July 09, 2010 (Reuters) — Boeing Co. submitted its formal proposal to begin building a new U.S. Air Force aerial tanker fleet in a contest worth up to $50 billion that pits it once more against archrival Airbus. Boeing said on Friday it offered an American-made, 767-based multi-mission tanker that will satisfy all 372 mandatory Air Force requirements at the lowest cost to the taxpayer. Its 8,000-page proposal was hand-delivered to the tanker program office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in...
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