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Old 28th May 2023, 13:42
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Originally Posted by Superpilot
We are going to poke fun at the Chinese venture into aerospace (naturally) but one thing you need to know about Chinese culture is that they don't like failure, as to fail means to lose face. And so their attitude to engineering right now will be way more robust than Boeing's over the last decade.
I'm not casting any aspersions on Chinese engineering But, at the end of the day, it's not good engineering that sells airliners, but many other factors.
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