Chapter 541: Titanium alloy

Honeywell International, Department of Aerospace Industry.
The Department of Aerospace Industry was established in 1986 after Honeywell acquired sperry Aerospace, relying on the technical materials of the original sperry aerospace company, plus the increased investment of Honeywell International, to establish or Controlled more than 20 companies involved in aviation, automation control systems, specialty materials, and power, making them the world's leading integrated manufacturer of aerospace industry.
In the Honeywell Aerospace Industry Department, executives from the marketing and technical departments met to discuss orders for Huaxia commercial aircraft manufacturing companies.
"From the information sent back by Anderson Vogels, it is clear that the materials department of the Red Letter Group has taken control of the manufacture of new carbon fiber composites and large-scale molding technology." The marketing director said, "In the order, about this In part, involving more than $30 million in sales, it is determined to be cancelled."

This is a huge loss for us. Aviation materials in this quarter will be reduced by a quarter of China’s sales!

"I am not worried about this, but Huaxia Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is also starting to manufacture and sell this material. According to the description, they are manufacturing faster than us, and the cost is lower than ours. We will soon compete with us globally. The market," said the deputy director of the marketing department.

I want to apply for a $1.5 billion in research and development funding for research and development and laying of new carbon fiber composites,
said the director of technology.
"You can apply, wait for the above approval." A high-level nod.
"The most important thing now is how to maximize our interests before the Red Letter Group has completely invaded the aviation materials field." The marketing director said, "We can't just let go of this order!"
The director of the technology department said, "They are not looking for us to assist in the technology of engine blade material manufacturing? We can sell some technical materials to them at a high price, and say less than a few hundred million dollars."
The marketing director questioned: "This is one of our core technical materials, can we sell them to them?"
"Yes, we will not sell the core information, but some insignificant technical information can be sold. I think that with the technical strength of the Red Letter Group, it will be possible to develop it in a few years. It is better to sell it early to make a profit.

"The company's business intelligence team said that the UK's Rolls-Royce company is also in contact with Huaxia commercial aircraft manufacturing company. If they first sell technical materials to Huaxia people, we can't earn this money!"
The British Rolls-Royce company, also known as the "Rolls Royce" company. But this company is different from the Rolls-Royce car. It is the aviation technology giant that specializes in the manufacture of aircraft engines after the Rolls-Royce brand split, and the United States General Electric Company, the US Pratt & Whitney company and the world aviation. The three giants of the engine!
Not only do civil aviation in countries require their aero engines, but military fighters in some countries also use their aero engines.
"I agree with this proposal, and I can also submit it to the board of directors along with the R&D funding application."
Like this kind of technology sale, hundreds of millions of dollars of business conduct, according to the "Honeywell Management Regulations", requires the approval of the board of directors.
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Hua Xia Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Company, accompanied by Peng Zhengge and Gao Wei, visited their aero engine research team.
In addition to being the director of the Institute of Aeronautical Materials, Gao Wei is also the chief designer of commercial aircraft engineering.
He introduced: "Aero-engines can be said to be one of the most complicated engineering machine systems in human history! At present, we have already produced commercial aircraft c919, the aero engines used are foreign products purchased."
"In the manufacture of aero-engines, the military has given us a lot of support. Just for the development of engine engineering machines, we have spent more than 10 billion Chinese coins. There is still a long way to go from the core engine technology of aero-engines.

Lu Zixin took it for granted and he learned about the relevant materials. The proportion of research and development of aero-engines accounts for about 30% of the total aircraft!
This is just a commercial commercial aircraft aero engine, military aircraft is even harder! The latest military aircraft engine in the United States has been researched and developed for more than ten years, and the research and development cost has reached nearly 8 billion US dollars! This is no longer a commercial competition between the company and the company, but a technology and arms competition between countries!
High-performance military aero engines, they have not been able to study, can only hope to solve the problem of civil aviation.
Gao Wei continued: "The problem of the overall structure is not mentioned. It is enough for us to toss the light of an engine blade. In the past six months, the Aeronautical Materials Research Institute has had a big project to overcome the problem of the blade material of the low-pressure turbine engine of the aeroengine.

Zhang Ming interjected: "I saw it at the institute. Are you preparing to make titanium aluminum blades?"

Yes, it’s titanium-aluminum alloy material.
Gao Wei nodded.
Titanium-aluminum alloy has the same strength and stability as traditional nickel-based alloys. Its density is only half that of nickel-based alloys, which can improve fuel efficiency by 20%.

Aviation fuel consumption is a large proportion of commercial airlines. If you can improve fuel efficiency by 20%, such an engine will be popular in any industry airline.
Peng Zhengge said: "A few days ago, the vice president of the British Rolls-Royce (Rolls-Royce) company contacted us to support our titanium-aluminum blade manufacturing technology. But the cost is 50 million euros!"
50 million euros, according to the current exchange rate, is close to 400 million Huaxia coins. It is hard to say how much water is added to the technical support of the other party.

What surprised me is that Anderson also showed us today that Honeywell is also willing to support us in blade material technology. The asking price is lower than that of Rolls-Royce!

Lu Zixin said: "I think you can reject them directly."

Why?
Peng Zhengge said.
I think we can let them compete with each other and lower the price. Even if we spend two or three hundred thousand Chinese coins to buy this technology, it is worth comparing our R&D investment.

"Because of this small problem, we can solve it, so you can refuse them," said Zhang Ming.
"Professor Zhang, can you solve the problem of the low-pressure turbine engine leaf flat material?" Gao Wei asked the body and turned his head.
"Of course, it is only titanium-aluminum alloy. The material research center of Red Letter has already had relevant technical reserves." Zhang Mingyi’s natural expression is actually the last time Lu Zixin got it from Bruce Wayne. of.