US Navy Wants More Boeings

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from FlightGlobal:

US Navy asks Boeing to accelerate P-8A deliveries
By Andrew Doyle

The US Navy has asked Boeing to make good on a four-year-old promise to accelerate deliveries of P-8A Poseidon long-range maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, following last December's grounding of around a quarter of its Lockheed P-3C Orions.

"We're working with the navy right now on a capacity analysis to understand what the possible rates out of the factory are," says Boeing Integrated Defense Systems P-8A programme manager Bob Feldmann. "There's a gap in capability that needs to be filled."

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[Nick]

Had a P-3 doing Touch and Goes a few weeks ago at FOK. <- See I what I did right there. That plane looks badass tho.