Airbus Tanker Jet’s Fuel-Boom Bug Confounds Australian Air Force
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Airbus SAS has yet to resolve performance issues with its military refueling plane, more than two years after the first examples were delivered, according to the Royal Australian Air Force, the model’s lead customer.
The KC-30A tanker and troop transport has been on the Australian defense department’s Projects of Concern list since 2010 and is the “biggest priority at the moment,” Air Marshal Geoff Brown said in an interview in London.