Hi guys and girls………….new to the forum,first post
I`ve just noticed something interesting in the latest `Aviation Week`(April 16)……………well,ok,it was interesting to me!!
An article by Pierre Sparaco,author of a weighty tome about Airbus(originally in French,recently translated).In the article he states:
“they tell the horror story about a so-called phantom A320-an aircraft delivered to China that vanished after the delivery flight.There is no operational record of it to this day.”
The suspicion being that the aircraft has been disassembled and `reverse engineered` in much the same way that the Soviets did with some B-29s during the war.
Can anyone shed any light on this? Delivery date? Con.number?
Gareth
By: Bmused55 - 20th April 2007 at 20:05
“Mole, Mole, bloody great big MOLE we’re not supposed to talk about the mole, but there it is winking us in the face!!!
……
….moleymoleymoleymoleymoleymoley……”
I’ll get me coat..
By: LGKR - 20th April 2007 at 14:28
I would assume there’s no mole… :rolleyes:
By: Newforest - 19th April 2007 at 16:47
My mole in Airbus who should know the facts said he was unable to comment, not ‘no knowledge’ or ‘confidential’ so what would you assume?:D
By: Scouse - 19th April 2007 at 11:05
I’d like to see more precise details along the lines Gareth has suggested. As Airbus is to establish an assembly line in China anyway
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/xw/t232622.htm
then I don’t suppose there would be that much need for covert reverse engineering of the A320, though.
If they wanted to, then maybe the Chinese could stretch their own ARJ21. I say ‘their own’ – the fuselage uses tooling supplied for their assembly of MD-90s and the wing is an Antonov design, apparently.
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/arj21/
On a slightly different tack, does anyone know if this is with the approval or collaboration of Boeing as the design authority now for the DC9 and its various derivatives? There seems to be a fairly high level of Western equipment on board the ARJ21 (engines, avionics etc) and I would imagine Boeing could make life uncomfortable for them if they (Boeing) felt their right had been infringed.
William
By: Bmused55 - 18th April 2007 at 07:06
Hmmm
And now China are making noise about entering the 737/A320 sized aircraft market.
:rolleyes:
By: steve rowell - 18th April 2007 at 01:30
Hello Gareth and welcome to the forum…that’s a very interesting theory i’d like to read that
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