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In the 1950s, America had a lot of excess aircraft manufacturing capacity leftover from the war. This meant a large number of aircraft companies playing a game of musical chairs for the then small market for civilian air travel. Lockheed, Convair, Douglas, Martin all had offerings. But Lockheed, Convair, and McDonnell all flopped and wound up focusing on military aviation. Douglas (which merged with McDonnell in 1967) and Boeing became the 2 major manufacturers of passenger airliners in the United States. And in 1997, Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas, becoming the only American manufacturer of passenger airliners, and along with Airbus of France, it has a duopoly on the world's passenger airliner industry.
So, how can we get someone else to be the big US airliner manufacturer?
So, how can we get someone else to be the big US airliner manufacturer?