Today's quote is from
"An Initial Look at
Technology and Institutions on Defense Industry Consolidation."
".... nine prime contractors designed and flew 40 different fighter aircraft designs during the 1940s and 1950s (Lorell & Levaux, 1998)... However, as jet fighter technology matured the number of aircraft designs fell with less than a dozen U.S. fighter aircraft developed since 1960...
"A related observation that supports this statement is that there have been no new entrants into U.S. manned aircraft production since 1945 (Birkler, Bower, Drezner, Lee, Lorell, Smith, Trimble, &Younossi, 2003).”
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