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...tells that story in rich detail: how higher-octane fuel helped British planes outmaneuver their German foes during the Battle of Britain; how gasoline shortages slowed down Rommel and frustrated Patton; how the fuel situation in Germany near the war's end was so dire that a newly developed jet had to be toted onto the runway by cows...
...Pont, which is nearly 200 years old, remains an industry leader in synthetic materials. Philip Morris started as a tobacco shop in 1847 but is now a $55 billion-a- year company that sells everything from beer to breakfast cereal. General Electric managed to grow from light bulbs to jet engines, and Motorola from car radios to microchips...
...Department of Defense, he's still at it, right to the end. Pentagon technology watchdogs were appalled to learn on the eve of Commerce Secretary Barbara / Franklin's trade trip to Beijing that her department had cleared the way for the Chinese military to buy 15 jet engines made by Garrett, a division of Allied-Signal. Not only would the sale enhance China's military capability, but it could further destabilize the Middle East by extending the range of Silkworm cruise missiles available to Chinese clients Iran and Iraq -- in certain cases to intercontinental distances, say the Pentagon critics...
...unchained. So it was last week, with holiday schedules busy and tempers already frayed, as one of the fiercest storms of the century hit the East Coast. Record coastal floods and snowfalls -- nearly 3 ft. in parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts -- resulted when a 170-m.p.h. jet stream collided with a storm that had caused tornadoes in California, then skimmed along the Gulf Coast and out to sea before doubling lethally back. Though it was no Hurricane Andrew, at least a dozen people were killed and many thousands evacuated -- some from flooded rail stations and Wall Street lobbies...
...quakes," aircraft buffs have been speculating for years about the existence of a secret U.S. spy plane they call Aurora. The speculation is over, says Jane's Defence Weekly. A definitive report prepared by the British military-affairs journal describes the stealthy craft as a triangular-shaped hypersonic jet fueled by liquid methane and capable of cruising at Mach 8 (5,280 m.p.h.), 2 1/2 times the world record. Jane's key piece of evidence: the report of an aircraft- recognition expert who actually saw the plane fly over a North Sea oil rig three years...