F-22 flight tests resume

FLIGHT TESTING of one of the U.S. Air Force's two F-22 Raptors resumed after a four-week delay because of tiny cracks found in the jets' canopies. An F-22 tiger team had found hairline surface cracks less than an inch long under a lower area where 140 bolts attach a 190-lb. transparency to the...

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