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Here we go again, folks. At the rate things are going, even State-side Eagle drivers should get combat/ hazardess duty pay! Better get the Raptor fully deployed ASAP.


F-15s Ordered Grounded Once Again
Military.com | By Bryant Jordan | November 28, 2007
Barely more than a week after returning the F-15 Eagle fleet to flight the Air Force is once again grounding most of the planes, Military.com has learned.

F-15 models A through D -- a total of 442 planes -- were ordered grounded by Air Combat Command,Langley Air Force Base, Va., late on Nov. 27, ACC spokesman Maj. Thomas Crosson said in an interview.

The latest problem is with cracks in the planes' metal support beams, called longerons, that run the length of the aircraft, and make up the sill on which the canopy sits, Crosson told Military.com.

The entire F-15 fleet was ordered grounded in early November after the break up and crash of a Missouri Air National Guard Eagle. The Air Force began lifting the restrictions on the fleet Nov. 19 - starting with F-15E Strike Eagles - following aggressive inspections of the planes.

ACC called for the new groundings after metallurgical analysis of the planes suggested there could be possible cracking problems with the longerons.

Officials now are working at Warner Robins Air Force Base, Ga., to develop an inspection list that will be sent out to F-15 maintainers across the Air Force.

Crosson said the list should be completed in a day or two, and will include a timeframe for how long the actual inspections should take.

He could not say how long it would before the latest restrictions would be lifted from the entire fleet.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,1 ... =dod-bz.nl

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will plow for those who do not.\"
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Yeah apparently there is an issue with some jets that are 1980 models. Unfortunately my jet is a 1980 model. I suck.

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YGBSM !

Not really. If your bird is still flying, you are most fortunate and a CC most extrordinaire. Your luck at owning one that might fall out of the sky does, though.

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson

Actually we dont have any Eagles flying at all. We are all still in FTT school and our environmental impact study hasnt been released yet. We have ten jets and cant even take them out to the line and run the engines.

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YGBSM !

Well, I guess if it ain't flyin', it ain't dyin'!

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\"Those who hammer their guns into plows
will plow for those who do not.\"
- Thomas Jefferson