An Industry Grounded

July 22, 2003

THERE was a real sense of celebration at the Husein Sastranegara Airport in Bandung, West Java, on August 10, 1995. The then Indonesian president Suharto and all of the country's most important top officials were there. Far above them, high up in the sky, one could see an N-250 Gatotkaca airplane literally writing itself into the history books of Indonesian aviation. There was thunderous applause when Erwin Danuwinata, the test pilot of the N-

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