"Today, I'll announce the opening of the reservation for the supersonic private jet. At the same time, I'll start the preparatory work for the construction of the spaceship. I've already prepared the relevant drawings and information. The construction of the spaceship must start within half a month!"
Chen Mo's order had been issued. No matter how unbelievable it was in her heart, Anna still obeyed the order and left.
But the shock in her heart couldn't be calmed down for a long time!
Spaceship!
This had always been something that only existed in science fiction movies and novels!
The American space shuttle had been completely discontinued eight years ago due to high costs and serious safety problems. Now, the main spacecraft in the world's aerospace field were still rockets!
Even the American space shuttle could only fly in low-Earth orbit. It couldn't leave the earth at all. The probes to explore the moon and Mars were launched by rockets in one direction. It was a one-way ticket with no return!
And if they could really build a spaceship that could freely shuttle between planets like in the movies, then they would surpass the world's major aerospace powers as a company and become the strongest in space exploration and development!
And since Chen Mo had already made a plan, according to the amazing performance of Chen Mo and Shield Industries in the past, even if Anna couldn't believe it, she knew in her heart that Chen Mo was definitely not joking. He really planned to build a spaceship, and he already had a full set of drawings and information!
Just like building the supersonic private jet before, all she had to do was to do it according to Chen Mo's requirements.
After completely accepting the fact of building a spaceship, Anna began to be full of curiosity and expectations for this spaceship. What would this spaceship that would change the world's aerospace landscape look like? To what extent would its performance reach?
Would it be slightly better than the space shuttle and be able to reach the moon, or would it be better and be able to fly directly to Mars?
In any case, whether it was the moon or Mars, as long as they could go back and forth at will, it meant that they could develop the resources of these two planets. Just now, they already knew that there were countless precious resources on these two planets, and no one could compete with them. The benefits behind this were absolutely beyond imagination!
However, before preparing to build the spacecraft, Anna still followed Chen Mo's instructions and announced that the supersonic private jet developed by SHIELD Aerospace was open for pre-order. She also posted some detailed data and pictures of the prototype on the official website.
This announcement did not attract too much attention. After all, private jets were too far away from ordinary people. Even if it was a supersonic private jet, it was just a novelty to ordinary people. Not many people paid much attention to it. However, another group of people was different!
Needless to say, there were old users of SHIELD Industries who were interested in supersonic private jets like Old Harrison, but there were others who had been paying attention to supersonic private jets for a long time.
Needless to say, these people were the major aircraft manufacturing companies that now occupied the jetliner and private jet market!
When Divine Shield Aerospace was established and began to develop supersonic private jets, it had already aroused their vigilance. With the precedent of Shendun Motor Company crushing all the established automobile companies and occupying the entire top automobile market in one fell swoop, they did not dare to be careless!
In particular, some of the companies that were also developing supersonic private jets were even more vigilant.
They originally thought that it might take a year or two for the supersonic private jet to be released, but now, in less than two months, SHIELD Aerospace announced that it was open for pre-order!
This reminded them of the "Knight" off-road vehicle and the "Thunder" "Overlord" that were quickly completed and launched on the market. This style was all too familiar!
However, when the price and performance of this supersonic private jet was announced, most aircraft manufacturing companies breathed a sigh of relief.
150 million USD!
Just this price alone was enough to calm them down by more than half.
The biggest market for private jets was still small and medium-sized business jets that were priced in the range of millions to tens of millions of USD. Tens of millions of USD could also buy some cheaper large business jets. Most of the private jets that cost more than 100 million USD were modified from large passenger jets of Boeing and Airbus. There were relatively few of them and it was not the mainstream business of the major aircraft manufacturing companies.
Most of the aircraft orders for Boeing and Airbus came from the major airlines in the world. Even if SHIELD Aerospace took away some of the private jet orders, the impact would not be great.
Moreover, SHIELD Aerospace's medium-sized supersonic business jet was not only faster, but due to its size, there was no way it could be compared to the large business jet modified from a large passenger plane in terms of space and number of people. Both had their own strengths, so although there was some impact on the two companies, it was minimal!
Several companies that were developing supersonic private jets were not too worried. On the one hand, their supersonic private jets had not been manufactured yet and it was still far from being launched. On the other hand, the estimated price of their supersonic private jets was far below SHIELD Aerospace's 150 million. Even if there was some gap in speed with SHIELD Aerospace, they were still very competitive. They were not worried that SHIELD Aerospace's supersonic private jet would completely dominate the market!
All the major aircraft manufacturing companies breathed a sigh of relief. What they did not know was that SHIELD Aerospace's published aircraft data was only the most common of the bunch. The core functions and data were not published. Even the published basic data was reserved!
As for the reason, it was not because they were afraid of scaring the aircraft manufacturing companies, but because the prototype had not yet begun its test flight. A lot of the data was shown in the data provided by Chen Mo. Out of strict consideration, they did not publish the slightly exaggerated data.
Even so, there were still people who placed an order for this supersonic private jet the moment the pre-order was opened!
There were two people in the first batch who placed an order, and they knew each other.
One was a new fan of SHIELD Industries. He was already so old, but he still pursued the thrill of racing. In the end, Old Harrison's life was saved by the holographic smartphone's advanced artificial intelligence, "Kitt", in time.
When Old Harrison, who was still lying in the hospital, heard from "Kitt" that the supersonic private jet was open for pre-order, he immediately ordered one for himself!
The other person who placed an order had just come out of the hospital. He was a late-stage pancreatic cancer patient who participated in the clinical trial of SHIELD Bio's new anti-cancer drug. He was the tycoon who lived in New York with Old Harrison, Robert!
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