The greying of American Aerospace

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M.L. Gray / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT

A quarter of the aerospace work force will be eligible to retire this year, and industry and labor leaders say that government, public schools and colleges aren't moving fast enough to produce the next generation of aerospace workers. Here, machinist T.D. Nguyen works on top of the main fuselage of an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft at the Lockheed-Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

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