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Old 28th Oct 2010, 05:40
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Similar construction technique.
Initially, with some 707's, fuselage skin cracking was noticed, just above the aft door, on the fuselage crown.
External straps were fitted, for a maximum of 2500 cycles, then reskinning was accomplished.
This was a problem with the forward fuselage crown skin as well, but not quite so severe.
As I recall, heavier skins were then used on the -320B/C models.
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