To: YOUGOTIT
Last time I looked the HQ was in France and the largest plant was in France and the latest BIG air liner was built in France. I understand that Airbus is a consortium but with the HQ in France. So if it talks and walks it must be.
To quote an entry from Airliners.net:
EADS is headquartered in the Netherlands and operates under Dutch law.
The A330/KC-30/KC-45 has/will have wings that are designed and manufactured in the UK. The horizontal tailplane is manufactured in Spain. The vertical tail is manufactured in Germany. Fuselage sections come from Germany and France. The engines will be American. The landing gear is supplied by Messier Dowty (nose gear from France, main gear from Canada).
For the A330, France is primarily the location of final assembly - the role that Mobile, Alabama will take on for KC-45.
Source:
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/military/read.main/83473/
74 posted on
03/02/2008 7:51:35 PM PST by
wolf78
To: wolf78
"The A330/KC-30/KC-45 has/will have wings that are designed and manufactured in the UK. The horizontal tailplane is manufactured in Spain. The vertical tail is manufactured in Germany. Fuselage sections come from Germany and France. The engines will be American. The landing gear is supplied by Messier Dowty (nose gear from France, main gear from Canada)." If we could rely on all those countries to be our allies, great. But if just one of them either folds or is taken out, we are screwed!
On a similar line of thought, just how much of Boeing's supply is outsourced to overseas?
79 posted on
03/03/2008 12:49:39 AM PST by
Solitar
("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
To: wolf78
So!
I do not see any that are manufactured in these United States! So, if one of the EU left wingers want to cut us off from our military then any one can stop or slow down the building of the tankers.
Maybe we should let them build our tanks and jeeps and weapons also since they are influenced by left-wing socialist every day.
83 posted on
03/03/2008 4:21:09 AM PST by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
To: wolf78
“For the A330, France is primarily the location of final assembly - the role that Mobile, Alabama will take on for KC-45.”
They’re going to build more than the KC-45 in Mobile.
The entire A330F line is moving to Mobile.
98 posted on
03/05/2008 7:48:48 PM PST by
2CAVTrooper
(If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?)
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