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...deaths, the affliction is not uniquely American. Last week in the French village of Luxiol, near the Swiss border, a farmer with a history of mental illness managed to obtain a hunting gun and went on a shooting spree that lasted 30 minutes. When the rampage was over, Christian Dornier, 31, had murdered 14 people, including his mother and sister, and wounded his father and eight others...
...time than it takes a Mercedes to eat up a stretch of an autobahn. Daimler- Benz, the company that makes Mercedes cars and trucks, bought its way into the top ranks of West Germany's defense contractors. The carmaker last week struck a $150 million deal to take over Dornier, West Germany's second largest aerospace manufacturer (1984 sales: about $500 million...
...Daimler-Benz offer was resisted for months by Claudius Dornier, 70, eldest of six family shareholders of the company that caught the world's attention in 1929 by building the largest airplane at that time, a twelve- engine flying boat. Dornier now builds sleeker craft, like the Alpha Jet for NATO. Pressured by the five other family members, Dornier finally consented, allowing Daimler-Benz to buy 68% of the company...
...author admires for his heroism one Werner Borner, radio operator aboard a crippled German Dornier 17 bomber. Borner's distinction: he tried to kill Townsend-and nearly succeeded. Flying a Hurricane. Townsend closed with the Dornier as the Germans, elated after a successful attack on shipping in the harbor at Lowestoft, were flying back across the North Sea derisively singing Goodbye, Johnny. Townsend wounded two of the four crew members. Talking with Townsend after the war, Borner, the only man left besides the pilot, recalled that "with a last effort I shot at the Hurricane, which was so close...
Died. Claude Dornier, 85, German aeronautical engineer whose career kept him in the front rank of his country's aircraft industry for five decades; in Zug, Switzerland. Dornier designed the world's first metal airplane in 1911, built thousands of bombers and fighters in both world wars, and in recent years experimented with a series of novel vertical takeoff and landing craft. But his greatest fame still stems from the mammoth DO-X flying boat built in 1929. It had twelve engines, a wingspan of 157 ft. and a passenger capacity of 169. Uneconomic though...