🚀 go-pugleaf

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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