Chapter 1220 The Magical Tricks of the Chinese

After sending the Rolls-Royce delegation back to their residence, Ren Bingda specially found the technician who had accompanied Tim Bodie to visit the test workshop before:

"Xiao Wang, Mr. Bodie should have seen everything on the No. 17 operating table, right?"

The young man called Xiao Wang nodded immediately:

"I deliberately gave him a few seconds before sending someone to handle it. It should be enough time for him to remember it..."

After that, seeing that there was no one else around, he lowered his voice and asked:

"But Mr. Ren, the data on it is real. If your superiors allow it to be provided to Rolls-Royce, why don't you give it to them directly?"

Ren Bingda gave a sly smile:

"Let me ask you, have you read Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"

Although it was a question, he didn't wait for the other party to answer.

After all, these days, even if you haven’t read the original novel, you must have watched the TV series produced by CCTV.

So he put his hands behind his back and acted like a shrewd man:

"Before the Battle of Red Cliff, why did Zhou Yu pretend to sleep and let Jiang Gan steal the document himself instead of showing it to him directly?"

At this point, Xiao Wang suddenly understood:

"Only in this way will the British believe it?"

"That's right..."

Ren Bingda said as he sat back behind his desk:

"So we prepared two plans in advance. If the British were more positive during the meeting, we would directly start discussing cooperation. But if they were skeptical or simply didn't believe it, we would play some tricks on them."

"People tend to believe in information that they actively obtain, rather than information that is passively delivered to them... Jiang Gan's plan to steal the book is old, but it happens to be able to take advantage of the weaknesses of human nature and is very useful..."

……

at the same time.

After parting with the Chinese reception team, Bodi did not even wait to return to his residence, but hurriedly copied the several sets of numbers he had just memorized in his mind into the notebook he carried with him in the car.

He had been an engineer for most of his life and had never personally engaged in such activity, which was somewhat akin to corporate espionage.

So even at this moment, my heart is still beating uncontrollably.

After taking several deep breaths, he managed to calm down and turned his attention back to the data in the notebook and a diagram for sampling point selection.

"1.024mV, 1.063mV, 1.041mV..."

Three rows of vertical samplers, 13 selection points in each group, 5 sampling rods are evenly spaced on both sides, and 3 sampling rods are evenly spaced in the middle...

Both the data value and the data format are completely in line with Rolls-Royce's own testing habits.

"Fxxk..."

Bodie cursed inwardly.

If choosing the same model of equipment and software from the same company can be explained as coincidence, then even the exact same operating procedures leave only one possibility left -

The current set of exhaust gas measurement operating standards is borrowed directly from Rolls-Royce.

Especially considering that China had previously sent people to participate in most of the test flight processes of the Trent 900, it was inevitable that they would be exposed to these details.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt relieved of the psychological burden that he had originally felt.

"Blair."

He turned around and called the assistant who was following him, and handed the notebook to him:

"After you go back, send this data back to the headquarters and have them import it into the Rotronic HPR system to see what the results are."

Blair Liggins was a little slow to react when he heard the request:

"This is……"

"We already knew that the Chinese were developing a new type of turbofan engine with a large bypass ratio. This is likely to be an important cycle efficiency and emission data..."

Bodie tapped twice lightly on the notebook.

But the confusion on Liggins's face did not ease.

After all, it is just a set of potential data, and we need to know many main variable parameters to calculate the final gas concentration result.

After a long while, he lowered his voice and asked:

"You mean... just use our experimental conditions?"

If it were five minutes ago, Bodi might have hesitated about this somewhat rough solution.

But now, he is very sure that he can do this:

"Yes, just use ours..."

From beginning to end, Bodi never doubted the authenticity of these contents (of course, they were true).

In fact, although he certainly had never heard of the story of Jiang Gan stealing the book, in fact, during the Second World War, the British intelligence agencies also used similar routines many times to play with their German counterparts in the palm of their hands.

For example, through a piece of false intelligence that was "accidentally lost", the latter was made to believe that the Allied forces would land in the Strait of Calais instead of Normandy.

But just as Ren Bingda expected, the weaknesses of human nature cannot be completely avoided just by knowing a trick.

Especially under the pressure of time constraints and lightning speed.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many old-fashioned scams that can last for so long…

……

Due to the time difference, when it was night in China, it was still afternoon in the UK.

Therefore, Rolls-Royce headquarters acted quickly.

Before 12 o'clock that evening, Bodie received a satellite call from Birmingham.

But when the call was connected, the person speaking was not a secretary or an engineer.

It was Panos Watson, Bodie's old boss, himself.

"Tim, it's me, Panos Watson."

Before he could recover from his surprise, the other party got straight to the point:

"I have seen the situation report submitted by Blair. Are you sure that the data in it is reliable?"

"More than 90%..."

Bodie still didn't say anything final.

But in this case, "90%" is basically equivalent to affirmation.

So he quickly went on to explain:

"These data were not directly provided by the Chinese. I saw them accidentally during my visit. It must be their momentary negligence..."

Hearing this, Watson on the other side immediately turned red:

"Absolutely ridiculous!"

"You are now the chief person in charge of the NGME project. How can you do this kind of thing yourself? If the Chinese find evidence against you and accuse you of espionage, neither of us will end up well!"

Watson on the other end of the phone took several deep breaths.

Bodi could even imagine the other person loosening his tie around his neck while looking furious.

"rest assured……"

He wasn't worried at all:

"I kept it in my mind until I left and then wrote it down on paper... In short, I can basically confirm the authenticity of the data."

Perhaps the explanation worked. After a few seconds, Watson's voice calmed down a little:

"I'm not referring to the authenticity of the data itself, but whether it really belongs to an aircraft engine..."

"These two sets of parameters actually correspond to three indicators, namely NOx, carbon dioxide, and carbon-containing particulate matter emissions... The specific data will be transmitted to you in a few minutes, but in short, the emission characteristics are very abnormal."

Bodi had a bad feeling in his heart:

"Does it mean that the characteristic components in the exhaust gas are at very low levels?"

But Watson hesitated for a moment:

"Well... low eigenvalues ​​are only one aspect. The key is the composition ratio."

"When the calculation results were sent to me, Dr. Richard Partridge was also present. According to him, this data is closer to the characteristics of a ship-based gas turbine than an aircraft engine."

This name is not unfamiliar to Bodi.

Richard Partridge is Chief Engineer of Rolls-Royce Naval Systems and Head of R&D for two key gas turbine projects, the WR21 and MT30.

Since the MT30 was developed based on the Trent 800 core engine, Partridge worked with them for a long time a few years ago.

The old gentleman's judgment is still quite weighty.

So Bodi thought about it seriously for a while.

But in the end, I still made up my mind:

"It's unlikely to be a gas turbine... As far as I know, the Chinese department responsible for developing marine engines is located further north, and I have seen a compressor being tested. Although it is far away, I can see that it does not meet the intake characteristics of a gas turbine..."

At this point, Bodi's voice stopped abruptly.

He suddenly recalled the slightly strange blade design of the compressor.

Especially the unreasonable thickness of the third-level static...

"I have an immature guess..."

Bodi suddenly changed the subject:

"The compressor has a very strange appearance, but it also gives me a very familiar feeling... I never remembered where I had seen it before, but now I suddenly remember it."

"It was the CLEAN program under the EU FP90 project in the late 5s. At that time, Germany's MTU, Sweden's Volvo and France's Snecma jointly developed a turboprop concept machine using indirect cooling and heat recovery technology. The solution proposed by Snecma was to integrate the indirect cooler behind the stator blades..."

"..."

"Although this plan is far from being implemented, considering the close relationship between the Chinese and the French today, they are likely to inherit this idea!"