Posted on 09/09/2010 12:17:53 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
China’s emergence as the world’s second largest economy plays out in many ways, including the possibility it will lead a fragmentation of the traditional Airbus and Boeing duopoly that provides airlines on all continents with most of their jets.
Boeing’s own forecast for the Asia-Pacific region underscores that potential. In the aggregate, China leads a region that is expected to buy $1.1 trillion worth of large new jets during the next 20 years—more than North America, Russia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa combined. At 7.9%, China’s air travel growth is top-of-the-world. Some analysts even expect it to lead the world’s private aircraft orders within a decade. This is not news to aviation suppliers; they’ve been pouring into China since the 1990s.
The talisman for the Chinese government’s drive to become world-ranked in aircraft manufacturing is the 156-seat C919, powered by CFM International LEAP-1C engines (see p. 48). The narrowbody jet is being developed by Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (Comac) as a competitor to the industry’s best-sellers, the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 families.
Bombardier is challening Boeing and Airbus at the bottom of their product lines with the CSeries, and Russia’s Irkut is going directly after the A320 and 737 with the MS-21. But China’s ambitions have prompted the most attention from Western manufacturers in terms of joint ventures, advice and technology transfer.
The Chinese know the incumbents will defend their territory fiercely. Acquiring the necessary manufacturing skills to attract top foreign airlines’ attention is only the first step, and perhaps the easiest. Learning the fine art of integrating fuselage assemblies, engines, avionics and other components efficiently and cost-effectively is a far bigger one. Even the experts can stumble in assembly—witness Boeing’s 787 and Airbus’s A380 woes. .............."
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The usual reverse engineering, the stealing of trade secrets, the hoarding of vital supplies/elements. The potential is there to state truly they will hang us with the rope we have sold them.
Well, there I was in beautiful Oregon, got a great club I hang at, live-able rents... cold beer and beautiful women.
Then all of a subject, I'm losing weight, can't eat, - which is cool ‘cause the ladies don't like fat guys.
But I noticed everyone is spitting and short of breath:
I even saw a upper class white (rich) man spitting on the floor of his own home. Then it hit me:
China has cranked up every power plant they have to supply Wal-Mart and the losers that shop there.
That means the coal dust and fumes from the power plants are going into the jet stream and guess where does it come down?
Try hard to think you Free Traders.
Beautiful Oregon!
Anyone remember when the Japs launched those fire bombs trying to get Oregon's forest to burn?
Same Same.
So thank you Wal-Mart shoppers, I had to dump at least $50,000 in tools to get $538 so I hire a U-hual truck to get my sh*t out of town.
Strong letter to follow.
whot?
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