After a major engine blow out in Kansas City last month, The
Airline History Museum tells ANN that it has instituted a
fundraising plan that will put the Lockheed Constellation back in
the air.
America is often accused of having a culture hostile to ideas of
personal responsibility: self-help books, slip-and-fall lawyers,
12-step recovery cults, you name it, that's us. Excuses, excuses,
excuses. The converse is often said of Japan: a corporate screw-up
that produces stonewalling and indignant, legalistic defiance in
the States would instead produce a teary confession and letter of
resignation.
The good news from Boeing just keeps on coming. UPS has just
announced an order for eight 747-400 Freighters. The firm order is
the first UPS order placed directly with Boeing for the 747
Freighter family and the carrier's first for 747-400
Freighters.
You'd think the word would get around to the places that illegal
aliens get advice, job tips, and false documents: since 9/11
airports are a bad risk for employment. But three Guatemalan men
who didn't get the word are facing stiff penalties in the US
District Court in Covington, Kentucky.
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