Another French firm, Kaviari, offers "en-K de Caviar, " colorful metal capsules containing a 15-gram portion and a tiny spoon.

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The British-made Comet, the world's first passenger jet, flew in 1952, before designers at de Havilland Aircraft Ltd. fully understood metal fatigue.

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The British conglomerate thrives by pulling maximum value from natural resources, headlined by its majority interest in African diamond giant De Beers and dominant operations in platinum mining and industrial metal production.

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Though it all but destroyed de Havilland, the disaster gave the industry crucial insights into how metal fatigue can rip an aircraft suddenly apart.

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Investigators believe that a metal strip lying on the runway at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport gashed one of the Concorde's tires on takeoff.

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It was Major General Nathaniel Coles' hat that made the boldest statement: a beaverskin chapeau de bras, with a black silk grosgrain ribbon cockade, gilt-metal eagle pin and 20-inch ostrich feather plume.

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The judges ruled that metal debris that fell from a Continental jet on the runway at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris caused the crash.

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