{"id":196693,"date":"2008-04-01T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/kc-45-flown-to-dresden-for-tanker-mods\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T23:30:00","slug":"kc-45-flown-to-dresden-for-tanker-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/01\/kc-45-flown-to-dresden-for-tanker-mods\/","title":{"rendered":"KC-45 Flown to Dresden for Tanker Mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, EADS has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/004095.html\">already delivered the first aircraft<\/a>, D-1, to Dresden for modifications to full KC-45 status.<\/p>\n<p>Doubtless, this is on hold because of the challenge, but note that Airbus <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">had the airframe ready to fly to an outfitting location<\/span>, and Boeing&#8217;s &#8220;Frankenplane&#8221; would not be cutting metal for months.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing simply got beat like a ten dollar hooker<sup>*<\/sup> on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/3583\/0dc9845bfb4b498aa095365rj0.jpg\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/4599\/10004d92529c4f5c8351d5dzg4.jpg\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/6165\/fb36b828264c404d9437e45og5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">My apologies for comparing a multi-billion dollar defense contractor to a cheap whore<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Sorry, wasn&#8217;t clear there.  I was apologizing to the whore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, EADS has already delivered the first aircraft, D-1, to Dresden for modifications to full KC-45 status. Doubtless, this is on hold because of the challenge, but note that Airbus had the airframe ready to fly to an outfitting location, and Boeing&#8217;s &#8220;Frankenplane&#8221; would not be cutting metal for months. Boeing simply got beat like &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-196693","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\/196693"}],"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=196693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}