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Old November 26th 07, 07:54 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Larry Dighera
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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.
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Old November 26th 07, 08:19 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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"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.


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Old November 26th 07, 08:32 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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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.
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Old November 26th 07, 09:08 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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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?
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Old November 26th 07, 10:25 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:08:36 -0500, "Morgans"
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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.

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Old November 26th 07, 09:10 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:32:25 +0100, Stefan
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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.

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Old November 26th 07, 09:36 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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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...
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Old November 27th 07, 12:27 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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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...


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Old November 27th 07, 06:23 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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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.
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Old November 28th 07, 07:13 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:23:03 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:

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.


Like the very high quality of software code I get from Nepal.

The fact is, no matter where you make something, you can't get something for
nothing. Quality always costs money.


Poor quality costs money so your point is......

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.


So the very high quality of software code I get from Nepal is an illusion.
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