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Old January 19th 05, 12:41 AM
Lee Witten
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Tom Peel wrote in
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I recorded it. 2 hours of circus, stuffed shirts, talking heads and
enough hot air to levitate the entire A380 production for the next 10
years.


Kinda like the discussion of fuel economy here...

Seems the 'roll out' was nothing but the politicians all getting to show
their faces. I bet none of them found time to discuss the large amount of
non-EU content in the A380. Given the "51% American content in terms of
work share value" [1], maybe W should have been given a seat at the dias...

--lw--

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus