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January 11th, 2008, 14:50
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KLAS
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 |  F-15 Structural Failures On CNN right now. They are interviewing an F-15 pilot whose plane came apart during a training mission. Looks like the AF has grounded all that type F-15 model after finding faults in over 100 planes.
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January 11th, 2008, 14:57
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Sammamish, WA
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| Re: F-15 Structural Failures Didn't this happen a few months ago?
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January 11th, 2008, 14:58
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| Re: F-15 Structural Failures November, the animation they just released is on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R7BWrqmgac
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January 11th, 2008, 15:29
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| Re: F-15 Structural Failures The F-15 is a pretty amazing aircraft, afterall it can do this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1aKxAN7bAs |
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January 12th, 2008, 14:31
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KMKE
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| Re: F-15 Structural Failures They actually just un-grounded many of them. The pilots are all getting requalified right now.
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January 12th, 2008, 15:18
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January 12th, 2008, 19:19
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Inside your OODA loop
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| Re: F-15 Structural Failures Hard to see this as little more than a ploy to get Congress to buy USAF more F-22s.
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January 13th, 2008, 00:56
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| Old Skool  | Re: F-15 Structural Failures Bought back in to LMT. Comon baby!
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January 13th, 2008, 02:34
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