Hmmm, well EMBRAER don’t seem to have any complaints about the quality of the Chinese built variants of their regional jets and I gather that Airbus are happy with the Chinese originating products that they are using, so it may be generalising a little too much to say that every product they make is appalling.
Leaving that aside this will be an interesting development for the industry and all the more ironic in that the great rush to sell the Chinese everything with wings on over the last couple of decades has surely spurred this outcome on. Who knows, maybe Boeing and Airbus will be competing to be major sub contractors for the Chinese a few years from now!:D

I gather the 145’s from China are to cover Chinese sales only aren’t they? And Embraer are dictating the materials source. As are Airbus.

Left to own devices, the material quality will degrade. I have worked with the alloy specs. from UK, France, USA, Russia and each one, produced to the same specification, will machine/bend/fabricate differently. Only slightly, but a crack starts only slightly.

I can assure all that any derogatory nickname for a harrier is extremely well deserved,I worked on the Firkin Things for 11 years and in that time met only a handful of people who enjoyed working on them,they were always ‘challenging’ to get serviceable.;)
Fun to fly and watch but a nightmare to work on !!!

Those at Dunny loved it.

Go and argue the virture of imperialism with the subjects of it, otherwise,

India
Singapore
Malaya
South Africa

Oh, it’s a joke…and I’m not getting it.
India. Did you not say once that you’d been? The health education in India is the worst in the world. Apart from a few select areas in the major cities. Hygiene in India is worse than “Deep” Africa. And I’ve worked in both places.
Singapore and Malaya, still a lot of human rights issues there, but is improving more so than others. Probably because of massive British involvement in that development.
South Africa. Right, that has got to be the most ridiculous place you could have mentioned. The place is going backwards as fast as China is expanding.

It’s the yank empire now, it’s their turn in the barrel.
I wonder if the subjects of that empire would prefer the brits to be in charge. They need to be lead because most of these places could not rummage an education system good enough to produce a governing body without the help of the west.
Mind you, nor can GB, given that maybe one or two of the 647 MP’s have an ounce of decency or honesty.

Scotland? :diablo:

Yes, that’s my coat there. Thank you……..

ROFL.
Yeah, go with that one.

I would not go around saying that, especially in most countries in Africa, or the Indian sub-continent.

Name one that’s improved since throwing us out. Genuinly improved, in morals, education, health etc. Do not count business growth, money has no flag and will go where the labour is cheapest so naturally poor countries will financially grow but as a nation, may not.

My surprise is not at the re-institution of the Iron Cross (which has origins going back to 1813) but that the Victoria Cross has not been banned as too redolent of our evil Imperial past.

There’s only enough metal left from the Canon to make about another 50 anyway.

What do you suggest…..
Elizabethan cross?
Blair Cross?
Gordons Gong?

Leave it as the Vicky, it reflects a time when the world was managed correctly. If only we’d not destroyed artifacts of the countries we ran.

Lots of good ones here…

http://www.b737.org.uk/aircraftnicknames.htm

The BAe 146 does not come out of this in a good light.

Some favourites…

PA-38 Tomahawk: Traumahawk, Terrahawk, SpinMaster
Metroliner: San-Antonio sewerpipe, Death pencil
BN 2A Trislander: Clockwork TriStar
Shorts 360: The box that the Skyvan came in

Some of those on the website seem very immature and relate to either one incident (Dr Killer for example) or one persons opinion.
However, it must be difficult to allocate a suitable name to a modern characterless jet, with odd exceptions that “Stretch the Envelope” such as the 747 or 380.
The list also suggests a derogatory name for the Harrier, which can only be the opinion of a very small minority (If indeed greater than 1) because the airforce(s) and engineers and the general public all adore that A/c.