New answers tagged aircraft-manufacturer
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Why there is only Boeing and Airbus?
One can look the other way round: we are pretty much happy to have two market players in a market that strongly favors mergers and other consolidation paths. Big number investments, slow turnover, ...
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Why there is only Boeing and Airbus?
Aircraft manufacturing, railways, shipyards, electrical distribution, roads, satellite launch services, CPU manufacturing, telecommunications networks ... all these businesses have very little ...
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Why there is only Boeing and Airbus?
It's the same tendency for consolidation that happens in all kinds of industries, once the stronger players gain the ability to expand by swallowing up the smaller players. Which usually starts ...
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Why there is only Boeing and Airbus?
Off the top of my head I would say (and it's definitely not going to be a thorough answer):
Time, money, tools and people.
Let's use the A350 as an example:
its design started as a clean sheet at the ...
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