GK 121 - Correct, the Mirror has it wrong. However, what is really, hysterically funny is that the "melting deck" meme started with some of the F-35's more fanatical online defenders, who were all "see, it didn't melt the deck, nananananaaa" after the Wasp trials.
No critic I have heard of ever said it would.
However, there are two parts of the problem that have had money spent on them. One is the heat-resistant nonskid, that seems to have been solved. The other is long-term fatigue from thermal expansion cycles, which last time I checked (late 2011) ONR was still looking at.
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