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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:11 am Post subject: Farnborough '08: Northrop Grumman Takes KC-X Fight To Engla |
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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.
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