Reply #3: ensemble

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The fact is that EADS never had a fighting chance in hell, to winn the bid for bulding the new tanker for the US airforce.. it was a show for the public, who in the end of course was falling to the domain of Boeing... It have been on the books for years, everyone who have folloed this show, have known the outcome well in advance... The A330RT never had a chance, even if the Airbus was been build in US to be the next tanker contract...

I guess, they could have said it from the start, that Boeing would win the game and stop wasting billions of tax payers money. How many dollars wasted on this show is unknown.. But it is not few bucks, wastet on both sides of the Atlantic, when everyone know who would get the tanker deal before the first try out was filed a couple of years ago...

Wel, I supose Airbus and EADS have to try sell the tanker deal to other nations then, as USAF would be bussy getting their "new" B767-XXX the next decade or so.. (In fact in many ways, the A330 would have been a more modern aircraft than the B767.. )

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