Things Looking Up for Aerospace

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on December 11, 2008 1:51 PM | | Comments (0) |

One of the few bright spots in this terrible economy.


Aerospace sales to grow

America's aerospace industry is on pace to reach $204 billion in sales for 2008, an influential trade group said Wednesday.

This year's sales are expected to surpass last year's figure by 2.1 percent, "a lower rate than in recent years, but a record sales figure for the industry for the fifth consecutive year," according to a report by Arlington, Va.-based Aerospace Industries Association.

Aerospace is a critical industry for the South Bay, which has thousands of people designing and building satellites, radar systems, aircraft sections and smaller components.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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