{"id":176978,"date":"2020-02-01T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/01\/boeing-cannot-make-planes-anymore\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T01:35:00","slug":"boeing-cannot-make-planes-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/01\/boeing-cannot-make-planes-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Cannot Make Planes Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It now looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense-space\/usaf-frustrated-boeing-kc-46-fix\">the Remote Vision System (RVS) for the Boeing KC-46 tanker is still not working properly<\/a>, and may never do so, which would mean that the boom operator has to go back to a station at the rear of the aircraft:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The U.S. Air Force does not believe Boeing\u2019s proposal for the KC-46 Remote Vision System (RVS) will meet the program\u2019s critical performance parameters, according to a service official.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">This is based on evidence the service has seen to date, Lt. Gen. Jon Thomas, Air Mobility Command deputy, told Aerospace DAILY Jan. 29. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe tanker is not capable of all of its missions and won\u2019t be until the problems with the Remote Vision System are fixed,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Air Force is counting on the KC-46A Pegasus to recapitalize its tanker fleet and delays to the program only exacerbate the service\u2019s capacity problem.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s really hard for us to consider the KC-46 part of our operational capacity,\u201d Thomas said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, if there is anything in aviation where Boeing should be the center of excellence, it is aerial refueling, and they cannot get that right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It now looks like the Remote Vision System (RVS) for the Boeing KC-46 tanker is still not working properly, and may never do so, which would mean that the boom operator has to go back to a station at the rear of the aircraft: The U.S. Air Force does not believe Boeing\u2019s proposal for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,381,588,379],"class_list":["post-176978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-defense-procurement","tag-fail","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}