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The deal began in 1987, when Garrett, an engine company based in Phoenix, Arizona, beat out rivals from France, Britain and Canada for a contract to supply engines to Nanchang Aircraft, a Chinese government-owned manufacturer. Nanchang said it needed the engines for a light military jet trainer, the K...
As the first order of goods was being shipped, however, the picture changed again. Officials at the Defense Technology Security Administration learned about the deal after they read a wire between the U.S. embassy in Beijing and the State Department. Fearing that China intended to use the Garrett engine to...
Just then that aeroplane backfired overhead and I reflexively threw my beer into the air and watched it roll frothily down into the Saharan valley. But I payed my brewskie no heed because my eyes were glued heavenward. Holly, Dave and I stood agape, for humankind's wizardry had faltered...
Instead of crashing and burning, however, the plane pulled out of its tailspin and cranked up the engine. Our moment of anguish gave way as the little plane chugged onwards. Soon the sadistic pilot was at it again, tail-spinning towards earth, only to pull out of the dive at...
The problem is that these nerve cells have had to work a lot harder to get the muscles moving -- like an eight-cylinder car running on four cylinders -- and after 30 or 40 years, that can take its toll. "Everything has a finite life-span, from a car engine to...