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High Wing Drifter
18th Nov 2003, 20:15
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3276951.stm
IO540
18th Nov 2003, 21:29
The really funny thing will be when the Chinese start MAKING planes...
Circuit Basher
19th Nov 2003, 00:29
IO540 - what do you mean? Are you thinking that you'll feel full for a while after buying one and then need to have another soon afterwards??!! ;) :D
IO540
19th Nov 2003, 01:37
:O :O
I had to think about that one, not having had a chink takeaway for a while.
The Chinese (or anybody else) could easily improve on most of today's WW2 flying objects; Cessnas and Pipers. To make big breakthroughs on reliability (long term maintenance costs) they would need to address the avionics front (a perpetual black hole for money); perhaps today's glass cockpits will turn out reliable enough but I seriously doubt it...
Their #1 issue would be whether they could sell into the USA (90% of the world market). Toyota/Honda have been "looking" for plenty long enough.