{"id":191079,"date":"2009-09-26T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/26\/kc-x-tanker-competition-back-on\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T13:07:00","slug":"kc-x-tanker-competition-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/26\/kc-x-tanker-competition-back-on\/","title":{"rendered":"KC-X Tanker Competition Back on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img190.imageshack.us\/img190\/5035\/7b05159efe384c2397a3911.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img190.imageshack.us\/img190\/5035\/7b05159efe384c2397a3911.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>And in a stunning display of stupidity, the Pentagon is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Addaf2666-5a16-4fcf-b109-f42e515bc27b\">letting the USAF run the competition<\/a>, which considering their record the past two times, is a lot like giving Jack the Ripper the straight razor concession at the prostitutes convention.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing has wised up, and had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-09-21&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/09\/21\/AW_09_21_2009_p20-169507.xml\">decided to titch the &#8220;Frankentanker&#8221;<\/a>, (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>) which had the &#8220;767-200 airframe; over-wing exits from the 767-300; floors, doors and structurally enhanced wings from the 767-300F; and a cockpit, tail section (with a more capable auxiliary power unit) and flaps from the 767-400ER,&#8221; which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, they are also making noises about using the 777, but that aircraft appears to be rather too large for the requirements as I understand them unless they take the sawzall to it, and shorten the fuselage by a lot.<\/p>\n<p>The most significant change here is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ae54d25e0-205c-4b18-9fe8-3d296e7f86ef\">specifications are much more explicit<\/a>, because the challenge was driven by the wiggle room the last time around. (see graph pr0n, and click for full size)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in a stunning display of stupidity, the Pentagon is letting the USAF run the competition, which considering their record the past two times, is a lot like giving Jack the Ripper the straight razor concession at the prostitutes convention. Boeing has wised up, and had decided to titch the &#8220;Frankentanker&#8221;, (paid subscription required) which &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-191079","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\/191079"}],"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=191079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}