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I'm afraid you are right. Lets hope that the price of any required help is the removal of senior manglement with engineers who actually know how an aircraft flies.

If the USAF and Congress had known about all the issues that they would have with these would they still dumped the KC-45?

Yes I know its a hindsight question, but still.

I just finished making the 5 KC-46s delivered to and currently active with the 133rd ARS at Pease. I'm trying to get some aerial shots of these, but they're not departing.

Firebird wrote: 26 Apr 2020, 17:46 If the USAF and Congress had known about all the issues that they would have with these would they still dumped the KC-45?

Yes I know its a hindsight question, but still.

This is big politics, Steve, and I'm afraid the answer is almost certainly 'yes'. Ask the operators, and I'm sure you'd get a different answer. Had they stuck with the KC-45, by now they'd have had a full fleet in service. However, the KC-46 will eventually be made to work properly and will be a good aeroplane - and Boeing will have learned a lot which will translate into whatever they eventually build to replace the 757/767. But the KC-45 had huge potential, and it's a shame it was lost.

I think that you may be right. Tim.
The thing that may have made the difference, again with hindsight, was that Grumman was going to build them in the US. Just right now Boeing is not as popular in Government circles as it was at the time. It may have made a difference.

We will never know for sure but it is an interesting question.

jetrange wrote: 26 Apr 2020, 17:52 I just finished making the 5 KC-46s delivered to and currently active with the 133rd ARS at Pease. I'm trying to get some aerial shots of these, but they're not departing.

Was these ever released?

The KC-46s currently at Altus are done. The Tankers at Pease are also going to be uploaded to the Hangar soon. These are going to be for FSX/P3D.