Chinese Factory already in production?

[Bob_Belville]

http://www.china.org.cn/china/Off_the_Wire/2014-12/29/content_34436285.htm

[Piloto]

No pictures? For such an important event. I heard that two of the buyers are Sumo wrestlers. "Please don't step on the flap"

[yvesg]

Piloto, sorry to tell you this but Sumo wrestlers are Japanese. There are no more Sumo wrestlers in China than there are in USA.

Yves

[fantom]

Piloto, sorry to tell you this but....

Yves

Don't Canadian's have a sense of humor?

[jrwilson]

I wonder if this is a confusion by a non-aviation business magazine... Mooney recently announced they had completed the paperwork filing for a Chinese registered Mooney. Changed the N registration to Chinese equivilant for export.

[jrwilson]

So maybe this place in china is a completion/delivery center? Probably have to add some Chinese specific placards or limitations...

[carusoam]

The stand out part of this story........

17 planes, 4 companies, and ONE PRIVATE BUYER.

China may have come a long way over night.

How does a private buyer exist in a communist country?

Or was that a foreign private buyer?

The story needs some follow-up with some back-up photos before any judgements can be made...

I think there is too much lost in translation...

Best regards,

-a-

[jrwilson]

Here is the mooney press release from mooney.com about their approval to export (planes made here)..I think maybe the article got some facts confused..

http://www.mooney.com/news/mooney-international-granted-validated-type-certificate-caac-delivers-new-m20-acclaim/

[RobertGary1]

There are lots of private businesses in China.

[N601RX]

I'm not sure the plane was really built in China. The press releases being released over there do not agree with ones released over here. Perhaps they flew it over and then put some Chinese numbers on it and other markings on it (final assembly).

[DaV8or]

How does a private buyer exist in a communist country?

 

 

There are lots of rich people owning all kinds of expensive things over there. The video below shows the spoiled Chinese elite of today. This man was dissatisfied with Lamborghini's customer service, so he paid to have this done-

 

http://youtu.be/vX8V344JBt4

[Bob_Belville]

DMax says the plane was built and test flown here, then disassembled and shipped to PRC where a team from here re-assembled it.

[Hector]

There are currently over one million Chinese millionaires. Yes, there are lots of folks there that can afford to fly. If the government opens up the airspace an private flying takes hold, Watch Out!!

[Cruiser]

there is a picture of the China plane in the latest issue of the Mooney Flyer, page 4. It also says the plane was built in Kerrville, disassembled and shipped to China and re assembled.

[John Pleisse]

there is a picture of the China plane in the latest issue of the Mooney Flyer, page 4. It also says the plane was built in Kerrville, disassembled and shipped to China and re assembled.

 

And I would bet all the tea in China (sorry), they can't even reassemble an airframe straight and correct. They'll steal rivets and bolts from a golf club factory if they have to. I am highly skeptical and disappointed over all of this. They day the jigs leave Texas, it'll be game over.

[fantom]

They day the jigs leave Texas, it'll be game over.

Maybe not over, but certainly changed, just like the times. The Chinese paid for the privilege to make up the rules for their 'game.'

[John Pleisse]

I say we make a new federal trade law. Types certs may be bought and used abroad, but wouldn't become intellectual property of the Chinese. Let 'em build and screw them up. Residual intellectual property could be retained and recreated for american purposes and consumption in the future. Why not? What they haven't bought from us honestly, they have stolen. The world could then choose which Mooney they want. American made or Chinese made.

[Piloto]

Piloto, sorry to tell you this but Sumo wrestlers are Japanese. There are no more Sumo wrestlers in China than there are in USA.

Yves

 

Well check this out:

They are all over the world.

 

BTW McDonalds is coming up with the one pound Sumo Burger.

http://www.projectharuhi.net/?p=1094

Enjoy it

 

 

José