[SonOfDakota]

You know the hell of this is that one of these days a wing is going to fall off an old ‘58 model KC-135 inflight and about a hundred folks will perish with it.
Where’s the finger going to point then?

[jazusamo]

Agreed, we need these new tankers and the sooner the better.

[thinkthenpost]

“You know the hell of this is that one of these days a wing is going to fall off an old ‘58 model KC-135 inflight and about a hundred folks will perish with it.
Where’s the finger going to point then?”

IMO:

The above is the Point and it is why I am so angry about the entire drama. Regardless of the whole lease fiasco, I maintain the first 150 or so KC-767 ought to be being delivered now, and this contract should have been for the follow-on contract to replace the remainder of the KC-135 fleet.
I could careless if EADS/NG won (though I think the fix was in against Boeing) but the second set of tankers ought to be going into production with this contract not the original first set.
The lease was probably a bad idea, but my impression was the lease was supposed to move the delivery date way up because the KC-135’s were falling apart, well many years later here were are, still six months minimum from a new contract much less a new tanker. $@*!@*@$@$!!

Add one more to the list that makes it HARD to even think about a McCain vote this November.

[ReignOfError]

You know the hell of this is that one of these days a wing is going to fall off an old ‘58 model KC-135 inflight and about a hundred folks will perish with it. Where’s the finger going to point then?

Pilot error.