Workers at Raytheon's aircraft plant in Wichita, KS received a
bit of unwelcome news Thursday, as they heard the aerospace
manufacturer is mulling over selling that facility... despite the
fact the company just reported a 54 percent gain in profits in the
third quarter of FY2006, over the same period last year.
Vern Raburn accepted the provisional type certificate for the
Eclipse 500 very light jet twice Thursday -- once in a private, VIP
ceremony, and again under the beaming sun of Oshkosh, WI in front
of a cheering, hooting, whistling throng of Eclipse employees,
well-wishers, Eclipse position holders, and, for the first time, a
pilot whose production Eclipse was sitting on the ramp.
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