Interesting, and I hope their aviation industry can do well at home before it decides to go international. Sometimes things crash during R&D. Admitting failure

Interesting, and I hope their aviation industry can do well at home before it decides to go international. Sometimes things crash during R&D. Admitting failure isn't something I've come to expect from China's authorities and media, personally speaking. Unfortunately for China, the problem in the world and coming years isn't a lack of aviation manufacturers, it's a lack of aviators[0]! I've got several commercial airline professionals in my family (all retired) and each of them is glad to be out of the industry - especially the pilots. Working conditions went downhill. Frequent airline executive decisions (bankruptcies / mergers) found ways to, essentially, erase agreed-upon pensions or seniority. On and on. Basically my understanding is that the profession of being a pilot is about on-par with that of being a teacher: Do it because you love it, not because the pay or working conditions are really that good. I'm not sure if it's the same globally, but if the US isn't producing a surplus of pilots to staff the rest of the world, I've got significant doubts that needs will be met with qualified personnel. As in, you don't want a pilot who cheated to get into the cockpit. [0] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-09/asia-is-running-out-of-pilots http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-09/asia-is-run...