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Chapter 233 0232 What the hell is this thing being test-flown?

Jixiang Airlines' sudden trading halt caused a huge reaction in the domestic capital market.

Especially since the entity behind the acquisition turned out to be Magic Cube Group, which has been stirring up the A-share market recently.

This powerful alliance naturally attracted even more attention.

After all, since the village chief's meeting at the end of September, the most eye-catching tenfold demon stocks in the A-share market have been related to this Wenzhou unicorn enterprise.

First, it borrowed the shell of 'Zotye Auto' to obtain a vehicle manufacturing license, allowing its Magic Cube Auto to inflate its market value to the current scale of over 200 billion yuan without mass-producing a single car, relying solely on feats such as brushing the Nürburgring track.

Afterwards, it joined forces with Red Star Trade to sneak into 'Rizhao Port' and take over the largest grain import and export port in China.

In addition, it previously bought NIO's battery swap project with a large sum.

A series of 'buy, buy, buy' big moves, as well as that almost unlimited supply of funds, have left the market directly exclaiming that they don't understand.

Even an A-share 'Magic Cube Concept' label similar to the 'Huawei Concept' has emerged.

Under the blessing of the overall bull market atmosphere, as long as a company is associated with this 'Magic Cube Concept,' its stock price will soar.

Having made so many expansions, it has now intervened in the more eye-catching commercial aviation field.

As a result, the upcoming 2025 Forbes China Rich List has recently made several revisions and assessments to Chen Jue's and the Magic Cube Group's assets behind him.

Even if they want to finalize the draft for external release, they have to wait for Magic Cube Group's capital expansion to stop.

This is Nima! In just half a year, Chen Jue's net worth has jumped from the initially disclosed scale of several hundred million to the current level of over a trillion yuan.

If they didn't know that this guy was taking the pure 'self-made' manufacturing route, and all his industries were traceable and genuinely engaged in real business.

The editorial team of the Forbes Rich List would even have suspected that Chen Jue was the illegitimate son of some invisible rich man, or a front man pushed out by a large consortium.

After all, expanding from a scale of several hundred million to a trillion-yuan giant, even speculating in Bitcoin wouldn't have risen so fiercely!

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In addition to the capital market frequently casting doubtful glances.

After announcing the merger and reorganization, Jixiang Airlines did a few strange operations that were beyond the expectations of the commercial aviation circle.

First of all, according to several aviation industry insiders privately revealed, Jixiang Airlines is currently busy selling off its fleet of more than 120 Boeing and Airbus aircraft.

The targets of the sale involve major domestic airlines such as China Southern, China Eastern, and Sichuan Airlines.

Some airliners that have been in service for too long and are on the verge of retirement are planned to be transformed and transferred to logistics companies such as SF Express.

Including the original order for more than 50 new passenger aircraft from Airbus in France, it also transferred its leading orders to friendly companies in need by means of advance delivery serial numbers.

As soon as this news came out, all industry insiders involved in commercial aviation were dumbfounded!

"What's the situation? Not to mention selling the company, even the aircraft under its name are being cleared out? (Eyes widened)"

"Is Juneyao Group completely cashing out and leaving the domestic civil aviation market? (Black man with question mark)"

"What about the bold and reckless? They sold all the planes, what will they rely on to make a profit afterwards! (Heaven defying)"

"Then when the trading halt ends, the stock price will collapse! (Vomiting blood)"

This operation of selling aircraft in bulk is indeed a king bomb of negative news for the capital market.

The tens of thousands of small retail investors trapped inside were so frightened by this inside information that they got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, and felt a chill down their spines.

As a commercial airline, what can you use to make money in the market without airplanes?

Can't let the stewardesses under their command learn from those internet celebrities and start live streaming to sell goods!

The stock bar of Jixiang Airlines is full of wailing.

Everyone is not optimistic about Jixiang Airlines' operation of selling aircraft in bulk.

However, some capital tycoons with keen sense of smell have noticed something is wrong.

If it really divests the aviation business and cashes out, then why did Magic Cube Group spend so much effort to acquire Jixiang Airlines?

There are plenty of aviation-related listed shell resources in the A-share market.

What's more, the performance of Juneyao Group's several listed companies is very stable every year, and they have been in a profitable stage for many years.

Including Jixiang Airlines' more than 120 civil airliners, even the most difficult time after the epidemic has been overcome, and now they are creating hundreds of millions of net profits for the parent company every year.

Selling off the aircraft at this time is not just eating and supporting yourself?

Of course, Juneyao remained silent throughout the rumors that were raging outside, and the hundreds of related self-media rumors on the Internet every day.

Including the Magic Cube Group, which announced the acquisition of Jixiang Airlines, also remained silent.

Only a collective notice letter was sent to the 11,000 old employees of Jixiang Airlines who newly joined the Magic Cube Aviation Division, informing everyone to do their job with peace of mind and the subsequent handover of passenger aircraft before the upcoming business strategic transformation.

The parent company will conduct re-training for the original Jixiang Airlines' positions in the next 3 months.

Not only will there be no large-scale layoffs, but even the original salary and benefits will be in line with the Magic Cube Group's job standards.

As soon as this internal document came out, the old employees of Jixiang Airlines collectively breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone was originally working well, conscientiously, but suddenly woke up and changed the big boss.

Who can stand this?

Fortunately, the new owner seems to be very powerful. From pilots to maintenance teams, flight attendants, and ground crew, the salary and benefits have generally increased by 2 to 3 times, not to mention the readily available dormitory houses that can be distributed.

As soon as the news was announced internally, the personnel and finance departments were almost overwhelmed by these old employees of Jixiang Airlines.

Originally, the salary and benefits of positions in the aviation industry were several levels higher than those in ordinary industries.

Like Jixiang Airlines, the original average annual salary has reached 290,000 yuan, and it is still maintaining a growth rate of 20% every year.

If it increases by 2 to 3 times on the original basis, everyone will be grateful to the new boss.

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Just as Jixiang Airlines is undergoing a major reform internally, changing the brand LOGO and welcoming the arrival of the new owner.

Chen Jue, as the initiator, encountered no small trouble when test flying the 'Flying Magic Cube' afterwards.

After completing the acquisition of Jixiang Airlines, Chen Jue and Wang Han, as well as his flight control team, mingled together in the Magic Cube factory every day.

They shut themselves up and studied how to do the vector flight control of the 'Flying Magic Cube' well.

That's why it is said: "Professional things still have to be left to professional people!"

Wang Han's technical team includes graduates from well-known universities with counterpart majors such as Harbin Institute of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Many people have participated in domestic and foreign aviation model competitions while they were still in school.

In addition, they have previously engaged in the localization of Airbus A320 flight control programming, and have very rich experience.

For the adjustment of the vector flight attitude of an already mature special-shaped aircraft, it can be said that it is easy to do.

The entire team of more than 30 people spent less than 10 days before and after completing the source code and supporting software program of the first-generation flight control of the 'Flying Magic Cube'.

In addition, Wang Han also entrusted relationships and contacts to obtain a domestic airworthiness certificate for testing and a test flight route for the 'Flying Magic Cube' in the name of commercial aircraft.

After getting these two preconditions done, Chen Jue, who had been impatient for a long time.

In the middle of the night in early November, he pulled Wang Han and a group of flight control engineers into the Flying Magic Cube.

Then, under the cover of night, it was slowly lifted out of the dock workshop gate by several thick Magic Cube robotic arms.

Immediately afterwards, several flight control engineers began to report on the LCD screen in the cockpit: "9 faces, normal within 1260 degrees of surrounding vision."

"The test run of each electric drive nozzle is normal, and the main engine at the bottom is starting to afterburn."

"The radar is running normally, and there is no external interference such as live birds within a 10-kilometer airspace range."

"I have contacted the control tower of the nearest Longwan International Airport. There are no take-off and landing flights within 20 minutes. The provincial route has been declared, and the air traffic control department has replied OK, and the test flight can be carried out."

"Start the first test flight outside the workshop!" Chen Jue looked at the rows of green lights lit up in the cockpit and gave the test flight order without saying a word.

Along with a strong jet vortex ejected from the bottom, several Magic Cube arms holding the Flying Magic Cube began to release their claws.

Everyone entering the Flying Magic Cube only felt a weight on their bodies, just like an airplane accelerating on the runway.

It's just that this force came from the vertical direction, holding everyone and slowly rising upwards at a speed of 5 meters per second.

"This riding experience is really good."

"It's like riding a hot air balloon, there is no discomfort at all. If it is put into the civil aviation field, it will definitely be difficult to get a ticket!" Wang Han stared at the nine external view lenses in the cockpit with an excited expression.

Especially the Magic Cube factory that is getting farther and farther away, and the lights of the small commodity wharf that is under construction overnight, have made the first batch of people who experienced the machine feel extremely excited.

Including Chen Jue, after seeing the aircraft he designed really take off from the ground.

The excitement in my heart is even more difficult to express in words.

After the automatic take-off program intervened and let the Flying Magic Cube steadily reach a test flight altitude of 100 meters, he volunteered to take over the joystick.

He began to fly back and forth, left and right, just like playing arcade games and video games when he was a child, and carried out complex vectorized flight over the sea outside the Feiyun River estuary.

After waiting nearly 10 minutes to collect flight attitude data in the low-altitude area,

a message came from the Longwan Tower: "Aircraft identification code FTMF-01, your test flight trajectory is interfering with the takeoff and landing of subsequent flights. Please choose to land or ascend to an altitude of 3000."

"FTMF-01 received, choosing to ascend to an altitude of 3000."

Chen Jue chuckled into the microphone.

Immediately afterward, he abruptly pushed the control stick, opening the afterburners of the 'Cube Pioneer' engine to the maximum.

He took the Sky Cube, which was originally operating at low speed and low altitude, and explosively pulled it up to the designated altitude in a very short time at a climb rate of 300 meters per second.

This sudden maneuver not only caused Wang Han and the others on board to be pressed firmly into their seats by the sudden G-force,

but even the staff at the tower were startled after seeing the terrifying climb rate of this test aircraft!

"Vertical ascent speed of Mach 0.88?"

"Reaching the scheduled route orbit in 10 seconds?"

"Holy crap! What… what the hell is this thing they're test flying!"