A video has appeared of a Congressman called Dick (no comment from me at least), urgently appealing for the new round of the Tanker-battle to stick to the "original specification". What he didn't say, and perhaps doesn't know, is that that spec was written (like those for the KC-97 and -135) by Boeing, round the aircraft they had available. The difference now is that there's an alternative which the USAF found to be better. At Boeing, that hurts, of course, so they feed their spokespersons in Congress with sufficient half-truths and shaded argumentation to make the night's nooze; hoping that nobody will pick up on the ploy ...
Nice to see that someone on the JSF programme has also seen through the Seattle-originated smoke and mirrors, this time about the F/A-18... With such evidence of standard company tricks (legal, but vulnerable) it is to be hoped that the new examiners will be convinced that what comes out of Chicago/Seattle and their verbose mouthpieces needs very close examination. Very close indeed ...
Nice also to see that NGC/EADS are "confident" ... Go, people, go !!!
