Sci&Tech History

1920-1934: Military and aircraft production was gradually distinguished from one another, and peacetime military procurement came to play a role in airframe and especially engine development. In this period, the market was influenced by the World War I which delivers the aircraft industry into a huge integration in order to fulfill the level and quality of research that carried out by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.

1934-1940: Four airframe producers and two engine manufacturers comprised the bulk of the civilian aircraft industry. The center of this air commercial activities periods is the passenger rather than mail transport, although aircraft development is still dominated for military purposed, especially during the World War II.

1940-1950: After the war has already finished, the industry transform military purposed to commercial. Boeing and Douglas became dominant during the late 1950s and 1960s, whereas Lockheed, Martin and Convair became the minority in the commercial market. The competitiveness of the industry is influenced by the technologies that used, especially the adoption of jet engine and electronics technologies which made the development cost rose over $100 million.

1950-1970: Pricing, entry, and route structure in the commercial air transport industry were regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board during the entire postwar period. Price competition among the aircrafts industry, however, remained strong despite increased producer concentration; the failure of the Convair 880 in the early 1960s, and the subsequence problems with the Douglas DC-9, were due in part to aggressive efforts by their producers to underprice the competition. In order to deal with the production costs, some merger were conducted.

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