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![]() "Kyle Boatright" wrote in message . .. Several thoughts: 1) If the airplane fits the spec, it doesn't really matter when it was designed. Beyond that,other than exception of engine development, not a whole lot has changed in the airliner/transport business since the KC-135/ B707 was launched 50 years ago, so calling a 767 derived product obsolete is misleading. 2) Would you rather send those jobs overseas? I'd prefer to keep those jobs here and have 10 or 20 thousand US citizens have good paying jobs than have many of those jobs go overseas and have to pay unemployment for the Boeing employees. 3) Government always spends too much money on a given undertaking. The bureaucracy that is supposed to prevent it from buying a $700 hammer also makes it impossible for anyone to profitably sell the government $5 hammers. It was announced today that the KC-30 (derived from the Airbus A-330) has won the "competition." |
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