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Leahy's experience in the business is hands-on. Armed with an M.B.A. from Syracuse University, he got a commercial pilot's license, then worked as a Piper Aircraft salesman for seven years before joining Airbus Industrie North America in 1985. ("Boeing seemed like a superpower," he says.) After rapidly working his way up through the sales and marketing departments, Leahy was named president of the U.S. subsidiary in 1994. During his American stint, Leahy saw the annual number of Airbus sales to North American carriers rise from 40 to 329. In 1996 he moved to the Toulouse headquarters with...
...anything. He says hello, and the crowd goes nuts. "He's a phenomenon," says Kevin Staff, 45, a community college teacher. "A year ago, people said he was wasting his time. He has to be a good man to be able to land planes on an aircraft carrier...
...that the Clinton Administration wants to ship to Colombia to help wipe out cocaine and heroin just happen to be needed at exactly the same time that U.S. helicopter builders are looking for new customers. It is a neat fit: Colombia and other Latin American nations can use the aircraft; U.S. helicopter builders can use the orders. The Administration's aid package calls for 30 new Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, at $10 million each, and 33 Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 Hueys, outfitted with new engines and other improvements, for $1.5 million each...
Maintenance has long been a bugaboo of such aircraft, especially older ones that have been sold or given to U.S. allies. When Colombia got 12 old Hueys in 1997, for example, each could be flown less than 10 hours before it needed a major required overhaul for continued safe flight. Only two of them were flying two months after their arrival...
...less likely to bite than dogs--makes them ideal first pets. Then there's the ferret's hip intellectual profile. "They're not pack animals," says Shefferman, "and they don't learn by rote, like dogs. They think creatively. They actually need intellectual stimulation." Boeing once used ferrets in aircraft assembly to run wiring through tight spaces--a skill that could come in handy when you're constructing that smart home of tomorrow...