"Tarver Engineering" wrote:
| "noname" wrote in message
| ...
| As of last week, Lockheed Martin and EADS, majority owner of
Airbus,
| were assembling a tanker proposal that would give Lockheed a 50%
offset,
| according to the Air Force official. "[Airbus] clearly will jump on
this
| as an opportunity to compete not only on subsequent buys, but also
to
| take another whack at the first 100 since Boeing and the Air Force
are
| arguing over whether there's supposed to be one contract or two.
| [Airbus] will come back with a sweetened deal."
|
|
|
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/new...s/12013wna.xml
|
| Completing those tankers at Palmdale would draw quite a bit of
political
| support; Boxer needs to save her job.

And proposing to put the 50% offset in Texas, Georgia, South Carolina or
anywhere but California could ensure that Boxer loses her job.