{"id":191761,"date":"2009-06-28T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/28\/tanker-tango-continues\/"},"modified":"2009-06-28T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T10:45:00","slug":"tanker-tango-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/28\/tanker-tango-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker Tango Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing is now considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aez9z3r6cTxM\">both the 767 and 777 to the USAF for its proposal<\/a>, which would mean that their tanker proposals would bracket Airbus&#8217; A330 proposal in size.<\/p>\n<p>One complication is that Boeing has done nothing on the 777 concept, not even wind tunnel testing, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aGJNNMzpLyNg\">responding to the tanker RFP would be a challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Northrop-Grumman is saying that any RFP must <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/06\/15\/boeing-almost-picks-777-tanker\/\">seriously consider &#8220;best value&#8221; as a criteria<\/a>, and since the A330 tanker is about the same price as the 767, and rather cheaper than the 777, it would favor them.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, Boeing and NG were busy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-06-22&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/06\/22\/AW_06_22_2009_p32-149026.xml\">flinging poo at each other at the Paris air show<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing is now considering both the 767 and 777 to the USAF for its proposal, which would mean that their tanker proposals would bracket Airbus&#8217; A330 proposal in size. One complication is that Boeing has done nothing on the 777 concept, not even wind tunnel testing, so responding to the tanker RFP would be a &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-191761","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\/191761"}],"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=191761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}