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Posted on 02/02/2006 12:52:51 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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Prediction:
Airbus will have to start counting each plane ordered 3 times to claim the get more numbers each year.
Currently, the only count the same plane twice.
They'd better not be TOO successful or they'll be hauled before a congressional panel to explain themselves.
Perhaps we can get Boeing to manufacture our automobiles and trucks with the same quality as their planes. Then get their marketingand sales staff to sell them to the whole world.
Hmm? Boeing Motors Corp. Has a nice ring to it.
Or even Boeing Motor Works. Then they can abbreviate it B... aww shoot. Never mind!
ahh that mysterious "excess profits"....
seriously, it must be very galling to the Airbus people who predicted that a bigger-to-be-the-biggest a380 would put them on top.
Absent, some kind of major government subsidies and just outright giving the planes away for free (ala microsoft and their explorer program) for future parts sales, I don't see how they can survive.
actually imagine if GM goes bankrupt and Boeing just buys it and purges the union pork from it....
Whoa! I can dig it!
This is what is really smart, imo:
The company, while upping production rates to meet demand, has thus far resisted the temptation to make huge increases in the assembly-line pace.
Earnings per share: Jumped 152 percent in the fourth quarter to 58 cents a share, and up 39 percent for the full year to $3.20 a share.
Operating cash flow: Increased 80 percent in the fourth quarter and 100 percent over the full year to a record $7 billion.
Keep it quiet, Boeing. Congress may call for investigations about your making record profits when the economy is going so well.
The Ford Trimotor: IT'S BACK!!!!
Isn't Daimler-Chrysler pretty heavily involved with Airbus?
Uh...we have our own pork - the IAM and SPEEA.
They tried manufacturing trains 20-30 years ago and got killed.
bump
(for those of us not in the industry) If that is military aircraft, the europeans have been pushing their eurofighter for some time now.
The EU has been trying to push emotional "buy eu" arguments for some time now. They are even doing their galileo GPS system with "must use eu sourced parts" rules.
Their model for airbus started as a "make work" project for the member nations. Boeing was started as a product based company.
That's funny. Here's some more good news:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/news/2006/q1/060202e_nr.html
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