mikemeadows
There is an extra zero in the number of GA airports in the US. 5,100 airports open to them pubic seems more realistic than over a half million.
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There is an extra zero in the number of GA airports in the US. 5,100 airports open to them pubic seems more realistic than over a half million.
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My eagle-eye editor caught that. Thanks, Mike! (and that wins you a pass on the classic “public” typo!)
Don’t be surprised if their GA planes produced look very like offerings in the west.
One manufacturer ( not USA ) was asked to send an evaluation aircraft to China which they did only to be asked to put in together again. They had taken in apart to reverse engineer it and were unable to re assemble it.
Until one sees an annual national Memorial Day commemorating the murder by the ChiComs of their own peaceful protestors on Tianamen Square in 1989 there is no real point to GA there. GA is all about freedom, an illegal concept in Communist China, a country with massive economic problems, widespread unrest, gulags for people of faith and persecution of their rapidly growing Christian community.
Someone should send the CCP an areal view of KOSH in the last week of July. Point out that what they see at that one airport at that one event is their goal for all of China.
Lol, if I’m not mistaken the ChiComs now own Cirrus, Diamond, and perhaps Mooney (which may or may not have been repatriated). So I’m guessing they won’t be making copies, they can make originals.
Maybe if we realize we are in a Cold War with them, the US Government will have Cessna out produce them just to make a point? Of course, then the ChiComs would point out their planes are more safe, modern and higher quality. ???
If they build more 162"s, problem solved. ) We all know how well that worked out for Cessna and GA…