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Obama Admin informs Beechcraft of aircraft loss in favor of Brazilian firm with ties to Iran
Washington Examiner ^ | Nov 21, 2011 | Jeff Head

Posted on 11/21/2011 1:38:46 PM PST by Jeff Head

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To: King Moonracer
First he ogles a Brazilian teen...
Isn't that why the internet was created?
61 posted on 11/21/2011 5:46:23 PM PST by ME-262 (We need Term Limits for the federal house and senate. We need new Bums up there.)
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To: ME-262

Yes, Gore did it for the porn.


62 posted on 11/21/2011 5:52:34 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: af_vet_rr

Every one of them adds up...this one included.

China is using our own money to build and modernize their forces in a phenominal way. We still have time to reverse it, but it would take a huge economic hardship on us to do so...but would be harder on them.

If we wait much longer, we will not be able to do so peacefully.

Here’s a site where I have been tracking their Navy buildup for years:

The Rising Sea Dragon in Asia
http://www.jeffhead.com/redseadragon


63 posted on 11/21/2011 8:15:40 PM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Melchior
Right you are. Soros has a major shareholding in Harbin-Embraer, the Chinese subsidiary of Embraer.

Winning!

So it's actully wrong you are. Soros is invested in a factory to make airliners in China, NOT the ones that make military aircraft in Brazil or Florida.

Meanwhile Goldman Sachs is using some of the dollars that it made from the financial crisis to grease congresscritters to favour its factory (Hawker-Beeccraft). Since G-S (like Soros) seems to make a lot of its mone from short selling there's a good chance going with the AT-6 will lead to someone involved being burned.

64 posted on 11/22/2011 5:22:19 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are the shareholders and bondholdes in Embraer a matter of record? It is a large company.


65 posted on 11/22/2011 5:34:20 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Oztrich Boy

I said that Soros was invested in Embraer-Harbin. That is all. And so he is. It would not surprise me, however, to learn that his interests in Embraer extend beyond China. I suggest that when a Republican wins the Presidency next year that he immediately arrests the man and exports him to France where he is wanted to stand trial.


66 posted on 11/22/2011 6:10:48 AM PST by Melchior
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To: JerseyanExile
A couple things - first off, the Super Tucano will be built under licence in Florida. Second - Beechcraft isn’t exactly a glowing symbol of buy American.

Yeah, but no one here is going to let the facts get in the way of a good rant. :)

67 posted on 11/22/2011 7:05:07 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: ME-262

So Ratheon, with manufacturing locations in Kansas, got the JPATS contract in 1995, while Bob Dole, Kansas (R) was in office.

So my question is, seeing the victory of Embraer, which will manufacture in Florida, an extraordinarily important state in Presidential elections, does “R” stand for Ratheon?


68 posted on 11/22/2011 11:58:01 AM PST by frithguild (Restricting access to capital - Liberalism: The sharpest tool of big business, banks, etc.)
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To: frithguild

What you don’t see there is that this will be an assembly plant. The largest portion of it will be made in Brazil and shipped in for final assembly. That is a PR snow job if there ever was one.

Ask yourself how much sense it makes for Embraer to make duplicate tooling and ship it in to Jacksonville for people to make an airplane they’ve never delt with before from scratch. These sheet metal airplanes take an exceptional amount of tribal knowledge to master. This tribal knowledge is not easily transfered.

Ask the folks in Mexico trying to build KingAir and Bonanza parts how much fun they’re having trying to duplicate how they did it in Wichita.

In short....if they have to transplant the Tucano factory it ain’t ‘off-the-shelf’ no more.

It’s likely true that some 70 US suppliers could be involved. Ask yourself how many of those suppliers already supplied parts for the Tucano being built in Brazil.

Compare the numbers of US suppliers of Tucano parts to the number of US suppliers of AT-6 parts.


69 posted on 11/23/2011 8:14:05 AM PST by djanes
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