Chapter 945 Take Out the Secret Weapon and Use It

Just two days later, a cooperation invitation letter signed by Serge Dassault was sent to Torch Group.

The content... is naturally about the design method of the high-speed airfoil part in the Falcon Z design plan.

And, not even as a supplier.

Instead, it simply and crudely increased the Torch Group, which was actually the Aviation Power Group's share of the entire project.

In other words, every time an aircraft is sold in the future, more money can be shared from the profits.

And, correspondingly, they will have more say.

It's basically a benefit without any harm.

However, the Aerospace Power Group is, after all, a state-owned enterprise.

As usual, such matters must be decided after collective discussion.

Of course, it's a discussion, but there's almost no suspense about the outcome.

It's nothing more than going through the voting process and finally getting General Manager Zhu Linyu to sign.

Therefore, there was no special meeting at the group level for this matter, but was placed directly after a regular organizational meeting on Friday afternoon.

"Comrade Haonan, I don't have any opinions on the decision-making of this matter. I just have a question that I am just curious about..."

After taking less than two minutes to complete the vote, he may have felt that it was unreasonable to end the meeting so quickly. In short, Zhu Linyu did not immediately announce the adjournment of the meeting.

Therefore, Deng Shiyou, one of the deputy general managers, took this opportunity to ask:

"This wing design should be part of the aerodynamic design, but almost all of our Aerodynamics Group's current business revolves around aero engines, and none of its subordinate factories have experience in overall aircraft design..."

"Of course, I know that during the head office period, Comrade Haonan, you participated in the research and development of several aircraft models, but after all, the Falcon Z is a large-scale project that also involves communication and cooperation with foreign parties. You cannot rely solely on You can do it alone..."

Deng Shiyou is mainly in charge of corporate logistics and subordinate non-business organization management. However, he was also a draftsman in his early years, so he does not have a bad eye for aviation technology.

Therefore, the question asked is not outrageous.

It is indeed impossible for Chang Haonan to complete such a complicated work by himself, so he must find some helpers.

But where the help will come from, that is the question.

However, before Chang Haonan could explain, Lin Zuoming, who was sitting closest to Zhu Linyu, replied in a half-joking tone:

"Actually, when it comes to communication... there may not be many things that need to be communicated."

While speaking, he also picked up the cooperation invitation letter on the table and waved it in the air a few times:

"According to what is said here, as long as we optimize the airfoil part according to the requirements and then hand it over to Dassault, the subsequent work, including structural design and integration with the overall aircraft, are not things we need to consider. ”

After he said this, there was a burst of laughter in the conference room——

Although the wording used by Dassault is "cooperation", anyone can understand what it means by suddenly doing something like this at this juncture.

Simply put.

"We rashly chose the wrong calculation tool before, and ended up screwing up. Now we want to correct our mistakes, but we feel it's too late in time. Can you come and wipe our butts for us?"

It's just that everyone is a face-conscious person, and they always have to live up to their reputation.

It's impossible to really kneel down and kowtow.

So everyone just needs to understand what's going on.

"Mr. Lin is right."

Seeing this scene, Chang Haonan took advantage of the situation and continued what Lin Zuoming said:

"Passenger aircraft are different from fighter jets because there is no need to consider the issue of wing-body fusion. In addition, the Falcon X uses a tail-mounted engine layout, so the wing is a relatively isolated element in terms of aerodynamics."

"As for Mr. Deng's question just now..."

There was a bit of a smile on his face:

"Although our group does not have a unit specifically responsible for the overall design of aircraft, when our Torch Group was still under the Academy of Sciences, we accumulated many designers with such experience through some projects."

"For example, we have a numerical calculation business department. The director of this department is my senior brother, Liu Hongbo. He has previously been responsible for the design optimization of the wings and rotors of the MA-60 and Z-12 aircraft..."

"..."

As soon as this explanation came out, not only Deng Shiyou, but also several other people in the conference room were shocked.

Only Chang Haonan himself, as well as Zhu Linyu and Lin Zuoming, who knew the situation better, behaved as usual.

In fact, we can't blame the other leaders for not being familiar with the situation.

Torch Group is different from the secondary units directly assigned to the Aerospace Power Group from the head office. It is an independent branch that "brings capital into the group".

In addition, the general manager is Chang Haonan.

Therefore, it has a high degree of autonomy in daily operations——

This time participating in the Falcon Z project is an exception.

The reason why it needs to be approved by vote is because the French directly sent the cooperation documents to the Aerospace Power Group, so an additional procedure was required.

Under normal circumstances, it is basically only necessary to report major personnel appointments and dismissals, as well as financial income and expenditures to the group.

By looking at only two pieces of content, it is actually difficult to determine what business a company is engaged in.

Especially for people like Deng Shiyou, whose supervisory work has nothing to do with business, it is even less clear.

From just a few words in some reports, we can roughly understand that Torch Group is an enterprise related to software development and mechanical design.

Who would have thought that there would be a crouching tiger, hidden dragon inside.

So Deng Shiyou just gave a thumbs up:

"Mr. Chang, what a calculation!"

"Um?"

Although Chang Haonan has long been accustomed to all kinds of praise and exclamation, this wave still left him a little confused:

"What did I plan?"

"Mr. Chang, please stop being modest..."

Deng Shiyou had an expression of "I've seen through everything":

"When we separated from the aviation industry, we horizontally split the subordinate organizations according to different businesses. But now it seems that Mr. Chang gave us outside the entire Science and Technology Commission system long before the head office was split. Keep a backup plan.”

"In this way, when we have sufficient resources in the future, we can consider expanding our business scope to aircraft design..."

"It's so far-sighted..."

Looking at Deng Shiyou, whose thinking had completely changed, Chang Haonan almost spread his hands and lost his breath.

"No, Mr. Deng, please wait a moment."

He quickly raised his hand to stop the other party from continuing to think divergently:

"I really didn't think so much at the beginning. I just wanted to expand my business and make more money to revitalize the company..."

When encountering this kind of thing in the past, Chang Haonan would usually respond with an attitude of neither admitting nor denying.

Because when his personal reputation was not enough, such urban legends really helped to increase his influence.

But now, the situation is obviously different.

Especially after the last attack, Fu Youquan actually suspected that the incident was related to Chang Haonan's actions.

I have to say it is very humorous.

And it’s also a little scary.

So, it’s better to explain clearly...

…

After obtaining approval at the group level, Chang Haonan quickly approached Liu Hongbo with relevant documents and information.

"I remember you sent me an engineering document a few days ago, which should be the aerodynamic design plan for this wing."

Liu Hongbo looked at the contents of the cooperation invitation, shook his head and said in a slightly sinister voice:

"When Dassault changed the calculation tools from COMSOL before, wasn't it very resolute? How come it suddenly realized its mistake and changed it..."

Chang Haonan wanted to say that they didn't know they were wrong, but they knew the Falcon Z project was about to be outplayed by themselves.

But when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them in the end.

"So this isn't a return to the lost path..."

He reorganized the language slightly, and then changed the subject:

"Let's not talk about that for now. You can find a few comrades from your department who have participated in the simulation of the external flow field of the aircraft. The time given this time is quite tight and we need to start work immediately."

Hearing what Chang Haonan said, Liu Hongbo quickly put away the smile on his face.

If Chang Haonan said that time is tight, then he must be really nervous.

Therefore, he specially opened the design description document and took a look.

"I……"

The second word he was about to blurt out was stuck in his throat.

"Six months?"

Liu Hongbo's eyes almost bulged out:

"Why don't they go to God?"

"Even if we want to complete these computing tasks in half a year, it is almost impossible, right?"

Among the tasks of the Torch Group, there is no content about wind tunnel testing——

This part of the work will be completed by the French themselves.

But even if we only perform flow field simulations, the research object is after all a high-aspect-ratio straight wing operating in the transonic range.

No one had experience designing this type of airfoil in the past.

It always takes several attempts, or even more trial and error.

Therefore, in Liu Hongbo's view, this time cannot be said to be tense.

It's simply not enough.

"Don't worry, it's not a big problem."

Chang Haonan was sitting on the sofa in Liu Hongbo's office at this time, sipping the tea in the cup leisurely:

"Originally, in order to improve the competitiveness of our company's products in the CFD field, I specially prepared a secret trick for next year's 2.0 version of TORCH Multiphysics."

"But now...since COMSOL is pulling its weight, it doesn't hurt to take this trump card out for you to use in advance..."