A TROPICAL SUN BEAMS down on Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer's sprawling headquarters in Sao Jose dos Campos, an industrial city 50 miles northeast of Sao Paulo. In an air-conditioned, hangarlike factory twice the size of a football field, a fuselage of the company's workhorse commercial jet, the E-l 90, inches along an assembly line as technicians and mechanics rivet together body sections and plug in wiring panels. In a nearby hangar a half dozen versions of the 9 8- to 114-passenger regional aircraft await delivery to the company's client airlines in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the U. S.
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