Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
Not sure about that Ken - costs them cash, reputation and diversion of men, materials and management I'm sure they'd be better off using elsewhere - such as on the 757/767 replacement
Your ignorance of aircraft engineering is showing. The Middle of Market Aircaft (MMA) is still in the configuration development phase and well staffed with configuration design engineers. The KC-46 is staffed with detail design engineers. Big difference. By the time the MMA gets launched, the configuration is frozen, and the detail design engineering begins, the KC-46 effort will be finished and the engineers supporting KC-46 will be able to be moved to MMA. And BTW, much more near term than MMA is 777X detail design engineering. Currently that effort is sufficiently staffed and tracking on schedule.