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"Super Jumbo" Problem: Boeing, Airbus, And The Battle For The Geopolitical Future, Daniel L. Fisher
"Super Jumbo" Problem: Boeing, Airbus, And The Battle For The Geopolitical Future, Daniel L. Fisher
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The commercial aircraft industry is important to the United States for both economic and political reasons. Economically, commercial aviation has been the linchpin of the military-industrial complex and a positive actor on many other segments of U.S. industry. Politically, Boeing has ensured the lead of the United States in the aviation industry and aviation exports, which have a beneficial effect on the ability of the United States to export geopolitical power.
Cognizant of this salutary effect of a successful aviation industry on the United States, Europe created and financed Airbus as a direct competitor to Boeing, hoping it would play …