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To: conservativehusker
I would disagree. The crash in Missouri was linked to structural failure.

Metal fatigue has been a subject for jets for almost 50 years -- there is an ol' Jimmy Stewart film with Marlene Dietrich about this subject (it is the center of the plot of the movie).

The F-15's have a titanium frame. I imagine that since this is a high performance jet, 30 years of service is too much for the original structure.

If the jet was built totally out of titanium, it might not have this problem (the SR-71 is supposedly an aircraft that is made substantially of titanium, for example).

High performance jets can stress their airframes...

47 posted on 12/22/2007 7:29:58 AM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: topher
there is an ol' Jimmy Stewart film with Marlene Dietrich about this subjectthere is an ol' Jimmy Stewart film with Marlene Dietrich about this subject

No Highway in the Sky - 1951. Perhaps Stewart's best work.

62 posted on 12/22/2007 8:13:48 AM PST by PAR35
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