{"id":194719,"date":"2008-08-24T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/24\/boeing-goes-a-la-carte-on-c-17b\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:09:00","slug":"boeing-goes-a-la-carte-on-c-17b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/24\/boeing-goes-a-la-carte-on-c-17b\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Goes a la Carte on C-17B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has proposed a whole series of upgrades to create a C-17B, in a desperate attempt to keep the line open, and they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/19\/314814\/boeing-offers-c-17b-as-piecemeal-upgrade.html\">going to offer them on an individual basis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrades are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgraded engines.<\/li>\n<li>Doubled slotted flaps.<\/li>\n<li>Additional tires on the main landing gear.<\/li>\n<li>A central tire inflation system.<\/li>\n<li>Improved avionics.<\/li>\n<li>An electronic warefare system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are offering them individually for two reasons, some of them could also be sold as simple upgrades to the existing fleet, and because all together, they might be considered a new development program, which means that the groundlings at the Pentagon would have to spend a few years writing up specifications.<\/p>\n<p>At its core, of course, this effort is really about keeping the line open as quietly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has proposed a whole series of upgrades to create a C-17B, in a desperate attempt to keep the line open, and they are going to offer them on an individual basis. The upgrades are: Upgraded engines. Doubled slotted flaps. Additional tires on the main landing gear. A central tire inflation system. Improved avionics. An &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194719"}],"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=194719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}