hi i stumbled on this article a few weeks ago and saw that it contained some out of date information had quite a few issues and had virtually no other articles linked to it and was as a result getting very few hits since i feel that this is an important topic i have made an effort to update and improve the article although this is not an area of expertise for me and this has limited what i am able to do as i see it the purpose of the article should be as with articles such as automotive industry in the united kingdom or automobile industry in china to provide a concise overview of the industry including its history current state and economic impact important products and companies i agree that the list of first flights is not appropriate in my view this should be changed into a prose description of the history of the industry with some of the first flight details being woven into the text as appropriate i have started trying to improve the 'major participants' section but in my view this requires more work the 'current developments' section contains a lot of interesting and useful information but appears to need some updating on a minor point i see that you have moved thales from the overseas to the domestic section of the paragraph in the lead on major participants as i wrote this list i was looking at the companies from the perspective of the location of the ultimate parent companies headquarters and registered office although thales's uk subsidiaries are registered in the uk they are wholly owned by the french parent company