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Also, as can be seen in the bottom right of this graphic from the [World Economic Forum](http://reports.weforum.org/manufacturing-growth/aerospace-industry-infographics/), between 1995 and 2011 Germany was number one in the world in growth of aerospace exports:[![enter image description here][1]][1]
Also, as can be seen in the bottom right of this graphic from the [World Economic Forum](http://reports.weforum.org/manufacturing-growth/aerospace-industry-infographics/), between 1995 and 2011 Germany was number one in the world in growth of aerospace exports:[![enter image description here][1]][1]
.But comparing Germany to other European nations may have less meaning than comparing European aerospace as a whole with the US, China, Japan and Russia. Europe has become a consortium, and even before the [EU](https://en
wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union) was established in 1992, the [European Economic Community](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community), or EEC, took shape as early as 1957 with the [Treaty of Rome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rome). As a result of the formation of the EEC:>During the 1960s, European governments allowed aircraft and missile firms to fail or consolidate into clear “national champions:” British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddely Aviation, and Rolls-Royce in Britain; Aerospatiale, Dassault, SNECMA and Matra in France; Messerschmit-Bölkow-Blohm and VFW in Germany; and CASA in Spain. Then governments asked their national champions to join transnational consortia intent on building specific types of aircraft — like the PANAVIA Tornado fighter, the launch vehicles and satellites of the European Space Agency or, most successfully, the Airbus airliners.
matrix of many national firms participating variously in many transnational projects meant that the European industry operated neither as monopoly nor monopsony. [_Source: Economic History Association- [The History of the Aerospace Industry](https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-history-of-the-aerospace-industry/)_]Today, the
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.But comparing Germany to other European nations may have less meaning than comparing European aerospace as a whole with the US, China, Japan and Russia. Europe has become a consortium, and even before the [EU](https://en
wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union) was established in 1992, the [European Economic Community](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community), or EEC, took shape as early as 1957 with the [Treaty of Rome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rome). As a result of the formation of the EEC:>During the 1960s, European governments allowed aircraft and missile firms to fail or consolidate into clear “national champions:” British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddely Aviation, and Rolls-Royce in Britain; Aerospatiale, Dassault, SNECMA and Matra in France; Messerschmit-Bölkow-Blohm and VFW in Germany; and CASA in Spain. Then governments asked their national champions to join transnational consortia intent on building specific types of aircraft — like the PANAVIA Tornado fighter, the launch vehicles and satellites of the European Space Agency or, most successfully, the Airbus airliners.
matrix of many national firms participating variously in many transnational projects meant that the European industry operated neither as monopoly nor monopsony. [_Source: Economic History Association- [The History of the Aerospace Industry](https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-history-of-the-aerospace-industry/)_]Today, the
