Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
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- Boeing defends 787, 777 against whistleblower charges April 17, 2024
- Dissecting Boeing CEO’s statement next new airplane will cost $50bn April 15, 2024
To fuel or not to fuel
Here are a couple of items about the refueling capability of the KC-30/KC-330 tanker, which is one point of controversy in the continuing saga of the Boeing-Northrop Grumman tanker contract award. Boeing likes to point out that Northrop’s… Read More
News on the tanker, 787, Boeing earnings
The last 24 hours have been busy news days on the tanker and the 787. Reuters published a story yesterday about the Air Force calling the CEOs of Boeing and Northrop Grumman on the carpet for the vitriolic… Read More
Ominous development for Northrop’s tanker
An ominous political development for the Northrop tanker award by the USAF may be developing in the US Senate. An article today in The Washington Post discusses the future of Sen. Robert Byrd, chairman of the Senate Appropriations… Read More
Tanker wars, continued
Boeing and Northrop continue their tanker public relations war. Boeing fired off this press release about the KC-767’s “survivability” vs. the Northrop KC-30. Northrop fired off a release about jobs, steering people to a 3 1/2 minute National… Read More
KC-30, KC-767 prices revealed
In a remarkable piece of reporting, Reuters‘ Andrea Shalal-Esa uncovered the price offered by Northrop Grumman to the US Air Force for its KC-30 and from there the extrapolation of the price Boeing offered for the KC-767. Reuters… Read More
Breaking News: GAO dumps NGC, USAF; Boeing narrows protest
From The Wall Street Journal: By AUGUST COLE April 2, 2008 6:06 p.m. The Government Accountability Office denied motions filed by Northrop Grumman Corp. and the Air Force to dismiss parts of Boeing Co. protest of a $40… Read More
More on tanker
Here are some new developments on the continuing USAF tanker saga: Human Events publishes a rebuttal to a previous piece supporting Boeing. This one supports Northrop. Opponents to US Sen. John McCain continue to make hay over allegations… Read More
Boeing resorts to more PR/updated
Boeing placed nationwide advertisements Tuesday about its protest over the USAF award to the GAO. This is part of the public relations campaign by Boeing we’ve disliked. Just as we thought the USAF award had to be done… Read More
Congressional move ill-advised
A move in the US House to adopt legislation to overturn the USAF tanker award to Boeing is ill-advised on a number of levels. According to a story in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Boeing supporters in the House, incensed… Read More
Hopscotching through Europe
We’re sometimes accused of having a warped sense of humor (guilty) that occasionally gets us in trouble with readers. But we simply can’t help ourselves. We found something in the Boeing tanker protest that we could not help… Read More