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Old 14th Jul 2008, 11:30
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A310 Fuel Transfer to F-16 Video link

Here is the link to the video showing A310 to F-16 fuel hook-up:

America's New Tanker - KC-45


Lee Norberg
Oakdale, NY

Some additional news from EADS Media Day as reported 7/13/08 in Leeham News:

Gallois, Enders and EADS North America COO John Young (no relation to the Defense Department’s chief procurement officer of the same name) are confident Northrop Grumman will win the recompete for the tanker. Collectively, they said only a few of the seven items of the protest filed by Boeing are centered on Northrop’s KC-30 bid, which is based on the Airbus A330-200; the other items had to do with the USAF process and analysis. The EADS officials believe that Boeing won’t offer a plane different than the KC-767AT that lost the competition. Young opined that the Air Force recompete decision could come as late as March instead of the end of the year, simply because the timeline outlined by the Defense Department is probably too aggressive.

PS: I personally know EADS North America COO John Young while John was at Grumman (now Northrop Grumman) and played against him in Grumman League Softball Games- he was a good shortstop!

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