1.   Another jet maker, the Raytheon Co., based in Lexington, Mass., joined the field this year by starting Raytheon Travel Air.

2.   Assembly-line bottlenecks forced the Seattle-based jet maker to push the start of the deliveries back to April.

3.   Before Continental he held an operations post at jet maker Boeing.

4.   A Boeing spokeswoman said the airline has lost some of its delivery slots, although the jet maker is prepared to renegotiate the schedule.

5.   A Boeing spokeswoman said the jet maker still is holding slots in its production schedule for American.

6.   Airbus Industrie, the second-largest jet maker, plans to open a pilot training center in Beijing next year.

7.   Companies whose shares fell included Brookfield-based ink jet maker Trident International.

8.   Earlier this year, rumors swirled that Raytheon might merge with jet maker McDonnell Douglas Corp.

9.   European Trade Commissioner Leon Brittan complained earlier this month that U.S. defense spending amounts to an indirect subsidy for U.S. commercial jet makers.

10.   Geoghegan said he is hoping to send a British Aerospace team to Boeing soon to learn more of how the Seattle jet maker is improving its manufacturing processes.