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Old 13th June 2002 | 19:25
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Nimbone
 
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115k limit

It's not a wing "problem" - Boeing says it's the wing that imposes the 115,000 hour limit - not the pressure vessel.

Again, the 30,000 cycle limit makes some sort of engineering sense - imposing a life limit on the airframe, etc. but an hourly limit? We're having a hard time with that.

Plus the economics of going beyond 30,000 is one thing, the economics of going beyond 115,000 hours is something completely different!
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