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Richard Aboulafia is Vice President, Analysis at Teal Group. He manages consulting projects for clients in the commercial and military aircraft field, and has advised numerous aerospace companies. He also writes and edits Teal's World Military and Civil Aircraft Briefing, a forecasting tool covering over 135 aircraft programs and markets. Richard also writes publicly about the aviation field, with numerous articles in Aviation Week, Aerospace America, and other publications. Frequently cited as an aviation industry authority by trade and news publications, he has appeared on numerous television news programs and has spoken at a wide variety of conferences.

June 7, 2009 ::	May 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Rifle Range Historians, Permit me to introduce a recent addition to the Aboulafia household: A Lee-Enfield .303 rifle. I acquired it recently from Larry Albright’s gun shop in Easton, Maryland, after Larry, who once joined the Teal entourage at the Berlin... [More]

May 3, 2009 ::	Airbus and Boeing: Beyond Head-to-Head - Aerospace America

April 18, 2009 ::	April 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Transatlanticizers, Here’s a good indicator that an aircraft program is in serious trouble: the company’s top executive starts channeling Colonel Kurtz from *Apocalypse Now* (“The horror…the *horror”*). That isn’t quite wh... [More]

April 17, 2009 ::	Airplane Geeks Podcast - Second time with Max Flight and Court Miller

April 4, 2009 ::	March 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Program Overrun Observers, Scientology. Religion? Cult? Practical joke gone wrong? Whatever you believe, the defense industry can learn a lot from the belief system inspired by L. Ron Hubbard’s pulp novels. There’s a key Scientology character named L... [More]

March 25, 2009 ::	F-35's Shadow Grows Longer - Aerospace America

March 6, 2009 ::	February 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Aircraft Occasion Observers, Second weddings are common. Second funerals are not. But we might be close to seeing one. At the end of January, Bombardier passed its objective date for converting Lufthansa’s curious CSeries Letter of Interest in... [More]

February 14, 2009 ::	January 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Post Vacation Re-Adjustors, It’s time for my annual travel/aircraft market newsletter. Every January we go somewhere fun and I try to spin it into something aviation market related. But it didn’t work out so great this year. First, like a lot of peopl... [More]

January 14, 2009 ::	The Aviation Market Boom Ends - Aerospace America

January 14, 2009 ::	December 2008 Letter - Dear Fellow Airplane Obsessors, This is not another letter about Eclipse. Honestly. I have no desire to continue kicking that dead horse. Besides, it’s Christmas. Let’s play nice. But as I reflect back on Eclipse's inevitable collapse, I’ve never seen a better e... [More]

December 15, 2008 ::	Airplane Geeks Podcast - Talking airplanes with Max Flight and Court Miller

December 3, 2008 ::	November 2008 Letter - Dear Fellow Credit Risks, Years ago my mom gave me a pretty objet d’art known as depression glass. It has an interesting back story. The glass factories of West Virginia and nearby states, built during the go-go 1920s, found themselves without business af... [More]

October 27, 2008 ::	October 2008 Letter - Dear Fellow Aviation Tourists, I grew up in Long Island. Somebody had to. It wasn’t without its consolations. LI was a major cluster of aircraft production, with a proud legacy of important planes, some of which helped win World War II. I tried to total it all a... [More]

October 26, 2008 ::	Jetliner Market Braces For Downturn - Aerospace America

October 2, 2008 ::	September 2008 Letter - Dear Fellow Distressed Debt Fans, The funny thing about finance is how durable it sounds. Words like “mechanism,” “instrument,” “securitized,” “structured,” and “vehicle” all connote security, tangibility, and hardness. Combine a few of these terms and you crea... [More]

August 21, 2008 ::	August 2008 Letter - Dear Fellow Anti-Disruptive Technologists, The aviation business gets sleepy after Farnborough. Things are nice and quiet. Yet I woke up on July 29th to interesting news: Vern Raburn, CEO and founder of Eclipse Aviation, was ousted as a pre-condition for the company’s ne... [More]

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