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Old 6th Nov 2019, 22:55
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It is a very busy area in terms of loads going through the airframe, so one would hope that Boeing are being sufficiently conservative in their analysis
90,000 cycles is being quoted as the expected design life of the forks, fell some ways short it seems if that were the case.
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