Airbus and Boeing are neck and neck - but both rely on American jet turbines, either directly or through joint ventures.

The US has orders of magnitude more satellites thanks to SpaceX, including American direct-to-satellite networking.

Medical imaging is another example of where the US wins on scale alone. MRI machines are extremely common here, almost twice as many per capita as the OECD average.

Europe has lots of talent but a really horrible regulatory environment. That's why it's not a "powerhouse" and is instead almost always stuck in second place.