Aviation Week & Space Technology: Boeing has regained its competitive advantage on Airbus in a remarkably short period of time. What is the likelihood that this reversal of fortunes could foster creeping complacency, or a resurgence in arrogance that caused Boeing to underestimate Airbus a decade ago?

BAE Systems' decision to divest its 20% stake in Airbus is not good news for the European aerospace industry's future and cohesion. Moreover, it raises doubts about the British group's long-term goals. Will it remain a European player, or will it evolve into a Farnborough-based U.S. company?

For good reason, the public has become cynical about CEOs. Many appear to see themselves principally as members of an executive elite--an increasingly mobile club whose members measure their pay and privileges against those of other CEOs. In the aerospace industry, Boeing's travails in the executive suite have served only to deepen this cynicism, with some executives pontificating about one set of standards of behavior while following another.

Airbus will rely on a Roll-On, Roll-Off (Ro-Ro) ship 154 meters (505 ft.) long to convey A380 airframe subassemblies from European production facilities to the mega-transport's final assembly line at Toulouse, in southwest France.

Often, situational awareness boils down to just drawing a four-part picture for a pilot.

Pilots have dreamed of a day when they could receive the same kind of weather information in the cockpit as they could obtain on the ground, in real time. That day has arrived.

Dundee Securities analyst Richard Stoneman in Toronto has a theory about investors. Most do it by ``looking in the rear-view mirror,'' he said.

The FAA is in search of better memory aids for controllers, who, like the rest of us, simply forget things from time to time.