im no longer a hawker beechcraft fan

[Daveroo]

http://www.flyingmag.com/news/hawker...MjAyMTkzODg5S0


arrrgggggg


first pebble beach now this..........

[Terry]

Rumor has it they may be buying the pentagon too!

[Roadburner440]

Owner operators need to start buying up spare airframe and other specific parts now before the "new" stuff gets in to stock.

[glh]

http://www.flyingmag.com/news/hawker...MjAyMTkzODg5S0


arrrgggggg


first pebble beach now this..........

They will probably make an offer to Stockton in a few weeks.

[magoo]

Ahhh....China.

Okay.

I thought for a moment it was going to be about Google buying up Hawker/Beech.

Well....never worry too much. Eventually....Google will buy up China, and it'll all work out for the better.


Pass the Soilent Green, please.

[cheezyflier]

Pass the Soilent Green, please.

[ThinkingManNeil]

Two words for Hawker-Beechcraft and the Chinese: Tiananmen Square.

N.

[srgalahad]

I understand the concern about overseas sales of corporations, but we should remember some of the history too:

Hawker had its roots in the aftermath of the First World War which resulted in the bankruptcy of the Sopwith Aviation Company. Sopwith test pilot Harry Hawker and three others, including Thomas Sopwith, bought the assets of Sopwith and formed H.G. Hawker Engineering in 1920.

In 1933 the company was renamed Hawker Aircraft Limited and took advantage of the Great Depression and a strong financial position to purchase the Gloster Aircraft Company in 1934. The next year it merged with the engine and automotive company Armstrong Siddeley and its subsidiary, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, to form Hawker Siddeley Aircraft. This group also encompassed A. V. Roe and Company; Avro.

Hawker Aircraft continued to produce designs under its own name as a part of the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft, from 1955 division of Hawker Siddeley Group. The "Hawker" brand name was dropped, along with those of the sister companies, in 1963. The Hawker P.1127 was the last aircraft branded as "Hawker".

The Hawker legacy was maintained by the American company Raytheon who produced business jets (including some derived from the BAe 125, whose original design dated back to de Havilland days) under the "Hawker" name. This was the result of purchasing British Aerospace's product line in 1993. The name is currently used by Hawker Beechcraft after Raytheon's business jet interests (Hawker and Beechcraft) were acquired by investors and merged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Aircraft

It's just another in a long line of the mergers & acquisitions that are part of free enterprise.

[Sascha66]

It's just another in a long line of the mergers & acquisitions that are part of free enterprise.

No its not! The Chinese have artificially kept their currency strong, giving them a nasty edge.

They are trying to buy up know-how cheap that took a century to develop over here! Less than 2 billion?

Anyway, governments have been throwing money at useless bankers to keep them from going bankrupt - so why didn't they support their own country's companies which really create value and jobs with low-interest loans?

[Daveroo]

guys i started this sort of tongue in cheek...lets not go off on a tangent

[magoo]

Tongue in cheek tangent.

Say that out loud, quickly, ten times over.....