Re: Airbus tankers for USAF?

"Brett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Tarver Engineering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | "noname" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> | news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | >   As of last week, Lockheed Martin and EADS, majority owner of
> Airbus,
> | > were assembling a tanker proposal that would give Lockheed a 50%
> offset,
> | > according to the Air Force official. "[Airbus] clearly will jump on
> this
> | > as an opportunity to compete not only on subsequent buys, but also
> to
> | > take another whack at the first 100 since Boeing and the Air Force
> are
> | > arguing over whether there's supposed to be one contract or two.
> | > [Airbus] will come back with a sweetened deal."
> | >
> | >
> |
>
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/12013wna.xml
> |
> | Completing those tankers at Palmdale would draw quite a bit of
> political
> | support; Boxer needs to save her job.
>
> And proposing to put the 50% offset in Texas, Georgia, South Carolina or
> anywhere but California could ensure that Boxer loses her job.

Excellent.

A fine slab of Georgia pork.

Then we could kill the F-22 with very little political cost and ramp the
F-35 in Texas.