Take that: With its boom fully extended, the EADS Airbus A310 tanker test bed made several low-level passes this morning. During the passes, the public address announcer made reference to dozens of "wet" and "dry" connections the boom has made with F-16 fighters and other military aircraft. The boom system is the same one Northrop Grumman says it will use on its U.S. Air Force KC-45A tanker. The flight can be seen as a jab at competitor Boeing, which has...
