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...Aero Engines is a recent example. The Munich-based company, which builds and services civil and military aircraft engines, used to be a part of Daimler. But after that company merged most of its aircraft operations with a French rival in 2000, MTU was left behind, an orphan inside the huge automaker. To make matters worse, the market for air engines nose-dived after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Daimler soon looked for a buyer. KKR stepped in and took MTU private in November 2003. Since then it has replaced several top managers, including the chief executive...
...that every branch of the U.S. military sponsors a stock-car team, the armed services are looking to NASCAR for more than just a recruiting vehicle. Some of the techniques and equipment perfected on the tracks could easily benefit the Pentagon's trucks and aircraft. For starters, Carlson Technology, which advises teams on how to shave seconds off pit stops, and Roush Industries, which manages nine teams--including one sponsored by the Army National Guard--have shown the Army's National Automotive Center, near Detroit, how to reduce significantly the time it takes to change out the engine...
...SideStep includes Orbitz.com listings in its search results. If you're picky about your plane seat assignment, Seat Guru provides detailed information (material, amount of legroom, location of video monitors and exit rows, whether there's a power port for your laptop nearby, etc.) by airline and type of aircraft. Mouse over icons on seating charts to get the lay of the land...
...garrison town of San Carlos. According to Nicaraguan accounts, as the craft dropped down to 2,500 ft. and prepared to discharge its cargo, a 19-year-old Sandinista soldier, José Fernando Corales Aleman, raised his shoulder-held, Soviet-made ground-to-air missile launcher and fired. The lumbering aircraft shuddered when the rocket found its target, then spiraled earthward, trailing smoke. While the soldiers cheered and slapped one an other on the back, a parachute popped open and a lone figure floated down behind some hills several miles away...
...doubt that the plane had CIA connections was dispelled by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which confirmed late in the week that the aircraft had been used in a sophisticated 1984 sting operation designed to show that Sandinista officials were involved in the international drug trade. Hidden cameras installed in the plane by the CIA filmed a Nicaraguan Interior Ministry official loading sacks of cocaine into the cargo hold. Last March, President Reagan showed a still photo of the sting operation to a nationwide TV audience during speech advocating resumption of U.S. military aid to the contras...