Morgans wrote:
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.
--
Jim in NC



"In 1992, McDonnell Douglas Corporation announced a $1,000m contract
with the Shanghai Aviation Industrial Corporation (SAIC) at Dachang to
build the 3 MD-82, 17 MD82T and 20 MD-90-30T under license. The
MD-90-30T, known as the TrunkLiner, was designed with dual landing
gear with four main wheels for Chinese domestic use, but due to lack
of orders, only two were completed when production stopped in 1000 and
the last one was delivered to China Northern Airlines."

Quote from the reference book "Airliners Worldwide" by Tom Singfield