On Dec 23, 4:05*pm, Cydrome Leader wrote:
Jim Wilkins wrote:
...Historically
China could match or beat the best of Europe when they wanted to.
any examples of this?

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

The MiG copies were reputedly very well made, too. Usually curved
aircraft sheet metal has ripples but I didn't see any on the Shenyang
J-2 I had a chance to examine.