Note To China: Get Out of the Airplane Business – Leave it to Boeing and Airbus

Aviation consultant Richard Aboulafia of Virginia-based Teal Group, who has read the report, said Rand did “a good job of documenting (what) has been an open secret in the airplane business,” which is that flawed government policies have led to the failure of Chinese aircraft manufacturing. “The Chinese have great talent, a great market, and great resources,” Aboulafia said. “You have to work awfully hard to destroy its prospects of getting into commercial aviation.”