Manufacturing Defect At Root Of F-15 Grounding

Credit: U.S. AIR FORCE
One hundred eighty-two of the U.S. Air Force’s F-15A-Ds remain grounded because of unreliable primary structures that service officials recently discovered were poorly manufactured in the 1970s. The upper right-side longeron supporting the cockpit of a Missouri Air National Guard F-15C failed Nov. 2...

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