{"id":194574,"date":"2008-09-13T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/13\/tanker-fracas-erratta\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T11:07:00","slug":"tanker-fracas-erratta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/13\/tanker-fracas-erratta\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanker Fracas Erratta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if Boeing was hoping the cancellation\/delay of the tanker competition to give them a chance to deliver products on time and schedule, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3711809\">continuing problems with deliveries to the Italians<\/a>, where they have delayed initial deliveries from this year to next year on a program that was<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> supposed to deliver tankers in 2005<\/span> ain&#8217;t gonna help.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of pork, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/10\/315841\/kc-x-cancellation-nixes-mobile-move-for-a330f-final.html\">Airbus has canceled plans to move A330F freighter final production to Alabama<\/a>, which is to be expected.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the relatively low dollar, the move does not make sense without the DoD contract for tankers.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that sees apparent is the it won&#8217;t only be Boeing that will be rejiggering its bid now that it&#8217;s been put off, as Airbus is already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/10\/315762\/airbus-to-offer-heavier-a330-against-delayed-787.html\">announcing a 5 ton increase in gross weight for its A300-200<\/a>, which would doubtless be applied to any new bid on the tanker contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if Boeing was hoping the cancellation\/delay of the tanker competition to give them a chance to deliver products on time and schedule, the continuing problems with deliveries to the Italians, where they have delayed initial deliveries from this year to next year on a program that was supposed to deliver tankers in 2005 ain&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194574"}],"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=194574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}