CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE

Eyeing an FAA ticket for its C-17 airlifter, McDonnell Douglas is in talks with U.S. airworthiness regulators to try to get as much credit as possible for the aircraft's 5,000 hours of flight tests and 40,000 hours of operational experience. Despite the hundreds of thousands of data points generated...

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