"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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Kevin Brooks wrote:

"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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Jarg wrote:

Because we like American companies to be successful as it translates
into
more jobs and more money for Americans!

*We* like European companies to be succesful for much the same reason.

Trouble seeing past your nose, eh? Forest getting in the way of the
trees?

Nope.


The folks at Smith's Aerospace (which last I heard was still a European
based firm) might like to see the 7E7 succeed, as they are providing a
couple of major systems for it.

If it doesn't succeed I'm sure they'll pick up business elsewhere. They're
an
avionics supplier, their product isn't tied to a single airframe.

Pretty poor business view, IMO. "Ahhh, forget about bothering over those
sales--surely we can sell it elsewhere"?



Likewise Rolls Royce would not mind continuing to sell engines for it.

Rolls Royce are probably rather more interested in the Trent 900 sales
that'll
come from the A380 ( 4 per a/c too ! ) right now - and they're firm orders
!

7E7 has firm orders too--you keep forgetting that, don't you? Or do you just
have a serious reading comprehension problem?

They are the launch engine provider after all.


Some ten nations have companies contributing to the 7E7 work right now.

But not making.

Ahhh! So companies should consider future business as irrelevant, eh? Maiden
flight is scheduled for 2007--not that far off, now is it? One can only
assume with the business sense you have demonstrated thus far, that you are
not employed in any kind of key business decisionmaking role.

Brooks



Graham