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Chapter 260: Boeing's Doomsday

"Trouble?"

"What trouble?"

"Another plane crash?"

Kelly placed the financial report in his hand on the table with a grim expression.

For Boeing, the troubles in recent years have been too numerous to count.

Whistleblowers on quality control, astronauts stranded in outer space, landing gear failing to release properly, tail rudder quality issues, and even more fatal problems like flight control systems fighting pilots for control, and so on.

The former overlord of the commercial aviation sector has now become the laughingstock of netizens worldwide.

After losing face so many times, even Kelly, the CEO of Boeing, has become numb to it.

In Kelly's view, as long as Boeing doesn't experience a major plane crash, such as physically eliminating more than 100 passengers at once, it's not considered a major problem for Boeing.

However, when the marketing department executive presented a promotional video that had drifted over from across the ocean, Kelly was stunned for several seconds by the cubic aircraft displayed in the video!

"What the hell is this?"

"Thomson, are you sure you're showing a promotional video for the latest commercial aircraft and not a clip taken from some Hollywood blockbuster?"

Kelly looked disbelieving.

"Boss! I guarantee my position and salary that this is not a special effects scene rendered in a movie. It is indeed the latest commercial aircraft launched in China!"

"As you know, China is currently holding the Haizhu Airshow. This electric aircraft, named 'Flying Cube,' appeared at the airshow half an hour ago, landing vertically, and..."

Thomson hesitated.

Kelly frowned: "And what?"

Seeing this, Thomson quickly opened another video.

In this clip taken from the scene, the silver cube, full of science fiction, smoothly landed on the stage.

Then, more than 200 passengers poured out of it.

This scene made Kelly's eyes pop!

"Holy sh*t!"

"Is this actually live footage?"

"Are you sure it's not AI-generated?"

Kelly exclaimed, took the iPad, and watched it repeatedly, almost burying his face in the screen.

Because the video showed that this sci-fi aircraft called 'Flying Cube' already had the passenger capacity comparable to a Boeing medium-sized airliner.

What's even more deadly is that the noise during the vertical take-off and landing process and the incredible speed of disembarkation were stimulating the brain of Kelly, the CEO of Boeing.

If the Haizhu Airshow across the ocean had only released the latest news about COMAC's C919 or similar aircraft.

Kelly wouldn't be worried at all.

Because half of China's C919 large aircraft uses foreign technology.

For example, the aircraft's engine system is purchased from CFM International.

This is an international aero-engine company jointly funded by France's Snecma and the United States' General Electric, aiming to monopolize the supply of aero-engines for commercial large aircraft worldwide.

It's not that China can't manufacture advanced, durable, and reliable passenger aircraft engines.

As the world's largest industrial country, there's nothing in the field of cutting-edge manufacturing that China can't produce.

But because the two major rogues behind CFM International have implemented a monopoly in the commercial aviation sector.

If you don't buy their aero-engines and component technology, you won't be issued an airworthiness certificate internationally.

If the C919 can't fly international routes and can only circle in domestic airspace, isn't that nonsense?

Therefore, when Kelly, the CEO of Boeing, saw the Flying Cube had already achieved manned flight through the video, and after listening to Thomson's report on some of the performance parameters of this electric aircraft, an inexplicable sense of unknown fear surged from the soles of his feet!

Leaving aside whether the energy consumption of 15 kWh per kilometer is real or not.

Just the fact that the CEO of the Cube Group mentioned in the live broadcast that 'a single charge can provide a range of 6,000 kilometers' is enough to make Kelly feel a chill down his spine!

Regardless of whether this range data is fake or not, it's enough to show that the Flying Cube already has the ability to fly long distances.

Because Kelly knows that, given the strictness of China's commercial aviation and the importance that Chinese airports place on security checks, it is impossible to let an immature electric aircraft carry 200 people to an altitude of 10,000 meters.

This manned aircraft, named 'Flying Cube,' must have undergone the strictest quality testing in China.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been placed at the end of the Haizhu Airshow as the finale!

Just as Kelly and Thomson were discussing this Chinese aircraft, another Boeing executive rushed in from outside the office.

"Boss!"

"The sales department has received large-scale order cancellation notices from Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern!"

"A total of more than 216 Boeing 737s that were being scheduled have been canceled! Including a 737Max that was about to roll off the production line on the 6th of next month was also canceled by China's Spring Airlines!"

Hearing this, Kelly, who was already feeling a chill down his spine, immediately jumped up from his chair: "Jason, what did you say? All canceled? Aren't these Chinese companies afraid of the penalties incurred by breaching the contract?"

Jason said with a mournful face: "Boss, have you forgotten the major air crash caused by the tail rudder quality problem before? In order to give the Chinese partners an explanation, all subsequent aircraft orders canceled the unilateral breach of contract compensation."

Kelly's scalp tingled as soon as he heard this news!

"Motherf***er!"

"Damn legal department! Are those pigs eating sh*t every day with such high salaries? Why was such an important clause canceled?"

Kelly roared in the office.

To figure this out, he even called in the head of the legal team and gave them a dressing down.

When the black and white contract was laid out in front of him, and after reading the details about the breach of contract clause by clause, Kelly collapsed into his chair.

He scratched his hair into a chicken coop with both hands and quickly picked up the landline phone on his desk and ordered the secretary: "Miley! Help me contact all the board members in the shortest amount of time!"

"I need to hold an online video conference in 10 minutes!"

Because Kelly knew that if this large-scale cancellation event triggered by the release of the Flying Cube was not handled well.

The only path waiting for Boeing, besides bankruptcy and acquisition, would be that there is no second path to take.

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At the same time, the Pentagon, located in Arlington County, Virginia, southwest of Washington, D.C.

This is the office center of the U.S. Department of Defense and a frequent guest in various Hollywood movies and the 9/11 incident.

Due to the time difference, while the press conference at the Haizhu Airshow was in full swing, the Pentagon was still shrouded in the early morning hours of 3 or 4 a.m.

Colonel Mike, who was on duty at the Pentagon's Information Intelligence Operations Center, was holding a cup of hot coffee, crossing his legs, and looking at the daily situation summaries from 1,557 military bases around the world.

The data on the large screen and the remote monitoring images of those rusty aircraft carrier battle groups indicated that the U.S. military's war machine was declining from its peak.

"A small bag of screws for 90,000 dollars?"

"The Smith commissioners are too black-hearted! If this continues, the USA's existing fleet will be embezzled!"

Colonel Mike cursed wildly in his heart.

After graduating from West Point Military Academy, he originally had a passion to serve the country.

As a result, after entering the Pentagon, he faced either cliques of officers or collective corruption within the U.S. military.

To the point where staying up late on duty like this has almost become Colonel Mike's daily routine to earn extra overtime pay.

As for the intelligence from all over the world, it's good to take a look at it.

As a colonel, all he can do is filter out unimportant intelligence, then list the remaining items and priorities for those generals lying on dollars to casually glance over.

Just as Colonel Mike had just taken a couple of sips of coffee and was daydreaming, a red-labeled emergency intelligence was inserted on the large screen at this moment.

"Sir!"

"Emergency code: 51."

"There is an important piece of intelligence from the China Haizhu Airshow!"

"Should we deploy it now?"