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Emirates (Airline) to buy Airbus (and possibly Boeing)?
URL: http://quantumindonesia.blogspot.com...bus-plant.html
Does this mean they want to buy control of the whole Airbus conglomerate, and possibly Boeing, or just buy a plant of their own which would be built in their own country for cranking out aircraft? INRM "No matter how I die, it was murder" SNL Parody of Julian Assange |
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Dreaming of unicorns
Join Date: Jul 2007
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This is without doubt your dumbest thread ever. Check out the crappy translation on the blog. It is an announcement about new planes. Get a grip.
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![]() Stundie - Avoided like the plaque, its a scottish turn of phrase. Christopher 7 - There is no need to contact them for conformation. That is just a denial tactic |
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HOW CAN YOU PEOPLE BE SO CALM????!!!!!!!
It's obvious that these A-Rabs have learnt the ways of the white-man, and our penchant for placing the agents of our own destruction into the fabric of our lives. Why try and take over an airliner by getting suspiciously swarthy volunteers and their baggage through customs? Simply place the explosive of your choice in the seat cushions, or use thermite paint when you manufacture the 'plane, to be activated at a time and in a place of your chooseing. ![]() I'm just glad I'm not an Arsenal player. Surely they know about the 90% acrylic 10% Semtex mix their shirts are made of? |
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"Political correctness is a doctrine,...,which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end." "I pointed out that his argument was wrong in every particular, but he rightfully took me to task for attacking only the weak points." Myriad http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?postid=6853275#post6853275 |
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But Boeing did make a sale to Korea (KAL?) with the proviso that KAL make lots of the parts. So the concept that the Emirates do the same with Airbus is not so far fetched. Except that KAL was already in the plane parts business, making their own replacement parts.
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The English phrase, "[t]ake over of the whole Airbus conglomerate including Boeing and others" conventionally parses out to mean that the Airbus conglomerate includes Boeing.
ETA: I mention this not to give you a hard time about English grammar, but so that something useful and informative will happen in an INRM thread.
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I know Airbus is it's own entity; Boeing is it's own entity. I get that, I know that pretty well actually.
The question is does Emirates want to buy either outright, or just buy a plant to build their own aircraft? |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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What the hell does it matter what Emirates 'wants' to do. Last I checked they were like the sixth largest airline in the world. What makes anyone think they are capable of buying a controlling interest in either of the world's two biggest aircraft manufacturers? This is especially silly with Boeing, who in addition to being the largest aircraft manufacturer on Earth, is also one of the largest defense contractors and, if I remember correctly, the largest exporter in the USA.
I'd love to work for Boeing, so I'm probably biased. |
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They are going to buy both Airbus and Boeing, as well as every other aircraft manufacturer in the world. Then they will devote their lives to building drones, just so they can fill the skies with them and monitor everybody. Paranoid idiots get two drones, just for good measure.
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So you read the nine posts ahead of your post. You saw that you have exactly one source for your story. You saw that that source was a blog. And then you asked the original question again. You are either a troll pretending to be a chucklehead or you are a ...[what is the word I am looking for?].
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A broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's Privateers
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A spoof? I did check the Emirates Airline Website and there is nothing up there.
Much ado about nothing--for now. http://apex.aero/TheIndustry/Industr...s-a-spoof.aspx |
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