Seriously, does anyone read anything or just mouthbreathheadlines?
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"...Lockheed and the F-35 JPO say. “Because of the high hours accumulated on this test article, this discovery does not affect current F-35B flying operations, nor is it expected to impact the U.S. Marine Corps’ ability to meet its Initial Operating Capability (IOC) in 2015.”
The cracks are described as “minor” by JPO and Lockheed officials and were discovered in late August. According to Lockheed and the JPO, the F-35B full-scale durability test article had accumulated more than 9,400h of equivalent flight usage—which equates to about 17 years of operations--when the cracks were discovered. Testing was halted on 29 September “to conduct root cause analysis on discovered bulkhead cracks,” the company and the JPO say...."
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Joint Strike Fighter Total Cost Still Up in the Air