If it aint Boeing, I aint going

[Maluco]

and now begins all the testing... only 9 months to do so as well. They better hope nothing or next to nothing comes up.

[LINUS]

I've been hearing that this is the decade that Airbus effectively got caught with their pants down.

I heard that this thing wasn't going together very well, there was a 3" jog/mismatch in the fuslage for a bit since so many parts are outsourced and only meet at the assembly line.

Good to see Boeing got this thing ironed out, middle class jobs are a fading memory here in the PNW if we lost them and all vendors to the Kansas plant.

[Jand3rson]

600? Holy balls.

[BeirBrennerE30]

This is why there is a carbon fiber shortage...

Yeah, I was just watching something about that on the news. Already OVER 600 of them on order so far at over $200 million each. Crazy shit!

[Jand3rson]

Yeah, I was just watching something about that on the news. Already 60 of them on order so far at over $200 million each. Crazy shit!

I have been looking forward to this for a while.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/08....ap/index.html