This in today's Seattle Times:
Airbus will play a last-ditch trump card Monday in its bid to beat Boeing for an Air Force refueling tanker contract worth tens of billions of dollars.
I spent a week in Toulouse, France about two years ago and had a chance to meet some of the EADS engineers at the Airbus plant there. If the plant comes to Alabama it will be boon for the area. More from the Seattle Times:
Chief Executive Tom Enders plans to announce that if Airbus wins the tanker competition, it also will assemble commercial airplanes in the U.S.
Enders and Alabama politicians are to announce the plan in Mobile, where the tankers would be assembled.
The Airbus proposal envisages up to four aircraft a month rolling out of a plant at Brookley Field in Mobile, a person familiar with the plan said.
Lets all keep our fingers crossed!
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