Newsletters

The monthly newsletters below are the cover page to Richard’s updates to his World Military and Civil Aircraft Briefing and include some of Richard’s then-current thoughts on the industry.

2005


  • Dear Fellow China Watchers, A lot of bad things happened to Airbus this year. The A380 […]

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  • Dear Fellow Airplane Mourners, Check out the chalk outlines on the tarmac. Two dead airplanes: Bombardier’s CRJ-200 and Embraer’s ERJ […]

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  • Dear Fellow Alphabet Soup Consumers, Do letters hurt? I didn’t used to think so. But sometime […]

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  • Dear Fellow Wage Slaves, Dry dog food. I hope it’s tasty. Like a lot of Americans, […]

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  • Dear Fellow Armchair Industrial Strategists, Feeling old? Me too. Here’s consolation. You understand market cyclicality if […]

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  • Dear Fellow Crypto-Anti-Xenophobes, Dislike Foreigners? Sadly, you’re not alone. Many people hate outsiders. Many outsiders hate […]

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  • Dear Fellow Nostalgicians, Launching a plane today is tough. You have to carefully explain your business case […]

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  • Dear Fellow Rememberers Of Things Past, Six AM, Plainview, Long Island, New York. I wake with […]

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  • Dear Fellow CEOs-In-Training, Sex. Harrry Stonecipher. Didn’t think I’d ever write those words together in the […]

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  • Dear Fellow Well-Intentioned Globalists, What makes analysts happy? Two dots. You can connect them and point to […]

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  • Dear Fellow Long-Distance Travelers, In travel, it’s the little things you notice. Example. In Indian airports, toilet paper is stamped “Airport.” That’s a […]

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  • Dear Fellow Fragmented Route Travelers, Onceuponatime, my mother told me a great story. A beggar visited […]

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