Airbus Chief Enders Rides Flight-Jacket Swagger to EADS Top Job
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Tom Enders, the German former paratrooper who leads Airbus SAS, loves to make a splash.
To show off the qualities of a military airlifter, he dived off the loading ramp at 10,000 feet. Disapproval of Germany’s abstention from the Libyan liberation campaign led Enders, 53, to quit Angela Merkel’s political party. Last year, he quipped that Boeing Co. executives might be a bunch of dope-heads.