Wings of desire; Aeroplane technology.(Experimental aircraft) From: The Economist (US) | Date: August 9, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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New technology may change how people fly

FOR a week, in the last days of July and the first few of August, the world's busiest airport was not in New York, nor Frankfurt, nor London, but rather in the midst of the dairy farming countryside of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A special team of air-traffic controllers was drawn from America's largest airports to handle the comings and goings of the roughly 10,000 aircraft that gathered here for t...

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