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wildbil7
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
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Location: Forked river, New Jersey
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| Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:53 am Post subject: SkyCatcher to be built in China |
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| Read at AOPA site that the skycatcher is going to be built in china...seeing that the average Chinese wage for a Month is about $250 US. do you think the price of the catcher will be lowered? I wonder what it will cost to build a complete plane from start to finish and ship it to the US?. looks like Mucho profits for Cessna. |
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rsteele
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| Cessna will probably do well with it until the Chinese copy the design, improve it a bit and start selling it back to the states for a third less than Cessna charges. Companies never seem to learn that manufacturing items in China is essentially giving away their intellectual property as well a training your competitor to replace you. This may well signal the end of Cessna's single engine piston business. In 10 years, C172 may mean Chinese 172. |
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oldsportpilot
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
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rsteele wrote: Cessna will probably do well with it until the Chinese copy the design, improve it a bit and start selling it back to the states for a third less than Cessna charges. Companies never seem to learn that manufacturing items in China is essentially giving away their intellectual property as well a training your competitor to replace you.
This phenomenon is what destroyed the American century-old Schwinn Bicycle Company that had made vast number of bikes in the US. The Schwinn family sold the name, and got out of the bike business. |
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