I can't believe how the unwitted proposal of an unimaginative US politician can light up such a debate... Some posts are getting borderline xenophobic...
Aren't we airmen before we are American/French/German/whatever????
I really could care less which side of the Atlantic the A380 is built on... It's a technological marvel, as the B747 and Concorde were in their time... As such I just hope the project materialises and sees the least amount of obstacles on its way...