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FN FAL

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China exports batches of regional passenger aircraft.

China has made a breakthrough in batch export of new high-tech electromechanical products, signing sales contracts with countries, including Zimbabwe, for 17 Xinzhou-60 aircraft, as learned from the delivery ceremony held on Friday at the Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Co in Xi'an, according to People's Daily on Monday.

The Xi'an-based company is the designer, developer and tester of Xinzhou-60, the new generation regional passenger aircraft that has reached or been close to international standards in terms of safety, comfort and ease of maintenance. They feature low sales price and oil consumption.

The sales target of about 300 Xinzhou-60 aircraft is hopefully to be achieved around 2020 according to the market survey and analysis released by the China Aviation Technological Import and Export Corporation (CATIEC).

At the delivery ceremony on the same day, Zimbabwe's ambassador to China signed the test certificate for the third plane of the first batch on behalf of the country's national airlines. Prior to this, China delivered two homemade regional aircrafts to Air Zimbabwe, and they are operational in that nation. Air Zimbabwe gave high evaluation to the aircraft, believing that the planes are good in performance with low oil consumption and convenient maintenance.

:eek:
 
Close to international standards in terms of safety.....

Sounds good enough for me!
 
The airlines are saved!

FN FAL said:
China has made a breakthrough in batch export of new high-tech electromechanical products, signing sales contracts with countries, including Zimbabwe, for 17 Xinzhou-60 aircraft, as learned from the delivery ceremony held on Friday at the Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Co in Xi'an, according to People's Daily on Monday.

The Xi'an-based company is the designer, developer and tester of Xinzhou-60, the new generation regional passenger aircraft that has reached or been close to international standards in terms of safety, comfort and ease of maintenance. They feature low sales price and oil consumption.

The sales target of about 300 Xinzhou-60 aircraft is hopefully to be achieved around 2020 according to the market survey and analysis released by the China Aviation Technological Import and Export Corporation (CATIEC).

At the delivery ceremony on the same day, Zimbabwe's ambassador to China signed the test certificate for the third plane of the first batch on behalf of the country's national airlines. Prior to this, China delivered two homemade regional aircrafts to Air Zimbabwe, and they are operational in that nation. Air Zimbabwe gave high evaluation to the aircraft, believing that the planes are good in performance with low oil consumption and convenient maintenance.
"Prior to this, China delivered two homemade regional aircrafts to Air Zimbabwe, and they are operational in that nation."

I have IT!!! I know how to save the regional/major airline industry: Homebuilt airliners! Now THAT'S deregulation!

For more exciting news on what's coming from China, check out this article on the guy who's importing cars from there. He's the same fellow who brought us the Yugo! (And, to be fair, also Subaru.)

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0501/02/A01-47455.htm

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Corona said:
He's the same fellow who brought us the Yugo! (And, to be fair, also Subaru.)

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0501/02/A01-47455.htm

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They'll need to change the name if they want to sell them over here.

Interesting to note, lots of places that build cars also build guns.

Yugo made great rifles, although they were copies of the AK's. Same as with the Daewoo.

Valmet made an awesome copy of the AK rifle as well and they currently make cars for Porsche, farm tractors and are prevalent in the United States as a manufacturer of quality paper machinery.

Someday soon, Heckler and Koch will build all our M416 over in Germany (no private sales to civilians by the way) and Airbus will build our Refueling planes, EMB will build our AWAC planes and SAAB will build our jet fighters.

Then we'll have to do what they say. Because by then, we'll all be disarmed and our workforce will all be toiling at the fast food and Wal-Mart industries, where manufacturing skills will no longer be needed.
 

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