The global market for LCA is shared by Boeing (United States) and Airbus SAS (France). This duopoly has remained unchallenged since 1997, as the costs of market entry have been prohibitive. In a highly unusual development, three RJ manufacturers Bombardier (Canada), Commercial Aircraft Company...

Betr. auch Junkers-Flugzeug- u. Motorenwerke mit Stammwerk Dessau, sowie die Werke Aschersleben, Bernburg, Halberstadt, Leopoldshall u. d. Junkers-Motorenwerke mit Stammwerk Dessau u. d. Werke Köthen, Magdeburg, Schönebeck

Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941. This paper uses the annual audit reports of the Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG for seven firms which together represented about 50 % of the German aircraft producers. We...

The LCA aerostructures industry is truly global, with manufacturers from all parts of the world supplying the two major remaining LCA producers, The Boeing Co. of the United States and the former Airbus Industrie, G.I.E. of France. Airbus is in the final stages of its transformation to a single...

The analysis presented in this study focuses primarily on the LCA manufacturing industries in the United States and Western Europe. It also includes some discussion of Russia’s LCA industry, which is beginning to produce aircraft for export. Although Japan is not a producer of LCA, it is...