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...competitor - a point driven home at the São Paulo show as Embraer opened a new front in the battle, flaunting its first executive jet, the attractively priced $20 million Legacy. "There is really no competition" between the Legacy and Bombardier's business fleet, sniffed Bombardier spokesman Leo Knappen. "We have a whole family of jets specifically tailored for the executive-aircraft market, while Embraer has simply refitted one of its commercial jets." But as Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys for use by its top officials. Bombardier - which owns Learjet...
...There is really no competition" between the Legacy and Bombardier's business fleet, sniffed Bombardier spokesman Leo Knappen. "We have a whole family of jets specifically tailored for the executive-aircraft market, while Embraer has simply refitted one of its commercial jets." But as Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys for use by its top officials. Bombardier--which owns Learjet, the world's most famous business-jet maker, and Global, a line of larger craft costing as much as $44 million--had competed for that contract...
...that fly routes like Frankfurt to Munich. But at the S?o Paulo show, Embraer opened a new front in the battle, flaunting its first executive jet, the attractively priced $20 million Legacy. "There is really no competition" between the Legacy and Bombardier's business fleet, sniffed Bombardier spokesman Leo Knappen. "We have a whole family of jets specifically tailored for the executive-aircraft market, while Embraer has simply refitted one of its commercial jets." But as Knappen spoke, the government of India announced it had bought five 10-seat Legacys for use by its top officials. Bombardier - which owns Learjet...
Army Hands. The partnership had its beginnings in work with the U.S. Army Engineers. Founder of the firm, the late Theodore Knappen, was a West Pointer who worked as an engineer with the Army's flood-control project on Ohio's Muskingum River in 1935. Working with him were two other civilian engineers, Ernest Tippetts and Gerald McCarthy, who later joined his private firm with Robert Abbett. An ex-Army engineer, Brigadier General James H. Stratton, Knappen's West Point classmate, came in two years before Knappen's death in 1951. Their work is scattered...
World's Work. Such vast projects are all in the day's work for Knappen-Tip-petts-Abbett-McCarthy. The firm spends $500,000 a year on travel alone, and each of its five partners travels an average of 75,000 to 100,000 miles. The firm employs 420 to 450 U.S. engineers at home & abroad plus another 200 foreign engineers. In the past five years alone it has engineered projects totaling more than $3 billion, half of them overseas. Right now it is working on close to $1 billion worth of new projects...