Cessna's New Plane to Be Built in China

Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/28/07 | J. LYNN LUNSFORD

[Red_Devil 232]

Chinese Cessna During Taxi Traning

Chinese Cessna During Taxi Traning

[cripplecreek]

Crasshna.

[dadgum]

Boo on Cessna. Shame on you. I hope this comes back to bight you folks BIG TIME.

[TexasRepublic]

Cessna hopes manufacturing in China will help keep the price of the plane low enough to attract new pilots to counter the dwindling ranks of U.S. recreational fliers.

I'll preface my comments by saying I grew up co-piloting private airplanes -- my father owned four of them over the years. I grew up assuming that I would also own airplanes, because it used to be a hobby affordable to anyone with a median income, but no longer, because prices have soared [pun intended] out of sight. More than anything else, lawyers killed private aviation with huge lawsuits. More regulations and requirements have also driven up the complexity and expense of aircraft. I also recall my first whiff of political correctness after the 1970's oil embargo -- some people opined that it was wasteful buring precious gas in luxury items such as planes and boats.

[subterfuge]

And we were supposed to have cheap, flying cars by now.

Instead of flight becoming more accessible to the common man, it’s done the opposite.

Conspiracy?

[lesser_satan]

I’m not flying on ANYTHING made in China.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Bamboo wings won’t cut it....

[Freeport]

What do you mean? Most of the aircraft components Boeing produces today are made overseas. Final assembly and outfitting are done here.

[reagan_fanatic]

So we’ll lose some more American manufacturing jobs. Big deal. Move along, nothing to see here.

[Yo-Yo]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931778/posts

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Why pay an American to put the planes together when you can pay Charlie Chan’s cousins 2 cents an hour?

[pissant]

If the public had any idea of the overarching malfeasance of the chicoms, not just lead paint and toxic pet food, they would demand we nuke them.

[Polynikes]

Maybe it would help if they changed the name from Sky-Catcher to Ground-Catcher?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Come fry in the new Crashna, you be so happy!

[AuntB]

If the public had any idea of the overarching malfeasance of the chicoms, not just lead paint and toxic pet food, they would demand we nuke them.

There's a lot of that goin' around. Politicians count on our ignorance and we so willingly supply it....

[cheme]

http://www.cessnaskycatcher.com/images/stories/Image_Gallery_Photos/SCwServCtr.jpg

[Southack]

"Cessna Aircraft Co. will become the first U.S. manufacturer to turn over complete production of an airplane to a Chinese partner..."

The Chinese do not respect quality control enough to be trusted with complete production. Those poor aircraft will have models with substandard parts/materials and serious lapses in assembly.

Yes, it *matters* if a cable rubs on a flat, perpendicular surface!

[pissant]

Yep.

[dragnet2]

Unbelievable...

[HardStarboard]

I've got a friend that has been working for Boeing...in China, for 12 years. They build 737 tail assemblies and a fuselage section of (I think) the 767.

He recently retired from Boeing - but was asked, by Boeing, to come back and work for a Chinese supplier as quality control liasion to Boeing. This supplier is trying to come up to speed to supply Dreamliner parts. He is in China now.