Guardian Unlimited: Boeing is the only cloud on Airbus's horizon

Guardian Unlimited Boeing is the only cloud on Airbus's horizon as the giant airbus 380 lifted magestically of the runway today. The "old continent" had every reason to be smug about its achievement: it was the "exceptional human endeavour" of over 6,000 engineers from Britain, Spain, Germany and France that helped to launch this "industrial-sized piece of Meccano". As well as the engineers, the four-year building project involved a further 50,000 workers manufacturing parts across the "old continent".

The A380 had also sent a "real message" to France in advance of the referendum on the European constitution, argued Bruno Loustalan in L'Eclair des Pyrenées. "When Europe works together on a project in which it has a common goal, it can move mountains."