To: PAR35
The contract was re-bid because the Air Force did not follow their own rules in evaluating the proposals.
Awarding the contract to Airbus wouldn’t have prevented delays; they were years late delivering the A380.
15 posted on
06/05/2016 7:11:35 AM PDT by
DuncanWaring
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To: DuncanWaring
Awarding the contract to Airbus wouldn’t have prevented delays; they were years late delivering the A380. It wasn't based on the 380. It was based on the 330. And they've been delivering them since 2011. The Airbus first re-fueled US aircraft in combat operations in September 2014.
16 posted on
06/05/2016 10:51:22 AM PDT by
PAR35
To: DuncanWaring
EADS KC-45A D-1 first flew in September 2007, (7 years before the Boeing). The readiness of EADS to start on the contract even before they won it demonstrated they were ready and able to complete it (When the US backed out of the contract, the first two "American" KC-45s were resold to a customer on the sandy part of the globe - or it may have been the rainy islands off Europe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opTRHjBh8WA (the comments are fun)
17 posted on
06/05/2016 5:44:55 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
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