Posted on 12/06/2010 6:28:52 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
EADS’s tanker won’t fit in the hangar... hang it up.
Ive been a airline jet mechanic for 28 years, worked Boeing, Airbus, and McDonnell Douglas. By far the best is a Boeing product with Pratt engines. Anything else is subpar.
This is bullshit!Our tax money goes to buy foreign crap.When Palin becomes President I hope she will cancel the contract.The fix has been in for some time now.
They'll be built here in Mobile, Alabama.
You can’t really cancel a memorandum of understanding. Those are binding contracts.
An MOU is not necessarily binding and does not have the same weight as a contract. Which is precisely why an MOU is often the first stage of any contractual negotiations.
The MOUs on the JSF does not make it binding on partners to commit to buy the aircraft, for the US to agree to a second engine etc etc.
You are correct
I wonder if there is a performance clause that gives wiggle room to be able to cancel?
These days you have to have the equipment in service the day war starts.
Even if you don't, the assembly plant will be in the US, and all the tanker specific equipment is US manufactured. If the situation becomes extreme, take commercial A330-200F aircraft into service and add the tanker bits.
http://www.pogo.org/investigations/national-security/boeing-tanker-leasing-deal.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002091816_webboeing16.html
No bias there huh pal? I will back an American company everytime.I guess your loyalties lie elsewhere.
Yes I’m biased. I think our soldiers and airmen deserve the absolute best equipment money can buy. Boeing has consistently used this image of an “American Plane” when it’s patently not true in this case to shortchange the taxpayer and military for their own profit.
The EADS plane is to be assembled in America from American and foreign parts, just like a Boeing. Do some research on your own and see if you agree with me instead of just seeing “Boeing” and rooting for one side.
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