On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:41:30 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote in :


The aviation market is changing:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2...ent_718481.htm
Airbus to set up China plant

Getting a strong foothold in China's vast market could be
strategically important for Airbus in the long term. Rival Boeing
Co. of Chicago says China will require about 2,880 new jetliners,
with a catalog value of $280 billion, by 2025.




http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_B.../HC14Cb07.html
China renews airliner manufacturing plan

BEIJING - Almost 30 years after China's first attempt to build a
large airliner was scrapped, the government has announced that the
project will be resumed in its new 2006-10 five-year plan in hopes
of realizing the Chinese aircraft industry's longtime dream to
meet the country's growing demand for air travel.


So it appears that Aribus will train the workforce for their
competition. How cleaver. :-(


CHINA RELEASES IMAGES OF FUTURE "JUMBO" JET

If the images portrayed by China's Xinhua news agency
(http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_5943906.htm) are
accurate, China's jetliner for the 21st century looks suspiciously
like a Russian military transport from the 1970s. The high-wing,
high-tailed creation, with its multiple banks of landing gear trucks
clustered under the fuselage, looks like the big Antonovs that still
toil as chartered military cargo aircraft. It looks nothing like the
sleek shape of the Boeing 787 that many consider the technology driver
of the next generation of commercial airliners. Still, China seems
pretty excited about its chances in the world market. "China's jumbo
aircraft will initially target the domestic market. But the ultimate
aim is to compete with Boeing and Airbus on the international market,"
said Jin Qiansheng, deputy director of the administrative committee of
Xi'an Yanliang State Aviation High-tech Industry Base.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#194887