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Prototype problems delay F-2 program another three months

Staff August 11, 1999
The deadline for completing Japan's F-2 fighter will be extended another three months until March 2000, following discovery of flaws in a prototype. The delay, according to press reports from Japan, was caused by cracks found on a left wing. In mid-May 1998, a crack developed in the right wing of...

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