1.  Boeing, which has struggled to keep up with record plane orders, acknowledged today that it is in preliminary talks with McDonnell Douglas about sharing some work.

2.  Boeing announcement is the first of a series of monthly updates on a plan adopted in October to get production back on schedule amid record plane orders.

3.  How about the Record plane?

4.  On terms of iron planes, as mentioned recently, the British-made Record planes ruled the roost when I was putting together my workshop.

5.  The Japanese make excellent irons to fit the Record planes, and so does the small American maker Hock.

6.  The soles of Record planes are never, in my experience, flat or square to the sides, and the irons are of indifferent quality.