All the lenders gave better terms because they felt they would not be the last people to get paid

The Chinese like to shop on both sides of the street.

You've got a situation where Airbus is coming perilously close to being Boeing's equal. This was never seen before.

Airbus really wants to get an order out of Aeroflot and appears to be losing to Boeing. There's a real concern the Russian aviation market might just close up again so Airbus wants to have a presence on the inside.

This is a good way to address the shrinking number of dollars out there in the defense business. The defense game is definitely changing.

These guys are basically taking oil money and trying to convert it into a long-term value-added business. That's not dumb.

The type of lift they're talking about is the kind you buy on FedEx. It's not combat lift.

The Marines staked everything on the Osprey and won.

Chapter 11 has come to mean that you can ignore the demands of pension-fund people, for instance, and still stay in business without a fundamental rethink of your strategy.

It helps box the A380 into an even smaller niche,