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Brazil's Embraer Emerges as Significant Competitor to Boeing, Airbus.

By Kevin G. Hall, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 29--SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil -- Chances are growing that some of your future flights will be on Brazilian-made jets.

Continental Express, American Eagle, JetBlue and US Airways all are buying new regional jets from Brazil's Embraer, whose rapid growth is expected soon to make it the world's third biggest plane maker, after Boeing and Airbus.

The booming business, experts say, comes from Embraer's dead-on prediction in the late 1990s that there'd be h

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