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Aging Air Fleet
For years now we at the Lexington Institute have been warning anyone who would listen that the array of military equipment that allowed the U.S. for thirty years to win the Cold War and operate as the sole superpower is wearing out. Now this story is front page in today’s Wall Street Journal.
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Date:
9/15/2011
When a five-foot hole opens up in the fuselage of a commercial airliner, it gets the media’s and public’s attention. In general, the possibility that metal fatigue in older aircraft can result in such hull failures comes as no surprise to airline personnel and aviation experts. The stresses imposed
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Date:
4/5/2011

