[lit-ideas] Re: Globalization
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:53:17 -0800
Right. I didn't work with the Chinese personally, but I knew some of the
people who did. It wasn't considered a big deal; although I worried a bit
about it at the time, the transferring of technology to China. If you let a
nation help you build a plane then they are going to learn how to build it.
The final assembly was the most critical part, but I think we transferred
that technology as well.
I recall that Israel was interested in building a lot of their own aircraft
performing different missions. I was especially involved with the Tanker
program, the KC-10. I think Israel bought a DC-10 and went for the cheapest
mod that would do the job, wing-tip probes and remote viewing.
It always seemed safer to sell a nation aircraft than to teach them how to
build them. If they need you for spare parts, they aren't going to blow you
up. How ever that theory isn't fool proof as we discovered with Iran. Iran
after the 1979 revolution needed us desperately for spare parts but Khomeini
decided to rely upon Allah rather than the Great Satan. Then in 1980 when
the war with Iraq began, Khomeini regretted his decision, well at least such
underlings as Rafsanjani did. Iran had to start up a whole new purchasing
system; this time with Russia.
Lawrence
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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 4:35 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Globalization
> The (voting) man in the street, especially the red-state-street, doesn't
understand this very thoroughly, but his automobile is teaching him.
As I'm sure your aerospace experience taught you
long ago, when Boeing jet manufacture was split
between the US and China, as a contingent on a
sales deal to China. Andreas thinks he's waiting
for us to catch up with him, when the reverse may
be true.
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