Posted on 01/15/2008 5:35:49 AM PST by NCDragon
The U.S. Air Force is currently deciding whether the Boeing Company's KC-767 Advanced Tanker (AT) or the Airbus A-330 is better to replace its aging fleet of KC-135 aerial refueling tankers. We know which plane is better, because we currently design and build the KC-767.
Here are just a few reasons why the KC-767AT is the best plane to help support our troops and fly missions both at home and abroad.
First and foremost, it just makes sense for the U.S. Air Force to use an American plane. The idea of outsourcing a $40 billion U.S. military aircraft program to the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), Airbus' parent company, based in France, makes neither national-security nor economic sense. Why hand over some of our most valuable technology to Europe when we should be protecting it and our industrial base here at home?
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Especially with the current weakness of the dollar, it would cost us billions more to buy planes from our occasional pals, the cheese-eating surrender-monkeys.
Sure hope someone is running those numbers, and not just the here and now but forty years out which is how long the buy could go on.
Airbus aircraft are priced in dollars, plus they will build the tanker in Alabama.
I want my money to stay in the U.S. supporting American jobs.
To hell with the p.o.s. french.
In that case I say we go with EADS. We want the competition, however merger, to keep prices low. They pledged to build the plant in the US which means more jobs. Finally Boeing isn’t hurting, 787 sales are though the roof.
Plus Boeing decided to be more of an asian investor then the US player it was.
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