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Old December 26th 07, 11:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Chinese new regional jet

Look that they do to electronics, cars, and motorcycles.



"Morgans" wrote in message
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Well, it has officially started.

China has rolled out a new jet that is a knockoff from an American
passenger jet.

From AvWeb:

Shenyang used much of the tooling left over from McDonnell-Douglas's
aborted attempt to build MD-90s in China and the "new" airplane has the
same cabin cross section and nose as the DC-9 family.

Does anyone have any doubt that China will copy any airplane that a
manufacturer decides to build there?

Cessna (and others) have screwed up, big time, IMHO.
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Jim in NC