Cracks led USAF engineers to rethink C-130 wing box life
The number and severity of cracks in the center wing boxes of U.S. Air Force C-130Es led service engineers to "re-evaluate the service life expectancy" of the wing boxes and led to last week's grounding and restriction of some C-130s, an Air Mobility Command spokesman told The DAILY late Feb. 11...
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