As you can read on the other threads, a Boeing plane would have been dependent on Chinese communist parts. I personally trust the French and Germans slightly farther than I do the ChiComs.
And, for that matter, I’d rather encourage military spending in Republican states as opposed to military spending in heavily Democrat states.
As you can read on the other threads, a Boeing plane would have been dependent on Chinese communist parts.
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Good point - as long as the French and Germans aren’t relying on Chinese communist parts vis a vis their suppliers.
“As you can read on the other threads, a Boeing plane would have been dependent on Chinese communist parts”
And the EADS plane would not be? The fact that Airbus and Chinese companies are working ever more closely together, including the transfer of work and technology to Chinese aerospace companies who may then utilize that knowledge for both military AND commercial applications is not an issue?
And you honestly trust the French more than the Chinese?Honestly? Despite the overt talk in Brussels of countering American economic, political and eventually military influence?
As you can read on the other threads, a Boeing plane would have been dependent on Chinese communist parts.
What percentage?
And why do you object to this?
Do you have issue with 48% of a plane being built by French Muslims?
I agree...Not to mention it will create about 7,500 jobs for California and other states too.
As you can read on the other threads, a Boeing plane would have been dependent on Chinese communist parts. I personally trust the French and Germans slightly farther than I do the ChiComs.
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Airbus in China
http://www.airbus.com/en/worldwide/airbus_in_china.html
Airbus to spend GBP67m on Chinese parts by 2010
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CWU/is_2004_Oct_12/ai_n6233306
Airbus Joins Hands with China’s Aviation Industry for Business Expansion
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200206/26/eng20020626_98590.shtml
China’s plane parts industry takes off: News analysis
China is fast becoming a major world producer of aircraft parts and components as foreign aircraft manufacturers, including Boeing and Airbus, are stepping up production in the country.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200401/20/eng20040120_133067.shtml
Airbus, China reach accord on massive aircraft order, A350 cooperation
Tuesday November 27, 2007
China’s government reached agreement with Airbus yesterday on firm orders for 110 A320 family aircraft and 40 A330s valued at approximately $15 billion and also signed an MOU with the manufacturer stipulating that Chinese industry will take a 5% stake in A350 XWB production.
http://www.atwonline.com/news/story.html?storyID=10935
China to pay E7.7 billion for 150 Airbus planes
By Don Phillips and David LaguePublished: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2005
PARIS: Airbus and China on Monday announced a E7.7 billion order for 150 narrow-body A320 aircraft and said they would study building a final assembly line for the aircraft in China.
The long-expected order, worth $9 billion, allows Airbus to surpass Boeing’s recent China orders and puts the company ahead of Boeing for aircraft orders taken this year. Aircraft manufacturers see China and India as the two top markets for aircraft sales in the next decade as travel expands in their growing economies.
Final assembly in China would give Airbus an important advantage, perhaps similar to the advantage that Boeing has gained in Japan by having Japanese companies build a significant number of components for the new Boeing 787. The 787 does not undergo final assembly in Japan, however....read more....
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/05/business/airbus.php
Airbus to source more from China
by Joseph Chaney
Posted 05 September 2007 @ 10:16 am EST
HONG KONG - European plane-maker Airbus wants to source more parts from China and grab more market share from arch-foe Boeing in a market it expects to double every five to six years. The firm owned by EADS, which edged ahead of Boeing this year in the annual race to chalk up more sales, plans to buy as much as $400 Million worth of parts from Chinese manufacturers by 2015, Airbus China President Laurence Barron told the Reuters China Century Summit.
Despite a global backlash over the quality and safety of goods made on the world’s factory floor, Barron said Airbus would source more and more complex aircraft components such as wings.
They “started out making basic parts like doors, fairly simple stuff. But a wing is about as complex as air structures get,” Barron said at the summit held in Hong Kong......read more.....
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070905/airbus-sourcing-china.htm
Airbus to give Chinese companies 5 percent of contracts for new jet
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/26/business/airbus.php
Airbus spares no effort in its China plan
As of the end of August, 11 mainland carriers were operating 366 Airbus aircraft with 377 still on order. Coping with a growing customer base and providing timely, efficient support and service to Chinese airlines will decide whether aircraft manufacturers such as Airbus can continue their success in China.
Airbus has a network of spares and support centers in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Singapore and Washington, DC. It has a spares warehouse valued at more than US$30 million in Beijing and contracted another one in Shanghai last year.
Pierre Steffen, Airbus China vice-president for customer services, talks to China Daily reporter Lu Haoting about his new plan to better serve Chinese airlines and the potential of China to grow into a regional hub for customer service..........read more
http://www.hangzhou.com.cn/20070912/ca1379770.htm