http://seattleweekly.com/2008-03-19/news/is-airbus-bird-too-big.php
More coverage (a la local reaction to) on the subject of the big tanker deal that Boeing is disputing. The gist of the dispute is that the bigger plane creates untold infrastructure costs at taxpayer expense for a plane that has characteristics that were never initially part of the deal As it were, Boeing thought the Air Force was asking for a sturdy pickup truck and believes it got duped when the Air Force changed its mind half way through and decided, "Nah, I want a MONSTER truck.
So the case could be described as one where Boeing is protesting on the basis of the parking spaces that have to be modified to even fit the monster truck.
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