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Old 10-02-2020, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
But jeez, they’ve been the tanker guys throughout history. Not just the KC-135s but converting C-97s to KC-97s, and even B-29s to KB-50s before that. And in months, not years. And for a damn sight less than $40 billion even in constant year dollars. You’d think the company would die from the embarrassment alone.
That was the old Boeing, which built airliners that their chief pilot could barrel-roll in the traffic pattern.

New Boeing is MD dba Boeing.
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