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(OT:) Sometimes a 'global economy' can be a bad thing:

Northrop Grumman got the job to build the KC-135 Tanker replacement aircraft. Some of the 135's in the Air Force's fleet are 50 years old. So, why are they having Airbus build the airframes?

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As has been widely reported, the Air Force stunned almost everyone yesterday by deciding to award its huge, $35 billion contract for new airborne refueling tankers to a partnership formed by Northrop Grumman, the Los Angeles-based company, and EADS Inc., the European maker of Airbus airliners.

Boeing, headquartered in Chicago but with a large workforce in Washington State, was the big loser. Boeing had said that if it got the contract to build the new tanker based on its 767 airliner, it would provide enough work to keep 40,000 U.S. workers busy.

But Boeing lost. So the aircraft will be built in Europe, with the conversion work being done in Mobile, Ala. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Mobile operations would employ far fewer people than Boeing says it would have, apparently 1,200 to do the modification work.

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Hachiroku
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Write to NG's CEO and ask. Let us know what you find out.

Reply to
JoeSpareBedroom

Why did Boeing propose to use the 767 instead of the newer 777, which is only slightly larger but more fuel-efficient?

Reply to
larry moe 'n curly

Good question. Could it be corruption, perhaps?

Nah.

Reply to
witfal

I couldn't tell ya. If our government won't buy American and says screw American, who can the people trust?

Reply to
Reasoned Insanity

You Toyota buyers have no problem buying from a foreign company that pays no US federal corporate income taxes. At least a European company can not take profits out of the US federal tax free.

If the American consumer can choose to buy products from foreign companies or products only assembled in the US, from mostly foreign parts like Toyota buyers, why should the American government not also take advantage of the same cost savings for the American taxpayer?

American consumer better soon wise up or there will be no large manufacturing left in this county.

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Mike hunt

But Toyota's American subsidiaries do pay state and federal income taxes.

Gee, you should ask the Department of Defense, which just awarded a huge contract to the makers of Airbus instead of the American company Boeing.

Gee, the American Toyota subsidiaries are expanding their plants in the US.

Jeff

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Jeff

Corruption in government contracts never happens, especially with Republican administrations. Apparently, there was fraud involved and two Boeing executives went to jail and the CEO resigned.

However, Boeing negotiated a $23 billion deal with the Air Force for 100 tankers, based on the 767. See, the government caught the potential fraud and put an end to it.

You can read more about the 777 tanker here, if you want:

Jeff

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Jeff

??? I meant corruption within Boeing.

Reply to
witfal

There was a incident where a previous contract with Boeing was withdrawn for reasons of fraud, with some Boeing people going to jail.

But are suggesting someone inside Boeing was trying to make it so that Boeing did not want Boeing to get the contract? Otherwise, I am not sure how corruption within Boeing would cause Boeing to lose the contract.

Jeff

Reply to
Jeff

So it's not impossible that someone within Boeing was on another company's payroll, so to speak?

Reply to
witfal

Of course it is possible.

Reply to
Jeff

Which was why I ended my original post with a question mark, "...perhaps?".

Reply to
witfal

The American Consumer is different from the American Government.

Reply to
Hachiroku

Duh the American Government IS the American consumer LOL

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Mike hunt

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