But what jumped out at me was the omission of who the other stakeholder(s) is in CFM International. From another site:
CFM International is a joint venture between GE Aviation, a division of General Electric of the United States and Snecma, a division of Safran of France. The joint venture was formed to build and support the CFM56 series of turbofan engine.Why this development, funded mostly by US taxpayers via NASA & DOD, had to partner with France is completely beyond me...
But I suppose it is marginally better than partnering with a multinational conglomerate such as United Technologies (Pratt and Whitney).
France is up to her hairy armpits in Airbus ...
Guess who's going to be using these engines?
("Boeing" is only half the answer ...)
Don’t worry the Chinese will be stealing the know-how very soon or GE, in the spirit of international cooperation, will just give it to them. Can’t have America being too superior or exceptional you know.