{"id":196345,"date":"2008-05-05T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/a-330-mrtt-tanker-grounded-for-modifications\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T21:53:00","slug":"a-330-mrtt-tanker-grounded-for-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/05\/a-330-mrtt-tanker-grounded-for-modifications\/","title":{"rendered":"A-330 MRTT Tanker Grounded for Modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, the Boeing rent-a-crowd is probably all over this, but really, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationnow.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;issueDate=2008-05-05&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2008\/05\/05\/AW_05_05_2008_p40-49248.xml&amp;headline=Developmental+KC-30+Tanker+Undergoing+Mods\">this grounding is a normal part of a test program<\/a>. (<em>Paid Subscription Required<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Basically, they are installing updated plumbing, and setting up a remote station for the boom operator in the cockpit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier tests have been about verifying the airworthiness of the boom, which it passed in flying colors, with testing of the boom in use being done on a smaller A310 testbed.<\/p>\n<p>The MRTT is almost identical to the KC-45 selected by the USAF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needless to say, the Boeing rent-a-crowd is probably all over this, but really, this grounding is a normal part of a test program. (Paid Subscription Required) Basically, they are installing updated plumbing, and setting up a remote station for the boom operator in the cockpit. Earlier tests have been about verifying the airworthiness of the &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-196345","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\/196345"}],"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=196345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}