Originally Posted by III Corps

Most of what I have read are the complaints from Combat Jack Murtha, he the constant blowhard who when he can't get his constituents to agree with him, he just threatens them. Nice guy...

Boeing futzed this one with first trying to rig the bidding with inside information and got caught with their hand in the cookie jar... and then bid an airplane made up of various parts and expected everyone to go, "Hail to Seattle and Chicago" whilst on bended knee. Funny thing happened on the way to the bid... EADS and Northrop Grumman WON.

Not one to use the word easily but it seems as if Boeing thought they were entitled to build the tanker regardless of the merits of the airplane. This is NOT the Boeing mindset that built the 707 and the 747.