Mostly correct, Jim. The market is due to price - lower the price and the market expands. Airplanes are the same, but remember what/where the 1946 market was. Air craft manufacturers came off of five years of every thing they produced being bought by governments to throw at each other! No selling, no market research, no product liability. No incentive for cost improvements.
I still maintain: "If the airplane had progressed over the same time as
the computer, the Wrights would have soloed in 1943 and we could buy
personal flyers that could fly accross the country non-stop." It's
true. Todays (actually yesterdays) PC is a million times faster than
the original models from the early `40s. Multiply the Wrights first
flight by a million and tell us how far that is.
Yeah, liability had something to do with it. But IMHO, it is not the
entire story. If I had a bizillion bux, I'd reengineer the `coupe and
produce it.
Percy
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