China is Starting to Build Military Fighter Trainers
The first flight of this new aircraft was made in December of 2003 and mass production is expected to start by the end of 2005. These same aircraft are expected to flood the developing nations with fighter planes. There are already plans to have no less than 10 aircraft to be delivered by the end of the year, Chinese Year. China needs this aircraft to train it's pilots to fly the Su-27s and Su-30 Russian Fighters that they have ordered. The JL-19 or FTC 2000 aircraft is a tandem two-seat, single engine jet fighter aircraft developed by Guizhou Aviation Industry.
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Boeing is Really Flying Now
Commercial Aviation has taken quite a hit in the last five years and things did not look so great for Boeing after having massive layoffs, orders for new aircraft cut and lackluster sales. First they cleared a deal for new 777 Cargo Aircraft, then another for new 737-400s and then another again. Both Boeing and Airbus have had excellent bookings and sales orders for new aircraft. The Boeing Company has completely blown past projections for aircraft sales this month. Before the Annual Paris Air Show the Boeing Company had already made three deals for commercial aircraft of worth over 5 Billion in sales.
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General Aviation Manufacturing is in the Tank; Hang On It is Going to Get Worse
As the price increased new aircraft sales could not keep up and the used aircraft prices also skyrocketed. American Airlines cancelled 54 orders for new aircraft from Boeing recently, not good, the increases in operational fuel costs, Continental postponed their large jet order. We still cell our aircraft all over the world, yet also entering the small airliner market is Bombardier, a market niche, which has been dominated for decades by Boeing with many famous models like the 737. The new age of innovation will not belong to the US, they have forgotten from where they came, forgotten what it takes to build, forgotten why we fought so hard to do it and forgotten why we came in the first place. The light aircraft market in the US has been dominated by Piper, Beech, Cessna but in the last two and a half decades the finish products liability has skyrocketed as lawyers lawsuits have increased both in number and monetary awards.
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