Stresses KC-45A Is Ready For Deliveries; Boeing Isn't
Still reeling from last week's surprise decision by the
Government Accountability Office to recommend the US Air Force take
yet another look at it's bidding process for a new aerial tanker,
original contract winner Northrop Grumman Corporation urged a
speedy resolution of the issue... and noted, for the moment anyway,
the company is still holder of the contract.
Imagine being a soldier out on the border of eastern
Afghanistan... and your only connection to the rest of the world is
a pallet of supplies on the back of a foreign helicopter. That is
what it is like for coalition forces cut off and isolated
throughout parts of Afghanistan.
EADS Lobby May Have Assisted Senator In Original KC-X Bid
Probe
With Boeing's protest to the KC-X aerial tanker contract award
to EADS being sustained by the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) last Wednesday, eyes are falling onto some recent
correspondence from John McCain that may turn around and bite the
presidential candidate according to a Newsweek article on June
21.
Witnesses Report Possible Loss Of Power On Takeoff
A Czechoslovakian-made Aero L-29 Delfin crashed shortly after
takeoff Sunday morning in Millville, NJ. The Cold War-era jet
trainer went down in a wooded area a half-mile northwest of the
Millville Municipal Airport, according to FAA spokeswoman Holly
Baker.
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