"Airbus takes particular issue with Boeing's defense work, although Airbus's parent companies, EADS and BAE Systems, enjoy similar military contracts."

-Richard Aboulafia, vice president, analysis, for the Teal Group, in a Nov. 11 Financial Times opinion piece on aircraft subsidies

"Government loans in any form to the civil aircraft industry must be outlawed. It is high time the European industry stood on its own two feet just as Boeing has always done."

-Howard Wheeldon, U.K.-based director of Independent Equity Research Ltd., in an editorial placed on Dow Jones Newswires on Nov. 12

"What's been particularly gratifying for people in the factory back here is we've had [U.S. Marine] company commanders come back and send the word that they really appreciated their ScanEagle."

-Steve Sliwa, chief executive officer of the Insitu Group, in the Nov. 13 Seattle Times. The U.S. Marines have deployed ScanEagle, a small unmanned air vehicle that Insitu developed and adapted for the military in a joint venture with Boeing, in Iraq.