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.


    Rather, it simply and crudely increased the Torch Group, which is actually the Aerodynamic 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.


    Basically it’s all a benefit with no harm at all.


    ?However, the Aviation Power Group is a central enterprise after all.


    According to the usual practice, this kind of matter still needs to be decided after collective discussion.


    Of course, it is said to be a discussion, but there is almost no suspense about the outcome.


    It’s nothing more than a voting process and finally getting General Manager Zhu Linyu to sign.


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


    “Comrade Haonan, I don’t have any opinion 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.


    ?So, 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 affiliated 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 the management of subordinate non-business organizations. However, he was also a draftsman in his early years, so he does not have a bad eye for aviation technology.


    ?Hence, 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:


    “In fact, 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 finished speaking, 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 making such a move at this juncture.


    Simply put it is.


    “We chose the wrong calculation tool rashly before, and we got screwed. Now we want to correct our mistakes, but we feel it’s too late. Can you help us wipe our ass?”


    It’s just that everyone is a person who cares about face, and they always have to live up to their reputation.


    It is 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 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, and 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 always.


    Actually, this cannot be blamed on the fact that the other leaders were not 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,


    ?Hence a high degree of autonomy in day-to-day operations—


    ??This time''s participation in the Falcon Z project is an exception.


    The reason why it needs to be passed through a vote is because the French directly sent the cooperation documents to the Aerodynamics 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.


    It is actually difficult to determine what business a company is engaged in by just looking at the two pieces of content.


    ?Especially like Deng Shiyou, it is even more unclear if the supervisor’s work has nothing to do with business.


    ? Just from 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 is actually a crouching tiger, hidden dragon inside.


    So Deng Shiyou gave a thumbs up: "Mr. Chang, what a plan!"


    "Um?"


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


    “What have I planned?”


    “Mr. Chang, please stop being modest...”


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


    "When we separated from the aviation industry, we split the subordinate organizations horizontally 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 on hand in the future, we can completely 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:


    “I really didn’t think so much about it at the beginning. It was just to expand the 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, urban legends like this 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 it clearly...


    …


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


    “I remember that 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 COMSOL calculation tool before, wasn’t it very resolute? How come it suddenly realized its mistake and changed it...”


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


    ?But as soon as the words came to his lips, he swallowed them in the end.


    “So this is not a return to the lost track...”


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


    “Let’s not talk about that for now. 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 relatively 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.


    Hence, he specially opened the design documentation 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 heaven?”


    “Even if we want to complete these computing tasks in half a year, it’s almost impossible, right?”


    ??The Torch Group’s mission does not include wind tunnel testing—


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


    ??But even if we only perform flow field simulation, 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.


    Always need to do it several times, or even more trial and error.


    Therefore, in Liu Hongbo’s view, this time cannot be said to be tight.


    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 has taken a step back, it doesn''t hurt to take this tool out for you to use in advance..."


    (End of this chapter)