The broader benefit of all that science: "Having the technical product helps Air Products also sell the commodity gases" to those same customers, says Alain Harrus, former tech chief at chip-equipment maker Novellus.

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Last year, a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) found no technical reason for the crash, but said a technical fault could not be ruled out.

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Byrd, who was also a pioneer in jazz education, attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, played in military bands in the Air Force and moved to New York in 1955.

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He served as an instructor and Air Line Pilots Association safety chairman, accident investigator and national technical committee member, according to a biography on the site.

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He was an instructor and Air Line Pilots Association safety chairman, accident investigator and national technical committee member, according to a biography on the Web site of his company.

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Co-authored by the EPA, NHTSA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the September 2010 Interim Joint Technical Assessment Report examines four fuel economy standards for model year 2025, ranging from 47 MPG to 62 MPG.

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Philip John, the technical director of the project, says the version used on Demon has the compressed air entering a single chamber within a wing's trailing edge.

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