Chinese new regional jet

That said, I think it'll be a long time before someone buys a knock-off
airliner pushed by knock-off engines and guided by knock-off avionics. I
just don't foresee a market for third rate aircraft.

If its certified and it costs half the price it will sell.
If I remember correctly almost are whole trade with Japan is boeing.
Airplanes are the only thing we still build.

"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?

The story in question also states "According to United Press International,
the aircraft is the first-ever clean sheet airliner design by the Chinese."

Having the same cross section and nose as an entire family of aircraft is
mighty thin evidence to start claiming "knockoff".

Also, I'm pretty sure that U.S. corporations and governments have in
decades past ripped off design ideas when it suited them.

(Shucks, the U.S. sometimes doesn't just rip off designs but complete sets
of designers! Got a bunch of German rocket designers a few decades back.
And prior to that some airships and airship designs. Different wars, same
result: transfer of IP.)

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