{"id":190557,"date":"2009-11-14T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/14\/when-comparing-the-tanker-proposals\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T12:36:00","slug":"when-comparing-the-tanker-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/14\/when-comparing-the-tanker-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"When Comparing the Tanker Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a good thing to remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4366294\">Italy has still not received its 767 tankers<\/a>, because there are problems with the centerline hose and drogue.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"><p>Boeing&#8217;s delivery of 767 tanker aircraft to the Italian Air Force has slipped again as the company fixes a problem with the hose-and-drogue refueling system, a senior Italian defense source said.<\/p>\n<p>Italy ordered four tankers in 2002, with deliveries first expected in 2005, before a series of hitches, including vibrations in wing pylons, pushed the schedule back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the reasons that Northrop won the last time around, was that the USAF doubted that Boeing could deliver the tankers on time and on budget.<\/p>\n<p>Also note that drogue\/boom thing is an area where Boeing is specifically claiming that its high level of expertise makes them uniquely suited for the contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a good thing to remember that Italy has still not received its 767 tankers, because there are problems with the centerline hose and drogue. Boeing&#8217;s delivery of 767 tanker aircraft to the Italian Air Force has slipped again as the company fixes a problem with the hose-and-drogue refueling system, a senior Italian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190557"}],"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=190557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}