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02-29-2008, 06:22 PM
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Looks like Airbus and EADS got the contract. This is going to produce a lot of jobs in the south, Alabama. I thought Boeing would have walked away with it but had the feeling Airbus would get it. That should stimulate the economy in the next few years.
02-29-2008, 07:05 PM
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I am originally from Mobile & they have a [U]lot[U] of infrastructure to put into place in order to support the needed workforce. I own an aviation related repair business not to far from there & hopefully it will provide me with an employee pool when people get tired of working for the French....
03-01-2008, 03:00 AM
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Well, the only french thing about this thing is the airframe. But I hope all the Americans in the great south have a benefit from this deal in the long run. But being a Boom operator I'm kinda sad that Boeing didn't get the contract. But anyway let me know how you southerners do from this 30 billion dollar deal.
03-01-2008, 12:38 PM
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Not a Boeing tanker. 
diesel_burner, are you still called "Clancy?" That is the name hung on the boom operators on the KC135 when I was in SAC in the AF
diesel_burner, are you still called "Clancy?" That is the name hung on the boom operators on the KC135 when I was in SAC in the AF
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