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.

2022


  • Dear Fellow Colleague Thought Leveragers, Okay, THAT was an interesting year. Summarizing it in one […]

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  • Dear Fellow Late Night Doomscrollers, Good news seldom arrives at 11 PM. But last night […]

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  • Dear Fellow Retired China Travelers, The saddest nostalgia is for futures that didn’t happen. For […]

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  • Dear Fellow Enthusiastic Air Show Returnees, As with the weather, everybody talks about the climate […]

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  • Dear Fellow American Defense Industry Horror Story Watchers, Let’s say a casual industry observer hadn’t […]

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  • Dear Fellow Horizon Gazers, This month’s letter has a straightforward and simple goal: to predict […]

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  • Dear Fellow Human Nightmare Observers, Farnborough, 1990. I’m a twentysomething aviation analyst at his first […]

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  • Dear Fellow Horrified Observers, It’s one of those strange months where I wish I didn’t […]

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  • Dear Fellow Medium-Term Futurists, My previous letter, my final Teal letter, looked back on three […]

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