
The way is clear for Boeing [BA] to safely secure three major aircraft development contracts worth billions as its two competitors declined to protest the Air Force’s T-X trainer aircraft award.Boeing was awarded the advanced pilot trainer contract in late September along with its partner in the competition, Sweden-based Saab. Lockheed Martin [LMT] had teamed up with Korea Aerospace Industries to propose a new variant of the latter’s T-50 jet trainer dubbed the T-50, while Leonardo DRS – the U.S.…