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Airbus to set up China plant
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:41:30 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote in : The aviation market is changing: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2...ent_718481.htm Airbus to set up China plant Getting a strong foothold in China's vast market could be strategically important for Airbus in the long term. Rival Boeing Co. of Chicago says China will require about 2,880 new jetliners, with a catalog value of $280 billion, by 2025. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_B.../HC14Cb07.html China renews airliner manufacturing plan BEIJING - Almost 30 years after China's first attempt to build a large airliner was scrapped, the government has announced that the project will be resumed in its new 2006-10 five-year plan in hopes of realizing the Chinese aircraft industry's longtime dream to meet the country's growing demand for air travel. So it appears that Aribus will train the workforce for their competition. How cleaver. :-( CHINA RELEASES IMAGES OF FUTURE "JUMBO" JET If the images portrayed by China's Xinhua news agency (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_5943906.htm) are accurate, China's jetliner for the 21st century looks suspiciously like a Russian military transport from the 1970s. The high-wing, high-tailed creation, with its multiple banks of landing gear trucks clustered under the fuselage, looks like the big Antonovs that still toil as chartered military cargo aircraft. It looks nothing like the sleek shape of the Boeing 787 that many consider the technology driver of the next generation of commercial airliners. Still, China seems pretty excited about its chances in the world market. "China's jumbo aircraft will initially target the domestic market. But the ultimate aim is to compete with Boeing and Airbus on the international market," said Jin Qiansheng, deputy director of the administrative committee of Xi'an Yanliang State Aviation High-tech Industry Base. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194887 |
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