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...Everyone knew what happened - there were photos of the Concorde on fire and blowing up - but examination of the remains allowed investigators to trace the entire sequence of events back to the accident's smoking gun," says Jean Guerry, a former pilot and current assistant director of the Bourget Air and Aerospace Museum, outside Paris. "The current Air France investigation will be much harder, since little debris has been recovered, and the material that has - because it floats - will only tell one part of the story at best. Getting the black box is very important...
...Whatever a customer wants, we provide," says Roger Bourget, CEO of Bourget's Bike Works in Phoenix. "We build egos for guys." Bourget and other motorcycle craftsmen tailor bikes like fine suits. For speed demons, that might mean top suspension and a light chassis. For touring long distances, the custom biker will ask for an intercom system and heated seats and handlebars. Just cruising? He can do that on a chopper or a bagger with a hand-painted body and intricately detailed metalwork. The American artist Michael Godard ordered an $85,000 gangster-themed chopper with images from his collections...
...Bourget's Bike Works produces fewer than 600 motorcycles a year, and some collectors can't get enough. Enthusiast Mark Meeberg owns 18 custom-made Bourget's, and his collection is valued at more than $1 million. Meeberg, who made his fortune as the owner of a commercial reconstruction business, speaks of the "freedom" he feels while riding. On his $135,000 Cobra, every piece of metal is streamlined to the machine so there is not a straight line on the bike, and that union of form and function takes his mind off everything else. "I have a real high...
...section of one concrete, glass and metal tube collapsed last week, killing four people and raising serious questions about 2E's future. "This concourse was a showcase, a crown jewel," laments Pierre Graff, president of Aéroports de Paris (ADP), which operates Charles de Gaulle (CDG), Orly, Le Bourget and 14 other airports in the greater Paris region. "This is a very hard blow to our image." The collapse also threatens to pound ADP's bottom line. If major design or construction flaws are found to be at fault, the entire building might have to be razed and rebuilt...
...soft landing for 4,000 miles. He crossed it in 33 1/2 hours, the first to do it solo and nonstop. You'd think he'd brag. But Anne Morrow, who married him, recalled being captivated by his shyness. It burnished her image of his landing at Le Bourget airfield, "the picture of that mad crowd, that whole nation surging around his plane in Paris," she wrote. "I can see how they all worship him. ... His glance [was] keener, clearer and brighter than anyone else's, lit with a more intense fire." He was, she said, one of the "great...