61.   New aircraft, with better engines, better design and often two pilots instead of three, are less expensive to operate.

62.   New aircraft models typically see less profit per jet because of generally higher production costs in the first years.

63.   New aircraft orders are driving demand for processed aluminum products used by the aerospace industry.

64.   Neither Boeing nor Airbus have won any recent orders from China, which has held up new aircraft purchases the last three years because of overcapacity of the industry.

65.   Officials of the Federal Aviation Administration will testify on Wednesday and Thursday on how new aircraft design are evaluated and approved.

66.   Orders for new aircraft are rising more rapidly than deliveries, which is good news for Boeing.

67.   Osprey advocates contend that critics have unrealistic expectations of a new aircraft.

68.   Pilots at Delta Air Lines ratified a pay agreement covering two new aircraft types, enabling the Atlanta-based carrier to proceed with purchase plans.

69.   Over the next decade, the Pentagon is planning to spend something approaching half a trillion dollars on new aircraft.

70.   Part of the problem is that the top three jet-engine makers are reluctant to sink money into big new aircraft projects.