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Boeing May Get a Second Shot at Large Tanker Contract

Boeing is the last remaining manufacturer in the US of large multi-engine jet aircraft, airliner-based platforms, suitable for evolution into tanker format. McDonnell Douglas, Convair, Lockheed, all either failed in their airliner product lines or were amalgamated into Boeing itself. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to behave as McCain has done, in pretending that there is a viable US manufacturer other than Boeing for tankers in 2008. And stop the ridiculous nonsense about Airbus tankers being "assembled" in Alabama. They would be in such a state of near-completion (by European workers) that they will be flown to the US for interior fitment, as Dassault has done for years with its line of Falcon bizjets.