"Greg Farris" wrote in message
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In article , says...


Raytheon has been trying to unload its general aviation / business
aircraft business for years and the Boston Globe is now reporting that a
buyer has reportedly been found and negotiations are in final stages.



It's true they have been trying to off-load RAC for years, turning their
backs
on a profitibale division, with prodigious growth potential.

Hmmm...

I wonder if they see so many new designs coming out that their future sales
volume is in jeopardy?

With the proliferation of such commuter airliners such as produced by
Embrarer, are they seeing that their 40 year old designs are coming into
serious competition?

The Hawkers are
one of the most successful lines of business aircraft, even if less
visible
than the ubiquitous Citations from rival, Cessna. Add to this the KingAir
series, perhaps on their way out, but today the most successful business
aircraft in history, and it's a bit difficult to understand why Raytheon
has
been struggling so hard to get rid of it all, rather than developing
something
to compete directly with the Mustang and Honda. It seems they cannot put
their
faith in anything that doesn't kill large numbers of people!

Hawker makes a nice product, but so does Gulfstream, Legacy, Cessna,
Falcon...

One more, perhaps most critical, thing is that Raytheon is a massive
bureaucracy that cannot do new product development as adroitly as the new
upstarts. (?)


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO (MTJ)