Taxiing for takeoff

摘要

The backlogs of aircraft original equipment manufac turers (OEMs) are bulging, -but the titanium marketin the waning days of2013 continued toawait a drawdownof inventories and arecovery in prices.In the span of afew days during theDubai Air Show inNovember, Boeing Co.unveiled orders for nearly260 planes valued at morethan $100 billion and Europeanplane builder Airbus SAS announced orders for 160 planes worth $44 billion.