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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.| April 21, 2012 :: | April 2012 Letter - Dear Fighter Market Price Negotiators, Bad corporate slogan concept: “Greatness through Mediocrity.” Some companies embody mediocrity, but who wants to advertise it? Yet sometimes, great companies and great people produce great things with mediocrity. Exampl... [More] | |
| March 30, 2012 :: | March 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow Armchair Aero Legend Adjudicators, As movie fans know, what happens in Fight Club stays in Fight Club. Thankfully, the same isn’t true of Collier Club. Having just had the honor of serving on the 2011 Collier Selection committee, established to choose t... [More] | |
| March 11, 2012 :: | February 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow International Relations Fans, My grandparents and great grandparents, fleeing war and pogroms in their home countries, were right about America being the land of opportunity. But times have changed. Foreign aircraft manufacturers, fleeing draconian defense ... [More] | |
| March 1, 2012 :: | Airplane Geeks Podcast - Third time with Max Flight and Co. | |
| February 3, 2012 :: | January 2012 Letter - Dear Fellow Aircraft Industry Output Watchers, We’ve updated Teal’s spreadsheets with fourth quarter numbers, and I have good news: 2011 was a good year for aircraft, and 2012 looks better still. Total industry output by value expanded 4.1% over 2010. Looking at ... [More] | |
| January 17, 2012 :: | Analyzing China's Increasingly Favorable Environment For Corporate Aircraft Use - Pro Pilot Magazine | |
| December 27, 2011 :: | December 2011 Letter - Dear Fellow Northern Border Watchers, There is no better holiday gift for a monthly columnist than the sudden arrival of a year-end theme. Sometimes, something happens in December that brilliantly frames the entire year and gives it a coherence that it ce... [More] | |
| December 2, 2011 :: | November 2011 Letter - Dear Fellow Glass Half Full Types, That bratty kid from Catcher In The Rye was right. The world is filled with crummy jerks. But I’ve got great news. We’ve got a system set up to admirably deal with crummy jerks. This month saw two dire-soundin... [More] | |
| November 26, 2011 :: | Defense Cuts Set To Impact Aircraft - Aerospace America (page 14) | |
| October 27, 2011 :: | October 2011 Letter - Dear Fellow Literary Pub Crawl Enthusiasts, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only novel, told the story of a hedonistic man who led a decadent life with no visible ill effects. There was one catch – he had a portrait in the attic showing him aging... [More] | |
| September 30, 2011 :: | September 2011 Letter - Dear Fellow Last Decade Survivors, What’s your 9/11 story? Turns out it wasn’t some cliché…most of us really do remember where we were that day ten years ago. My anecdote, thankfully, isn’t at all traumatic. I had lunch scheduled with a friend near the White Ho... [More] | |
| September 18, 2011 :: | Military rotorcraft: Strongest Aero Market - Aerospace America | |
| August 31, 2011 :: | Boeing Made The Right Call - Aviation Week & Space Technology editorial | |
| August 18, 2011 :: | August 2011 Letter - Dear Fellow Frequent Air Vehicle Inhabitants, UAVs punch above their weight on the battlefield, but more so in public attention. The only aircraft stories in the daily paper A section, it seems, feature UAVs. Fighter sales, commercial jet orders, and even air strikes get... [More] | |
| August 17, 2011 :: | Overcapacity In Business Aircraft Production Forces OEM Changes - Pro Pilot Magazine | |
| August 2, 2011 :: | Single-aisle jets: The more things change… - Aerospace America (page 16) | |
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