Buffeting problem prompts F/A-18 E/F adjustments
The U.S. Navy expects software adjustments and changes to a porous wing fairing to solve a buffeting problem that has appeared on some test flights of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The fairing is seen as the solution to a wing-drop phenomenon in which asymmetric lift causes uncommanded banks. One of...
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