Boeing Can Fix $44 Billion Tanker Flaw, Air Force Chief Says
- General Goldfein cites progress since talks in January
- Boeing shifted more engineering talent to KC-46, Goldfein says
A Boeing KC-46 tanker sits at the Paris Air Show on June 17, 2019.
Photographer: Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images
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The Air Force’s top military officer says he’s convinced that Boeing Co. finally has a solid plan to fix the flawed refueling system that has bedeviled its $44 billion aerial refueling tanker program.
“There were some engineering design flaws” in the original Remote Vision System for the KC-46 tanker that have “taken us far too long to resolve,” General David Goldfein said in an interview. “But now I’m as confident as I ever have been that we have good, solid science and engineering behind the fix.”