Interesting to note from an article in
Flight that Ol' Bubba can't meet his claimed performance figures for the 'plastic plane' 7-late-7:
Boeing to miss 787 performance spec: Albaugh
Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh, for the first time, has acknowledged that the 787 will miss its intended performance specifications.
So is it hardly any wonder that Ol' Bubba is being coy about payload/range and performance details of the Frankentanker....?? Boeing can't meet their own claims for a straightforward (and long-overdue) airliner, so what hope is there for an unknown high-risk military aircraft which doesn't even exist yet?