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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.| 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 | |
| September 15, 2009 :: | August 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Boomers, Pre-Boomers, And Post-Boomers, In case you missed it, many folks are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. There’s a new movie, copious media coverage, and probably more than a few 60-something ex-hippies taking their hash pipes and Hendrix ... [More] | |
| August 27, 2009 :: | Business Jets—The View From The Market Trough - Pro Pilot Magazine | |
| July 11, 2009 :: | July 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow DayDreamliner Believers, The battle of Jutland didn’t start well for the Royal Navy. As the British and German fleets fired their opening rounds, three RN capital ships took direct hits. Two were battlecruisers that blew up and sank, taking thousands of ... [More] | |
| July 9, 2009 :: | June 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Air Show Schleppers, Ask any auto company crash test dummy. The only thing worse than crashing in a car without an air bag is crashing without an air bag while under the illusion that you do actually have one. The jetliner industry finds itself in... [More] | |
| July 2, 2009 :: | TV Interview at the Paris Air Show - Canada's BNN | |
| June 7, 2009 :: | May 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Rifle Range Historians, Permit me to introduce a recent addition to the Aboulafia household: A Lee-Enfield .303 rifle. I acquired it recently from Larry Albright’s gun shop in Easton, Maryland, after Larry, who once joined the Teal entourage at the Berlin... [More] | |
| May 3, 2009 :: | Airbus and Boeing: Beyond Head-to-Head - Aerospace America | |
| April 18, 2009 :: | April 2009 Letter - Dear Fellow Transatlanticizers, Here’s a good indicator that an aircraft program is in serious trouble: the company’s top executive starts channeling Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now (“The horror…the horror”). That isn’t quite wh... [More] | |
| April 17, 2009 :: | Airplane Geeks Podcast - Second time with Max Flight and Court Miller | |
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