March 10, 2003

March 10, 2003

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COVER STORY

Heavy Lift as War Looms

By DAVID HUGHES8 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Frustrations and Backlogs

By DAVID A. FULGHUM6 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Stealthy Emitters

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

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COVER STORY

Heavy Lift as War Looms

Flying into Afghanistan, with all its hazards, has honed the tactical skills of C-17 pilots and prepared them for any airlift contingency

By DAVID HUGHES8 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Frustrations and Backlogs

Preparations for conflict in Iraq involve complications of traditional logistics and vagaries of cyberwar

By DAVID A. FULGHUM6 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Stealthy Emitters

Lockheed Martin hopes to exploit a seeming contradiction in concepts to expand the combat effectiveness of low-observable aircraft

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

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Turbulence at Bombardier

Storm clouds will hang over Canada’s largest aerospace company for at least the next year as it wrestles with a host of troubling issues

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI5 min

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Short Shrift for Aeronautics R&d

NASA and others review funding levels for Fiscal 2005, but Congress frets that won’t be soon enough

By FRANK MORRING4 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Risky Business

U.S. plans protection for intelligence-gathering aircraft after threat by N. Korea

By DAVID A. FULGHUM4 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

'The Show Must Go On'

Dissension on both sides of the Atlantic is affecting U.S./French political relations but, so far, it’s ‘business as usual’

By PIERRE SPARACO4 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Legal Cloud Lifted

SAN FRANCISCO Boeing Satellite Services has agreed to pay a $32-million penalty to settle a five-year-old legal dispute stemming from a launch failure analysis that was provided to China Great Wall Industries without clearance from U.S. arms export officials.

By MICHAEL MECHAM2 min

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Different Results, Same Conclusion

LONDON Engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce and diversified engineering group GKN reported markedly different fortunes for the latest fiscal year, based on preliminary results. Both companies cautioned that the outlook in the commercial sector remains weak through 2004 and beyond.

By DOUGLAS BARRIE1 min

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THE SHUTTLE LOSS

Shuttle Probe Intensifies

NASA begins effort to reassess if a change in reentry trajectory could have saved Columbia. Bizarre thermal effects analyzed.

By CRAIG COVAULT9 min

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