A couple weeks back I went junketeering with Boeing and shot this video of their 767 line in Everett, Washington, where the firm will build 179 KC-767 tankers, assuming it wins the KC-X competition in December. Check it out.
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“Six years ago Boeing almost scored a non-competitive $20-billion lease deal for tankers, but an ethics scandal derailed the plan,” Axe has noted on his blog. “It turned out that a key Air Force procurement official, Darlene Druyun, had been offered a job in exchange for setting up an unnecessarily expensive lease.” Why do you just write this as if this was nothing? This is not right, she went to jail for this, well I Pray that Boeing will NOT get this contract.
Boeing almost had to enhance its position when competing against a government sponsored, government financed company that uses foreign government political pressure to secure business for their national interests. Boeing, a privately held company, shouldn’t have “cheated” last time but don’t punish America because of that fact. Those responsible went to prison.
Last time I looked there were no American made aircraft defending Europe, Inc. so why should we have European aircraft defending America. Buy American while you still have the opportunity to do so.