Originally Posted by drop something
"They are quite good at building comically inept airplanes though"
Very funny.
Keep insulting people, that's normal here (and then if others get angry as a result, just tell them they have no humor, it's so typical)
Some "comically inept airplanes" :
- Mirage family,
- Falcon business jets (read in FLIGHT about their 7X assessment)
- Airbus family
- ATR (80% of world market)
- Rafale (the one the Royal Navy would enjoy so much)
- Dauphin, Squirrel, Super-Puma, EC135 and other helicopters (still the biggest manufacturer in the world)
- Surface to air missiles SAMP, Mistral, Crotale, Roland, (the ones used to shoot down Tornadoes during the 1st Gulf War)
- Exocet missiles (any memory, RN and USN ?)
- Air-to-air missiles (Magic, MICA)
- ASMP airborne nuclear missile with statoreactor
- Intercontinental ballistic missiles ICBM (one of them was seen offshore US East Coast a couple of years ago, during a very normal and successful test launch)
- and nuclear carrier and submarines to go along with...
all that from a very buoyant industry, +17% on orders last year.
Anyway, you probably never heard of all those items. But others did, and that matters.
Last edited by Reinhardt; 20th Oct 2012 at 19:23.