[1rudeboy]

Is the Boeing tanker project based on the 787? (I'm too lazy to look).

And if so, did Boeing know it and try to bribe the Air Force into accepting what is increasingly beginning to appear to be a pile of crap?

[buzzer]

“Is the Boeing tanker project based on the 787?”
No it’s based on the vintage 767. But lazy B will need every engineer they can get to get the 787 into service.

“And if so, did Boeing know it and try to bribe the Air Force into accepting what is increasingly beginning to appear to be a pile of crap?”
I don’t have evidence, but my belive is, that: Who ever will loose the current tanker competiton had at least a couple of good friends at the DOD and/or at the USAF to mix up the paperstuff, so they have a good reason to protest.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Is the Boeing tanker project based on the 787? (I'm too lazy to look).

And if so, did Boeing know it and try to bribe the Air Force into accepting what is increasingly beginning to appear to be a pile of crap?

No and yes. :)