Well done to Boeing for actually kicking the programme off and accepting the first orders. Boeing have always built great planes (look at how many we in the UK have bought over the years) but things seem to have been allowed to slip up recently on all fronts.

Now is really the time to leave all the boardroom politics and such like behind them and get on with what their customers want them to do - build fine, advanced and competitive aircraft.

Is this the first Boeing programme to be started by a foreign order rather than a US one ?