KC-46 Faces 3 Category One Deficiencies; Two Affect Boom

KC-46 Faces 3 Category One Deficiencies; Two Affect Boom
KC-46 Faces 3 Category One Deficiencies; Two Affect Boom

AFA: The four-star chief of Air Mobility Command wants his new KC-46 Pegasus tankers “yesterday,” but the tanker’s boom has a nasty tendency to scrape up planes it’s trying to refuel, as well as two other category one deficiencies, and contractor Boeing has to fix those. The paint scraping problem — formally known as “undetected…