Notes It Will Complete Four Tanker Airframes In 2009; Two Ready
For Mods Now
Northrop Grumman Corporation's Tanker team announced Monday in
Farnborough all four KC-45A initial tanker System Design and
Development (SDD) airframes are scheduled for final assembly and
initial flight testing by the end of 2009. The first two SDD
airframes have been built and flown, and are awaiting modification
to the tanker configuration... marked progress, compared to
Boeing's KC-767 also vying for the oft-contested US Air Force KC-X
tanker contract.
Shoe-In For "Oddest Use Of A Globemaster III" Award?
A 326th Airlift Squadron aircrew landed at Dover Air Force Base,
DE July 11 carrying a highly unusual payload -- two giant squids --
in its cargo compartment.
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