China Airborne The Test of China's Future

Name: China Airborne The Test of China's Future
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ISBN: 9781400031276

ISBN-10: 1400031273

ISBN-13: 9781400031276

Edition: N/A

Authors: James Fallows

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More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China announced its Twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. Its goal is to produce the Boeings and Airbuses of the future. Toward that end, it acquired two American companies: Cirrus Aviation, maker of the world’s most popular small propeller plane, and Teledyne Continental, which produces the engines…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



This Is Going to Be Big



Getting Off the Ground



The Men from Boeing



The Chinese Master Plan



An Airport in the Wilderness



An American Dream, Turned Chinese



China's Own Boeing



The Environmental Consequences of Aviation



The Tensions Inside China



The Chinese Model, Airborne


Notes


Index