Today Boeing submitted its own 8,000 page proposal tome to for the tanker RFP. Boeing spokesperson Bill Barksdale explains how important this deal is to them and points out that his company’s airplane is not quite as lacking as was suggested by EADS yesterday in their own briefing. Boeing feels confident that it has a winning proposal and is ready for the next step of building the airplane to be ready for testing in 2015 and EIS in 2017.
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