Comments on: France Gets Aerial Refueling Tanker Contract

By: KBoomr113

KBoomr113 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:53:35 +0000

As a future tanker pilot, I’m pissed that I might have to fly a french POS one day.

By: KBoomr113

KBoomr113 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:00:10 +0000

I have about a half million reasons why this was a horrible idea. Essentially, this is a Post-Hurricane Katrina bandaid on the south Alabama/Mississippi area. Politics driving the military as usual. The best thing would have been to made Boeing create a new tanker from scratch. so it wasn’t the 676 or French.

By: Mark Tanberg

Mark Tanberg — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:23:13 +0000

As goes Boeing so goes Seattle

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:23:06 +0000

KBoomr could you elaborate? This article seems to prove that the airbus is a much better choice than the 767.

Also, it looks like Boeing tried to illegally persuade the air force officials to get the contract.

By: franchie

franchie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:44:37 +0000

see the previous topic, I brought there some links

Your are going to get the “assemblage” of the tank in your country

and plus, Airbus is going to build a manufacture near Boeing

By: Hank

Hank — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:23:17 +0000

I did not think they would have the courage to award to just one contractor. Really don’t wish to offend anyone do we?

By: Firebad

Firebad — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:39:31 +0000

I worked on aircraft for while before becoming a firefighter, and the Airbus is an excellent airplane, boieng 767 isn’t bad but the airbus in all fairness is a superior, easier to work with aircraft. and unless you work maintenance you just don’t realize how much maitenance an aircraft has. the less downtown an aircraft has the more planes the tanker can refuel the more bombs dropped on the badguys.

By: USMC BEANS

USMC BEANS — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:35:03 +0000

Lets look at it this way. Do we really want a foreign power building our military equipment? Franchie, Airbus is not building anything near Boeing. How do I know? I work for Boeing. The airplanes are being assembled in Toulouse and modified in Mobile. They are not building them over here. Its great that Alabama just got 2,500 jobs. Guess how many workers in Everett are going to lose jobs when the 767 line closes down. Lets not forget about how many people in Wichita will now not have a job. So we created 2,500 jobs to lose 10,000. Makes sense to me. All those supplier jobs that it is also creating would have been created by the 767 win as well, so those are not even a point that should be considered. Oh well, let the Air Force learn the hard way going from a company with over 50 years of tanker experience to a new entry. Ah the growing pains.

By: franchie

franchie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:45:07 +0000

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004121472_airbus12.html

USMC BEANS

Well, as far as Airbus in Seattle, it’s my man who told me the info, so I tried to check on the net, so far, can’t find any confirmation, I’ll ask him where did he get the info from.

but I got that :

Airbus investit à Seattle

Plus sensible au volet technologique du projet, Airbus a annoncé une participation de 30 % dans Tenzing , une jeune pousse basée à Seattle… ville où siège Boeing. Tout un symbole.

Créée en 1998, Tenzing a levé jusqu’à présent 52 millions d’euros auprès de fonds d’investissements et de la compagnie aérienne Cathay Pacific. L’entrée d’Airbus au capital de Tenzing valorise cette dernière à 170,9 millions d’euros.

Le projet d’Airbus prévoit une mise à disposition pour les passagers de prises de connexion Internet, reliées à un serveur central et à un logiciel de navigation développé par Tenzing.

En Amérique du Nord, par exemple, les passagers devraient payer 4,95 dollars pour visualiser la liste des e-mails qui leur sont adressés. Ils débourseront 50 cents supplémentaires pour lire ou envoyer une page de texte. Airbus prévoit également de créer un bouquet de sites accessibles gratuitement. “

http://www.01net.com/article/152388.html

By: franchie

franchie — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:47:43 +0000

I just had a look at Mobile history, it was a french settlement at the origin.

http://www.alabamamoments.alabama.gov/sec02det.html

Seems the Frenchs are settling there again

About airbus and a possible factory in the nearby of Seattle, it looks like my man got mixed with the names, hehe, he is getting a bit “old”, but I should have checked first, then sorry for the erroonrd info

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:49:10 +0000

The first flaw in this argument that Boeing should have gotten the contract because it is an American company resides in the truth that all of the companies in the bidding were multinationals. EADS will be doing much of its work on the tankers in Alabama. GE (NYSE: GE) will be supplying $5 billion in engines for the planes. If Boeing had gotten the contract the odds are near 100% that many of the components of the tankers would have come from suppliers outside the US.

http://www.247wallst.com/2008/03/air-force-tanke.html