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Participation has been enhanced as well: You can submit stories, news and anecdotes or links using a new and better submit form – Link: Submit form Photos and videos can be submitted as well – even works from any mobile phone! – Link: Submit form If you’re on Flickr, you can add your photos to the Flightstory photo pool – Every week we’ll pick one entry that will be honored as Photo of the Week” – Link: Flickr photo contest You want us to review your products and services or want us to publish your press release, company news or dedicated article you can easily get in touch as well – Link: Contact form We hope you like the new website! Please feel free to make suggestions and report errors. Any feedback is welcome! Go to www.flightstory.net Posted on March 6, 2011 March 6, 2011 Categories Miscellaneous Leave a comment on Flightstory With New Website Boeing Wins USAF Tanker Deal The Pentagon recently announced, that Boeing has won the $35 billion USAF tanker contract. The contract means Boeing will initially build 179 of its 767-based KC-46A tankers to replace the Air Force KC-135 tankers. Boeing must design, develop, manufacture and deliver the first 18 combat-ready airplanes by 2017. The first tanker is scheduled to fly in 2015. The contest was not just about the better plane but also about monopoly and immense lobbying – Boeing spent more than $17.8 million on lobbying, just in 2010. In 2008 U.S. Air Force already selected the competing KC-45 Tanker offered by EADS/Northrop Grumman but the selection was revised later after protests filed by Boeing. EADS has three days to ask for a debriefing as to why exactly it lost. That debriefing must take place within five days, after which EADS has another five days to decide if it wants to formally protest the decision. EADS North America officials expressed disappointment and concern over the announcement that the US had selected a high-risk, concept aircraft over the proven, more capable KC-45 tanker”. This is certainly a disappointing turn of events, and we look forward to discussing with the Air Force how it arrived at this conclusion,” said EADS North America Chairman Ralph D. Crosby, Jr. For seven years our goal has been to provide the greatest capability to our men and women in uniform, and to create American jobs by building the KC-45 here in the U.S. We remain committed to those objectives.” If selected, EADS North America had committed to build the KC-45 at a new production facility in Mobile, Alabama, with a U.S. supplier base of nearly a thousand American companies. With a program of such complexity, our review of today’s decision will take some time,” Crosby said. There are more than 48,000 Americans who are eager to build the KC-45 here in the U.S., and we owe it to them to conduct a thorough analysis.” Sources: Boeing, Airbus Image: Boeing Posted on February 25, 2011 February 25, 2011 Categories Aviation News , Boeing , Military 1 Comment on Boeing Wins USAF Tanker Deal Photo – First Korean Air A380 Leaves Paint Shop Today the first Airbus A380 for Korean Air (MSN035) has been rolled out of the Airbus paint shop in Hamburg. The aircraft is the first of 10 A380s ordered by the Asian airline. Korean Air will become the sixth operator of the A380 when it takes delivery in the second quarter of this year. Korean Air will initially operate the A380 on flights from Seoul to Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok, followed later in the year by transpacific services to New York and Los Angeles. Photo: Airbus Source: Airbus Posted on February 24, 2011 Categories A380 , Airbus , Photos 1 Comment on Photo – First Korean Air A380 Leaves Paint Shop Photos – 747-8 Intercontinental Unveiled Boeing today unveiled its brand new Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental – and man, she’s a beauty! The new 747-8 Intercontinental features the latest in innovative technologies — applying many of the breakthroughs also found on the 787 Dreamliner,” said Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Albaugh. We think our customers will value the low operating costs and passengers will enjoy the comfort of the striking new interior.” The 747-8 Intercontinental will be a great complement to our fleet, fitting nicely into the 400-seat category, improving our fleet’s eco-efficiency even further,” said Nico Buchholz, executive vice president, Lufthansa Group Fleet Management. As launch customer, we are looking forward to welcoming this new aircraft to our fleet next year as it adds to our ongoing fleet modernization and environmental efforts.” Korean Air and VIP customers have joined launch customer Lufthansa in ordering a total of 33 747-8 Intercontinentals. First delivery of the 747-8 Intercontinental is scheduled for the fourth quarter. The 747-8 Intercontinental will have the lowest seat-mile cost of any large commercial jetliner, with 12 percent lower costs than its predecessor, the 747-400. The airplane provides 16 percent better fuel economy, 16 percent less carbon emissions per passenger and generates a 30 percent smaller noise footprint than the 747-400. The 747-8 Intercontinental applies interior features from the 787 Dreamliner that includes a new curved, upswept architecture giving passengers a greater feeling of space and comfort, while adding more room for personal belongings. The airplane unveiled today is painted in a new Sunrise livery of red-orange that only will appear on the first 747-8 Intercontinental and is a significant departure from Boeing’s standard blue. The new color palette honors many key Boeing customers whose cultures recognize these colors as symbols of prosperity and good luck. Source: Boeing Photos: Boeing Posted...