{"id":191696,"date":"2009-07-04T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/04\/lawsuit-alleges-faulty-stealth-coatings-on-f-22\/"},"modified":"2009-07-04T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T12:32:00","slug":"lawsuit-alleges-faulty-stealth-coatings-on-f-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/04\/lawsuit-alleges-faulty-stealth-coatings-on-f-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Alleges Faulty Stealth Coatings on F-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darrol Olsen alleges that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/30\/329025\/ex-f-22-engineer-to-sue-lockheed-for-stealth-design.html\">Lockheed-Martin covered up problems with the stealth coatings on the F-22<\/a>.  (See also <a href=\"http:\/\/pogoblog.typepad.com\/pogo\/2009\/06\/former-lockheed-martin-engineer-calls-fraud-on-f22-stealth.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Considering this guy&#8217;s pedigree, he worked on stealth coatings for the F-117 and B-2, and the considerable problems that the F-22 has had with its stealth coatings, it&#8217;s readiness and maintenance requirements have underperformed, I&#8217;m inclined to believe that there is some merit in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that LM will eventually settle with him, and we will hear no more of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darrol Olsen alleges that Lockheed-Martin covered up problems with the stealth coatings on the F-22. (See also here.) Considering this guy&#8217;s pedigree, he worked on stealth coatings for the F-117 and B-2, and the considerable problems that the F-22 has had with its stealth coatings, it&#8217;s readiness and maintenance requirements have underperformed, I&#8217;m inclined to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,970,1008,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}