FARNBOROUGH, England - It's something of a tradition at air shows for us to visit the exhibit areas of our competitor and for them to do the same. You may recall that last year at Paris it made for a fun photo op when BCA executives posed inside the A380 with Airbus, and Airbus execs visited the 777-200LR Worldliner as well.

It’s farewell time for Farnborough 2006. I had a lot of great conversations here this week, and renewed acquaintances with reporters and colleagues.

Today being our last day at Farnborough, we took a walk over to the exhibit hall where Airbus has some of their mockups, including a double-decked section of the A380 interior. Our gracious counterparts took me through their various cabin interior concepts.

It's certainly been an intense week, and even though media presence starts to slow down toward the end, I've stayed busy these past couple of days, talking with the Washington Post, and with aviation trades and wire services as well as French and German broadcasters.

The Reuters story about freighters that we discussed yesterday in the blog is now out. You can read it here.

All in all I think this was a terrific air show for Boeing. Clearly, the industry understands our products and services offerings. And if you haven't had an opportunity to check our updated orders Website, we now stand at 510 firm orders for 2006. Just an outstanding endorsement for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

The DreamSpace has been a huge hit at Farnborough.

Someone asked me how many air shows I've attended as a Boeing employee. My first air show was Farnborough 1986! And since then I've been to many of the Farnborough and Paris air shows over the years. And also many of the regional shows including Singapore, Dubai, Zhuhai, Beijing, and others.

And there's no question - I'll be back.