Golden Fishery

After having lunch in the fishing ground, Asik invited Qin Shiou to accompany him to the aerospace city company's resident to inspect the aircraft.

Qin Shiou wanted to take Wei Ni with him. After all, the stewardess is a senior flight attendant and should know a lot about airplanes.

He called, and Winnie said that she was taking the girls on a tour in Gramona National Park, so she didn't want to see the planes. All she knew was fixed-wing planes. Qin Shiou wanted to buy a fixed-wing aircraft, but he had already selected the model. This time, he chose a helicopter, and she couldn't help.

In this way, Qin Shiou boarded the plane with Auerbach, Huzi and Leopard, and flew directly to Montreal.

The advantage of having a private jet is this, it is very free, and the owner can do whatever he wants. You can’t bring pets on a civil aviation plane, and it doesn’t matter if you take a private jet.

Asik adjusted the curvature of the reclining chairs for the tigers and leopards so that they could lie comfortably on them, and then put snacks and milk on them. The service made Qin Shiou, the owner, feel embarrassed.

Montreal is a city located in the southwest of Quebec. It is the largest city in Quebec, the second largest city in Canada and the fifteenth largest city in North America. It is not far from St. John's, only 700 kilometers away.

The city was once the economic capital of Canada, with the largest population and the most developed economy. Although it has lost its status as an economic leader, it is still one of the most important economic centers in Canada. The aviation industry, finance, design, film industry and other industries are particularly developed here, and there are many large companies. You can see this when you enter the city center. There is a lot of traffic.

After arriving in Montreal, Asik arranged a five-star hotel for Qin Shiou, named on the bank of the Lachine River. When you open the window, you can see the beautiful and clean river. The scenery is pleasant.

Asik asked Qin Shiou if he wanted to rest, and after getting a negative answer, he drove the two of them and two dogs to the headquarters of Aerospace City.

Buying a plane is not like buying a car, you can watch it side by side, the plane is too big and takes up too much space. And the unit price is too high. Aerospace City has its own apron, but there are only less than 20 fixed-wing aircraft and more than 40 helicopters parked there.

In fact, for most aircraft, after customers place an order, they contact the manufacturer for production.

Qin Shiou came to Aerospace City because they happened to have an existing aircraft of an air tractor AT-plane. In addition, there are a large number of helicopters, and Qin Shiou can visit the site.

After arriving on the tarmac, Asik led Qin Shiou straight to at-. The bare metal price of this aircraft is 644,000, and it can be modified. On the way, he introduced Qin Shiou: "Your country's Beidahuang General Aviation Company has just purchased six of this aircraft, which are AT-802F.

Mainly responsible for forest fire fighting, the total price is 4.8 million US dollars. "

Qin Shiou clicked his tongue and asked, "It's just converted into a fire extinguisher, and the price has increased so much?"

The average price of an AT-802F is 800,000 US dollars, which is close to 1 million Canadian dollars, which is not cheap.

Asik smiled. Said: "That's not the case. The AT-802f modified machine only costs 680,000 yuan in Canada, but the tariff on selling it to your country is relatively high. That's why the price is so high."

Hearing what Asik said, Qin Shiou understood that in order to protect independent property rights, China raised the tariffs on luxury goods such as cars, airplanes, and yachts very high. This can be seen from the purchase of imported cars.

Entering the tarmac, what Qin Shiou saw were mighty and handsome planes. Asik introduced to him: "Most of these planes have been booked by customers, otherwise we would not dare to let them park outside. The maintenance fee of the plane is too expensive, basically it can be calculated at the price of 1% of the plane's value per day .”

at- is conspicuous. Qin Shiou saw it from a long distance away. Its appearance is yellow, which is rare in aircraft, and its size is about the same as that of a p-750: four meters in height, more than ten meters in length, and a much wider wingspan, close to twenty meters.

In front of at-, Asik asked him to go up and have a look, and then introduced the correlation coefficient: Pratt \u0026 Whitney pt6a-67f turboprop engine is used, with a full 1,350 horsepower, and the cruising speed is fast enough for 356 km/h, plus It can fly 1289 kilometers at a full time, climb 7620 meters and so on.

In terms of standard configuration, the AT- uses a traditional landing gear, with two main wheels and a tail wheel. The aircraft is equipped with -10000 amphibious buoys, allowing it to land on non-professional runways or even on water.

This is very important to Qin Shiou, because he does not have an airport. If at- can land on the sea, then a hard runway will be built on the beach.

This is thanks to the original design intention of the at-802. It was originally designed for forest fire fighting, so in order to get water faster, the plane needs to be able to land directly on the river, which is now cheaper for Qin Shiou.

Feeling the power and arrogance of the air tractor, Qin Shiou made a decision to buy this plane, but it needs an extra 40,000 US dollars to convert it into an agricultural machine that can spray pesticides and seeds.

In addition, Asik was very 'considerate' to help Qin Shiou modify another thing, that is the machine gun mount: "As long as you find a way to buy a civilian version of the m60 or m249, you can hang it and sweep the world."

"Can you add rocket pods or missiles?"

"Yes, but we can't get the paperwork, and I don't think you can get rockets and missiles."

"Just kidding, haha, but it's better to install an infrared autonomous identification radar for me. You know, I have to cruise my fishing ground every day. The ocean area is too big to see with the eyes."

"No problem, plus 28,000 yuan, the ss-pd2 civil autonomous identification radar produced by Boeing can work 24 hours a day."

Purchasing an agricultural aircraft is simple, because the model has been selected in advance, and the next step is to purchase a cruise helicopter.

Although Qin Shiou said that at- would install radar to patrol the fishing grounds, in fact, he would not normally fly this type of aircraft. This guy has an empty weight of nearly three tons, which is simply a big killer for burning oil. He needs a light, fast Small airplane.

After understanding Qin Shiou's needs and uses, Asik said: "Then you can buy a single-engine helicopter, and you don't need multiple helicopters. There is a big price gap between the two parties."

Single-engine helicopters have only one rotor, while multi-engine helicopters naturally have several. The price gap between the two parties is indeed very large. Many single-engine helicopters are below 1 million Canadian dollars, such as h2s, h-7, an-2enara and so on.

There are almost no multi-engine helicopters below five million Canadian dollars, or even tens of millions, which is almost comparable to the price of multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft.

Asik brought him to an exquisite single-engine small helicopter, and introduced: "The helicopter, nicknamed Baby Belle, is an aircraft independently developed by us in Canada. It has the same space as the Bell-47, the same speed, and the price is only 200,000 Canadian dollars." Yuan."

"What about the Bell-47?" Qin Shiou asked. This aircraft is a classic among helicopters, comparable to an AK in a gun. It has been born for seventy years and has been selling well. (to be continued)