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Joe Sutter (father of the 747) recounts a private meeting in a Paris restaurant where Boeing engineers briefed the Russians how to hang engines under the wing, and in return the Russians told Boeing how to machine titanium.

Many of the relevant drawings having been made on the tablecloth, the Russians were careful to take it with them.



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