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History of the Aerospace Industry (3757 words) |
 | As a socio-political phenomenon, aerospace has inflamed the imaginations of youth around the world, inspired new schools of industrial design, decisively bolstered both the self-image and power of the nation state, and shrunk the effective size of the globe. |
| Aerospace firms that were not consolidated in the mid-1970s, after aircraft lost in Vietnam were replaced, pursued diversification strong in the belief that the engineering skill that made American aircraft so dominant could also make world-class busses and microwave ovens. |
| Aerospace employed 1.3 million Americans in 1989 or 8.8 percent of everyone working in manufacturing; by 1995 aerospace employed only 796,000 people or 4.3 percent of everyone working in a manufacturing industry. |
| Aeronautics - The Aerospace Industry (1564 words) |
| Some of the goals of the aerospace industry are exploring the possibilities of life in outer space and solving the problems of life in an advanced technological society on this planet. |
| Aerospace plants range in size from large factories of major manufacturers, each with tens of thousands of employees, to shops of small subcontractors and suppliers with only a few workers each. |
| Aerospace personnel usually are paid somewhat higher than the national average for comparable work in other fields. |
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