Second, the Boeing Plane sucked. The Northrup plane holds 3 times as much fuel and has the capability to fuel planes using two different methods.
How about you folks doing a little research before you knee-jerk again!! Sheesh!!
I may be missing something here, but I think this involves a major new project going up in Mobile Alabama, so it is creating some American jobs. Whether it will be equal to Boeing I have no idea, but this contract is another huge boom to the Mobile area. It is on fire business wise. Forbes ranked it the number one medium sized city in the country and speculates it will grow by 35% in just a few years.
The airframe is an Airbus unit built in Europe.
Alabama will assemble and modify some of the planes-not all. There will not be that many jobs created in my opinion. The labor intensive parts will be manufactured in Europe or China.
But where is the airframe being built?