Photo credit: Adobe Stock Visit our digital edition for exclusive, online content. At the beginning of 2019, the U.S. government was in partial shut-down, interest rates were rising, stock markets were highly volatile, and a majority of business leaders surveyed by the Associated Press expect a recession this year. But you didn’t hear such doom-and-gloom from the aerospace community. In the final weeks of last year, Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer confirmed orders for more than 400 jetliners.