In the last two years, 19 to 20 jet fighters have crashed, including a prototype for a locally built fighter plane that Taiwan is trying to develop through a co-production arrangement with an American company.

The same year, Roberge began to initiate co-production arrangements with NFB counterparts in France and the United Kingdom.

Under a co-production arrangement, most of the planes will be built in South Korea.

One network executive, who asked not to be identified, was skeptical of the value of co-production arrangements with the BBC.

Theodore Mann, the 68-year-old artistic director, said he was trying to bring in a replacement play, in a co-production arrangement.

The collaboration marks the first time that either company has entered into a co-production arrangement to develop films in India.

Village Roadshow has a co-production arrangement under which it splits the cost of producing its movies with Warner Brothers, which handles the distribution and marketing of the films.

Although Boeing has also done subcontracting, it has never tried a co-production arrangement comparable to the McDonnell Douglas effort or the one envisioned now through the trunk aircraft program.

During the war years Universal did have a co-production arrangement with producer Walter Wanger and his partner, director Fritz Lang, lending the studio some amount of prestige productions.

After the 2006 season, Westwood One returned NFL Sunday to its previous format and ended the co-production arrangement with NBC.