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Originally Posted by CcrlR737pilot
The Italian Air Force and JASDF will get theirs. Boeing will still test fly to make it certified to fly for those air forces.
Serously, I would have asked the USAF anything you wanted to do to make a tanker-even making a new one from another variant that we produce, then I would do it. They could have done a 767-300 tanker for them or the 400 version or a 777 as one just to please them. Somehow we can have a mix of tankers like how we do with the KC-135 and the KC-10s that we use.
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I think you'll find that the -300 or -400 B767s are too long. In particular, when the aircraft rotates, the refueling boom which hangs below the rear of the aircraft would contact the runway due to the lengthening of the aircraft rear of the MLG. For the same reason, they dont offer a A330-300 as a tanker.