Over at the American Thinker, editor Thomas Lifeson has just posted another one of his characteristically well-informed and thought-provoking reports on the troubles roiling Airbus. In “Airbus Must Thread a Needle,” Thomas lays out the daunting challenges that the company will have to overcome if it is to remain a viable competitor against Boeing in [...]

Yesterday, the European consortium EADS rejected Russian demands for a seat on the company’s board of shareholders. The news comes on the heels of last week’s $1 billion stock purchase that gave Russia’s second largest bank, the state-controlled Vneshtorgbank, a 5% stake in the company that owns Airbus. President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide Sergei [...]