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Cleared Visual
Wishful thinking, but if that happened, is it conceivable that Lockheed, perhaps with some kind of subsidy, would see a viable opportunity to have another shot at the airliner market?
As far as I know, of the major defense aerospace contractors, LockMart is the only one manufacturing no civilian aircraft or jet engines:
Textron: Cessna, Bell
GD: Gulfstream
Northrop: partnership with Boom
GE, RTX: engines
But I may be missing something.
Textron and GD should imo seriously consider entering the narrow body market. Maybe team with Embraer or Bombardier. And I would think watching Boeing slowly drown has got to have folks at Boom and Northrop thinking bigger.