G2 Solutions @ July 21, 2010 # No Comment Yet
European ministers representing the nations behind Airbus joined the attack on the delay in the World Trade Organisation’s verdict on alleged subsidies for Boeing commercial aircraft.
Last month, the WTO finally ruled that Airbus received illegal subsidies from European governments, a decision that Boeing says proves its rival is competing unfairly and [...]
G2 Solutions @ July 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
One of the two Airbus Military A330 MRTT Multi Role Transport Tankers scheduled to be delivered to the Royal Australian Air Force this year has now been painted in the service’s colours. The aircraft, seen here at the Airbus Military facility at Getafe, Madrid, is the second to have undergone conversion [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
According to this short Ares story
The Dew Line has posted EADS’ comments on 6-9 month MRTT delay
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G2 Solutions @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“Boeing Says it Needs 6 Months to Submit Tanker Bid” according to the Wall Street Journal.
This is the strongest signal yet that Boeing is prepared to offer a different aircraft for KC-X. Meanwhile Bloomberg reports that “The Air Force’s draft proposal announced Aug. 6 gives priority to “fuel capacity and offload, and [...]
G2 Solutions @ August 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In the interest of fairness (one of the most overused word in the entire tanker saga), we turn our intention to last year’s issue about Northrop Grumman protesting the initial KPPs contained in the original RFP. Both articles are from the always excellent Graham Warwick, at the time writing for Flight International…
US Air Force to [...]
G2 Solutions @ August 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
However, they need to change their PR message, not very effective anymore.
Article from St Louis Today
G2 Solutions @ August 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It now emerges that the Pentagon has decided to preempt any information leakage pertaining to the KC-X tender. There are several reasons why DoD is issuing this very stringent set of directives:
- It does not want to give ammunition to any company to play interference during the review process
- DoD is concerned that several [...]
