KC-46 Problems Should Not Add Delays; Possible Boeing Cost Rise: BG Shipton
Posted on
WASHINGTON: More testing, due next month, is needed before the Air Force knows whether the undetected banging of the KC-46 tanker’s refueling boom is a problem that needs fixing. Preliminary data indicates the banging (formally known as Undetected Contacts Outside The Receptacle –UCOTR) is happening more frequently than it does in the existing tanker fleet,… Keep reading →
KC-46 Faces 3 Category One Deficiencies; Two Affect Boom
Posted on
AFA: The four-star chief of Air Mobility Command wants his new KC-46 Pegasus tankers “yesterday,” but the tanker’s boom has a nasty tendency to scrape up planes it’s trying to refuel, as well as two other category one deficiencies, and contractor Boeing has to fix those. The paint scraping problem — formally known as “undetected… Keep reading →
acquisition
AFA 2017
AFA2017
air force
Air Force Association
Air Mobility Command
Air Warfare
AMC
Boeing
c-17
Contact Outside The Receptacle (COTR)
DOT&E
faa
Gen. Arnold Bunch
Gen. Carlton Everhart
Initial Operational Test & Evaluation
IOT&E
jet fuel
KC-46
logistics
maintenance
military readiness
tankers
TRANSCOM
Transportation Command
Quick links
© Copyright 2024, Morale Patch® Armory.