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Old 3rd Apr 2011, 15:54
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barit1
 
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TWA skullduggery

TWA'a Howard Hughes, seeking to gain control of the early jetliner deliveries, ordered 300 JT3 engines from P&W in 1956, even though he had not yet selected aircraft for all of them.
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