
Fighter Saga. During President Donald Trump’s Feb. 17 visit to a Boeing plant in South Carolina, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus was seen holding a brochure for the Boeing F/A-18XT, a proposed new block of Super Hornets that might compete with the Lockheed Martin F-35, according to press pool reports. Trump reiterated his intention to buy the FA-18XT if the F-35’s price does not fall sufficiently. Boeing says the F/A-18XT, also called Block III, is the same as…