"Steve Firth" wrote in message
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Ali Hopkins wrote:

Well, the folks at Wichita I met back in the late 90's were pretty open
about US gummint support.

And when I provided consultancy services to NASA about the
implementation of ISO9000 at their wind tunnel facilities (1998-99),
they were fairly open about the free support they gave to Boeing.

NASA wants to be boeing's friend very badly, but the aero mafia at NASA will
have to be broken first.