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Old 11th December 2014 | 15:46
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Ian Corrigible
 
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Isn't the SOP to 'borrow' one aircraft for a couple of weeks, return it (with all the tolerances mysteriously altered) and then proceed to build a local knock-off?



I remember Bell Helicopter pulled no punches back in 2007 when it described its fury at having been used by its one-time 430 fuselage supplier Hafei Aviation (now part of Avicopter) as an unpaid training college. Something along the lines of the Bell CEO noticing that there was a completely different group of technicians working on the fuselages each time he visited the Chinese plant...

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