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Originally posted by Lonestar24
I didn´t want to open a new thread, its nearly unrelated, but...
VERY close call yesterday for a Lufthansa A320 on approach to Hamburg. Strong storms this weekend, you can literally see the plane pushd sideways on approach...
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[edit on 2/3/2008 by Lonestar24]
Originally posted by RichardPrice
So what you are saying is that an inferior offering should be accepted because it supposedly gives more workers jobs? This is why politicians should never be involved in this.
The Northrop proposal, which put forward the much bigger A330 against the 767, even swung the Air Force around from its original thinking.
"The Air Force started out believing that the larger aircraft was a liability," Thompson said. "Northrop did such a superior job of analysis that they convinced a reluctant Air Force to treat the larger aircraft as an asset."
His memo listed the five key criteria as capability, risk, past performance, cost and "integrated fleet aerial refueling assessment," a score from a computer model that measures performance in various war scenarios.
"Boeing didn't manage to beat Northrop in a single measure of merit," Thompson wrote.
Originally posted by Harlequin
...edit: unless boeing are saying without this contract the entire lines closes which is crap cause they have orders till 2012 on the 767.