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		H8crilA on April 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FAA overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flyin... Nothing proves my point better than the fact that Airbus won the competition but ultimately this happened: > The Air Force selected Boeing's KC-46 bid on 24 February 2011. PS. purchasers around the world seem to like Airbus' MRTT platforms a lot, they are probably better at the purely technical level.

Dylan16807 on May 1, 2023 [–]

I don't think that even comes close to proving they wouldn't use Airbus should Boeing go under.

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