Good News for the “Bird Farm”

The C-17 is still Flying and it looks like there will be more to come for this almost endangered species!

The Administration had been sending mixed signals to us on the fate of our “Big Bird.”
-In March the President supported continued production for the Boeing C-17.
-In April Secretary Gates wanted to cut production and spoke strongly that
would happen.

Now it looks like congress, and Californian solons have spoken and the chances are pretty good we’ll keep making the C-17 going at the Long Beach Boeing plant. That means a total of 5,000 jobs one third of which are Orange County residents.
We usually are not supporters of “pork barrel” projects. (Nobody likes “pork” unless it is their “pork”) but  there was no doubt that additional aircraft were needed https://www.whatsupinsealbeach.com/index.php?s=c-17 but Gates wanted to increase production of the Lockheed C-5,  a 40 year old design that did not compare with the phenomenal results our medical personnel have been having in removing battlefield casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan using the C-17s.

We hope they won’t change their mind again.  This plane has come along to go to  the battlefields just in time.  We shouldn’t change horses when we have a winner!
For complete info go to OCR at  http://sciencedude.freedomblogging.com/2009/06/13/boeing-deal-would-extend-jobs-for-1500-oc-workers/36095/