CONGRATS TO BOEING for the new tanker project.

[Shultzie]

Hearing yesterday eve. about my old BOEING BUDS finally winning the AIR TANKER BID!
CONGRATULATIONS BOEING!!!
FINALLY A REPRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE AT LAST!(attached here)
 is a photo of one of my old Phantom Works glamour paint jobs that I worked virtually  overtime non-stop in the Wind tunnel paint booth...in the nick of time just  to illustrate the possibility of what a re-fueling probe would look like (JUST IN THE CHANCE) that our newly formed GLOBAL BOEING-McDONALD DO-DAA- DAY ONE MERGER'S MILITARY BID would look like if that old INFAMOUS STONECIPHER-CONDIT-DRYDEN TRIO's 767 bid would fail to meet the military spec's.

(humm? Wonder where jail bird Dryden is today? That is another long sad-dung-done story?)

Here is a working scale model that our wind tunnel bunch put so much time and effort into fabricating ON DEMAND!...(Thus proving or disproving that "ONE CAN CREATE A MASTERPIECE OF ART ON DEMAND???)
This force wind tunnel full working model project was stripped and painted for a sales pitch mock-up movie as well as a vehicle for the Boeing Simulator training projects for military personel etc.
FINALLY! LOOKS LIKE THE 767 WILL LIVE AND RISE AGAIN...and we can only hope n' pray that the new 767 will have as great a work life as the old KC 135's of the early vintage daze days gone by.
AGAIN...CONGRATS ALL U BOEING GRUNTS AND THE PLANES WE RIDE IN ON TODAY!

[Chris McMillin]

When I asked the Boeing lady sitting next to me why the 787 has it's fuselage built in Italy instead of at my CF whiz buddies in Oklahoma, she said, "How many 787's does Oklahoma buy?".
I don't think it makes a difference who gets the contract. EADS probably would have had more US construction.

Boeing, home of the Boeing P-51, F-15 and F-18, oh and the famous Boeing MD-80.

Chris...

Donaldo, remember the Staggerwing Raytheon? Heck, when I was a kid the only thing Raytheon was known for was the component that blew up Apollo 13.




 

[Shultzie]

When I asked the Boeing lady sitting next to me why the 787 has it's fuselage built in Italy instead of at my CF whiz buddies in Oklahoma, she said, "How many 787's does Oklahoma buy?".
I don't think it makes a difference who gets the contract. EADS probably would have had more US construction.

Boeing, home of the Boeing P-51, F-15 and F-18, oh and the famous Boeing MD-80.

Chris...

Donaldo, remember the Staggerwing Raytheon? Heck, when I was a kid the only thing Raytheon was known for was the component that blew up Apollo 13.

 

OUCH! 

[Peter Ferguson]

I don't think it makes a difference who gets the contract. EADS probably would have had more US construction.

That may have been true 10 -15 years ago when Airbus was using american made components like Boeing, but their supplier base has evolved. Much of their systems and major structure that they used to purchase from US companies has migrated to the european suppier market (much of which is owned by EADS). Besides the tanker work in Alabama would have been conversion work, similar to what Boeing Wichita does, the completed flyable airplanes would have been built in France. There is a significant amount of $ and jobs to be had designing and building 175+ planes.

[Howard Rush]

There is a significant amount of $ and jobs to be had designing and building 175+ planes.

Rightfully some high-dollar consulting gigs for retirees, an excellent use of government money.

[Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach]

ok....I gotta ask....a Boeing P-51?