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2008-02-21 02:40:58
FEOS
Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate
+1,182|6839|'Murka

Just saw that the jets and pilots were from Eglin AFB's 33rd Fighter Wing. These were seasoned pilots, likely working to get their combat certifications back after the grounding of the fleet.

Inherently dangerous business, unfortunately.
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― Albert Einstein
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2008-02-21 04:11:27
steelie34
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FEOS wrote:

steelie34 wrote:

there are literally hundreds of articles about how slow production has been for the f-22.  what better way to help boost it by finding "flaws" with our current air superiority fighter.
I'm not putting it past the higher ups to be milking the longeron problem for all it's worth to get more F-22s, but they would not purposefully crash two jets together just to make a point.
i'm not suggesting they crashed the planes together to prove a point.  i was only saying the news story mentions the structural problems, which is the excuse they've been using to boost f22 production.  my comment wasn't about the collision at all.
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2008-02-21 04:28:08
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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The F-15 has been flying almost as long as I have been alive...
Defect?  Now??  huh???
The F-15 is very argueably the BEST fighter aircraft to EVER see the sky...and 30 years later, we are JUST finding a defect?
Fatigue problems, sometimes caused by manufacturing defects, can take a long time to manifest.
If the design wasn't quite right, if the metallurgy wasn't quite right, if the manufacturing process wasn't quite right then you can see a problem after many years.
Predicting the life of an airframe is a hard thing to do when its on the drawing board, and 30 years is a very long life for a high performance engineered product of this type.
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