and there is nothing wrong with helping.

Besides, it was also the first time that the large aircraft weighing more than 100 tons, including the head of the Navy, had made close contact with each other. I also wanted to know what was the problem that led to the landing of this huge object.

In a word, the Chinese people are not afraid of big things when they are watching the big events. The head of the Navy and others are not free from vulgarity. That is to say, they are afraid that they are all foreign friends. Otherwise, they all want to climb up and be quiet.

FOSS didn't know that the people around him were watching the crowd. He thought that the Chinese people were really good and almost responded to their own demands. This calmed his uneasy heart a little. He thought, even the people in the army are so easy to talk, would the people of CAAC be the same?

As a result, FOSS was still imagining that a McDonnell engineer suddenly came over and let all the relief he had just poured out sweep into the garbage.

"The situation is very serious. According to the preliminary judgment, it may be that the right control surface of the horizontal tail broke off, resulting in the imbalance of the aircraft. Fortunately, Hugh wood and Beckman pilots dealt with it in a timely manner and made an emergency landing. Otherwise, we are likely to die."

"I know that. Now I want to know if the plane can fly again?" FOSS is still concerned about the plane crash and human death. He is standing on the ground, thinking about how to minimize the impact.

The McDonnell engineer didn't expect that FOSS would react like this. He was a little surprised, but he soon wanted to understand what FOSS meant. He immediately shook his head and said in embarrassment: "it's very difficult. The fragments produced by the fracture and fall off of the right rudder surface of the horizontal tail not only penetrated the tail and damaged the APU auxiliary power unit inside, but also caused the force of the rudder due to the damage of the right rudder surface of the horizontal tail The moment is out of balance, and obvious fatigue cracks appear. All the above parts need to be replaced and repaired, so... "

"Don't talk so much nonsense, just say how long it will take to get the plane back to the sky." Fox was a little impatient.

"It's expected to take two to three weeks if it's in the United States." Engineer McDonnell frowned for a moment and gave him a rough time.

FOSS picked his dark brown eyebrows and grasped the main point of engineer McDonnell's words: "in the United States? What about here? "

McDonnell engineer looked around at the simple and crude facilities and equipment, showing a wry smile: "it is estimated that it will take at least two months, because we need to manufacture the large rudder, horizontal tail, right rudder surface, APU auxiliary power unit and the body tail of the hood material in the local factories in the United States, and then arrange a special freight charter to repair these parts and special equipment Besides, we need more than ten professional engineers and skilled workers to replace and repair the parts.

Because of the conditions of this airport, our DC-10 is already fully loaded. Other charter flights can't take off and land at all, so they can only use land transportation. However, China's road conditions and vehicle equipment don't know whether it has the ability to carry out transshipment. Even if it can, it will take a very long time... "

"Wait!"

Before engineer McDonnell finished speaking, FOSS reached out to interrupt. There was no way to listen to a series of words. FOSS's brain ached. The time consumed to repair the plane was second. The key point was that the cost of charter flights to transport things from the United States to China was not a small fraction, and all of them were professional aviation components. It was not painful to say that they really wanted to come together It's real gold and silver.Who will be responsible for this huge sum of money?

What's more, even if there is no financial trouble, FOSS is not ready to disturb the headquarters. The reason is very simple. If the battle is big, it's not marketing, but self humiliation. He doesn't believe that Boeing and Airbus can let go of the scandal. If they don't punish MacDonald, it will be difficult for FOSS not to lose his job.

So he frowned and asked, "is there any other way? I mean, can the final assembly plant jointly owned by McDonnell Douglas and Shanghai stock exchange be replaced? "

"This..." McDonnell engineer hesitated for a moment, and then said strangely: "you said that it was a general assembly plant, so it was a general assembly plant. All the parts, even a rivet, were sent from the United States. They had no core technology, and they could not make any parts except splicing planes like Lego.

Of course, even if they have this ability, I don't believe they can meet our requirements. You know, DC-10 exhibited in China this time applies a lot of composite materials. I went to the assembly plant in Shanghai Stock Exchange in the first half of the year. They can only produce and process general aviation aluminum alloy. Composite materials.... "

Then the McDonnell engineer shook his head: "many front-line engineers and technical workers have never heard of it. What else can they expect them to do?"

When forston heard this, his face collapsed. Just as he was about to say something, he heard a loud noise with laughter coming from a distance. Forston, who was in a bad mood, was a little annoyed. He looked up and saw that several people in ordinary clothes, who appeared to be a hindrance in a crowd of military uniforms, were standing at the tail of the DC-10, pointing at the top with the bright light Give me directions. I'm not surprised.

FOSS frowned, pulled the interpreter over, pointed to the crowd and asked, "listen, what do those people say?"

Because they were not far away from each other, they felt that the foreigners who spoke Chinese could not understand and could not lower their voice, so the translator quickly got a general idea and said, "they said that the APU auxiliary power unit of the aircraft is easy to handle, and it can be replaced immediately, but the horizontal tail rudder is difficult to handle. They can't understand what the material is. If the aluminum lithium alloy is OK, if it is honeycomb structure group It's going to take some time. I'm afraid it's aluminum matrix composites. This is the most troublesome thing... "

At last, he was surprised and asked, "do they really say that?"