Orders for French flies is keeping Spirit high.

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Vive la France has extra meaning in Kinston nowadays. The $ 600 million Spirit AesorSystems Holdings Inc. plant at the Global TransPark will make fuselages for French aircraft maker Airbus, which has a steady stream of orders despite nose-diving demand elsewhere in the industry. Airbus delivered about 480 planes in 2008 and will deliver nearly that this year. Its rival, Chicago-based Boeing, delivered 375 planes last year...

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