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Trumpet trousers
oh my” indeed...
So is it that difficult to align the performance of the KC46 boom with that of the KC10? Or is that beyond logical thinking and expectations?
Difficult? Nope, technically speaking. But it requires a contract change. Ever work a DoD contract? Ever try to change a DoD contract. That is hard. How hard? I'll provide an example. C-17 was contractually designed with a forward and aft radome. Technically no big deal. Radomes require very special paint that is transparent to a wide range of RF. Again technically no big deal. Here's where things get dicey: Every electronic device and antenna in the C-17 tail cone is gone. There is no longer any need for special radome paint. The operators don't want it. The maintainers don't want it. MAJCOM does not want it. Boeing who service the tail radomes don't want it. No one wants it. But,to remove the special radome paint
requirement requires a contract change. That is hard to do,. How hard? So hard that even though literally no one wants or needs the special radome paint, Boeing is contractually required to ship the radomes out to a specialist paint vendor and USAF is paying 8 times more than they would if Boeing just painted the radomes with the same paint as the rest of the airplane. Warner Robbins (the other C-17 depot) has the exact same problem. This has been going on for nearly a decade. So on the subject of "logical thinking", we are talking about lawyers, not engineers. And not just any kind of lawyer, but contract lawyers. Get the picture? If the lawyers who wrote the contract had been "logical" the contract would have referenced a technical document that provided the specs That way if an error was found in the spec the technical document could have been updated and everything resolved very quickly. But the lawyers did not do that.
What time code do you put on your Boeing timesheet for posting on here btw??
Your implication is grievously offensive. Nevertheless, lets return to the subject of "logical thinking". Has it occurred to you that perhaps I work other than a normal daytime shift? Or a normal 5 day week? I'll leave it at that.