{"id":187822,"date":"2011-02-24T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/24\/boeing-wins-tanker-contract\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:32:00","slug":"boeing-wins-tanker-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/24\/boeing-wins-tanker-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Wins Tanker Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard, and I&#8217;ll try to tease out more detail for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of surprised, the Airbus A330 is a better plane, that&#8217;s why the 767 is at the end of life, but the A330 is still selling,&nbsp; but then again, I was kind of surprised when EADS won in the first competition, because of the dynamics of a foreign firm winning such a high stakes competition.<\/p>\n<p>If Boeing had lost, I would have said that a challenge was a dead nuts certainty, but EADS is I think rather less likely to do so, if just because the potential blow-back is bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard, and I&#8217;ll try to tease out more detail for the weekend. I&#8217;m kind of surprised, the Airbus A330 is a better plane, that&#8217;s why the 767 is at the end of life, but the A330 is still selling,&nbsp; but then again, I was kind of surprised when EADS won in the first competition, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1136,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-breaking-news","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187822"}],"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=187822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}