SkyCatcher to be built in China
Moderator: drseti
SkyCatcher to be built in China
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.
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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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.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.