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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.| August 3, 2010 :: | July 2010 Letter - Dear Fellow Potential Aircraft Leasing Investors, Jumbo Shrimp. Freezer burn. Friendly Fire. Profitable Airlines. Everyone chuckles at oxymorons. I would add a new one: Happy Farnborough. As in, “what a happy Farnborough Air Show.” Yet we just had one (strang... [More] | |
| June 30, 2010 :: | June 2010 Letter - Dear Fellow Bad Car Aficionados, Can’t decide which car to buy? If you’d like a reminder of what life is like if you can’t make basic consumer choices, rent a Trabant, East Germany’s contribution to the Museum of Commie Industrial Atrocities. Today, bad car lovers r... [More] | |
| June 4, 2010 :: | May 2010 Letter - Dear Fellow M4 Sufferers, Sometimes two analysts can be twice as wrong. Two years ago on our drive out to Farnborough Aerostrategy’s Kevin Michaels and I discussed the dramatic events of the week. As a colleague recited a grim litany of headlines covering mass... [More] | |
| May 4, 2010 :: | COTS: Our Misunderstood Friend - Professional Pilot | |
| April 20, 2010 :: | April 2010 Letter - Dear Fellow Free Weapons Market Advocates, Looking for unexploded munitions? I strongly advise you to not work in conjunction with the Thai military. According to The Straits Times, (February 2, 2010), the Thai Army is equipped with a dubious “bomb de... [More] | |
| April 19, 2010 :: | Airplane Geeks Podcast - Third time with Max Flight and pals | |
| March 15, 2010 :: | March 2010 Letter - Dear Fellow KC-X Enthusiasts, About thirty years ago my application to Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service was rejected. They had good reasons to do this. For one, I was a mediocre high school student. But they also might have been prescient, anticipating th... [More] | |
| March 14, 2010 :: | World Tanker Market: More Than Just KC-X - Aerospace America | |
| February 27, 2010 :: | February 2010 Letter - Dear Fellow Frequent Flyer Mile Accumulators, If you’d like to be a pundit, one surefire way to start is by genuflecting toward Asia. Just say the magic words, “This is the Pacific Century.” There’s plenty of economic and demographic data to back you up, so take... [More] | |
| January 18, 2010 :: | January 2010 Letter - Dear Fellow Workplace Returnees, It’s time for my annual travel letter. I'll spare you the details of how we came to spend three weeks in South Florida. Suffice to say I expected an absence of aviation content, and I don’t have a lot to work with. But one pleasant surpr... [More] | |
| January 10, 2010 :: | Aircraft Industry Rides Out The Recession...So Far - Aerospace America | |
| December 26, 2009 :: | December 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Seasonal Worryworts, One sentence that’s sure to bring joy and cheer in this festive season: It is no longer 2009. The economy, the airlines and the business jet industry spent the first half of the year in free-fall. While we’re nowher... [More] | |
| December 1, 2009 :: | November 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Commie-Era Reminiscers, Twenty years ago this month, Europe had one of its best days ever when the Berlin Wall was smashed down. This anniversary provides a great opportunity for societal introspection about what the Wall’s collapse meant. Fro... [More] | |
| October 31, 2009 :: | October 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Travelling Imbibers, The first time I saw a restaurant in Italy advertising Slow Food I thought they might serve something that’s tasty but still moving and not quite dead. But, it seems, the Slow Food movement celebrates time-in... [More] | |
| October 2, 2009 :: | September 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Forlorn Free Trade Fans, If, like me, you were a high school Model UN club nerd, and if you like multilateral institutions that promote harmony and good relations among countries, I’ve got great news: the WTO seems to be working. After spendi... [More] | |
| September 19, 2009 :: | Jetliners Wait For Hard Times - Aerospace America | |
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