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Old 6th Feb 2016, 16:59
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You have to admire the optimism in that report.

With a bottom line that the US will be buying fewer aircraft than planned, even with the program slippage, they still throw around numbers about that reflect that the international customers will still buy all of theirs…. on time, at the vastly increased price, but with a lower capability than envisaged, at a slower paced capability growth path, with less work for their own industry base and with a-yet-unspecified amount of blank-cheque depot-level recovery work at a date TBD.

There is a chance that their optimism about the deep pockets and blind faith required of these customers may be misplaced.
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