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     Senapathy Moderator Username: Senapathy Post Number: 16443 Registered: 01-2009 Rating: N/A |
http://www.newsweek.com/chinas-biggest-bootlegs-planes-20751 2 This summer, I was in a bar in Bangkok, drinking with a jet plane pilot. Let’s call him Michael. An American stationed in Asia, Michael regularly flies sheiks, CEOs, and other players from the vast wealth throughout the region. He has been places and has stories. One happened a year back, when he was paid to fly a metallurgist from Singapore through the night, toward destinations unnamed. They landed in darkness at the hugest hangar Michael had ever seen. Inside were eight planes. They were green – the metal looks like that on unpainted jets, bought factory fresh from Boeing. Four of these planes were intact, but the rest were meticulously dismantled into a universe of pieces spread in vast spirals that disappeared into the distant immensity of the hangar. The imported Singaporean metallurgist jumped out to join the Chinese engineers busily bootlegging away. Armed with protractors, rulers, clipboards, and smartphones, this minor army of reverse-engineering geniuses was measuring the dissected planes, right down to the length and thickness of screws. The metallurgist had been flown in to break down the metallic compounds, helping to build what, one day, might be that Boning 747. Vella copy kakkurthi kamandalam  I am struck by the lightning of love and burnt beyond repair - Florentino Ariza |
