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Boeing says they have commercial customers: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/deltaHistory.html http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bls/deltaH

• gaius 17y ago
  Yes but development of the Delta was 100% underwritten by the DoD. Kinda like how the 747 was subsidized by the AWACS contract... And they've the nerve to complain when the French government bungs a few Euros to Airbus.
  • evgen 17y ago
    747!?!? Try 707. All of Boeing's commercial airframe have been self-funded since before Airbus existed. There may be internal cross-subsidy from other defense projects (e.g. borrowing to develop A by using the federal funding of B as a loan guarantee) but no Boeing airframe you can buy today was started or funded as a DoD project.
  • billswift 17y ago
    747 was developed on an AF contract but it long predated the AWACS. It was developed as a competitor to the Lockheed C-5 in the 1960s for long-range heavy lift transport.