Alabama gov rides Airbus tanker

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley flew over Spain for an hour Friday in an aerial tanker built by EADS company Airbus. Riley also toured EADS aircraft-assembly bays in Madrid. Riley, Neal Wade, director of the Alabama Development Office, and a security officer spent Wednesday and Thursday in Germany before going to Spain and return home Sunday. EADS plans to build a tanker assembly plant in Mobile, Ala., if it wins the competition against Boeing to build Air Force tankers. (Source: Birmingham News, 09/12/09)