How Boeing steered tanker bid

"Tarver Engineering" wrote:


"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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(sid) wrote:


I should have framed the question this way:
How far would either aircraft fly if there is trouble in the E&E bay
that compromises the electrical system and you are down to DC
power...And then you lose even that?

Isn't that like saying "what would happen if the bloody wings
were to fall off"?...pretty silly statement imo.

I can't understand the obsession with DC power either. Airplanes mostly use
AC power for controls. I have yet to see a synchro that runs on DC.

Almost all a/c generate A.C. power then transform and rectify
some of it to DC with TRU's so the only emergency supply of DC is
a very short lived set of batteries mostly used for emergency
flight instruments and other very essential services. In 26 years
of flying (13,000 hours) I've never lost all A.C. power on any
a/c (nor heard of any of my friends doing it either) so it's not
one of those 'ho hum' occurrences.
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-Gord.