Used to be that Aerospace Industries Association president John Douglass carried around a metal bracket and a length of hydraulic hose. When it came time to speak, Douglass would hold the bracket aloft and waggle the hose and complain that overzealous U.S. export regulations designed to keep military weapons out of the hands of U.S. enemies were also stifling the sales of these more mundane items.

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