Comments on: Could it be that aviation is a leading manufacturing innovator? http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Sat, 18 May 2013 17:56:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: hondas for sale http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828&cpage=1#comment-88914 hondas for sale Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:21:49 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828#comment-88914 Still cant believe they did this.

]]> By: Thomas http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828&cpage=1#comment-56169 Thomas Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:26:31 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828#comment-56169 I’ve been wondering about this exact topic for quite a while. I’m glad I found your blog so I could read up on it and get a bit more knowledge. I’ve bookmarked this site and I’ll be back soon. Keep up the good work1

]]> By: Jean-Francois Reat http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828&cpage=1#comment-55071 Jean-Francois Reat Sun, 31 May 2009 12:02:13 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828#comment-55071 Because of the different regulatory processes and market volumes, you can’t readily translate methods from one industry to another. I expect more robust certification and safety features in my airplane and car than in my PC, for which the main safety concern is that it not spontaneously catch fire.

]]> By: James T. Kloeb http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828&cpage=1#comment-54922 James T. Kloeb Sat, 30 May 2009 00:31:44 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828#comment-54922 I would suggest that aircraft manufactures look at what the auto makers do to provide low volume products at prices that people can afford. Why not collaborate with automakers to reuse commodities such as seats, instrument panels, seat belts, etc, etc, that are already in production in the car business in high volumes to leverage a carryover buy for their planes at substantially lower prices, rather than tool up something new.

]]> By: Ashley Palmer http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828&cpage=1#comment-54865 Ashley Palmer Fri, 29 May 2009 15:29:56 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828#comment-54865 Aviation manufacturers have done SOME things very well. But They are not the model for the auto industry. Neither is the PC industry. If they followed the PC industry we wouldn’t have the reliability or safety demanded today. If they followed the aviation industry we’d have cars that would be reliable and safe, but they would be unaffordable and require prohibitive maintenance to keep them that way.

The real key to “improving the Auto industry” is to make the companies LESS vertical. They don’t need to make everything and more standardization in major components is required.

]]> By: Keith miller http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828&cpage=1#comment-54850 Keith miller Fri, 29 May 2009 13:10:05 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828#comment-54850 Other auto manufacturers do that as well. My 1992 Isuzu Rodeo (later sold to Honda as the Passport then morphed ointo the Pilot) has a Chevy engine. When replacing A/C parts i brought the failing unit into a parts shop and they replaced it with an identical unit with another makers logo on it.

]]> By: michelle wilkers http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828&cpage=1#comment-54523 michelle wilkers Thu, 28 May 2009 01:18:09 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828#comment-54523 give me a break, if the auto industry looked to the GA industry we would soon be driving cars from the 50s with engines from the 40s. While your premise is a good idea, aviation goes this way because with rare exception (Cirrus, Lancair/Columbia in airframe only, still using 50 year old engines) airplane companies refuse to innovate or can’t afford to. I believe this is mainly because the volume just isn’t there. But to imply that car companies should follow GA, is ridiculous because my car is actually a massively improved version over that of 40 years ago, while my airplane performs worse than the same model I owned 40 years ago (though the avionics are much better than the factory originals from 1965, and the paint job is very modern:).

]]> By: Carl Tyler http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828&cpage=1#comment-54353 Carl Tyler Wed, 27 May 2009 19:15:37 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=828#comment-54353 That’s not a new idea. In Europe Rover used Honda engines for years and Volvos had Renault engines.

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