How many vertical stabilizers did Airbus deliver in 2009?

I bet Boeing delivered exactly 481.

Must we do this?

Because of attrition, they have to sell more. Some of them are actually replacements, or do overs. I wonder if this is my first strike?

JCC

Is this just commercial airliners? or includes all types?

Loving all the responses. Boeing quality, flying qualities and safety will continue to eclipse Airbus for years.

what sound does and airbus make wen it crashes??? boooooeeeeeeeinnnnnngggggggg

Amazing they can turn out so many planes with -- what -- a 30-hour workweek and 10 weeks of vacation?

Boeing is a mixed bag. Ultimately they build terrific airplanes, but at times they've been one of the worst run companies in the world. I have no idea what it is like there now, but I was plugged into the place as a supplier 15-odd years ago during the Milstar project and I'm still amazed that thing ever flew; it had to be the prime contractor Lockheed that got it done because the managers at Boeing on that were off-the-scale incompetent. For a while there was a rebel internal newsletter going around the software engineering group called "The Journal of the Incompetent Manager", which has as its masthead slogan: "Work we see we don't do, work we do we deny. If that doesn't work, we can always lie."

I find it amusing that it takes three or four European Countries to compete with one US company.