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Safe landing? Airliner just had apricot face mask
Apricot face masks can hydrate the skin, shrink your pores and strip the paint off your average Airbus passenger jet.
Next time you buckle up for landing, take a moment to find out when your plane was last blasted with ground apricot pits.
Having a smooth touchdown may depend on how recently the $2 million landing gear underwent the apricot treatment at a French-owned repair and maintenance plant in central Mexico.
“We get a powder made of apricot pits and fire it at the landing gears when they come in for service or repair,” said Claude Gobenceaux, director of Messier Services Americas, a subsidiary of the French aerospace group Safran.
from UK News:
Little to celebrate at Paris Air Show
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-- John Bowker is UK Transport and Utilities Correspondent--
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It feels like a typical day at the Paris Air Show -- terrible transport links, a vast complex of exhibition tents, planes of all sizes and noise so dreadful it's impossible to talk, let alone use a mobile phone.
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One difference is the weather. It's more like Manchester in February than Paris in June, chucking it down.
