 Newtons, G's and Electronics Survivability.
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Carbon_Rod
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Generally, the warthog design is considered one of the more resilient aircraft still around.
The reason it can still fly with halve a wing missing is a set of redundant control lines when the hydraulics fail.
On commercial aircraft there is management removing paint/life-jackets to save weight, and minimize operational costs.
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Patrick
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The thunderbolt 2 was an excellent design, to bad they s*** canned it for the Joint Strike Fighter which doesnt even work. the wart hog was exceptionally cheap to operate. which was another reason to get rid of it. if theres a cheap effective solution at hand, why fund the JSF program? we'll kill the good one and they'll have to fund the expensive one.
Eisenhower said something about this . . . .
in any case your point is valid, the Sioux city Iowa crash is a better example for this thread though.
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