How about we make cars and airplanes that run on dirt?

Do you know I can make airplanes and boats out of paper?

I know it made airplanes fly even more evenly at the same height on a set course than before.

Many of those former Boeing workers had technical skill specific to making airplanes.

But kit manufacturers say they are also less encumbered by a corporate culture used to making airplanes one way.

"They're going and laying off people who are actually making airplanes," he said.

The concern is that so many jobs have been lost that the skills needed to make airplanes are disappearing.

"Are they going to be making airplanes in 15 years?"

Analysts now say it will be 1999 before Boeing is making airplanes at a significant profit again.

Two large companies that make airplanes are Boeing and Airbus.