Boeing and Airbus are rivals in a market which has got much tighter since the 11 September attacks on the WorldTradeCentre precipitated a downturn in civilian air travel.
Many said, after the attacks on the WorldTradeCentre and the Pentagon, that such acts showed both that America was vulnerable and that it could not pretend to detach itself from the world.
They include Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty - a critical look at post-11 September America - and The Hamburg Cell, a movie about the hijackers involved in the attacks on the WorldTradeCentre and the Pentagon.