The company, as well as the Chinese importer, insisted the engines would be produced in China for civilian aerospace applications.

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Richard Lugg is a Maine neighbor of mine who has a company called HyperMach that is working on hyper-sonic jet engines for aviation and aerospace applications.

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RunCore has announced the global launch of a new range of self-destructing sold state drives (SSDs) designed for mission-critical applications such as aerospace or military.

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Further, thanks to planned investments by companies like Cisco, 3Com, Lucent, Microsoft, United Technologies, Motorola and Texas Instruments, if Congress approves normal trade with China, expect American and world markets to be flooded with ever higher-tech Chinese goods: broadband routers, telecommunications switches, semiconductors, servers, applications software and aerospace engine parts.

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In addition, the team is exploring other applications, most notably in the biomedical field for non-destructive testing of large aerospace composite structures.

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