What plastic did the the nation's premiere fighter aircraft

On 3/2/2011 2:56 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:00:53 -0800, Savageduck
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On 2011-03-01 16:23:38 -0800, Eric said:

On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:06:30 -0000, "R. Mark Clayton"
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On Feb 27, 2:00 pm, wrote:
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Costly corrosion problems on the F-22 caused by stealth materials and
coatings have been addressed on the F-35, but risks remain, concludes
a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

SNIP

That's the trouble with metal. It corrodes.

It would have been far better to make the aircraft out of composite
materials, otherwise known as "plastic".

Really? B-52's flew for 50 years. Metal. F-4s, metal decades of
use, F-16s, F-14s, F-15s, F-18s, C5s, etc, etc.

All of these aircraft have ongoing corrosion problems.

Perhaps you should have phrased that, "All aircraft have ongoing
corrosion problems."
Here is a little FAA brochure;
http://www.tc.faa.gov/its/cmd/visitors/data/AAR-430/aainsp.pdf

They get suspicious when this type of thing happens;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDNCac2N1o&feature=related

I suspect someone should have become suspicious before this happened.

Regards,


Some could have been paid not to be.

--
Peter