Cessna To Build Skycatcher Overseas Despite Cheap Dollar

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:19:37 -0500, "Darkwing"
theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in
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I wonder if Cessna will choose a company in China to build their
plane.

I would want to see FAA inspectors stationed on-site at the foreign
manufacturing facility, so that US consumers could be assured that the
composite construction was performed correctly. I would think it
would be difficult to inspect it after the fact.

FAA isn't inspecting US built SLAs why should they inspect foreign?

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:45:04 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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FAA isn't inspecting US built SLAs why should they inspect foreign?


Because of the evidence provided recently of foreign made goods being
below standard.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:45:04 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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FAA isn't inspecting US built SLAs why should they inspect foreign?


Because of the evidence provided recently of foreign made goods being
below standard.

....and what a surprise that came to all of us.

Larry Dighera schrieb:

Because of the evidence provided recently of foreign made goods being
below standard.

Surely you mean Japanese made cars... or German made gliders... or
Austrian made airplanes (Diamond)... or Swiss made airplanes
(Pilatus)... no, wait, Airbus... whatever.

Surely you mean Japanese made cars... or German made gliders... or
Austrian made airplanes (Diamond)... or Swiss made airplanes (Pilatus)...
no, wait, Airbus... whatever.

He should have just come straight out with it, and said, "Chinese made
junk."

There. Is that better?
--
Jim in NC

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:08:36 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote in :


Surely you mean Japanese made cars... or German made gliders... or
Austrian made airplanes (Diamond)... or Swiss made airplanes (Pilatus)...
no, wait, Airbus... whatever.

He should have just come straight out with it, and said, "Chinese made
junk."

There. Is that better?


I seem to recall that China is pretty fair at constructing aircraft.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/aircraft/q-5.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_N...ng_Corporation

None of them are of composite construction however.

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:32:25 +0100, Stefan
wrote in :

Larry Dighera schrieb:

Because of the evidence provided recently of foreign made goods being
below standard.

Surely you mean Japanese made cars... or German made gliders... or
Austrian made airplanes (Diamond)... or Swiss made airplanes
(Pilatus)... no, wait, Airbus... whatever.

True those countries have reputations for superior products, but some
of the countries Cessna is considering don't:


http://www.kansas.com/107/story/236262.html
Cessna spokesman Bob Stangarone said company officials traveled to
Argentina, Australia, China, the Czech Republic, India and Poland
to search for a place to build the plane.

Larry Dighera schrieb:

True those countries have reputations for superior products, but some
of the countries Cessna is considering don't:

Argentina, Australia, China, the Czech Republic, India and Poland
to search for a place to build the plane.

The Czech Zlins come to mind, flown by the Czech aerobatic world
champion Ladislav Bezák.
Also the Polish Swift S-1 or MDM-1 Fox come to mind, flown by the Polish
glilder aerobatic world champion Jerzy Makula.
Can't remember an Indian airplane just now, but they have pretty good
software engineers...

Can't remember an Indian airplane just now, but they have pretty good
software engineers...

IndUS SLSA (though actually a Thorp design)

X-Air Ultralight/Experimental




"Stefan" wrote in message
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Larry Dighera schrieb:

True those countries have reputations for superior products, but some
of the countries Cessna is considering don't:

Argentina, Australia, China, the Czech Republic, India and Poland
to search for a place to build the plane.

The Czech Zlins come to mind, flown by the Czech aerobatic world champion
Ladislav Bezák.
Also the Polish Swift S-1 or MDM-1 Fox come to mind, flown by the Polish
glilder aerobatic world champion Jerzy Makula.
Can't remember an Indian airplane just now, but they have pretty good
software engineers...

Stefan writes:

Surely you mean Japanese made cars... or German made gliders... or
Austrian made airplanes (Diamond)... or Swiss made airplanes
(Pilatus)... no, wait, Airbus... whatever.

In general, when countries can produce something very inexpensively, they are
in a phase of development where they also produce things that are of very poor
quality. China is in that phase right now, producing junk at extremely low
prices.

The fact is, no matter where you make something, you can't get something for
nothing. Quality always costs money. The low cost of manufacture in a Third
World country is often closely linked to very low quality. Eventually the
quality improves as the country develops, but so does the price. The most
recent examples of this have been in the Far East. Postwar Japan produced
junk at low prices. Today it produces high quality, but at high prices.