Tanker Time Line

摘要

The first 767-2C-called a "provisioned freighter" because it has all the plumbing, decks, and connections needed to eventually make it into an all-up tanker-flew on Dec. 28, 2014. Another 2C and two all-up KC-46s, fully equipped with refueling booms and related equipment, will join the test force as well. Last year, Boeing recognized it had a problem with the KC-46 in that it had run some redundant wiring in bundles with the main wires. Rearranging those wires so they would be physically separated, and restringing them in test and production aircraft, added a delay to the program, the scope of which was still under discussion in late December.