"We can compete. We've got a great new product line. And now it's time to feel good about it."

—Alan Mulally, Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO, about the revival of Boeing and the aerospace industry, in the July 12 Hartford (Conn.) Courant

"A 777 suits carriers in India because they need planes that can fly nonstop to the U.S. or Australia."

—Kapil Kaul, chief executive of the India unit of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Aviation, in a July 13 Bloomberg News report

"This is a better aircraft that has been more thoroughly tested— severely tested, even."

—Daniel Goure, a defense analyst and vice president of the Lexington Institute, on the V-22 Osprey, in the July 13 Delaware County (Pa.) Times. A U.S. Navy officer responsible for overseeing the testing of the V-22 Osprey last month rated the tilt-rotor aircraft operationally “suitable and effective.”