ABSTRACT
The aircraft industry is in truth a part-fabricator, part-assembly operation which constitutes perhaps the most visible aspect of the much more amorphous aerospace sector. Aeroengines are delivered to the plant of the airframe firm for installation, as are the parts emanating from the Tier II enterprises. It examines the close interaction between aircraft enterprises, the state, and technological change. he policy of the Australian Government is to obtain 30 per cent of the value of foreign aircraft acquisitions for its own aerospace industry. The aerospace sector, to which the aircraft industry remains central, plays a leading role in the economies of the West, the communist bloc, and increasingly in the industrialisation strategies of newly-industrialising countries. The East European aircraft industries are so integrated into the Soviet aerospace sector that they have been allowed to produce specific aircraft types not only for their own air requirements but in order to fulfil Soviet needs too.
