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Name the $40-Billion Air Force Tanker

blog.wired.com — The Air Force intends to designate its next aerial refueling aircraft the KC-45. But what about a popular name? The last tanker, the 1980s' KC-10, got stuck with the pornographic-sounding "Extender." The earlier KC-135's space-age "Stratotanker" moniker is clearly a product of the gee-whiz 1950s. So what's an appropriate name?

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  • OBDriftwood, on 01/25/2008, -0/+1The Pisser
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