Posted on 10/12/2018 7:56:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The U.S. military on Thursday grounded its entire fleet of F-35 stealth fighters after one of the jets crashed during a training mission in South Carolina last month, officials said Thursday.
The stand down affects more than 200 jets while an "inspection of a fuel tube" in F-35 engines takes place, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
“If suspect fuel tubes are installed, the part will be removed and replaced. If known good fuel tubes are already installed, then those aircraft will be returned to flight status. Inspections are expected to be completed within the next 24 to 48 hours,” Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 program, said in a statement to Fox News.
The inspections come in the wake of an F-35B jet crash outside of Beaufort, S.C. on Sept. 28.
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$400 part crashed a $35M aircraft? Go figure.
Next monday I’m getting the entire brake line system on my relatively new chevy truck replaced because it rusted out. The new lines are stainless steel and only cost $80. $1000 in labor. It’s a chronic problem in these trucks. At least nobody died when the brakes failed...
It’s the last GM product I will ever own.
I have a 14 year old Avalanche and it’s been a dream machine. Nothing but expected mileage replacements. Bought a Surburban for the wife 3 years ago, just oil changes so far. Sticking with Chevy myself. Previous F-150 and RAM were always in the shop.
How much is that gonna cost me?
Rust implies water IN the brake lines. Or was this external corrosion?
You live in the salt-on-roads zone?
Get used to it. Bleeding edge technology. And declared ready by decree, before debug completed.
So many will crash, Congress will authorize more.
Insanity. Go F-22!!!
Different aircraft for different functions. But agree that they should have built waaay more Raptors.
OPSEC? What OPSEC?
Interesting. Thanks for posting. Yarddog, thought you might want to see this...and hope you fared ok after hurricane.
That speaks to the problem I’m having. I’ve had great luck with Chryslers and Scions. I now have three Scions that I bought brand new. A first generation box, an iA and an FR-S. the latter I drive to work and now have 155k miles on it. It does need a new throw out bearing - and it’s really a subaru. The box has 205k on it with nothing but a couple of brake jobs and oil changes.
I don’t think a ford or dodge would be any better.
And the reliability issue would not be as important if modern trucks were not so expensive. When you pay $30k+ for a vehicle, you expect to get a few hundred thousand miles out of it before it needs major repairs. And I’ve owned 31 cars in my life, some decades old. I’ve NEVER had to worry about brake lines rusting out. Even on my old ‘54 chevy wagon.
I confess I bought it used and it was from the northeast. I considered it a fluke until I hit the internet and found out it is a major problem with GM pickups. You won’t see it with fords or Dodges (they have their own problems).
F-35.
Over promised, under delivered, way way over cost.
I’m sure our enemies will be glad to hear that.
Outside in or from inside out? They’re copper lined inside. Do you live in snow country?
Ah, my 011 Silverado is about to click over 300K and it’s workings are pretty spotless. Put a tranny in it at 185... I was OK with that, dealer did it for 4K and I put 5K miles on the 017 loaner they gave me :-)
I’m taking over Pop’s 06 on the trip I’m on now, that’s a VA truck, I’ll probably be wrenching some on it and it only has 125K on it.
Outside in.
My perspective does not come from what happened in my case. My perspective comes from what I discovered after the fact. That is, this is a serious problem with GM pickups. Every brand has its weakness, With Chevy trucks their two biggest ones are the brake lines and the instrument cluster.
I’m not saying they suck because of my experience. I’m saying my experience showed me that mine is not an outlier.
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