“I personally think that additional fuel offload is of great value” considering military scenarios that would require long-distance flights over the Pacific Ocean, Rebecca Grant, president of IRIS research, said on Tuesday. If a tanker carries more fuel it will be able to fly farther, stay on station longer and have more fuel left over for waiting aircraft, Grant said.
Classic. Can we have more people stating the bleeding obvious and getting paid bucket loads of money for doing so ?
Done some tanking (note the "T" there please) in my time and no one ever mentioned that nugget of information to me. Maybe it's because it didn't need saying........
Get the Airbus. Be done with it. Looks like the 787 just had 221 orders or something anyway......