Chapter 895 Lockheed Martin vs Boeing vs Venus, an Interesting Three-Way Battle

Chapter 895 Lockheed Martin VS Boeing VS Venus, an interesting trio

"Mr. Cao, Boeing's best products are passenger planes, fighters, bombers, satellites and missiles. If we want to make things difficult for them, we need to start with these products."

"We have already taken action on passenger planes. The company has not yet involved fighters. We are already working on bombers. Can we make some good moves on satellites and missiles?"

Zhao Siyu must be thinking that the group can invest more resources in Venus Technology.

As long as the satellite and missile businesses are vigorously developed, it will support the development of Venus Technology.

However, Mi Ying, who had not said much, mentioned an idea of ​​her own, saying: "It is estimated that it will be difficult to see results in a short period of time if we only deal with Boeing from the product perspective."

"I think we can change our thinking and start from some violations of discipline within Boeing."

"Boeing has a close relationship with the FAA. It can be said that it is both a referee and an athlete. There are rumors that Boeing's management in this regard is relatively chaotic. I think we can work hard to come up with some seemingly true news."

"The news may be made up at first, but it may be true."

"Many people want to bribe our group's employees to learn some confidential information. We can also learn some information from Boeing in a similar way."

"When we start, Boeing's opponents may rush in and make the fire even more vigorous."

Mi Ying completely jumped out of the framework of everyone's communication just now and considered ways to deal with Boeing from another angle.

When she said this, Cao Yang really thought of something.

Although I don't remember it very clearly, I have the impression that there were many scandals in Boeing later.

If it is publicized at this time, Boeing will definitely be in trouble.

"This is a good idea, we can try it."

"We can't always let them mess with us, let them experience the feeling of being attacked."

Several special proposals were recognized by Cao Yang, and everyone was more enthusiastic about speaking.

Soon, Nanshan companies started to move.

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Boeing, Airbus, Venusstar Technology and Shanghai Commercial Aircraft are all taking various actions for C919 and Venusstar 777.

Across the sea in Japan, the MRJ project is developing more and more unsuccessfully.

Many people in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have begun to worry about the future of MRJ.

"President, ANA has been constantly asking about the progress of our MRJ project. If we are unable to deliver it, they may have to arrange to order Boeing's 787 aircraft."

As the overall manager of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' MRJ project and the person in charge of Mitsubishi Aircraft, Ichiro Inukai has been under great pressure recently.

According to the original plan, the first batch of MRJ aircraft was scheduled to be delivered to ANA for use in 2013.

But now it is 2014, and the first flight of the aircraft has not started, let alone delivery to customers.

Originally, the C919 project of Shanghai Commercial Aircraft Corporation in China also had twists and turns. In comparison, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries's side is not so bad.

After all, it is very difficult to develop a large aircraft.

However, the C919 project has made a great breakthrough during this period, and they have planned to mass-produce it in three years.

However, Ichiro Inukai did not dare to guarantee that the MRJ project could be domestically produced in three years, and even whether it could be domestically produced in five years was still a question.

"The delivery time of Boeing aircraft is relatively long. If ANA can't wait, we understand that they will order a batch first."

"But please make sure that our MRJ project will be successful. If there is a new large order plan, please discuss it with us."

Omiya Hideaki knew that it was unrealistic to force ANA to wait for its own MRJ at this time.

Unless he can give an accurate delivery time, and this time cannot be too long.

Otherwise, they can't wait for you all the time.

As the largest military giant in Japan, the MRJ project led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has brought together large Japanese heavy industry companies such as Fuji Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, and even Toyota Motors has participated in the research and development of this project.

Originally, I thought everything would go very smoothly.

After all, many of these companies have provided various parts for Boeing aircraft, and even almost 30% of the parts on Boeing aircraft are produced by Japanese manufacturers.

But when I really started to design the aircraft myself, I found that the situation was completely different.

Although Japanese companies can produce a lot of parts, it is still very difficult to hand over most of the parts to domestic manufacturers.

It is almost inevitable to find European and American suppliers to supply some core parts.

But these suppliers are basically Boeing's suppliers.

Everyone knows which of the two customers they should value more.

Boeing certainly does not want the MRJ project to succeed, but in order to avoid looking so ugly and to make Japan give up completely, Boeing also supports Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' MRJ project on the surface and even provides some help.

But at the critical moment, Boeing will definitely stab Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the back and prevent the MRJ aircraft from rolling off the production line so quickly.

Even if it is produced, don't expect to get the airworthiness certificate so quickly, and even keep delaying, finding various reasons to prevent the MRJ project from getting the airworthiness certificate.

In the end, various development costs will definitely drag down Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' patience.

After all, in addition to sentiment, everyone is engaged in this project to make money.

Nowadays, making money is far away, but various investments are increasing year by year.

Even Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a big family, can't stand such a toss.

"I will try to communicate with them, but the company may need to consider arranging more personnel and funds to quickly promote the development of the MRJ project."

Taking this opportunity, Inukai Ichiro naturally also wants to ask Omiya Hideaki for some support.

Otherwise, he really has no confidence in being able to quickly solve various problems.

"Submit the budget application and discuss it at the next board meeting."

At this point, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries must not retreat.

Especially since the progress of civil aviation passenger aircraft in China seems to be accelerating, they don't want to fall behind even more.

But in the end they will find that some things cannot be solved by hard work.

...

On the American Internet, negative news about Boeing has sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Although these news are not the headlines of mainstream media, the true and false information has attracted the attention of many people.

As Boeing's biggest competitor in the United States, Lockheed Martin naturally noticed these contents.

Don't look at the fact that when the United States suppresses Nanshan companies, its actions are quite consistent.

But in fact, there are many factions within them.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin obviously belong to two factions, and the contradictions are very prominent.

As one of the top arms companies in the United States, many of their products are in competition, and the teeth marks left by the struggle over the years are very deep.

At present, in the American aviation industry, Boeing has occupied almost all large civil aircraft models in the United States.

And Lockheed Martin is a well-known fighter professional. The three stealth fighters of the United States, F-117, F-22 and F-35, are all its masterpieces.

Few people know that in the 1970s, Lockheed Martin was also a heavyweight player in large civil aircraft.

The L-1011 Tristar wide-body aircraft they developed, and Boeing's giant Boeing-747 and McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 at the time formed a three-giant battle.

However, the final result of the battle between the three giants was that Lockheed Martin failed and was forced to close its production line in 1983, and then withdrew from the civil aircraft market. The three giants shrank to two giants.

Later, Boeing annexed McDonnell Douglas and became the only giant in civil aviation.

This is just the struggle between Lockheed Martin and Boeing on civil aircraft.

There are countless struggles in other fields such as fighter jets.

This also means that everyone’s contradictions have become very deep.

Now that people in Lockheed Martin see some unfavorable news about Boeing on the Internet, they naturally don’t want to miss it.

"Robert, I arranged for someone to inquire about it. Some of the content on the Internet may be true."

"Boeing’s eating is a bit ugly. Some people who were arranged to do airworthiness certification are just messing around without knowing anything."

"In addition, some of their internal frauds have existed for many years."

"I think this is a good opportunity to ruin Boeing's reputation."

As the vice president of Lockheed Martin, Volensky is now very active in wanting to mess with Boeing.

As long as he can make Boeing uncomfortable, he will be in a good mood.

After all, when he just joined Lockheed Martin, the project team he was in was responsible for civil aviation passenger aircraft, but he lost to Boeing.

As a unique aircraft manufacturer, Lockheed Martin is full of genius ideas in aircraft research and development.

At the beginning, it was far ahead of its rival Boeing in passenger aircraft research and development.

They have more powerful lift system design and avionics technology, as well as a new generation of three-shaft turbofan engines full of revolutionary atmosphere: Rolls-Royce's RB211.

The engine has a maximum thrust of 18.6 tons, adopts a lot of high-tech, and the engine is very fuel-efficient.

At that time, various evaluations showed that the industry was unanimously optimistic about the L-1011 Samsung passenger aircraft.

But no one could have imagined that the disaster was buried in the RB211 engine.

Because the engine technology was too difficult, various failures occurred continuously and delivery was delayed. When Lockheed Martin finally withdrew from the civil aircraft market, only 250 aircraft had been delivered.

Boeing, its arch-rival, adopted the CF6 twin-shaft turbofan engine with lower risks, which had fewer problems and achieved a good result of 446 aircraft.

Lockheed Martin was also stubborn.

At that time, some airlines were particularly worried about the unknown risks brought by Rolls-Royce's revolutionary RB211 engine. For risk aversion, they hoped to use General Electric's CF6 engine on the more advanced Samsung passenger aircraft. The main features are stable operation, safety and reliability.

These airlines also promised that if Lockheed Martin could develop a model that is compatible with the CF6 engine, they would buy it vigorously.

After all, Lockheed Martin's strength is obvious to all.

But unfortunately, the stubborn Lockheed Martin designers rejected this workaround design.

In fact, Lockheed Martin needed to do very little work, only to design a tail S-shaped engine compartment compatible with two engines.

For Lockheed Martin, it was not a problem at all.

Unfortunately, Lockheed Martin was too confident and did not consider this compatibility solution.

In the end, the project was fully promoted, and some problems that customers were worried about appeared.

Rolls-Royce RB211 had a big problem and almost went bankrupt.

In the end, Lockheed Martin's passenger aircraft were delayed in delivery in large quantities, and it was overwhelmed financially and had to close the passenger aircraft production line!

The serious consequences caused by Lockheed Martin's refusal to use compatible engines later became an unwritten rule in the aviation industry.

That is, in addition to the standard engine, if there are a sufficient number of airline users who want to use another engine, most aircraft designers will follow suit and add engine options to avoid tragedies from happening again!

Of course, for Lockheed Martin, these are all shames.

Although the responsibility mainly lies with Lockheed Martin itself, Volensky believes that everything is Boeing's fault.

If there is no Boeing, Lockheed Martin's civil airliners will not disappear from history.

"Are you sure you can find more evidence?"

"Relying on the current information on the Internet, there is actually no way to pose a big threat to Boeing."

Robert naturally has no good impression of Boeing.

If there is a chance to do something with it, he will definitely support it.

However, if he wants to do something with his former status, he must not do it in a small way, otherwise he will appear to be too incompetent.

But if he wants to make things bigger, he must have some solid stuff.

"I found a former Boeing quality control manager named John Barnett."

"He had just started working at Boeing's North Charleston plant, and according to him, he was responsible for checking supplier product defects."

"One time he took a team of inspectors to the supplier's factory to inspect the products they were about to deliver."

"At that time, he brought four inspectors to the supplier, Spirit, to inspect 41 departments."

"Then 300 defects were found, some of which were serious and required engineers to fix."

"When he returned to Boeing's North Charleston plant, his senior manager told him that he had found too many defects, and he would lead the team to Spirit next time."

"As a result, his senior manager brought two inspectors the next time. "John Barnett pulled an inspector aside and asked, did Spirit really fix it in such a short time?" "That doesn't sound right!" "The inspector was very angry and said that it was not the case. The two inspectors were only allowed to check up to 41 departments in just two hours, and then they were kicked off the plane." "Robert, I think some of the information John Barnett revealed should be very meaningful." "We just need to push it out and help more people see what John Barnett exposed." Since Walensky chose to come to President Robert to report on the matter of dealing with Boeing today, he naturally had some preparations. Otherwise, without any preparation, the problem would definitely not be solved. That would actually lower his impression score. The higher the position, the more important it is to save one's face. Naturally, such things that would embarrass and lower the impression score should not be done. "If it's just one person's evidence, it may cause some trouble to Boeing, but it may not be convincing enough."

"Boeing can just find a reason and say that this person has a grudge against the company, and then the matter may be over."

Robert thought that Volensky's entry point was not bad.

But as an old rival, he knew very well that Boeing would not be brought down by the accusation of such a former employee.

That is simply impossible.

If it really comes to that, they can just let the so-called former employee "commit suicide".

Then there will be no evidence.

Anyway, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have done similar things over the years.

Do you really think these large arms giants are vegetarians?

Their methods can be much more despicable than many people imagine.

"There is actually another story here that can be told to make everyone believe that this accusation is credible."

"Before 1997, Boeing's dominance was in the hands of the engineering and design departments."

"In August 1997, Boeing acquired the bankrupt aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Douglas for $14 billion."

"This century-long merger was the dividing point that led to Boeing's sudden change in style."

"After the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, McDonnell Douglas' CEO Stonecipher became Boeing's CEO and brought the lean management concept to Boeing."

"Soon after the merger, a large-scale movement began ”

“Boeing wants everyone to pay attention to the stock price and work together to increase the stock price. Even technical meetings are centered around Boeing’s stock price.”

“Boeing has come to believe that the cost of everything must be reasonable.”

“In the eyes of many people, the key to Boeing’s excellence is that they are always driven by engineers, not finance.”

“When the McDonnell Douglas temperament permeates Boeing, Boeing is doomed to mediocrity.”

“In the past, Boeing employees raised their hands and said, there is a problem here. The company would say, you are right, we will handle it.”

“In the cooperation with McDonnell Douglas, Boeing has become a leader in the field of aviation and ... After the merger, Boeing stopped listening to its employees. Every time an employee raised their hand and said there was a problem, they would attack the person who found the problem and then ignore the problem. "

"According to Barnett, the oxygen system of the Boeing 787 passenger aircraft has a serious defect that may cause a quarter of the oxygen masks to not work in an emergency. "

"He also pointed out that some workers did not follow the factory's parts tracking procedures, resulting in the loss of defective parts, and under production pressure, workers would also take unqualified parts from the scrap bin and install them on the aircraft being manufactured to prevent production delays. "

"However When Barnit reported these quality problems, he was regarded by his superiors. "" He began to be targeted everywhere, the work performance score was lowered, and he was even transferred away from the original position. " In the future, it is completely possible to tilt us in some projects in the future. "David, the news on the Internet must be pressed down as soon as possible." "The company is facing various challenges now and cannot accept any unfavorable news spread." Malenberg just took over the position of Boeing CEO this year, and naturally did not want to encounter such bad things as soon as he took office. Muilenburg joined Boeing after graduating from college in 1985. In 34 years, he went from a low-level engineer to a project manager in Boeing's military industry.

Later, he became the head of Boeing's defense department and eventually became the CEO of Boeing. It can be said that this is a classic success story of the "American Dream".

He became the CEO, so naturally he had to bring more profits to shareholders.

The butt determines the head, this is inevitable.

Even if he still misses the engineering culture in his heart, it will not change the result.

"This time it was a bit sudden, I feel that someone should be behind it."

"Otherwise, relying on a former quality supervisor, it is impossible to spread his speech all over the Internet."

David has been responsible for helping Boeing to deal with some competitors in recent years.

So he has a certain understanding of some Internet public opinion control methods and the practices of the water army.

In addition, considering Boeing's influence in the United States, this matter will ferment so quickly. If there is no story behind it, he absolutely does not believe it.

But because of this, Muilenburg was more concerned and said, "I understand what you said. No matter who is behind this, we must calm this matter down as soon as possible."

"If it really can't be calmed down, then the person who caused the trouble will be calmed down."

As an American arms giant, Boeing can definitely be said to be a black and white existence.

They also have close ties with American intelligence agencies, and many of Boeing's past executives have worked in relevant American departments, so the forces that can be mobilized are actually not small.

Even some illegal and disorderly things are also willing to be done by Boeing.

Of course, in order to maintain this situation, Boeing spends a huge amount of public relations expenses every year.

"I understand, I will do this immediately."

David did not hesitate at all and was ready to act according to Muilenburg's arrangement.

However, at this time, most of the relevant departments in the United States did not have the energy to take care of Boeing's affairs.

Because the polar bears made a big deal.