"Ed Majden" wrote:
"Kevin Brooks wrote:

Bombardiers own website:

"The Arlington, Virginia-based airline (US Air), seventh-largest in
the U.S., placed a firm order for sixty 50-seat CRJ200 and twenty-five
75-seat dual class CRJ700 Series 705 jets. The transaction also
includes rights for 90 re-confirmable orders plus 100 options. US
Airways could acquire up to 275 Bombardier CRJ aircraft under terms of
the contract, announced May 12, 2003."

Who sold us the following: 707, 747, 757, 737, 727, DC-9, DC-8, L1011, and
others that I can't think of the numbers right now. Bombardier jets are
popular with the airlines now because they can't fill the seats of the big
body jets like the 747, 767, etc. Civilian airlines are there to make
"money" and they shop for the most practical and least expensive product.
The country that makes them is irrelevant. They are out to make a buck for
their share holders. If they don't do that it's curtains for them! A lot
of the US Airlines were given loan guarantees by our Government so they
would buy Canadian. They even got censored for that by the WTO. All
countries do this just as your government subsidizes you agricultural
industry. Free Trade my ASS!

And you're more full of **** than a brontasaurus with NO ass, Ed!

Like I said, you really do need to go back to Marketing 101 because:

1) Regional jets (not just Bombardier) were rapidly gaining in
popularity even when the majors were in their heyday still packing
'em in like sardines before 9/11...

2) You continue to flatter yourself. None of either the civilian mass
produced American aircraft you clicked off above OR the military
aircraft you mentioned in a previous post required Canada's financial
support. Furthurmore, many of those U.S. aircraft were (and are)
exported to other countries, not just Canada....

3) With regards to the AVRO CF-105, you have to admit that it was
incredibly stupid on Canada's part to waste all that time and money
on designing, production tooling, prototype development, flight
testing etc. based on nothing more than an assumption that the USA
would buy your product.

-Mike Marron