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dirtybird -> RE: EADS tanker (3/14/2008 6:50:24 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Stew99
This is from an interview with Ron Sugar, Northrop Grumman Chairman and CEO, on FOX News yesterday:
"There is a lot of controversy about our use of Airbus as an airframe supplier. Frankly, I’m shocked at the amount of misinformation being discussed in the halls of Congress and in the press. To set the record straight: Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor, a top-tier American firm that builds the B-2 Stealth Bomber, America’s nuclear aircraft carriers and the Global Hawk. Our team will create or support 48,000 new jobs in America—in 49 states. No U.S. workers will be fired because we are building new tankers. On the contrary, our win will contribute to development of a new U.S. Aerospace corridor being created in the Southeast."
This is from the Seattle Times:
Japan's share of the Dreamliner
Three Japanese industrial giants build and co-design 35 percent of the 787. They deliver most of the 787's center section and are now manufacturing the massive composite plastic pieces in Nagoya, two hours southwest of Tokyo by bullet train.
The Japanese government provides loans to finance the development project estimated at up to $2 billion.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries builds the main piece of the 114-foot-long 787 wing and attaches the fixed trailing edge built by Kawasaki and the fixed leading edge built by Spirit AeroSystems in Tulsa, Okla. The two big wing sections delivered to Everett together weigh about 25 tons.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries builds the fixed trailing edge of the 787 wing, which it delivers to Mitsubishi. Kawasaki also builds the barrel-shaped, single-piece fuselage section just forward of the wings. The fuselage section, weighing about 5 tons, goes to Global Aeronautica in Charleston, S.C., for assembly.
Fuji Heavy Industries (better known as the maker of Subaru autos) builds the 787's "center wing box," the load-bearing structure in the lower central fuselage that holds the wings. The Fuji part, delivered to Charleston, S.C., weighs almost 10 tons.
Source: Boeing
In the begining NG said 23,000 jobs would be created. Now its up to 48,000. How come?
No jobs will be lost? Tell that to my neighbor that has received his notice.
Yes the Japanese are building a lot of the 787. The last I heard they also had troops in Irac. Maybe they have gone home by now. They have also bought 767 tankers.
NG is the prime contractor for the B2 but a lot of it was built by Boeing. In fact I think Boeng built more than NG.
So they build great aircraft carriers. Have they built an aircraft tanker?
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