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Old 22nd Apr 2010, 06:57
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Thanks for that interesting historical snippet, GreenKnight 121. I didn't realise that Lockheed was involved in the original SAC tanker competition.

I reckon there's more than a hint of C-141 in some of the CL-291.

It would have been interesting to know how those swept wings would have behaved at the low speeds used for AAR....

Interesting that no-one, apart from the original Italian and Japanese customers, has expressed any interest in the KC-767. It made eminent sense for the Japanese to have a boom-only tanker with a lot of commonality with their 767-based AWACS, but the Italians are rather tight-lipped about their decision.
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