BEagle - I'm curious, what are your "humorous" names for EADS and Airbus?
"Bubba" and "'t bungling Baron" are surely not alone in defence procurement debacles (A400M and A330MRTT development delays, as an example), and in the civil sphere, the A380 has had as much negative press as the 787.
Not that I'm defending Boeing, BAE or Airbus, but Airbus are hardly any better.