"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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Cessna SkyCatcher HQ to Be Announced This Week

CESSNA TO BUILD SKYCATCHER OVERSEAS
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196645)
Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has confirmed what many suspected when the
Cessna 162 Skycatcher -- and its $109,000 price tag -- were
introduced earlier this year. In an interview with The Wichita
Eagle (http://www.kansas.com/107/story/236262.html), Cessna CEO
Jack Pelton said that to make that price target "a major part of
that content has to be built someplace else." Cessna intends to
announce where the little aluminum high-wing will be made at a
news conference on Wednesday. The company has searched the world
looking for the right manufacturer.



http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071123/euro_dollar.html?.v=1
Meanwhile, Airbus CEO Thomas Enders said the euro has now "crossed
the pain threshold" and that the rate of the dollar's fall "hardly
leaves room for reasonable adapting."




http://finance.yahoo.com/charts#char...urce=undefined
Five year graph.



http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071106/dollar.html?.v=5
Dollar Falls to New Lows


I have a proforma sitting on my desk for a container that I need from Italy.
It is going to cost me 15% more than it did two years ago. I had two
containers shipped here two years ago, this year I am doing a half container
that I am sharing with another company. I only ordered what we HAD to have
instead of putting more in overstock. So I can see how much this has hurt
importing from the EU and the UK, two places where I import a lot from.

I wonder if Cessna will choose a company in China to build their plane. If
so you can count me out. If my iPod decides to die I can handle that, if a
wing falls off then I'm in deep ****.