On 2007-11-28 16:36:19 -0800, James Sleeman said:

Come on people, usually I give pilots some accepted base line of
intelligence and reasoning, but it seems it's largely gone out the
window on this one. Chinese manufacturers of CONSUMER products have
had more than thier fair share of problems to be sure, but it's a hell
of a stretch to compare consumer products with aircraft manufacture.

The LSA is a consumer product.


Do you honestly think that CESSNA is going to stake thier name,
reputation, and conceivably risk the entire business by going with an
aircraft manufacturer who would produce shoddy unreliable or dangerous
aircraft?!

Yep.


More so, do you honestly think that either Cessna OR your country's
respective aviation authorities are going to let obviously shoddy
unreliable or dangerous aircraft get anywhere near the hands of Joe
Bloggs the pilot?!

Yep.


Please, at least show some common sense here.

What makes you think that aircraft manufacturers or government
regulators will suddenly start doing any better than they have in the
past?


Cessna have obviously done thier homework, they have weighed the pros
and cons, and at the end of the day, the most effective solution
presented itself.

To decry the aircraft on the sole fact that it will be constructed in
China simply smacks of xenophobia. If you have a criticism of the
aircraft, at least make it something worth criticising!

I think that the fact that the aircraft will be made in a country that
is hostile the United States, whose military leaders have publicly
threatened to use nuclear weapons on our forces, which has possibly the
worst environmental record in history, uses slave labor, supplies arms
and advice to terrorists, has the worst reputation for patent and
copyright piracy, launders counterfeit American currency for the North
Koreans, has shown callous disregard for consumer safety in its
industrial standards, and has a horrible human rights record is
something worth criticizing.

Frankly, Cessna would have done better to have let the contract out to
Satan himself.

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Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor