This is significant in terms of the Boeing EADS competition for tankers, because both now both companies have their tankers flying, and either in deployment (Boeing), or months from deployment (EADS) with a foreign military.

Pictures: First Australian Airbus A330 MRTT air-to-air refuelling tanker rolled out

By Barbara Cockburn

The first of five Airbus A330 multi role tanker transports (MRTT) ordered by the Royal Australian Air Force has been rolled out of the hangar at the conversion centre of EADS Casa in Getafe near Madrid.”

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