"That view that somehow Airbus has cheated Boeing and America out of its right to dominate civil aviation is to me a bit scary. The US has never liked or welcomed foreign competition and Airbus is perhaps the first big coordinated example of what a big pan -european company with its more advanced concepts and sophisticated design skills could do to a whole range of US insustrial output-running a little scared perhaps? PB"
I think the piece is more objective than that PB doesn't the author mention arrogance and aversion to risk?