Boeing and Airbus see new competitors approaching, which includes China’s Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (Comac) although whose inaugural model C919 might not be competitive outside China, for now.
Carolyn Corvi, board member at aircraft supplier Goodrich Corp. was quoted by Aubrey Cohen as saying: “The realization and reality is you can’t always protect everything [in regard to intellectual property rights]. The winners will be the ones keep advancing the technology so they always step ahead of the competition.”
Read Ms Cohen’s article for Seattle PI here.
