Hmmm, smells like a union reply there. Nope, Boeing just doesn’t want unions doing to it what they did to GM and Chrysler.
Besides, as a pilot (albeit a fighter-type), I like to be in control of my plane (as Boeing does it) rather than being a voting member (as Airbus does it).
Besides, you wouldn’t find me flying a plane which cannot hack it in bad weather. You might want to have a seance and check with those room temp pilots of that Airbus over the Atlantic and see what they think of that solid French software engineering.
Really? You say that and yet they keep their facilities in Chicago and Washington state.
And the Northrup/EADS tanker is the better tanker. That’s why they won the first tanker competition. The plane is only not being built right now because Boeing whined and padded the pockets off enough Congress people that they listened. I don’t doubt that Boeing will get the contract. The President is from Chicago and McCain’s daughter-in-law lives in this area. It would still be nice if there would be a fair competition again like the one that Northrup won last time.