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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.

May 24, 2013 ::	May 2013 Letter - Dear Fellow Aero-Oenophiles, It’s nice to have a perfect vacation day. A day when everything goes well, despite the friction of travel. I recently enjoyed such a day, at a lovely winery in some beautiful hills. The pinot noir was delicious; local goat cheese went well with ... [More]

April 22, 2013 ::	April 2013 Letter - Dear Fellow Free Trade Fans, If The Devil appears on earth, he probably won’t be sporting a red tail and a pitchfork. Rather, he will appear to be quite adorable, even cuddly. Perhaps like Porter Airline’s raccoon logo. That’s the conclusion I drew after Porter’s C... [More]

April 2, 2013 ::	March 2013 Letter - Dear Fellow Aero Science Fans, Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance? For the second year, I have just had the honor of serving on the Collier Committee, and this year it was hard work. Last year’s Collier selection (described in my March 2012 letter) was... [More]

March 31, 2013 ::	My Forbes.com Column Home Page - Aircraft Business

March 1, 2013 ::	February 2013 Letter - February 2013 Dear Fellow Recent Battery Enthusiasts, I’m not an engineer. But good engineering is like irony: you know it when you see it. This brings up the delicate subject of the new proposed 787 battery containment system. For readers who’ve been confin... [More]

February 6, 2013 ::	January 2013 Letter - January 2013 Dear Fellow Anti-Change Agents, I don’t like change. But every so often, I’m forced to re-examine my long-held beliefs. This is one of those moments. During my 25 years as an aerospace industry analyst, Boeing looked more com... [More]

January 11, 2013 ::	Airplane Finance: Drought and Flood? - Aerospace America

January 11, 2013 ::	Airplane Geeks Podcast - Fourth visit with Max Flight and co.

December 28, 2012 ::	December 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow Family Historians, The Twentieth Century was shaped by aviation. Individual lives, even when they had nothing directly to do with airlines, aircraft or aerospace, show a fascinating interaction with the growth of one of the world’s most important ind... [More]

December 11, 2012 ::	November 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow Foreign Language School Dropouts, Now and then, I’ll get an email from a foreign pal referring to “aircrafts.” Native English speakers recognize this as a non-word (the plural of “aircraft” is of course “aircraft”) but it’s an easy mistake to ... [More]

November 6, 2012 ::	October 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow Fear Embracers, Remember when an aircraft could scare you? Not like, “For Halloween, I’m going as the A380 Business Plan. Boo!” scared, but like, “The new MiG-25 can do Mach 3 and will shoot down all our XB-70 Valkyries and then t... [More]

November 1, 2012 ::	The Enduring Jetliner Duopoly - Aerospace America (page 20)

September 20, 2012 ::	September 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow Innocents Abroad, The Berlin Air Show has much in common with the Teal Group: it’s low-key, kind of quirky, and beer is frequently served. Since the mid ‘90s we’ve regarded ILA as a great opportunity for a company off-site meeting. It’s much ... [More]

August 21, 2012 ::	August 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow Boeing-ologists, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Looking at Boeing, that saying, attributed to Mark Twain, rings true. The company seems to be falling into a pattern that’s all too familiar. Consider events this year. In... [More]

July 19, 2012 ::	July 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow “China” Watchers, Remember those cartoon characters whose eyes would pop out with dollar signs at the mention of something lucrative? Someone would say “oil well” or “gold mine” and Pluto or Yosemite Sam or whoever would get irrationally excited? Sadly, irratio... [More]

July 17, 2012 ::	June 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow Three Martini Playdate Enthusiasts, Like many analysts, I do my best research over gin. It’s my policy to not endorse products in this letter, but recently I was enjoying Plymouth gin with a friend, and he told me that this successful brand was actually ... [More]

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