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According to a report at Aviationweek Boeing thinks about to leave the tanker rebidding process. The new proposal gives more credits to a bigger tanker and thus a 767 based tanker wouldn´t be competitive to a A330 based tanker ... and as i wrote before. A 777 based tanker is no alternative for Boeing besides of the short timeframe for this proposal.

Now, however, the Pentagon is pushing for the replacement tankers as soon as possible after multiple delays. It remains unclear if a no-bid position from Boeing would drag out the KC-X competition or it if would compel the Pentagon to attempt a sole-source of the work to Northrop Grumman/EADS.

This is an interesting development. Stopping the former decision with the help of the GOA just do leave the proposal process afterwards will not help to make friends for future proposals ....

Ich frage mich ja ernsthaft, ob die deutsche Presse sich die Mission geschaffen hat, den A380 kaputt zu schreiben. Kein Markt ... viel zu gross ... kleinere Maschinen besser. Diesmal ist es die Zeit, die in dieses Horn blaesst

Nun: Ich bin mir seit dem letzten CEC sicher, das der Markt für den A380 da ist, und zwar durch eine ganz profane Beobachtung: Ich bin damals von San Francisco nach Frankfurt in einer LH 747 geflogen, nur wenige Minuten später flog eine Maschine der United Airlines (ebenfalls 747) mit Kollegen ab, auch mit dem Ziel Frankfurt, man traf sich in Frankfurt vorm Gate zur Maschine nach Hamburg. Es sind also zwei Maschinen hintereinander unterwegs, beide Maschinen knueppeldickevoll. Und nun erzaehle mir jemand, das es für diese Art von sehr grossen Maschinen keinen Markt gibt.

Okay, i´m somewhat biased, because i work at the Finkenwerder airbus site on regular occasions and i like the people over there for the stuff they do. I was in Finkenwerder at the first landing in Hamburg and the bird is incredible. Anyway, the need of redesigning the cable mounts for the A380 seems to me as a minor problem. Having problems at baking the fuselage of the B787 seems to me like a real bad problem. I don´t want to sit at such a bubble, at least when the pressure difference sucks me out of the plane after the bubble transformed itself to an hole