Apart from some minor tweaks, nothing changed, ensuring that Boeing would be left as the sole bidder.
But what is very clear is this was a week that Boeing would certainly like to forget.
Indeed, without a visionary government investing in key strategic industries, world-leading companies like Google, Genentech and Boeing would not exist.
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Mr Avery asks where Boeing would go to find customers.
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Sunday's NTSB announcement "doesn't bode as well for a quick fix as Boeing would have liked, " said John Goglia, a former member of the safety board, which investigates aviation and other transportation accidents.
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Meanwhile, Reuters interviewed Kiyoshi Kanamura, a professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, who said that the logical solution for Boeing would be to install ceramic plates between each cell and add a vent to the battery box.
If distributed manufacturing and snap-together assembly were really such bad ideas, its American rival Boeing would not have recently adopted the same approach, flying in sub-assemblies to its Seattle base from as far away as Japan and Italy.
Adding a little ethical salt to the wounds: Virgin added that its new partnership with Boeing would be better for the environment, since the American plane maker's 787-9 burns around 27% less fuel per passenger than the Airbus A340-300 aircraft it will replace in 2011, according to Virgin.
"A Boeing win would not be as good for BAE as a Lockheed win, but it would be quite substantial, " said Bank of America aerospace analyst Nick Fothergill.
In that way, Boeing was able to make sure that the pieces that other companies made would fit together well because Boeing engineers understood what each part would do and how they would interact when the plane was flying.
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Boeing said it would take weeks before a further date could be set.
On Friday, Boeing said it would put deliveries of the 787 on hold until the FAA approved its plan to ensure the safety of the batteries.
The new distributed model has had some problems, as the delays to the 787 show, but neither Boeing nor Airbus would dream of going back to the old way of making planes.
On September 1st Boeing announced that it would buy back up to 15% of its shares.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that China Eastern would select Boeing aircraft for such a large purchase.
The calls go like this: On behalf of, say, Boeing or Fidelity, would you kindly cast your vote before the annual meeting?
On Thursday US regulators said they would allow Boeing to carry out test flights of 787 Dreamliner planes to test battery performance.
Other states would offer Boeing plenty of incentives to move to them.
Ruling in Boeing's favor would have both enraged free trade purists (with long histories of antipathy toward the Washington defense giant) and re-fired old controversies in the Senate.
Only last week, for example, Boeing announced that it would make a new regional jet a move that seems designed to undermine Airbus's attempts to design an aircraft for the same market.
Boeing claims the 7E7 would cut fuel burn by 20 percent over current aircraft and save airlines 10 percent on overall operating costs, citing new, fuel-sipping engines and lightweight materials that will also cut maintenance costs.
Current plans call for production of Super Hornet to cease in 2015 as deliveries of the Lockheed plane ramp up, which would leave Boeing with no tactical-aircraft business serving domestic customers other than upgrade and logistics work.
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Wood argues, however, that a big chunk of Boeing's seven-year backlog would need to evaporate quickly for the market's fears--and Boeing's current price--to be justified.
Union leaders believe a strike would shut down Boeing production lines in Everett, Wash.
For its part, Boeing assumed that its suppliers would share its commitment to quality and meeting ambitious delivery deadlines.
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The commission reckoned that these would shut out Boeing's only competitor (coincidentally, Airbus), from a chunk of the American market.
The British-based Messier-Dowty unit of French state-owned firm Snecma, would build the Boeing jet's landing gear, a substantial and expensive part of any aircraft.
Japanese authorities said they would work with Boeing and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which launched an investigation in the US on Friday.
The lawsuit accused Boeing executives of hiding structural problems with the 787 Dreamliner that would delay its launch last year, saying Boeing Chief James McNerney and others acted with scienter, or guilty knowledge.
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