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To: doorgunner69

Sounds like they got a bunch of perfectly fine new airplanes.

With used frames.

5 posted on 04/19/2014 10:28:31 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)

To: ROCKLOBSTER

Read it again. Unissued airframes from earlier builds, never completed. Does that mean used to you?

11 posted on 04/19/2014 11:04:19 PM PDT by doorgunner69

To: ROCKLOBSTER

used frames will have a higher failure rate from all the stresses they’ve already been through. metal fatigue.

19 posted on 04/20/2014 12:41:54 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)

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