Originally Posted by
BEagle
Well no. Some very senior Boeing suit announced many years ago that the 787 "Does not have an appropriate configuration for a tanker" - whatever that might mean...
Whether that was an excuse to bolster the 767, I don't know. But that's what Boeing said. Foot...shotgun...??
Maybe the composite structure fuselage isn’t well suited to having big holes cut in it?
https://www.boeing.com/commercial/78...e-piece-barrel