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Old 02-24-2011, 20:11   #10
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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004 View Post
Boeing was awarded the Air Force tanker contract over EADS (LINK). I am wondering your thoughts? My initial thought is that I much prefer an American company getting to build the tankers as opposed to the Europeans, however after reading some of the posts above, now I am not sure.

Is this a good thing or do you think EADS should have gotten it?
There's an old saying among pilots: "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going!"

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