It sounds like CFM is having some delays on the Leap-X as well, since they have just announced that the design has been completed, test flight of the engine won't happen until 2014, so C919 will have to be delayed, but CFM is confident of a 2016 date for the engine to be ready for commercial service.
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It sounds like CFM is having some delays on the Leap-X as well, since they have just announced that the design has been completed, test flight of the engine won't happen until 2014, so C919 will have to be delayed, but CFM is confident of a 2016 date for the engine to be ready for commercial service.
Of course not. You need lots of know-how and good scientists with experience. Thats something that money cant buy. You need many years of hard effort to get them.
Probably they did not dump enough money in? They need to be more spendthrift and not stingy. LOL..
Money buys time. They can and will just go on until they get it right. All new aircraft have flaws. That's why testing takes such a lot of time. Think of the Boeing 787 as an extreme example. But if the money runs out you have to stop. Think of the airship program for the British Imperial service that was halted after the accident with R.101. If there had been enough money the UK might have had half a dozen airships carrying reconnaissance aircraft and radar at the beginning of WWII and hunting of the Graf Von Spee would have been a lot easier.
Vini_Vidi_Vici
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China right now has an over-supply of funds. What it needs is better management of its personnel, workflow and use of funds. Right now Chinese companies and corporations waste too much money on useless grounds. Another problem is the engineers and experts don't rely on protocols, rather relying on personal preferences and workflow. This is indeed quicker, but lead to more mistakes and less integration with the team.
I was Germany for some time, being an Italian, it really shocked me how cold and unflexible the German engineers are. Italians, as we all know, don't like to follow rules. But in Germany, I was surprised how German engineers spend days on a simple problem. They literally tackled the problem like a child learning algebra, applying the full formula and treat the equation the way their teacher taught them. This indeed was slow, but the blueprint could be easily understood by everyone. The most important of all, there were no mistakes at all. When I tackled a problem, I didn't follow the protocol and just free-styled. I did the whole thing in less than 30 minutes, which tool them 3 days. They thought I was a mad genius..... However..... embarrassingly I have to admit, the result was no where near the German quality.
Since I grew up in China, I noticed the Chinese culture is even more "loose" than the Italians. This is partially a good thing, but at the same time, not so great for modern engineering world that requires substantial collaborations between countless people.
I agree. China has right now a lot of money. But it is very inefficient.
Are you sure about that sentence? Don't talk rot. Oversupply of funds? CCP always has strict control of funds for all project and frugal about overspending. Frugal and cost saving are always the protocol drill in their workforce culture. Look at the space project and see how much their budget compare to NASA.
If your sentence is right, PLA by now has already dump all Type-59 tank and deploy thousands Typ99A2 and project like Type96G will never exist.
There is reason why China product is the best value for money which many countries can't match. Their way of cost saving sometime is very efficient compare to others. The 3 trillion foreign reserve will never exist if overspending is in CCP culture.
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Again me .... can anyone give a brief summary of the current status for the WP-14 "Kunlun" ... seems IMO as if all latest J-7G and J-8-versions are still flying with the WP-13F (J-7G) or WP-13B or BII (J-8H/F) versions ?? 
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