Drawing on primary and secondary sources on the aircraft industry, this report provides a brief survey of industry structure, innovation, and competition in the U.S. fixed-wing combat aircraft industry from its earliest days to the present. It supports a much larger research effort examining the future of the structure, innovation, and competition of the U.S. military aircraft industrial base that responds to congressional concerns about that future. The table of contents is as follows. 1. Introduction
2. Industry Structure And Competition In The Biplane Era
3. The Monoplane Revolution
4. The Subsonic- And Early Supersonic-Jet Revolutions
5. The Agile Supersonic Technology Revolution
6. The Stealth Revolution
7. An End To Competition And Innovation? The U.S. Combat Aircraft Industry, 1909-2000: Structure, Competition, Innovation | 
