Pangxun Factory and Hongshi Factory communicated afterward, and the final quotation was confirmed to be 170,000.
Hongshi Factory is not easy to deal with either. Their quotation is 200,000.
The difference in quotations is indeed a factor in avoiding official fines, but it is not the main reason.
Both factories are new, but their potential and capabilities are already different.
The Hongshi Factory is sandwiched between the Xincheng Industrial Cluster and the Fenggu Industrial Zone. It quickly introduced the latest heavy equipment after the revamp of the ropeway station. As for Pang Xun, because the boundary before the plate took off did not belong to the Kingdom, and there was no cableway station, it was all transported by air. This was destined to miss the heavy precision equipment of Xincheng Heavy Industry, and could only use some parts to get on the plane.
The difference in transportation capacity has led to a small gap in the processing levels of the two factories, and the two factories have different ratings from the aviation bureau. Everyone is currently making wooden figures series, but with the arrival of foreign trade permission and the iteration of aircraft models, the aviation bureau will inevitably be inclined to purchase products from the Red Stone Factory.
Hongshi Factory understands that it cannot match Pangxun Factory in terms of scale, and is more inclined to improve quality to obtain production authorization for higher-level models.
...That's right, I'm talking about the awesome type.
The personnel of Blue Sky Heavy Industry basically come from the people who moved to Phoenix City before and after the plate took off, plus two to three thousand night clans and sharp blades, there are about more than ten thousand people in total.
More than 10,000 people seems like a lot, but it is really not a big manufacturer when it comes to making aircraft. It has to meet military orders and has heavy engine development tasks, so it doesn't have much energy to focus on civil aviation.
Blue Sky Heavy Industries also wanted to expand its recruitment, but it couldn't.
The Phoenix Kingdom has always had a very limited scale of industries due to insufficient population. For example, Xincheng Heavy Industry and Phoenix Steel, the core enterprises of the entire industrial processing, only have more than 10,000 people in total. If they were really open to recruiting people, these two The industry can easily absorb hundreds of thousands of people, and with the service personnel providing living support for these hundreds of thousands of people, there is basically nothing else to do.
The first consideration for government-owned enterprises is R&D capabilities, which can meet domestic demand on a scale, and then they can make some production capacity adjustments based on the foreign trade environment.
Therefore, after the foreign trade license for the aircraft was issued, the Aviation Administration also revealed the news that the production license for the Manniu B model will be opened soon.
Hongshi Factory also specially sent people to the Aviation Administration and the Ministry of Industry to consult. There is no type A because type A has been eliminated.
In actual use, the riding experience of gliding aircraft is very poor. It needs to fly at an elevated altitude from time to time, which is actually not conducive to transporting some particularly fragile cargo.
What comes into play here is the garrison of bull-type main customers.
Although it did not cause a self-destruction accident in the air, the collision of wooden boxes caused by the Manniu type ammunition transportation made the pilots worried every time. After the delivery of five aircraft, the Type A contract was suspended and all were upgraded to Type B. Subsequently, the Air Force The Type A was also transferred to the Aviation Administration for use.
The aviation bureau itself does not like to use this. Ammunition is afraid of collision, and other cargo is also afraid.
The problem is that the cabin of the Manniu type is relatively large. Once the cargo increases, it is not as easy to fix as a small aircraft. As for the special aviation transport box, the standard is still in flux and has not yet been implemented.
The parties responsible for special aviation transport boxes include the Aviation Administration, Blue Sky Heavy Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Administration, and the Ministry of Industry.
Blue Sky Heavy Industry, on behalf of itself, is also more inclined to the military position, believing that there is a need for aviation containers specially adapted to Manniu.
Of course, this kind of container is not the 12-meter-long 75-cubic-meter container used on the ground, but some small squares and special-shaped boxes near the edge of the machine body.
The standard container designed by Blue Sky Heavy Industry for Manniu has only three types of boxes in total. Type A conforms to the curvature of the cabin wall and can be placed in two layers, because the boxes are not divided into front and rear and can be adapted to the left and right sides of the cabin; Type B and Type C are both middle area containers. The difference is that Type B only occupies the height of one floor of Type A. Type C has two layers. The general combination is ABA for the main body of the cabin and ABA for the rear part of the cabin.
According to the research and development plan of Blue Sky Heavy Industry, larger aircraft in the future can also adapt to this kind of container, changing the stacking height from two to three floors, or occupying part of the passenger space and stacking four floors.
The Aviation Administration and the Ministry of Commerce are on the same side. They hope that the aviation container standard can be adapted to the Wooden Man series. After all, the stock of Wooden Man is much larger, and the total number of Wooden Man in the whole country has exceeded 200.
But Blue Sky Heavy Industry's Manniu container solution is completely useless for wooden people, because it is more than one circle too small. Even if it can be squeezed in with an AA box, the curvature cannot fit, and there is still extra space in the middle, and there will still be vibration.
The dispute between the two parties involved the Ministry of Administration and the Ministry of Industry.
These two departments are mainly based on capacity allocation considerations.
With the experience of mixed railway and highway containers, the Ministry of Administration, on behalf of the Highway Department and Railway Bureau, hopes that at least part of the air boxes can be directly transported in standard land containers for short-distance transportation to facilitate management.
The Ministry of Industry provides soy sauce and coordinates in the middle.
They were in trouble at first, but they found out that the flight cases were made of aluminum, because aluminum is a material that is easy to reshape. The discarded ones can be cold forged and cold rolled to become new cases. It doesn't cost a lot of money, or even No official subsidy is required.
Everyone is on their own, and there is no need to go to war over a broken box. The direction was quickly established, and the problem of mainly considering the amount of work has not been solved.
Blue Sky Heavy Industry proposed that the aviation bureau transform all the wooden figures into cabin fasteners, that is, add some light metal beams with curvature to the side walls of the cabin to make the cabin width and curvature meet the standards.
Later, considering the situation of road containers, the dimensions of boxes B and C were slightly adjusted so that the width of the road container can accommodate two boxes B side by side. On the aircraft, guide rails need to be added to the cabin, which is a device to lock the boxes in place. .
In the end, aviation containers will probably follow this plan. However, after the standard is released, manufacturers still need to be coordinated, and it has not yet been implemented.
Back to the licensing of civilian aircraft production.
In short, the larger size and gliding flight mode of the Manniu Type A are too inconsistent with the cargo capacity. There are no plans to develop large gliding aircraft in the future. Therefore, the first batch of Manniu Type B is intended to be authorized.
The Manniu Type B involves radial engine technology. Although this thing will be phased out sooner or later, after all, it is still the latest installed equipment. Until the turboprop of Blue Sky Heavy Industry passes the endurance test, it cannot be certified and can only blow the air first. .
But it's enough for the Red Stone Factory if the wind blows. After all, their family business is relatively small and they can still survive by relying on the aviation bureau's tendency to place orders for wooden men.
Pang Xun Factory also received the blowing information, but after doing a self-technical assessment, it believed that it was not wise to deal with the bull model because it lacked large-scale equipment. It decided to mainly operate the foreign trade market represented by the wooden man series, and sell some hot air balloons by the way. .
…It’s still about money.
The people of Hongshi have become accustomed to the domestic business environment, so they are a little afraid of inexplicable accidents and threats when going overseas.
The newly joined Pang Xunren has not yet fully adapted to the domestic environment and feels that making money with his head in his head is the normal way of doing business.
As soon as the two factories' public quotations for overseas orders came out, a large group of flying guys gathered at the Pangxun section. Because there were too many people, there was no way to queue up, but some people were still squeezed to Hongshi to place orders.
Next, we not only need to increase production capacity, but also develop our own foreign trade aircraft.
Wooden men are an alternative means to solve the shortage of aircraft production capacity in the process of floating islands. In order to ensure the glycogen reserves of each sacred tree, the supply of wooden men will not increase due to the increase in production capacity of the two factories, and may even decrease.
Therefore, the two factories must have their own aircraft.
Fortunately, the wooden man's basic frame is well built and can be imitated using ordinary wood and metal fasteners. Although it will cause a decrease in transportation capacity, it will not lose its practicality.
On this basis, it is necessary to consider self-developed metal-skinned aircraft... That is still very early. Let us first use this round of centralized orders to recoup the money spent on building the factory.
