Chinese manufacturers are experts at knock off just about anything , from “ Rat Ban ” shades and “ Wee ” gaming consoles to , yes , “ HiPhones . ” But now it looks like they ’re very unaired to copying another American export : They ’re bootlegging our Boeing 747s .
Copying our airplane is actually nothing young for the Chinese aerospace industry . This has been go on since the recent nineties , when the Formosan military machine used scavenge pieces of a refine stealth bomber to build their own Chengdu J-20 , modeled after the American F-117 Nighthawk . But now they have their heart on our passenger jets , as well .
Newsweek newsman Hugh Gallaghertalks about meeting a pilotwho was hired to wing a metallurgical engineer to a remote Chinese airline hangar :
at bottom were eight planing machine . They were green — the metal look like that on unpainted jets , bought factory sweet from Boeing . Four of these aeroplane were intact , but the rest were meticulously break apart into a universe of pieces spread in Brobdingnagian spirals that disappeared into the upstage immensity of the hangar . The imported Singaporean metallurgist jump out to join the Formosan engineers busily bootlegging away . arm with protractor , rulers , clipboards , and smartphones , this small-scale US Army of reverse - engineering hotshot was valuate the dissected planes , right on down to the length and thickness of screws .
With ashiny new airport just opened in Shenzhen , it only seems appropriate that China would require some pretty new jets to go along with it . And , as the Chinese population rise increasingly fluid , it make sense that they ’d want to be jet around in their own symbolisation of bootlegged national superbia . But Gallagher makes a salient point when it come to safety : Hopefully they ’re not simulate theDreamliner . [ Newsweek ]
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