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Surprise! Boeing hands Air Force the keys to not just one, but two KC-46 tanker jets
Boeing executives today added an extra twist to what was expected to be a cut-and-dried ceremony to hand over its first KC-46 tanker aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. (finance.yahoo.com) さらに...
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A flawed contract process. Its not 100% up to specified performance, and way late. But the 707s badly need to be sent to the scrap yard.
With all the money spent to have refitted the entire fleet of 135's twice already - this entire project was stupid.
Preacher 1 would be proud!
Yes he would be.... He loved fly the 767 and the CRJ-200 aircraft... He was a very good friend and kept me out of trouble many times on here... thanks for remembering him.. He has certainly achieved "Flight Level Unlimited" in flying colors!
Good ol' John McCain. If it hadn't been for him, We would have had this plane 10 years ago.
the pentagon negotiated a rare fixed-price contract for the KC-46, which meant that when problems arose it was on Boeing's dime to fix them -not the taxpayer. Which Boeing did- several times.
I can't imagine how any of that can be blamed on John McCain.
I can't imagine how any of that can be blamed on John McCain.
McCain put the kibosh on an earlier deal. Read this: https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Boeing-backers-blame-McCain-for-losing-deal-1266680.php
and other reporting from the 2008 era.
and other reporting from the 2008 era.
I suspect that without the late Senator's efforts we would have had only Boeing negotiating for the tanker. And instead of Boeing paying for their (IIRC) 3+ billions of cost overruns (and counting), taxpayers would have been on the hook for it. And we would all be complaining about how the government can't do anything efficiently.
