Driving Engine Choices
Jacques Chirac, with what were perhaps reasons of pride and ego, would not allow a non-European powerplant to be chosen for the A400M (AW&ST Oct. 22, p. 32). In spite of a technically superior design from Pratt & Whitney Canada a conglomeration of manufacturers from the European Union was chosen...
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