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The Doncasters plant in Farmington makes aerospace turbine blades and components; the Groton operation is a metal-rolling plant. Doncasters' operations also include a steel foundry in Springfield, Mass., and a turbine and generator plant in Rincon, Ga.

Doncasters' clients include Connecticut defense contractors Pratt & Whitney and General Electric, as well as Boeing and Honeywell.

Didn't see any thing about military turbine engines but I am very familiar with the companies. They make both jet and electricl turbines. In fact you can by them in most every country. Bet you didn't know that China makes parts for Boeing and the F-16 and it didn't start yesterday. I don't see a problem with them making pars for another company that has a DOD contract. It could be a cotter pin.

Boeing and China -- the Early Years
Ties between Boeing and China began early. In 1916, the year of the company's founding, William E. Boeing hired Beijing-born Wang Zhu to design a new seaplane, the Model C, for the U.S. Navy.

Wang had just graduated in aeronautical engineering from Armstrong Technical College in London and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. His work with The Boeing Company laid the groundwork for a generation of new airplanes.

China is not only distinguished in Boeing's history for having contributed its first engineer hired by the Compnay. In 1935, China became the first country outside the United States to receive a Boeing field service representative.

On March 29, 1939, Pan American Airways began trans-Pacific service to Hong Kong using Boeing 314 Clipper seaplanes. A number of Douglas Dolphins, DC-2s and DC-3s also operated in China in the 1930s and 1940s.