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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: foreign partnerships was(Re: How many flights are Orbiters)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.211129.20772@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <neff.14.725817375@iaiowa.physics.uiowa.edu> <725984212snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan2.171539.9059@iti.org> <ewright.726167217@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:11:29 GMT
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- In article <ewright.726167217@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <1993Jan2.171539.9059@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- >
- >>DC could be available long before then *IF* we can get DoD to fund the
- >>proof of concept vehicle.
- >
- >If we can get *someone* to fund the proof-of-concept vehicle. DoD
- >may still have the deepest pockets around, but I certainly hope
- >McDAC is looking at other sources also. Perhaps the Japanese
- >would be interested in a joint partnership. It's too bad the
- >Delta Clipper wasn't started several years ago when McDonnell Douglas
- >was healthy enough to finance such a project itself.
-
- Interesting street rumor reported on the business report of NBC Sunrise
- program this morning. Apparently, Boeing is negotiating a partnership
- with a Japanese and a German firm to underwrite the development of the
- next generation widebody airliner, reportedly seats 600. The report
- indicated that even Boeing isn't healthy enough to risk going it alone
- on that one, and the US airlines are too strapped to place speculative
- orders. If Boeing can't fund a new widebody, MacDD is in deep doo
- with DC without a deep pocketed partner to back them. With Clinton/Gore
- in charge, DOD is going to be too busy doing environmental cleanups of
- the bases they're going to be closing to fund DC, and all those DOD
- people and contractor people laid off in the cutbacks are going to be
- busy learning which end of a shovel to hold while building Clinton's
- road and bridge projects, or training to be medical orderlies in his
- national health care program. Maybe MacDD should give the Sultan of Brunei
- a call.
-
- Gary
-
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