Airplanes aren't cars. Startups have no clean slate advantage in an industry where every single part of your plane has to be approved and whose design stems fr

Airplanes aren't cars. Startups have no clean slate advantage in an industry where every single part of your plane has to be approved and whose design stems from gigantic numbers of operations. Designing commercial airliners requires insane amounts of money, time and know how. Boeing and Airbus are in near-monopoly status where the only possible competitors can be state-sponsored .