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Originally Posted by iheartthed
This isn't really accurate. Legacy U.S. manufacturing was mostly sent to other countries (including Canada and Mexico)
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Immediately after WW2, Curtiss Wright moved their Buffalo operations to Columbus, Ohio.
Bell Aircraft developed the rocket belt (aka jet pack), Bell 47 helicopter (the helicopter made famous in the opening of TV show M*A*S*H), and X-1 plane that broke the sound barrier in Buffalo-Niagara, had thousands of employees but moved to Texas sometime around 1960. A huge loss for Buffalo and Western NY
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Aircraft
Buffalo lost some serious
aircraft/aerospace industry to Ohio and Texas.