Planetruth, don't get me wrong, I don't dislike Boeing but there is an awful lot more ability and ingenuity in that company than what they're using. Watched Bullitt recently and there's a bit where Steve McQueen is chasing the bad guy underneath a few DC8s, B707, past a Convair 880 and I thought "forget consolidation, gimmee the good old days where everyone was makin' airliners"
I think that crowd that is trying to resurrect the worlds last Convair 880 to fly is from Arizona.