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...puts its head down, ribbits softly, and ponders how to extricate Boeing's schlong from its eye:

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PARIS - Airbus said Monday it won 117 plane orders in the first half of the year, less than a quarter of the orders announced to date by U.S. rival Boeing Co.

Orders fell from 276 in the same period of last year, a sharper drop than the broad full-year decline predicted by both jet makers after record sales in 2005.

Note also the speculation that the recent Russian crash was due to faulty brakes: IHT article

No word on whether or not Airbus will surrender their delayed A380 and inefficient A340. You knew I'd sneak a "surrender" joke in here somewhere. Sucks to be EADS, though they did at least sell some copters to the US recently. LBJ probably rolled in his grave at that one.