Catch a Falling TriStar
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While U.S. aviation manufacturers are running into troubles, the European Airbus, a medium-range wide-bodied jet that flies about 250 passengers and is built by a consortium of four governments, continues to make inroads. Airbus Industrie has passed both McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed to become the second largest seller of commercial jets in the world. A total of 320 of the wide-bodied airliners have been sold since 1974. The consortium is also planning a plane for the highly competitive 150-seat market. One interested prospect: Atlanta-based Delta, currently the most profitable U.S. carrier. America's once unchallenged supremacy in commercial aircraft may well be gone forever. —By John Greenwald. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Joseph J. Kane/Burbank
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