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Engine Alliance Completes 100th GP7200 Engine; Specific Fuel Consumption Improvement Noted

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In recognition of the GP7200’s demonstrated fuel performance on the A380, Airbus recently revised the performance handbook, or “Orange Book”, to reflect a 0.5% The Orange Book is frequently used by prospective aircraft purchasers as a predictor of aircraft performance.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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But Goldman was unable to convince the executive to whom Xerox’s Electro-Optical Systems division reported (whose background was accounting and finance) to allow a bid. Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut.

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