Posted on 03/03/2008 4:47:33 PM PST by NoLibZone
Just goes to show this whole free trade thing is a bad idea? Guess they will have to drag me kicking and screaming into the 20th century. Oops, too late.
It didn't hurt them that in they got the criteria changed so their plane came out on top. Supposedly this was a contest to replace the KC-135, but Northrup/Grumman submitted a bid for a plane more similar to the capabilities of the KC-10 with a ground foot print larger than a B-52.
None of the airframe is being built here. It is being assembled here. NG will know nothing more about building* large airframes at the end of this contract then they do know.
*I mean designing from scratch. They are just “stuffing” this airplane.
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